To everyone's surprise, Judy Holliday won the Best Actress Oscar in 1951 for Born Yesterday (1950), beating Gloria Swanson in this film, and Bette Davis in All About Eve (1950). Sunset Boulevard, one of Hollywood's most cruelly accurate depictions of itself, is now 65 years oldolder, even, than its main character, who's washed up at 50. When Norma Desmond visits her old friend at Paramount, she affectionately calls him "Mr. DeMille" (not Cecil or C.B. Peavey reportedly wore flashy golf clothes but didnt own golf clubs and had been arrested for social vagrancy and booked on lewd and dissolute charges just a few nights before the murder. So she lands his head on a golden tray, kissing his cold, dead lips. The undertaker, who appears for a few seconds early on with the white casket for Norma's deceased pet chimp, was veteran actor Franklyn Farnum, who played extras in over 1,000 films during his lengthy but unsung career. 12 Sep. WILLIAM HOLDEN: At some point, "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) played at The Silver Screen. Kodak would discontinue to manufacture it altogether in 1953. william holden arlene holden - bdcgtoronto.ca After all, it's about a dethroned queen." Montgomery Clift was originally cast as the writer but dropped out two weeks before the shoot. Wilder and Brackett told everyone at Paramount and the Production code that the screenplay was based on the story A Can of Beans by Wilder, Brackett, and D.M. Holden starred in the 20th Century Fox film Apartment for Peggy (1948). The antique car used as Norma Desmond's limousine is an 1929 Isotta-Fraschini Tipo 8A, a luxury car made in Italy, and once belonged to 1920s socialite Peggy Hopkins Joyce. She can be seen talking and giggling on the phone during the party. In reality, Gloria Swanson never worked with Normand and worked only once with Prevost in a 1916 short. "[13]:174 The interactions between Bogart, Hepburn and Holden made shooting less than pleasant, as Bogart had wanted his wife, Lauren Bacall, to play Sabrina. Sands disappeared after the murder. Marshman Jr. was hired to help batten down a script that was giving Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett great difficulty. It would not be turned into a motion picture until: The Naked and the Dead (1958). The British author's satirical The Loved One was published in 1948, after Waugh had spent time in Hollywood observing the film industry and, of all things, the funeral industry. In the penultimate scene, as Max tells Norma that "the cameras have arrived," the high strings in composer Franz Waxman's Oscar-winning score quote a chord from Richard Strauss's "The Dance of the Seven Veils" from his opera "Salome". He called it "that goddamned butler role" for the remaining seven years of his life. Billy Wilder originally approached William Haines to play one of Norma's bridge partners. When the movie first dropped, Louis B. Mayer, the Mayer in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, told everyone who would listen that Wilder disgraced the industry that made him and fed him, and urged that he be tarred and feathered, and run out of Hollywood. Wilder, who had been feeding himself for quite some time, told Meyer to go fuck himself. An inventory of his prospects added up to exactly zero. So Wilder gave up, and DeMille (who was already being compensated) gave Norma his own chair.. Gillis smokes unfiltered cigarettes in the film. Normas waxworks card sharps were Swedish-born Anna Q. Nilsson, H. B. Warner and Buster Keaton. For scenes in which he drove, the car was towed by another car. It is because of Sunset Blvd., for certain, that my mind could ever go there. His family moved to South Pasadena when he was three. For the first industry screening, Paramount executives invited several silent-film stars. Schwab's was torn down in 1988 to make way for a movie theater and a shopping center. Sunset Boulevard (film) - Wikipedia Before he became a kept man for Norma Desmond, he was thinking of wrapping up the whole Hollywood deal and trying to get his old job back as a newspaperman in Dayton, Ohio. Gloria Swanson became so identified with the demanding, irascible Norma that later generations of fans were startled to discover her serene, easy-going, naturalist personality in real life. Warner took the part. Or shall I call my servant? William Holden: Golden Boy of Hollywood Starred in 'Sunset Boulevard He was perfection on- and off-screen. Included among the 25 films on the American Film Institute's 2005 list of AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores. Haines, whose career had ended because of his homosexual off-screen life, was too happy in his new profession as an interior decorator to want to call attention to his past as an actor. The 49-year-old film directors body was found on the morning of Feb. 2, 1922, inside his bungalow at the Alvarado Court Apartments in Westlake, Los Angeles. [27] He played an American Civil War military surgeon in John Ford's The Horse Soldiers (1959) opposite John Wayne, which was a box-office disappointment. Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman Jr. Online Film & Television Association Awards, "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." The name was then changed to Millman and finally to Sheldrake and was played by Fred Clark. For purposes of authenticity Erich von Stroheim and Nancy Olson wore their own clothes in the film. William Holden movies: 15 greatest films, ranked worst to best, include 'Sunset Boulevard,' 'Network,' 'Stalag 17'. Yeah. Billy Wilder was frustrated with people assuming that the ending was meant to be ambiguous and asking him what happens to Norma after the final dissolve. Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The first of four films in which William Holden and Nancy Olson appeared. Holden paid it forward, becoming Hepburns guardian angel.. It's not possible to shoot through water and get a clear image beyond. Her friend George Cukor, who initially recommended her for the part, told her, "If they want you to do ten screen tests, do ten screen tests. His height was 1.8 m tall and weighed 89 kg. In her private screening room, with butler Max running the projector, Norma cuddles up with Joe to watch one of her own films. She puts on a show playing a Max Sennett bathing girl and Charlie Chaplins Tramp character, though Maxs bad timing is a little too on the nose. Sunset Boulevard (DVD, 2017) UK Region 2 release with extras. She burst into tears upon completion of the scene. Art director John Meehan experimented until he came up with the idea to shoot the scene through a mirror at the bottom of the studio water tank. Cecil B. DeMille appears in the film on a studio set. [45], According to the Los Angeles County Coroner's autopsy report, Holden bled to death in his apartment in Santa Monica, California, on November 12, 1981, after lacerating his forehead from slipping on a rug while intoxicated and hitting a bedside table. This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 22:44. Principal photography took place from 11 April to 18 June 1949. "[4], For his contribution to the film industry, Holden has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1651 Vine Street. There was a maharajah who came all the way from India to beg one of her silk stockings. The Tragic 1981 Death Of Sunset Boulevard Star William Holden His co-star Barbara Stanwyck, a screen. They eventually worked together on several films and became close friends. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. He was just a movie writer with a couple of B-pictures to his credit. But as commentator Steve Sailer points out, more than one contemporary source mentions it as an inspiration. From the right angle, the camera could shoot the reflected image in the mirror without ever going underwater itself. Some, including Holden himself and one of his close confidants, could foresee the death (per The Huntsville Item). (1950) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Billy Wilder Writing Credits Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Produced by Charles Brackett . Peavey died in a San Francisco asylum, where he was being treated for syphilis-related dementia, in 1931. Sunset Boulevard, the 1950 film noir classic directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, did a lot to change that and other myths of old Hollywoodlike the real-life murder at the heart of the story. It was this astonishing footage that rekindled interest in the film. The role of Norma Desmond was initially offered to Mae West (who rejected the part), Mary Pickford (Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett realized when talking to her that her image as "America's Sweetheart" made her unsuitable for the part), and Pola Negri (Billy Wilder rejected her as her thick accent would cause too many problems) before being accepted by Gloria Swanson. The Paramount logo appears as a transparency over the opening shot. It is also one of the most frequently misquoted movie lines, usually given as, "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. Holden was still an unknown actor when he made Golden Boy, while Stanwyck was already a film star. The character of Joe Gillis was very much in tune with William Holden's standing at the time. Forensic evidence recovered at the scene suggested that he was conscious for at least half an hour after the fall. Free Postage. She turns out to be a multimillionaire silent screen icon played by the legendary Gloria Swanson and she leaves him all her money, which shes already spent, and face down in a pool. But Joe wouldnt have fallen so hard if he werent