from Paramount Pictures
Directed by
Billy
Wilder
Starring
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 (First Finance Man)
Charles Dayton (Second Finance Man)
Cecil B. DeMille (Himself)
Hedda
Hopper (Herself)
Buster Keaton (Himself)
Anna Q. Nilsson (Herself)
H.B. Warner (Himself)
Ray Evans (Himself)
Jay Livingston (Himself)
Written by
Charles Brackett
D.M. Marshman Jr.
Billy Wilder |
 The aging and deluded
silent-film queen Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) refuses to allow
the sun to set on her career and hires the young screenwriter
Joe Gillis (William Holden) to help her make a comeback. Erich
von Stroheim plays her butler Max. One of the best black comedies. |
