Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard (styled in the main title on-screen as SUNSET BLVD.) is a 1950 American black comedy film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett. It was named after a major street that runs through Hollywood, the center of the American film industry.
Plot
At a mansion on Sunset Boulevard, a group of police officers and photographers discover the body of Joe Gillis, floating face down in the swimming pool. In a flashback, Joe relates the events leading to his death.
Awards
Cast
- Al Ferguson
- Anna Q. Nilsson
- Archie R. Dalzell
- Bert Moorhouse
- Buster Keaton
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Creighton Hale
- E. Mason Hopper
- Eddie Dew
- Erich von Stroheim
- Frank O'Connor
- Franklyn Farnum
- Fred Aldrich
- Fred Clark
- Gertrude Astor
- Gloria Swanson
- H. B. Warner
- Harold Miller
- Hedda Hopper
- Henry Wilcoxon
- Jack Webb
- Jay Livingston
- Julia Faye
- Larry J. Blake
- Lloyd Gough
- Nancy Olson
- Ray Evans
- Robert Emmett O'Connor
- William Holden
- Yvette Vickers