The car of Norma, an Isotta Fraschini type 8 with over 100 hp from a straight 8 cylinder engine and a top speed of 90 mph, was also a good choice to show past glory. In the twenties this car was chosen by many Hollywood celebrities for its style, performance and luxory and they paid over $ 20 000 (like 400 k today) for it. After the war the company vanished.
Gloria was robbed of an Oscar. Period. Even Bette Davis, who didn't generally dish out compliments thought Gloria "Gave a heavenly performance" It isn't too commonly known that Swanson DID win a Golden Globe & was nominated the New York Times Critics Award (Given to Bette Davis for her Margo Channing) for this once-in-a-lifetime performance. She won the National Board of Review award as well
@@sauliniinisto9416 yeah, he wrote and directed so many movies the are considered classics but his name is far from Hichcocks, von Sternberg, you name them. But this guy was a true genius
Are you sure this is worth watching? I’ve been on a 1940s and 1950s movie binge-watching and so far have really enjoyed the 10 + movies I’ve watched. The trailer doesn’t peak my interest. I’ll see if I can find this movie. Hope you’re right.
SUNSET BOULEVARD! BEST TOP MOVIE OF THE 1950'S EVER!!!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 BRAVO & KUDOS TO MR. BILLY WILDER AND PARAMOUNT PICTURES, A VERY EXCELLENT GOOD JOB!!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
What an awesome movie. William Holden at his best. Handsome. Well directed . Saw it and just completed seeing it. I want to recommend to my friends. Just great movie 🎉 June 26th, 2021. 🎉.
A CLASSIC MASTERPIECE ! SWANSON DESERVED HER OSCAR NOMINATION. SHE WAS TERRIFIC ! OVER THE YEARS, I TRIED TO THINK OF WHO ELSE COULD HAVE PLAYED HER PART. I DO THIS WITH A LOT OF GREAT PERFORMANCES. I'VE ALWAYS SAID ELIZABETH TAYLOR WOULD HAVE MADE A PERFECT SCARLET O'HARA. JUST LOOK AT HER IN "RAINTREE COUNTY". IN THIS FILM I ALWAYS FELT THAT TALULAH BANKHEAD WOULD HAVE ACTUALLY DONE A FINE JOB AS NORMA DESMOND. YOU MAY NOT AGREE, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT ? I DON'T CARE !
This is the one movie I love and hate at the same time. I love the screenplay and the acting, but almost all the characters in it are terrible people, with the exception of Nancy Olsen’s Betty Shaffer and a young Jack Webb’s Artie Green. The movie shows us the ugly underbelly of Hollywood and how it treats those that don’t follow their rules. It still shocks me that this movie ever got made in 1950 Hollywood. It clearly trashes all aspects of the big studios and those that work behind the scenes. The two main characters Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis at first presented as sympathetic characters, but we quickly see how cruel and devious they both are. I guess the one character who’s motivation I don’t understand is Max. It’s revealed that he was not only the director of her early films, but was also Norma’s first husband. What happened in his life that is a willing servant to Norma? Why is he willing to literally be stepped on by her through out the movie? Why does Max do all he can to make Norma believe the world still cares about her? Why did he and Norma let her house and grounds fall into so much disrepair? I just don’t get his devotion to her. But all that aside, this movie is a must see.
Good for you! I started late too, but there are so many. Google search 3 categories: 1) Silent Films -- many are out of copyright and free to watch 2) Classic films including B&W and 3) Film Noire. It's a category that this film is in-- kind of dark, where the characters are very fascinating but all flawed in some way. Another category? Musicals.
@@carmenvanessa4451 oh yes good choices. Casablanca was on TCM last night- if one can afford that channel, it's worth every penny, you can see something new daily.
La película 📽 " Sabrina," actúa William Holden...., y humpry Bogart.... William Holden, tenía carisma, gran atractivo fisico, y Distincion.....magnetismo personal, presencia Escénica, que solo con estar parado ,sin hablar llenaba ,la escena.....en cualquier película, que estiviera actuando....,tenia humildad como característica personal de éste actor...que no se creía estrella de Hollywoood....., y esa es una gran cualidad....., muy particular de el señor Holden......era un gran actor...., que podía hacer cualquier papel . "Desayuno con Diamantes ". Quien actuaba de Protagonista : Audrey Hapburn...., ella era una Actrz ,elegante y muy bonita Carismática, la cual William Holden, se enamoro perdidamente de ella.... Y existen, muchas películas 📼 de excelente calidad y contenido, como Pcnic. Actuada por William Holden..... La Gata de el tejado, de Zic caliente 🔥. Protagonizada, por Elizabeth Taylor. La comezón de el séptimo año. Protagonista: Marilyn Monroe. Y muchas más....
I can't find it anywhere in the cast list, but can someone tell me who was Nancy Olson's driver in the movie when they drive to the villa A scene of a few seconds in the movie, exactly at 1:30:03 when Nancy Olson is driving to the villa with her girlfriend, the woman is white with black hair and black eyes and she is driving the car
Gloria Swanson was quite beautiful in her day when she was younger say about 20 years old but in movie Sunset Boulevard 1950 she was attractive until she posed towards the camera, I had second thoughts R.I.P. Gloria. 🎬♥️
I love old movies. I am not a fan of Sunset Boulevard though. Gloria Swanson overacts as if she is still in a silent and I've never understood the appeal of William Holden. Just my opinion.
