Year			1950
Genre			Drama
Length			1:40
Director			Billy Wilder
Writer			Charles Brackett D.M. Marshman Jr.
Company			Paramount Pictures
Starring			William Holden Gloria Swanson Erich von Stroheim Nancy Olson Fred Clark Lloyd Gough Show more... William Holden Gloria Swanson Erich von Stroheim Nancy Olson Fred Clark Lloyd Gough Jack Webb Franklyn Farnum Larry J. Blake Charles Dayton

Unable to sell his most recent chef-d'oeuvre, and in hock up to his eyeballs, Joe stashes his car in the driveway of what appears to be an abandoned mansion on Sunset Boulevard, while trying to elude some persistent repo men. Closer inspection reveals the decrepit property to be inhabited by grandiose former silent movie goddess Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), and her zombie-like manservant Max (Erich von Stroheim). Upon hearing that he's a writer, the lonely but still wealthy woman offers to pay him generously to stay at the house and work on her 'comeback' script on the life of Salome. Although spooked by the people and the surroundings, in desperate straits, Joe takes the job, little suspecting the madness of the netherworld he's entered.