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Article: Sunset Boulevard. (New York, New York)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 1995
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Whatever you do, don't watch Sunset Boulevard, the movie, right before you see Sunset Boulevard, the musical. Billy Wilder's 1950 movie is a sui-generis classic, a Pirandellian film noir about films, in which fading silent-screen siren Gloria Swanson played fading silent-screen siren Norma Desmond, and creepy, Teutonic director Erich von Stroheim played creepy, Teutonic director Max von Mayerling. The film established a breathtakingly brazen conceit: It's narrated by cynical screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden), who is already dead when the story begins. In an extended flashback we observe Joe's desperate efforts to land a studio writing job, his chance meeting with ...
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