Interesting comment. Conversely, I usually hate old movies, but love Sunset Boulevard. I think Swanson absolutely nailed portraying an actress, whose character thinks she IS living in a silent movie -- that was the point). And Holden, damnnnn. Given that we have completely opposite opinions (obviously no problem with that), can you list other movies you hate? (Will put them on my must-see list.)
This probably my fav movie did to William Holden. He was gorgeous and that voice!! ❤
The car of Norma, an Isotta Fraschini type 8 with over 100 hp from a straight 8 cylinder engine and a top speed of 90 mph, was also a good choice to show past glory. In the twenties this car was chosen by many Hollywood celebrities for its style, performance and luxory and they paid over
$ 20 000 (like 400 k today) for it. After the war the company vanished.
Right, and hand made.
"We didn't need dialogue.
We had faces."
(Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard)
I'm glad that we finally have dialogue
This is the epitome of the golden age of Hollywood. One of my favorite movies ever one of the best movies ever made. 💕🏆🐒
And the musical is fab great sets great music score
Gloria was robbed of an Oscar. Period. Even Bette Davis, who didn't generally dish out compliments thought Gloria "Gave a heavenly performance" It isn't too commonly known that Swanson DID win a Golden Globe & was nominated the New York Times Critics Award (Given to Bette Davis for her Margo Channing) for this once-in-a-lifetime performance. She won the National Board of Review award as well
Thats a tough call between the 2 movies ..both were superb ! For me personally i couldn't choose between them
This is without any doubt one of the best movies ever made. But than again - I do believe that Billy Wilder is God as a director.
Billy Wilder is THE most underrated director of all time
@@sauliniinisto9416 yeah, he wrote and directed so many movies the are considered classics but his name is far from Hichcocks, von Sternberg, you name them. But this guy was a true genius
@Randy White still nobody seems to recognize the name Billy Wilder but everyone knows who Alfred Hitchcock was for example
Amen. 💀🔥
yes, I love it too, watched it again yesterday night !
if you havent yet seen it, you are missing out. you owe it to yourself to see it!
Advice taken, thanks
Are you sure this is worth watching? I’ve been on a 1940s and 1950s movie binge-watching and so far have really enjoyed the 10 + movies I’ve watched. The trailer doesn’t peak my interest. I’ll see if I can find this movie. Hope you’re right.
@@Orlanzepol123 it's "pique" not 'peak' your interest but yes sunset blvd is a brilliant work of genius.. i've seen it at least 5 times
@@tonyclifton265 thanks
@@Orlanzepol123 it’s in my top three favorite films. And it’s usually in the top ten best of AFI’s as well.
SUNSET BOULEVARD!
BEST TOP MOVIE OF THE 1950'S EVER!!!!!
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BRAVO & KUDOS TO MR. BILLY WILDER AND PARAMOUNT PICTURES, A VERY EXCELLENT GOOD JOB!!!
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This Film warned people about the Darkside of Hollywood, along with Muholland Drive. Both are more relevant now than ever.
The film where Cecil B. DeMille made a cameo as himself.
And Hedda Hopper outranked an L A. cop.
What an awesome movie. William Holden at his best. Handsome. Well directed . Saw it and just completed seeing it. I want to recommend to my friends. Just great movie 🎉 June 26th, 2021. 🎉.
I love Bill Holden too. He was also exceptionally gorgeous in “Picnic.”
i recently saw this movie and i like it
“Liked it,” is really an insult to a masterpiece.
I've just learned that this film is Clint Eastwood's no1 favourite to watch.♥️
This is where david lynch got his speaking voice from.
“Gordon Cole” aka David lynch in twin peaks - he says it’s one of his favorite movies
Jack Webb smiling and happy in a role; NOW i got to see this! 😂
Webb was nothing like Friday in real life. He loved jazz, liquor, and women.
TOP MOVIE
Thank you Ms. Swanson you saved me tonight.
A CLASSIC MASTERPIECE ! SWANSON DESERVED HER OSCAR NOMINATION. SHE WAS TERRIFIC ! OVER THE YEARS, I TRIED TO THINK OF WHO ELSE COULD HAVE PLAYED HER PART. I DO THIS WITH A LOT OF GREAT PERFORMANCES. I'VE ALWAYS SAID ELIZABETH TAYLOR WOULD HAVE MADE A PERFECT SCARLET O'HARA. JUST LOOK AT HER IN "RAINTREE COUNTY". IN THIS FILM I ALWAYS FELT THAT TALULAH BANKHEAD WOULD HAVE ACTUALLY DONE A FINE JOB AS NORMA DESMOND. YOU MAY NOT AGREE, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT ? I DON'T CARE !
Yes she would have been a good choice too ....she speaks with a drawl like swandon
My parents were children when this was out.
If I was only allowed to take one film to a desert island, Billy Wilder's 1950 Film Noir masterpiece "Sunset Bvld." would be it.