so shackled. Sunset Boulevard - General Discussions - TCM Message Boards Their partnership ended in a professional and gentlemanly mannerthere was no airing of any dirty laundrybut it did end.. They had paired up in pictures since 1938. Bogart took the part hoping it would pair him back up with his wife Lauren Bacall. She looks like a mannequin of a . Holden was best man at the wedding of his friend Ronald Reagan to actress Nancy Davis in 1952. Normands career never recovered after word of her addiction leaked out and she died of tuberculosis on Feb. 23, 1930. Its second owner was Jean Paul Getty, who purchased it for his second wife. Columbia teamed him with Lucille Ball for Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949), and the sequel to Dear Ruth, Dear Wife (1949). Gloria Swanson and Nancy Olson also co-starred in Airport 1975 together. This makes her the youngest of the cast members, excluding any extras. Whether he was the washed up screenwriter of Sunset Boulevard or the reluctant hero of The Bridge on the River Kwai, Holden kept audiences engrossed. I know your face. Youre killing yourself for an empty house. The movie opens with a shot of a dead guy floating face down in a pool, and the dead man himself tells us that its Joe Gillis getting bloated in the chlorine. He worked on dramas like The Key (1958), Westerns like John Fords The Horse Soldiers (1959) opposite John Wayne, and comedies like The Moon is Blue which so famously challenged the Production Code in 1953 that Hawkeye and BJ insisted it get shown at M*A*S*H 4077 to break the monotony of the Korean War. Rudy's shoeshine stand at the parking lot where Gillis hides his car from the creditors was inspired by Oscar Smith's shoeshine stand located just inside the Bronson Gate at the old Paramount Studios, which was a popular hangout for gossip and socializing while Billy Wilder was building his career there. A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return. 1851 Ivar Street was the address of the Alto Nido Apartments, where he lived, sometimes worked and, ultimately died in 1941. She said it was a blackmail scheme gone wrong. Although they don't have a scene together in this film, Hedda Hopper and Buster Keaton had worked together in the 1932 comedy Speak Easily (1932), both were among the many stars appearing in the 1931 two-reeler The Stolen Jools (1931), and they both appeared in a 1958 episode of The Garry Moore Show (1958) that also featured Carol Burnett, who years later would spoof the Norma Desmond character regularly on her own variety show. As far as being a forgotten star, past her prime, Norma is only 50 in the movie, Swanson was 53 when she made it and was herself very busy on the then-new medium of television. (The book is about a failed screenwriter who works for a cemetery and lives with a forgotten silent-film star.) Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Sunset Boulevard: The Original Hollywood Expose | Den of Geek In his place, Wilder hired Buster Keaton. The next decade saw Holden's career flourish. In addition to starring in "Queen Kelly", Swanson also produced it, and fired von Stroheim when he had already gone over the budget by more than double, and with no end to filming in sight. Sunset Boulevard, William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim Episode 68 - William Holden-Stars on Suspense (Old Time Radi Swanson and von Stroheim are playing themselves in that scene. But in 1957, Paramount formally asked Desmond to stop, the studio bosses having decided not to grant permission after all. Test audiences at the time couldnt let go of the joke, which was why it was re-edited this way. Thirty-one years later, the actor who played Gillis, William Holden, met his end. The structure in the film required a tennis court, or rather the ghost of a tennis court, with faded markings and a sagging net. These towns were favored because they were on the way to Palm Springs where, after collecting the audience reaction cards, studio personnel would then go to relax and determine what changes should be made to the previewed films. Like most old things in L.A., the house has since been replaced by an office building. Getty always wanted a pool, the poor dope. but at 641 S. Irving Blvd. Brackett was also a frequent collaborator with Billy Wilder, co-writing and producing a dozen movies with him (including The Lost Weekend) before Sunset Boulevard proved to be their last. When Joe Gillis says, "They'll love it in Pomona," most people assume (correctly) that Pomona is intended to be representative of just about any average American town. The older actor prided himself on needling people and he needled the shit out of Holden on the first movie, and the second movie was worse because Holden started dating Audrey Hepburn during filming. The apartments, and