She retired from the screen in 1934 but was ready for her close-up again in 1950's "Sunset Boulevard"
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Sunset Blvd. (1950) | The Film Spectrum  Dec 11, 2012 ... Sunset Blvd. held such a controversial mirror up to the film industry that the .... she had once been: Hollywood's highest paid actress before retiring in .... There is a moment in Sunset Boulevard where William Holden's ... Norma may say, I'm ready for my close-up, but Wilder doesn't afford her that privilege,...
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Gloria Swanson - Wikipedia  Gloria May Josephine Swanson was an American actress and producer best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a reclusive silent film star, in the critically acclaimed 1950 film Sunset Boulevard. .... to film something more commercial. She agreed but ended up filming the more controversial Sadie Thompson instead.
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Detail view of Movies Page - American Film Institute  Premiere Information: World premiere in New York: 10 Aug 1950 .... first husband, she left him, but when Hollywood abandoned her, he gave up ... At the bottom of the stairs, Norma announces, "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille." .... she retired in 1934, and appeared in only one film before starring as Norma Desmond.
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Film Notes -Show People - University at Albany  Film history would never see a shot like this again. ... Vidor's witty Hollywood satire, SHOW PEOPLE, MGM was only five years old, but it was bursting with talent;...
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Sunset Boulevard (film) - Wikipedia  Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and ... He tries to let her down gently, but she slaps him and retreats to her room. ... a film again, ending with: "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." ... You'd never know, because when it reached the screen, the whole thing...
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RoundAbout Entertainment Guide - Biography  In 1920, she moved to New York City in pursuit of a Broadway musical stage career. (She added the e ... The two remained together until his death in 1965. Dunne also ... 1935: Magnificent Obsession, Helen Hudson, Robert Taylor, Drama ... 1947: Life With Father, Vinnie Day, William Powell, Liz Taylor, Comedy **1949: I...
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The Sunset Girls | Film | The Guardian  Dec 4, 1998 ... The meeting between the brothers and the long-forgotten film star is ... The make-up is thick, the wig is big. ... Immediately, she became the silent actress vamping like Norma Desmond ready to play Salome. .... One such star was the original Esmeralda in The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Patsy Ruth Miller.
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Wellesnet | Orson Welles Web Resource  Orson Welles to Rita ...  Feb 27, 2010 ... Orson Welles to Rita Hayworth: You are my life  my very life. ... 25, away from the Columbia studio lot after the day's shooting on the Columbia musical, Cover Girl. ... them long after her marriage to Welles had ended in divorce. ... 2:33 am and is filed under Criticism & Research, The Lady From Shanghai.
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FILM - Julia Roberts, After the Layoff and With Lyle - NYTimes.com  Dec 12, 1993 ... Two years after she made her last film and fell into a tabloid twilight zone over ... "They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts it into people's ... Another Oscar nomination came with "Pretty Woman," the fairy-tale story of a ... In 1991, Ms. Roberts went through what Ms. Goldsmith refers to as her...
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'Gigi' to Close on Broadway on June 21 - June 10, 2015 - NewYork ...  Jun 10, 2015 ... Gigi, the revival of the stage version of the Alan Jay Lerner and ... film classic starring Vanessa Hudgens of High School Musical, will close at the ... to the stage by Anita Loos in a nonmusical version in 1951 starring Audrey Hepburn. ... and Loewe (just after their smash Broadway success with My Fair Lady).
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Talkie TerrorLate 1920s | The Pop History Dig  Oct 19, 2010 ... The studios, she believed, should have taken the time to train those people whose ... Not long thereafter, Norma Talmadge retired from film-making. ... In the mid-1920s, Rogers began acting professionally in Hollywood films. ... He also worked with actors Douglas Fairbanks and Gloria Swanson during the...
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Marilyn and Orson Welles - ES Updates - Everlasting Star  Jul 20, 2013 ... Made The Lady from Shanghai with Hayworth. ... And even in 1955, when she was a worldwide star, she had to fight for better pay. ... went back to work at Columbia: in October she officially filed for divorce. Not a word of protest came from Welles, who, meanwhile, had been hurriedly shooting a low-budget...
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Sunset Boulevard 1950 ...  Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Sunset Boulevard 1950 Fullscreen, ... To achieve this level of believability and honesty from this character takes great craft. .... Desmond replies: "I AM big. It's the pictures that got small." ..... Louis B. Mayer's angry retort to Wilder, upon finally seeing the film, was that the...
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Ava Gardner - Vanity Fair  Right, Ava Gardner with Frank Sinatra, at the Hollywood premiere of Show Boat, 1951. ... It would have been a hard blow to bear for any woman, but for an actress who ... 'Why don't we start with my first husband, Mickey Rooney? .... The Artie Shaw year, honey, she corrected me with droll precision. .... November 7, 1951.
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Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Quotes - IMDb  Norma Desmond: [to newsreel camera] And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after ... All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. .... Joe Gillis (as narrator): [Joe is reading Norma's script] Sometimes it's interesting to see just...
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A History of Great Ladies in Sunset Boulevard | Playbill  Oct 25, 2016 ... For this workshop, held in September 1992, Patti LuPone and Kevin Anderson were ... Jack Tinker, Daily Mail: All this said, the show resurrects itself to heights of ... Betty Buckley, who had won a Tony Award for her performance as ... that with Glenn Close, Lloyd Webber has a persuasive Norma Desmond,...
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Gloria Swanson - Wikipedia  Gloria May Josephine Swanson was an American actress and producer best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a reclusive silent film star, in the critically acclaimed 1950 film Sunset Boulevard. Swanson was also a star in the silent film era as both an actress and a .... In 1927, she decided to turn down a million dollar a year contract with...
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Sunset Boulevard (film) - Wikipedia  Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett. It was named after the boulevard that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, California. The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, .... The Breen Office insisted certain lines be rewritten, such as Gillis's "I'm up...
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Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Greatest Films  The greatest films The "Greatest" and the "Best" in Cinematic History www.filmsite.org .... How old are you anyway? .... the Homicide Bureau must wait to use the single phone line in the house. ... All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.
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The Eloquent Woman: Famous Speech Friday: Evita Peron's 1951 ...  Mar 9, 2012 ... It's true that the former first lady of Argentina did have her dramatic ... before moving to Buenos Aires at age 15 to work in radio and movies. ... She acted in several radio soap operas and a popular series ... Nine days later, Eva gave her answer in the radio address known as ... Featured Post .... Sep 23 (1).
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