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The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, a struggling screenwriter, and Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a former silent-film star who draws him into her deranged fantasy world, where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen.
Gloria Josephine Mae Swanson [1] (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which earned her a Golden Globe Award.
William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s.Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the television miniseries The Blue Knight (1973).
Gloria Swanson was a silent movie queen in the teens through the '20s and into the early talkies of the '30s, but she found her greatest role — the one with which she would forever be associated ...
William Holden holding Gloria Swanson's hand in What a Widow! (1930) Born () 22 May ... William Holden (22 May 1862 – 3 March 1932) was an American actor. [1]
Marion Donnell, a stenographer in Chicago (Gloria Swanson) elopes with wealthy Jack Merrick (Robert Ames). Their marriage is opposed by his father (William Holden) who considers Marion a fortune-hunter and demands that Jack have the marriage annulled. Marion, furious that Jack has not defended her and stood up to his father, leaves him.
Other Best Actress nominees for that year were Bette Davis and Anne Baxter for All About Eve, Eleanor Parker for Caged and Gloria Swanson for Sunset Boulevard. José Ferrer won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as the title character in the film version of the 1946 Broadway play , Cyrano de Bergerac, a role which he had played on Broadway.
Wilder directed and co-wrote the screenplay for Sunset Boulevard (1950), a film noir about a reclusive silent film actress starring Gloria Swanson and William Holden. [12] It garnered 11 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and all four acting categories.