| Sunset Boulevard 1950. Paramount Director: Billy Wilder Cast: Gloria Swanson William Holden (Joe Gillis) Nancy Olson, Erich von Stroheim, Fred Clark, Jack Webb,, AnnaQ. Nilsson, Cecil B. DeMille Screenplay:Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman |
| Plotline: Joe Gillis is an out-of-work gigolo-screenwriter who attaches himself to a faded screen star obsessed with the idea of attempting a comeback. When he ,tired of her growing eccentric excesses,tries to leave her, she kills him and sinks into total madness. |
| Meet the Stewarts 1942 Columbia Director: Alfred A. Green Cast: William Holden (Michael Stewart) Frances Dee, . |
| "Sunset Boulevard "is one of Hollywood's strongest indictments against his own excesses. It justly deserves its place among the best films ever made. The film received 11 Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film editing, Best B&W cinematography, Best Actor:William Holden, Best actress: Gloria Swanson, Best supporting actor: Erich von Stroheim, Best supporting actress: Nancy Olson, Best Screenplay, Best Musical score, Best Set decoration B&W. It won in the three last categories. Gloria Swanson, amazingly lost to another of 1950 Holden's costars, Judy Hollyday. |
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| Holden deservedly got his first Oscar nomination for the complex role of Joe Gillis, the disillusioned, cynical screenwriter down on his luck who is introduced by chance in the sumptuous, decadent, absurd world of the wealthy aging has-been star Norma Desmond, whose ex husband is now her butler, ready to do anything to please her. Holden conveys perfectly the transition of Joe from the disenchanted outsider who sees a way to make a buck agreeing to ghostwrite the script Norma has prepared for her comeback ( that is real only in her mind) to the willing lover of the older woman and kept companion in the luxury of her villa on the Sunset Boulevard....... |
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| Fred Clark, Nancy Olson, Willam Holden |
| Erich von Stroheim, Gloria Swanson, Willam Holden |
| Gloria Swanson, Willam Holden |
| Gloria Swanson, Willam Holden |
| Gloria Swanson, Willam Holden, Anna Q. Nilsson |
| Nancy Olson, Willam Holden |
| Starring: William Holden : 1950 |
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