"Hollywood at its' worst told by Hollywood at its' best"... Time Magazine. Shakespeare, had he been born 300+ years later, may well have become a screenwriter and penned something similar to Sunset Blvd. The lead fictional characters in this tragedy and Shakespeare's Hamlet, Norma Desmond and Hamlet himself, were each beloved and sabotaged by the people they needed and depended upon. Ms. Desmond was also described as having melancholy, a label synonymous with that of the Melancholy Dane. Director Wilder was one of the greatest. Some may recognize the New Year's Eve music was the same as that played in Some Like It Hot when Jack Lemon, with a rose clamped between his teeth, danced with Joe E. Brown. Brilliant!
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