the "Alto Nido" sign out front that is glimpsed briefly in the film, are still there. The only film to be nominated for Best Actor and Actress Oscars that year. When Norma Desmond says to the guard at the "Paramount Studio" gates, "Without me there wouldn't be any 'Paramount Studio'" the words could apply to Gloria Swanson herself, as she was the studio's top star for six years running. London Boulevard (2010) was based on the Ken Bruen novel that was inspired by Sunset Boulevard and features the same trope of an aging actress as the stranger caught in her web. The directions given by the Paramount guard for Norma and Joe to go meet Cecil B. DeMille on "Stage 18" is accurate: this stage, one of the largest on the Paramount lot, was known for years as "The DeMille Stage" and now is called "The Star Trek Stage", as all the "Trek" movies and some scenes from the TV shows have been shot there (the TV series, from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) onward, had its main sets right across the studio street on Stages 8 and 9, which are right below the second-floor office occupied by Betty Schaefer in this film. At Paramount, he did another Western, Streets of Laredo (1949). Erich von Stroheim could not drive in real life. The photos of the young Norma Desmond that decorate the house are all genuine publicity photos from Gloria Swanson's heyday. But along with the accolades came a dependence on alcohol that would play a major role in his tragic end. This ushered in the peak years of Holden's stardom. "Waxwork" Buster Keaton was in reality an excellent bridge player, always in demand at Hollywood bridge parties. Holden, who was at this point dependent on alcohol, said, "I really was in love with Audrey, but she wouldn't marry me. He contributed to Altvariety, Chiseler, Smashpipe, and other magazines. Billy Wilder also used Sheldrake as the last name of Fred MacMurray's character in "The Apartment". She reportedly told Clift shed kill herself if he made the movie. preppy-3 15 March 2008. The death was just one of many infamous Hollywood scandals of the 1920s, which included the Roscoe Arbuckle bottle rape trial, the death of Olive Thomas, the mysterious death of Thomas H. Ince, and the drug-related deaths of Wallace Reid, Barbara La Marr, and Jeanne Eagels. The actor-turned-director-turned-actor-again, who had indeed been one of the great silent-filmmakers, winced at playing a character so self-referential and demeaning, but he needed the money. Highly unusual at the time, Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder had Joe Gillis narrate, from beyond the grave, the sad tale of the final months of his life, while the film simultaneously depicts the still living Gillis experiencing those events unaware of the fate his dead self already knows. According to reports, Taylor went to the feds for help filing charges against Normands cocaine suppliers. Was the inspiration for Metallica's 1997 song "The Memory Remains". Features the only Oscar-nominated performances of Erich von Stroheim and Nancy Olson. The movie's line "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up" was voted the #7 movie quote by the American Film Institute. While in Italy in 1966, Holden was responsible for the death of another driver in a drunk-driving incident near Pisa. In 1998 the American Film Institute selected this as the 12th greatest film of the 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time. [2] His brother Robert ("Bobbie") became a U.S. Navy fighter pilot and was killed in action in World War II, over New Ireland, a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific. The first name of the Joe Gillis character was Dan in an early draft of the screenplay, then altered to Dick, and finally to Joe just before filming began. Glenn Close, who portrayed Norma Desmond on stage, also played a character who dramatically cut her wrists over a man she was in love with in the film "Fatal Attraction. Billy Wilder's sixth film in a row for Paramount Pictures. The stars read the stars. After living in the home for a year he moved, and the house sat vacant for a little over a decade, earning the moniker "The Phantom House" in the process. Betty is an idealist, more closely resembling Normas rose-colored outlook, but with darker shades she wants to bring to light. [28] Columbia would not meet Holden's asking price of $750,000 and 10% of the gross for The Guns of Navarone (1961); the amount of money Holden asked exceeded the combined salaries of stars Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn.[29]. According to Gloria Swanson's daughter, Michelle Amon, her mother stayed in character throughout the entire shoot, even speaking like Norma Desmond when she arrived home in the evening after filming. You murdered me. Talk! Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies. Part of the dialogue goes: Fat Man: "Where did you drown? X. words "Sunset Blvd." The movie's line "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." You used to be in silent pictures. Well, in the end, he got himself a poolonly the price turned out to be a little high, so Paramount paid to have one installed on the condition that if Mrs. Getty didnt like it, theyd remove it after filming was over. Still, whatever hard feelings there may have been between Swanson and von Stroheim, they were gone by the time Sunset Boulevard came along. Paramount reunited him with Nancy Olson, one of his Sunset Boulevard costars, in Union Station (1950). (1954). Film News. He earned an Oscar nomination for "Sunset Boulevard" and won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954 for his role in "Stalag 17," per IMDb. (1950), Cecil B. DeMille, who plays himself in the film, directed H.B. When Norma visits DeMille at Paramount, he's in the midst of shooting Samson and Delilah, which really is what he was up to at the time. Wilder changed the scene so that DeMille offered Lamarr's chair to Norma without Lamarr being present. Such extravagances were so commonplace that when Wilder was planning to shoot the funeral of Normas chimpanzee, the director told the crew to just set-up the usual monkey-funeral sequence.. The four films were released between August 1950 and November 1951. . Ballard, who used to impersonate Norma descending the stairs. [35] Holden starred in The Earthling,[36] as a loner dying of cancer at the Australian outback and accompanying an orphan boy (Ricky Schroder). When filming began, William Holden was 31 and Gloria Swanson was 50, the same stated age as her character. Darryl F. Zanuck, Olivia de Havilland, Tyrone Power and Samuel Goldwyn all refused to allow their names to be used in the film, but Billy Wilder decided to use Zanuck's and Power's names anyway. Less popular was Satan Never Sleeps (1961), the last film of Clifton Webb and Leo McCarey; The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), his third film with Seaton; or The Lion (1962), with Trevor Howard and Capucine. The butler stonewalls Joe from the outside world until hes rolling up twenties tight enough snort through to deal with even the shortest withdrawal from the big empty house. A disagreement over the montage where Norma puts herself through hell getting thinner and younger for her comeback nearly resulted in physical violence: Brackett thought it was too mean, while Wilder felt it was necessary to show what lengths a desperate actor would go to in Hollywood. This film was originally released in the United States as The Christmas Tree and on home video as When Wolves Cry. Holden's first film back from the services was Blaze of Noon (1947), an aviator picture at Paramount directed by John Farrow. Here's some backstage information to enhance your experience the next time you visit the Paramount lot.. The Pharmacy was filmed only 500 feet (150 meters) from a scene in Armed and Dangerous (1986) & Falling Down (1993), The parking lot behind Rudy's Shoeshine where Joe Gillis pulls his car out of is 1751 Vine Street - about a half a block North of Hollywood Blvd (you can tell by the scene's POV of the Taft building that sits on the corner of Hollywood and Vine). The writers feared that Hollywood would react unfavorably to such a damning portrait of the film industry, so the film was code-named "A Can of Beans" while in production. 10060 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California, USA. In the movie when a cop tries to call in to the coroners office, he cant get an open line because Hedda Hopper is on the phone in Normas room, talking to the Times City Desk and that is more important. It was Erich von Stroheim who suggested the revelation that Max was writing all of Norma's fan mail. They reportedly began a two-year affair, which is alleged to have ended due to Holden's alcoholism. Schwab's Pharmacy was filmed only 500 feet (145 meters) from where Robert "D-Fens" Foster shot out the phone booth in Falling Down (1993). American Film Institute On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder, by Ed Sikov, 2023 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved. Holden made a fourth and final film for Wilder with Fedora (1978). Oh, wake up, Norma. "[13] Paramount reunited him with Nancy Olson, one of his Sunset Boulevard costars, in Union Station (1950). He said it was because she was braver than any man. There's a little dig in the scene when Cecil B. DeMille finds out that Paramount has been calling Norma Desmond because it wants to rent her car for "the Crosby picture." Not long ago, he was divorced from the actress, Gloria Holden, but carried the torch after the marital rift. Joe insists hes not a Hollywood whore, but he accepts Normas