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Sunset Blvd. (1950)

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Calificación de los usuarios: 8.7/10 (37,275 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Billy Wilder
Writers:
Charles Brackett (written by) &
Billy Wilder (written by) ...
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Release Date:
4 agosto 1950 (USA) más
Frase comercial:
A Hollywood Story más
Plot:
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 3 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 13 nominations más
Comentarios de los usuarios:
THE "movie about movies"! más

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

William Holden ... Joe Gillis

Gloria Swanson ... Norma Desmond
Erich von Stroheim ... Max von Mayerling
Nancy Olson ... Betty Schaefer
Fred Clark ... Sheldrake
Lloyd Gough ... Morino

Jack Webb ... Artie Green
Franklyn Farnum ... Undertaker
Larry J. Blake ... Finance man #1 (as Larry Blake)
Charles Dayton ... Finance man #2
Cecil B. DeMille ... Himself
Hedda Hopper ... Herself

Buster Keaton ... Himself, Bridge Player
Anna Q. Nilsson ... Herself, Bridge Player
H.B. Warner ... Himself, Bridge Player
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Additional Details

También conocida como:
Sunset Boulevard (UK) (USA) (alternative spelling)
A Can of Beans (USA) (fake working title)
Ocaso de una vida, El (Argentina) (Mexico) [es]
Crepúsculo de los dioses, El (Spain) [es]
Ocaso de una estrella, El (Argentina) (dubbed version) [es]
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Duración:
110 min | Argentina:115 min
País:
USA
Idioma:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 más
Sonido:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Clasificación:
Canada:G (Quebec) | Hungary:14 | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Portugal:M/12 (DVD rating) | Brazil:Livre | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:11 (re-rating) (1982) | Sweden:15 (original rating) | UK:PG | USA:Unrated | West Germany:16
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Trivialidades:
The writers feared that Hollywood would react unfavorably to such a damning portrait of the film industry, and so the film was code named 'A Can of Beans' while in production. más
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: When Joe enters his bedroom and turns on the light, a crewmember's arm (with wristwatch) is visible in the mirror next to the door. más
Quotes:
[first lines]
Joe Gillis: Yes, this is Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, California. It's about 5 0'clock in the morning. That's the homicide squad, complete with detectives and newspaper men.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Hollywoodland (2006) más
Soundtrack:
Buttons and Bows más

preguntas frecuentes

What is the movie Joe and Norma watch?
Who are Norma's card-playing partners?
What is the correct title - "Blvd." or "Boulevard"?
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26 out of 38 people found the following comment useful:-
THE "movie about movies"!, 8 September 2004
10/10
Author: bouledogue de Saint Paul, MN

Gloria Swanson, a legend by the time she made this comeback picture, and playing a legend trying to make a comeback, managed to create an entirely new legend: this picture! Quite a feat, I'd say. Everyone agrees the script is superb, the photography of a high order, the casting and acting masterly, the direction elegant, and so on. There have always been a few who have picked on Ms. Swanson for her allegedly 'grotesque' portrayal, but I discount this emphatically. She is, after all, playing the character of a silent movie queen, from an era of exaggerated gestures, who is by now fairly well demented and trying to recapture the past. What else would one expect? And who could do it better? Is there anyone at all you can imagine in this role other than Gloria Swanson? Let's get serious. This is not High Art, but it is Low Art raised to the nth degree; it is Hollywood myth captured in all its wonderful madness, with just the right dash of satire mixed with a dollop of sentiment, teetering perilously on the rickety border between drama and kitsch, and landing magnificently on its feet to the satisfaction of everyone who sees it. More than this we probably cannot ask of a movie, as those who have so often come to disaster with more pretentious themes have learned to their woe. This is THE 'movie about movies'; by its very nature it feeds on its own subject matter and grows more indisputably classic with every passing year.

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