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Synopsis:
Beautifully stylish multi-Oscar-winning melodrama from director Billy Wilder, taking a savage look at the movie-making machine. Starring Gloria Swanson in a scene-stealing performance as Norma Desmond, a washed-up silent film star dreaming of a comeback. Salvation seemingly comes in the form of a struggling writer on the run from debt collectors, who is persuaded to write a screenplay for her and ultimately becomes her lover - but their relationship is doomed to end in tragedy. William Holden, E…
Cast:
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, William Holden as Joe C Gillis, Erich von Stroheim as Max Von Mayerling, Fred Clark as Sheldrake, Nancy Olson as Betty Schaefer, Buster Keaton as Himself, Jack Webb as Artie Green, Cecil B DeMille as Himself, Hedda Hopper as Herself, Lloyd Gough as Morino, Anna Q. Nilsson as Herself
Credits:
Billy Wilder - Director, Scriptwriter, Charles Brackett - Scriptwriter, Producer, D.M. Marshman Jr. - Scriptwriter
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