gifts, gold cigarette cases, a platinum watch, suits, shirts, and shoes that would impress Rudy. A Western at MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (1953) did much better, and the all-star Executive Suite (1954) was a notable success. He is the TV Editor at Entertainment. The studio needed an actor who the audience could believe wrote a story about Okies in the Dust Bowl that played on a torpedo boat by the time it hit the screen. Gillis: "Yes I was murdered." But she wanted to rewrite her dialogue (as was her custom)a nonstarter for Wilder, who seldom let his actors change their lines even slightly from what was on the page. For the cover photo of the very first issue, in April 1951, of what many consider the most important film magazine of all time, the Paris-based "Cahiers du Cinema, " the editors chose the image of Gloria Swanson and William Holden in her screening room. Besides Tyrone Power, other stars mentioned when Joe Gillis is pitching his "baseball" picture to the producer are Alan Ladd, William Demarest and Betty Hutton. The name Norma Desmond was a combination of early Hollywoods comedy star Mabel Normand and her lover, silent film director William Desmond Taylor. Wilder and his co-writers reversed several elements, and there was no official connection between the movie and Waugh's book. He directed classic films like Double Indemnity, Ace in the Hole, The Apartment, The Lost Weekend, Stalag 17, Witness for the Prosecution, Sabrina, and Some Like It Hot. West wanted to rewrite her dialogue. The plot element of Norma Desmond's obsession with writing a screenplay based on Salome as a vehicle for her comeback was obviously influenced by eccentric, aging actress Valeska Suratt, who had a brief film career (1915-1917) playing mostly vamp roles. Studs and cufflinks were inserted into the shirt holes to secure the garment. was better known as the seat of the film industry in 1950, the Los Angeles film industry actually began on Sunset Blvd. Old whores dont fuck for fun, as the old saying goes. Born William Beedle Jr. on April 17, 1918, he was 21 when he got his first starring role as the classical fiddle playing boxer in Golden Boy in 1939. That's a reference to the traditional grey morning suit worn by the groom at a formal wedding. read file from blob storage c#; ted dwane and isabel soden; best seats at belk theater charlotte; my rabbit ate ibuprofen William Holden (born William Franklin Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 - November 12, 1981) was an American actor and murderer, and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. The director turned actor was still able to steer the expensive Italian car into the Paramount gate. Technically the address was 641 S Irving Blvd but the estate lay at the corner of Irving and Wilshire Blvd. American Beauty screenwriter Alan Ball has acknowledged that another Billy Wilder film, The Apartment (1960), influenced that screenplay. Gloria Swanson almost considered rejecting the role of Norma Desmond after Billy Wilder requested she do a screen test for the role. There were three young directors who showed promise in those early days of silent film, D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. This was the actual set of Samson and Delilah (1949), which de Mille was making at the time. Wilder was, well, the wilder of the two, often bawdy and crass, while Brackett was genteel. cynical Hollywood survivor played by William Holden. Upon telephoning her, however, Wilder found that Negri's Polish accent, which had killed her career, was still too thick for such a dialog-heavy film. William Holden returns to find that Gloria Swanson has tried to slash her wrists in 'Sunset Boulevard', directed by Billy Wilder. An ending for the film was cobbled together, but the movie was never shown in the U.S. Although she had long before ruled out the possibility of a movie comeback, she was nevertheless highly intrigued when she got the offer to play the lead. (Norma Desmond would be quick to point out that, thanks to computers and iPads, the pictures have gotten even smaller. Ultimately she retired completely from films, making only sporadic appearances, notably in Airport 1975 (1974). If you or anyone you know needs help with addiction issues, help is available. Holden turned the tables on Lucille Ball when he appeared as a guest star on I Love Lucy at The Brown Derby. Men bribed her hairdresser to get a lock of her hair. Cecil B. DeMille: at the studio during Norma's visit. It was named after a major street that runs through Hollywood, the center of the American film industry . read more: The Big Sleep is Proof That Plot Doesnt Matter. But Hollywood press has always had clout. The Tragic 1981 Death Of Sunset Boulevard Star William Holden
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