Contributor
Holden, William, 1918-1981.
Imprint:Hollywood, CA : Paramount Pictures Home Video, c2002.
Description1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Note:Joe Gillis is found floating face down in the swimming pool of Norma Desmond. The dead Gillis narrates his story. Pursued by creditors, he swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma Desmond , an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback, and Max von Mayerling, her former director and husband and now her servant, living there. She takes a fancy to Gillis and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with young script reader Betty Schaefer, but Norma breaks up their romance. Thinking she is mad, he tries to leave, but Norma kills him. Max, hoping to coax Norma into police custody, directs the big staircase scene which she believes is the highlight of her comeback movie.
Note: Special features: commentary by Ed Sikov, author of "On Sunset Boulevard: the life and times of Billy Wilder" ; the making of Sunset Boulevard ; theatrical trailer ; Hollywood location map ; photo galleries ; morgue prologue ; Edith head - The Paramount Years featureette ; the Music of Sunset Boulevard Featurette.
Note : PerformerWilliam Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, H.B. Warner, Franklyn Farnum.
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