TY - BOOK AU - Brackett,Charles AU - Holden,William AU - Marshman,D.M AU - Swanson,Gloria AU - Von Stroheim,Erich,\d 1885-1957 AU - Wilder,Billy ED - Paramount Pictures Corporation TI - Sunset Boulevard T2 - Paramount DVD Collection SN - 0792172868 U1 - 791.43 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Hollywood, Calif PB - Paramount Pictures KW - Actors KW - Drama KW - Motion picture industry KW - Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) \v Drama KW - Feature films \z United States KW - lcsh KW - Feature films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 1950; Special features: Commentary by Ed Sikov, author of "On Sunset Boulevard: the life and times of Billy Wilder" ; a 28 min. documentary, Sunset Blvd., a look back (c2002) ; theatrical trailer ; Hollywood location map ; photo galleries ; morgue prologue ; Edith Head - The Paramount Years (featurette) ; The music of Sunset Boulevard (featurette); Cinematographer, John F. Seitz ; editors, Doane Harrison, Arthur Schmidt ; music, Franz Waxman ; costume designer, Edith Head; William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olsen, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton N2 - Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with a young script reader, but Norma breaks up their romance. Thinking she is mad, he tries to leave, but Norma kills him in a scene which she believes is the highlight of her comeback movie ER -