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A faded film star from the silent-movie era is fixated with making a comeback. When she meets a struggling screenwriter on the run from debt collectors, she persuades him to write a script that will mark her spectacular return to the screen. However, he takes advantage of the deluded actress, becoming her lover in a relationship where their mutual deceit ends in tragedy. Drama, with Gloria Swanson, William Holden and Eric von Stroheim
1950
HD
16x9
subtitles
General
Movie/Drama
Romance
Cast & Crew
Gloria Swanson
(Actor)
.. Norma Desmond
William Holden
(Actor)
.. Joe C Gillis
Erich von Stroheim
(Actor)
.. Max Von Mayerling
Fred Clark
(Actor)
.. Sheldrake
Nancy Olson
(Actor)
.. Betty Schaefer
Buster Keaton
(Actor)
.. Himself
Cecil B DeMille
(Actor)
.. Himself
Lloyd Gough
(Actor)
.. Morino
Billy Wilder
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Gloria Swanson
(Actor)
.. Norma Desmond
William Holden
(Actor)
.. Joe C Gillis
Born:
April 17, 1918
in
Illinois
Best Known For:
Being an acclaimed Hollywood actor.
Early-life:
William Franklin Beedle Jr was born in Illinois on April 17, 1918. He father was an industrial chemist and his mother a teacher. The family moved to Pasadena, California, when William was three. In 1937, while studying chemistry at Pasadena Junior College, William was signed to a film contract by Paramount. His first starring role was in Golden Boy (1949).
Career:
Holden went on to star in several minor pictures before serving in the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War, where he acted in training films for the First Motion Picture Unit. His big break came when Billy Wilder cast him as screenwriter Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard (1950). The role earned Holden an Academy Award nomination. He went on to star in a number of acclaimed films, including Stalag 17 (1953), Sabrina (1954), Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Wild Bunch (1969), The Towering Inferno (1974) and Network (1976). He won an Academy Award for Stalag 17, and a Primetime Emmy in 1974 for The Blue Knight. He died in his Santa Monica apartment on November 12, 1981 at the age of 63.
Quote:
"For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it."
Trivia:
He had a nine-year relationship with actress Stefanie Powers.
Erich von Stroheim
(Actor)
.. Max Von Mayerling
Fred Clark
(Actor)
.. Sheldrake
Nancy Olson
(Actor)
.. Betty Schaefer
Buster Keaton
(Actor)
.. Himself
Cecil B DeMille
(Actor)
.. Himself
Lloyd Gough
(Actor)
.. Morino
Billy Wilder
(Director)
