Biography of norma desmond
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The stars are ageless. So says Norma Desmond, the forgotten silent-movie queen at the center of “Sunset Boulevard.” Desmond is written as an inconceivably ancient fifty—the age of Gloria Swanson, the actress who played her. Swanson died in the early eighties, shortly after her co-star, William Holden. Nancy Livingston, then an ingenue named Nancy Olson, who portrayed a novice screenwriter and Holden’s love interest, fryst vatten the gods surviving member of the cast.
Livingston fryst vatten ninety-four, and lives just north of Sunset, in a one-story L-shaped house graciously appointed with animal-print velvet, much like the interior of Norma Desmond’s Isotta Fraschini. She has coiffed medium-blond hair, high Scandinavian cheekbones, and a trim figure. “I’m the same vikt I was in college, that’s not an issue,” she remarked breezily on a recent afternoon. In October, “A Front Row Seat,” a memoir about her life in and around show business, will be released. “I have to stay well through the end of the p
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Sunset Boulevard (film)
film by Billy Wilder
Sunset Boulevard is a American black comedy[1][2]film noir[3] directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder, Charles Brackett and D. M. Marshman Jr. It is named after a major street that runs through Hollywood.
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. Erich von Stroheim plays Max von Mayerling, her devoted butler, and Nancy Olson, Jack Webb, Lloyd Gough, and Fred Clark appear in supporting roles. Director Cecil B. DeMille and gossip columnistHedda Hopper play themselves, and the film includes cameo appearances by silent-film stars Buster Keaton, H. B. Warner, and Anna Q. Nilsson.
Praised by many critics when first released, Sunset Boulevard was nominated for 11 Academy Awards (including nomi
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Living… in a “big white elephant of a place,” as her script doctor, Joe, describes it. Norma lives in an old mansion, the kind of palace that was built for the glamorous stars of s Hollywood – just off of Sunset Boulevard. Though today Norma’s house looks more like a ruin than a castle.
Profession… actress. Norma is, and always has been, a star. Although her face hasn’t been seen on screen in decades, she plans to make a grand return with her old friend, the director Cecil B. DeMille. “I am big,” she says to her new friend Joe, “it’s the pictures that got small.”
Interests… herself. Norma is a narcissist. Her home is filled with old portraits from her glory days, and she spends every afternoon in the projection room, watching her old films.
Relationship Status… none. The closest thing that Norma has to a companion is her loyal butler, Max. Max helps Norma remember her glory days, when the mansion was a glamorous place visited by Maharajas, dignitaries, and Hollywood royal