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 Released: 1950
Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenplay writer, escapes the finance men who are trying to reclaim his car by driving into the garage of an old mansion on Sunset Boulevard. Assumed to be someone else, he is led by Max the butler to the mansion's owner, silent film star Norma Desmond. Wishing to make a comeback, she hires him to rewrite her "Salome" script, then falls in love with him. Joe moves into the mansion as a kept man. Secretly, Joe is collaborating with a pretty young screenplay editor, Betty Schaefer, on another idea. Though she is engaged to his best friend, Artie Green, an assistant director, Betty falls in love with Joe. When Betty finds out about Norma, she asks him to leave Norma for her, but Joe can't unsettle her life, too. He decides, instead, to leave Hollywood. As he is leaving, a crazed Norma tries to stop him.
The Cast
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
Ray Evans ... Himself
Jay Livingston ... Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Joel Allen ... Prop man #2 (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor ... Courtier (uncredited)
Ken Christy ... Homicide captain (uncredited)
Ruth Clifford ... Sheldrake's secretary (uncredited)
John Cortay ... Young gate guard at Paramount Studios (uncredited)
Archie R. Dalzell ... Camera operator (uncredited)
Eddie Dew ... Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
Peter Drynan ... Tailor (uncredited)
Julia Faye ... Hisham (uncredited)
Al Ferguson ... Phone standby (uncredited)
Gerry Ganzer ... Connie (Betty's roommate) (uncredited)
Kenneth Gibson ... Salesman at men's shop (uncredited)
Joe Gray ... (uncredited)
Sanford E. Greenwald ... Newsreel cameraman (uncredited)
Creighton Hale ... (uncredited)
James Hawley ... Camera assistant (uncredited)
Len Hendry ... Police sergeant (uncredited)
E. Mason Hopper ... Doctor (uncredited)
Tommy Ivo ... Boy (uncredited)
Stan Johnson ... First assistant director (uncredited)
Howard Joslin ... Police lieutenant (uncredited)
Arthur Lane ... Camera operator (uncredited)
Gertrude Messinger ... Hairdresser (uncredited)
John 'Skins' Miller ... Hog-eye (electrician) (uncredited)
Ralph Montgomery ... Prop man #1 (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse ... Gordon Cole (uncredited)
Jay Morley ... Fat man (uncredited)
Bernice Mosk ... Herself (uncredited)
Howard Negley ... Police captain (uncredited)
Ottola Nesmith ... Woman (uncredited)
Eva Novak ... Courtier (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor ... Courtier (uncredited)
Robert Emmett O'Connor ... Jonesy (older Paramount gate guard) (uncredited)
Jack Perrin ... Extra (uncredited)
Virginia L. Randolph ... Courtier (uncredited)
Bill Sheehan ... Second assistant director (uncredited)
Sidney Skolsky ... Himself (uncredited)
Emmett Smith ... Man (uncredited)
Roy Thompson ... Rudy (shoeshine boy) (uncredited)
Archie Twitchell ... Salesman (uncredited)
Yvette Vickers ... Giggling girl on phone at party (uncredited)
Edward Wahrman ... Camera assistant (uncredited)
Henry Wilcoxon ... Himself, Actor on DeMille Samson & Delilah Set (uncredited)
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