Beyond epic
Top rate Gloria Swanson should have won an oscar based on another actresses troubles..❤❤❤😮brill x
Fantastic film!!!
I Hear because of Marcella sirano
0:13 Brackett & Deontay Wilder?
0:08. River Phoenix Viper Lounge 8852 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069
This is the one movie I love and hate at the same time. I love the screenplay and the acting, but almost all the characters in it are terrible people, with the exception of Nancy Olsen’s Betty Shaffer and a young Jack Webb’s Artie Green.
The movie shows us the ugly underbelly of Hollywood and how it treats those that don’t follow their rules. It still shocks me that this movie ever got made in 1950 Hollywood. It clearly trashes all aspects of the big studios and those that work behind the scenes.
The two main characters Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis at first presented as sympathetic characters, but we quickly see how cruel and devious they both are.
I guess the one character who’s motivation I don’t understand is Max. It’s revealed that he was not only the director of her early films, but was also Norma’s first husband. What happened in his life that is a willing servant to Norma? Why is he willing to literally be stepped on by her through out the movie? Why does Max do all he can to make Norma believe the world still cares about her? Why did he and Norma let her house and grounds fall into so much disrepair? I just don’t get his devotion to her.
But all that aside, this movie is a must see.
Hi just wondering if anybody is kind enough of listing me old movies like these I’m only 17 so I have no idea what to look for
@Angel-bb4oy -watch 'Casablanca', and 'Gone with the Wind'. Those are classics 🙂
Good for you! I started late too, but there are so many. Google search 3 categories: 1) Silent Films -- many are out of copyright and free to watch 2) Classic films including B&W and 3) Film Noire. It's a category that this film is in-- kind of dark, where the characters are very fascinating but all flawed in some way. Another category? Musicals.
@@carmenvanessa4451 oh yes good choices. Casablanca was on TCM last night- if one can afford that channel, it's worth every penny, you can see something new daily.
La película 📽 " Sabrina," actúa William Holden...., y humpry Bogart.... William Holden, tenía carisma, gran atractivo fisico, y Distincion.....magnetismo personal, presencia Escénica, que solo con estar parado ,sin hablar llenaba ,la escena.....en cualquier película, que estiviera actuando....,tenia humildad como característica personal de éste actor...que no se creía estrella de Hollywoood....., y esa es una gran cualidad....., muy particular de el señor Holden......era un gran actor...., que podía hacer cualquier papel .
"Desayuno con Diamantes ".
Quien actuaba de Protagonista : Audrey Hapburn...., ella era una Actrz ,elegante y muy bonita Carismática, la cual William Holden, se enamoro perdidamente de ella....
Y existen, muchas películas 📼 de excelente calidad y contenido, como Pcnic. Actuada por William Holden.....
La Gata de el tejado, de Zic caliente 🔥. Protagonizada, por Elizabeth Taylor.
La comezón de el séptimo año.
Protagonista:
Marilyn Monroe. Y muchas más....
I can't find it anywhere in the cast list, but can someone tell me who was Nancy Olson's driver in the movie when they drive to the villa
A scene of a few seconds in the movie, exactly at 1:30:03 when Nancy Olson is driving to the villa with her girlfriend, the woman is white with black hair and black eyes and she is driving the car
Did you find out? May I ask why you're interested? I'm genuinely intrigued.
Hi, hope this gets to you. Her name is Gerry Ganzer, and she plays Connie as Olson's roommate. The driving occurs in Scene 8
Who came here after Javed Akhtar's interview ???
I hear because sugar zaza
Clint Eastwood said this movie is his favorite of all time. I watched 5 minutes of it and turned it off
שוגר זאזא? כן טוב לא חשבתי אחרת
אתה בטח תוהה איך הגעתי למצב הזה...
חחחחח
Peak Hollywood.
Carol burnett brought me here
BILLY WILDER (1906-2002)
Gloria Swanson was quite beautiful in her day when she was younger say about 20 years old but in movie Sunset Boulevard 1950 she was attractive until she posed towards the camera, I had second thoughts R.I.P. Gloria. 🎬♥️
Arrrrr, I'm a PIRATE... ARrrrrrr!
I love old movies. I am not a fan of Sunset Boulevard though. Gloria Swanson overacts as if she is still in a silent and I've never understood the appeal of William Holden. Just my opinion.
Interesting comment. Conversely, I usually hate old movies, but love Sunset Boulevard. I think Swanson absolutely nailed portraying an actress, whose character thinks she IS living in a silent movie -- that was the point). And Holden, damnnnn. Given that we have completely opposite opinions (obviously no problem with that), can you list other movies you hate? (Will put them on my must-see list.)
@Recommendation9HuizitYi how can you possibly hate old movies? There's something really weird about that 😂
I consider this film to be a tragedy.
Completely agree. What's up with this "Black Comedy" moniker? I think that description is completely off-mark.
MAX!!! ... Maaaaxxxx...
שדרות
Donald Trump's favorite movie. Shows it on his plane, showed it at the White House
Theyre probably all dead now. 😒
Nancy Olsen Is still Alive
Sunset Boulevard, the most romantic title ever