The original production was famous for the lavish excess of its set and costumes ... Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard drew resonance from the real-life stardom of its Norma, Gloria Swanson, this ...

With its scathing take on Hollywood mores and a comeback performance from silent-era silver screen star Gloria ... Sunset Boulevard mansion, owned by delusional former star Norma Desmond (Swanson ...

Norma Desmond famously retorted in Sunset Blvd., I am big. It's the pictures that got small. and indeed roles do not come any bigger than Gloria Swanson s comeback performance.

Jeffrey Schwarz uncovers other hidden gay lives in Hollywood via Gloria Swanson’s desire to turn ’Sunset Blvd’ into a musical Schwarz really wants to tell the story of a gay life hiding in ...

In Sunset Boulevard, the last shot of all is a massive close-up of the almond-shaped eyes, the squared mouth and the shining teeth of Gloria Swanson. The man who invented the close-up was David ...