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| − | + | '''''Sunset Boulevard''''' was an [[Earth]] [[film]] released in [[1950]]. Described as a drama, it was among the most popular films of the [[20th century]]. |
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| − | Named after the famous Los Angeles-Beverly Hills boulevard, it stars Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a long-forgotten silent screen actress who leaves the limelight 20 years ago and heads to her run-down mansion where she waits for the day that she would make a comeback. When a down-and-out screenwriter named Joe C. Gillis, played by William Holden, eludes reposession agents, Desmond shows him a movie scipt based on the Biblical princess Salome. |
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| − | Gillis accepts tweaking the manuscript for her and Norma lets him stay in the house. But after Norma sent the script to Cecil B. DeMille of Paramount Studios, Gillis and Norma's butler/first husband Max von Mayerling, played by Erich von Stroheim, learn that DeMille has no interest in the script and only wants to borrow Norma's extravagent sports car. Meanwhile, Gillis falls in love with a girl named Betty, played by Nancy Olson, and starts working with her. |
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| + | {{bginfo|Future TOS director [[Gerd Oswald]] worked as second assistant director on ''Sunset Boulevard''.}} |
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| − | Gillis then tells Norma the truth and leaves, but the woman shoots him in the back and begins hallucinating that she is at Paramount Studios with DeMille filimg a scene of her movie. She descends her grand staircase and, after making an elaborate speech, says the classic line "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up" and goes into an out-of-focus closeup. |
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| + | * {{wikipedia-title|Sunset Boulevard (film)}} |
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| + | [[Category:Earth movies]] |
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Revision as of 21:50, 4 March 2011
Sunset Boulevard was an Earth film released in 1950. Described as a drama, it was among the most popular films of the 20th century.
During the mid-22nd century, it was among the 50,000 films found in the movie database aboard the Starfleet starship Enterprise.
Trip Tucker intended to show the film during movie night in 2152. Elizabeth Cutler invited Phlox to the movie, suggesting that he might like it. (ENT: "Dear Doctor")
Future TOS director Gerd Oswald worked as second assistant director on Sunset Boulevard.