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Sunset Boulevard

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A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. From TMDB

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  • Jamie @vanjpes.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2026

    Tonight's 🎥: Sunset Boulevard (1950, dir. Billy Wilder). The best film about films ever made? Undoubtedly. One of the all-time great movies, stuffed with an embarrassment of riches, from the writing to performances to production design, cinematography and direction. Savage, melancholy, brilliant.

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  • David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2026

    Happy 98th Birthday to the lovely Nancy Olson, talented Oscar-nominated actress of film, stage, and TV, as well as the last surviving cast member of SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950). She was #BOTD on 7/14/1928.

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  • Lisa 🇨🇦 @pinkmouse.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Donald Trump’s favourite movie is Sunset Boulevard. That movie tells the story of an aging silent film star, Norma Desmond, who has locked herself away from the real world so that she can endlessly replay past glories until she loses her mind entirely.

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  • Pirritin @pirritin.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2025

    It's sunset time here, so... Movie: Sunset Boulevard (1950) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Snow #Nature #Sunset #Trees

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  • Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2026

    #filmnoir #moviesky #filmsky Tuesday has a feel. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)

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  • George Hahn @georgehahn.comBluesky · Aug 28, 2025

    Tonight’s movie: “Sunset Boulevard” (1950), directed by Billy Wilder

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  • Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2026

    Hours before the Oscars took place, movie posters mocking President Donald Trump and condemning the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran appeared across Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Activist group Everyone Hates Elon plastered the images across the city.

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  • Karim 🐦 @karim6.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2026

    Sunset Boulevard still feels like a dream no matter how many times you watch- a surreal fever dream about the death of silent film & the industry that left it behind. It clearly inspired Lynch's Mulholland Drive, & in retrospect the 2 feel like a conversation across decades about Hollywood #filmsky

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  • Wine Mom Wrote a Mystery @winemommystery.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    Sunset Boulevard (1950) is my #murderystuff movie tonight. Fall weather has arrived to NorCal. I've got a kitty on my lap and a glass of wine in my hand. Action! #booksky #hollywood #classicfilm #mood

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  • Old Hollywood @theoldhollywood.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2025

    "And who've we got now? Some nobody." Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) denounces the state of the movie business in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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  • r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2025

    ME: [2hrs deep into explaining Night of the Hunter, Sunset Boulevard, Rashomon, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane and the entire French New Wave film movement to my 25 y/o co-worker] so...yeah 25 Y/O COWORKER: damn ME: COWORKER: ME: sorry I think I might have autism COWORKER: yeah but it's ok

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  • Matty Ray @mattysmalls.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2025

    The Sunset Boulevard movie should be about Glenn Close trying to get her movie made.

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  • Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2025

    Unlike Norma Desmond, SUNSET BOULEVARD hasn’t aged a day www.theguardian.com/film/2020/au...

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  • Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 25, 2025

    Sunset Boulevard. I LOVE the movie & couldn't imagine a musical version could do it justice. I was wrong.

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  • Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2025

    A Polish poster for the movie “Sunset Boulevard,” designed by Waldemar Świerzy in 1957 (from a recent NYT article on the collection of Oh Hwangtaek). Gift link here ☞ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/w...

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  • FRANK'S FILM REVIEW @franksfilmreview.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2025

    FRANK’S FILM REVIEW: SUNSET BOULEVARD ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 With eleven Academy Award nominations and three wins, Sunset Boulevard secured its place as one of the greatest achievements in film history. #FranksFilmReview #FrankGaimari #GloriaSwanson #WilliamHolden #Films franksfilmreview.com/2025/03/10/s...

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2026

    Happy Birthday to TV, film & comedy legend Carol Burnett! 4/26/33. As kid, lived for brilliant movie parodies of Gone With the Wind, Sunset Boulevard, Mildred Pierce. Some of funniest moments in 📺 history. Even have WENT WITH THE WIND doll. Recently in PALM ROYALE & BETTER CALL SAUL! #filmsky 📽

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  • Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.socialBluesky · Feb 3, 2026

    I must have been watching Sunset Boulevard for the 713th time when it suddenly occurred to me that this might be my favorite line in the whole film.

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  • Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2025

    ICYMI: For the Venice Film Festival's pre-opening Aug. 26, Dennis Doros of @milestonefilms.bsky.social is unveiling a new 4K reconstruction of QUEEN KELLY (1929), the Erich von Stroheim and Gloria Swanson film maudit seen for a few gorgeous seconds in Sunset Boulevard. mailchi.mp/milestonefil...

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  • Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2024

    I read this morning that Sunset Boulevard is one of Donald Trump's favourite movies. Strange, I thought, as it seems like a film about a person who was a moving-picture star and becomes isolated from reality and unable to form real relationships. What is he seeing there? So I rewatched this evening.

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  • 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2026

    I worked at Paramount once, and had the oddest sensation. I saw a screening on the lot of "Sunset Boulevard" for a friend's birthday, sitting in the SAME screening room that Gloria Swanson watches a movie projected in within the film. Very weirdly meta. #SunsetBoulevard #SummerOfDarkness #TCMParty

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 27, 2026

    It wouldn't be proper to ignore Norma Desmond on this or any day! Gloria Swanson, BOTD 3/27/1899. From silent film superstar to SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) & beyond, Swanson was, is, & always will be film legend. #filmsky 📽

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of SUNSET BOULEVARD boxd.it/cFmImf 🎶He had it coming. He had it coming. He only had himself to blame!🎶 Perfect film? Essential noir works as scathing Hollywood satire & compelling psychosexual drama. Swanson walks tightrope between ridiculous & heartbreaking; triumphs. #filmsky 📽

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  • Princess Pretty Girl @princessprettygirl.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2025

    My favorite movie is Sunset Boulevard because I dream of finding a rich MILF so terminally down bad for me that she kills me

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  • Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 29, 2026

    @mrsemilyfinch.bsky.social and I have gotten a little bit into watching old noir movies lately. Watched Sunset Boulevard tonight. Holy cow. Great movie. Norma has to be one of the most insane characters ever put on film. What other noir suggestions do y’all have?

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  • Rachel Merrill Artist for Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco! @ohhhaeee.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Someday I'm gonna make a gender flip one of these but its two Bill Holdens in his tiny swim trunks from the movie Sunset Boulevard.

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  • Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 9, 2025

    Sunset Boulevard. Basically a horror film about getting old, which is something I can relate to more and more in the 30-odd years since I first saw it

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  • Letterboxd @letterboxd.socialBluesky · Mar 2, 2026

    Sunset Boulevard (1950), directed by Billy Wilder; written by Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr., Charles Brackett boxd.it/2a20

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  • Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    SUNSET BOULEVARD premiered #OTD in 1950. You might think Paramount would stream one of its most iconic films on Paramount+ for the 75th anniversary, but you'd be wrong. It's on MGM+. I wish Billy Wilder was still around to make a movie about the streaming shell game. #FilmSky #SunsetBoulevard

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  • Karim 🐦 @karim6.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2026

    What a phenomenal week it's been. Watched Sunset Boulevard, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vampyr, and In the Mood for Love, loved every single one. The Passion of Joan of Arc might just be my favorite film of all time. #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky #films #movies 📽️🍿

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  • MrsFishVEVO @willkellogg.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2025

    I have created full relationships in my head with men I have seen on the subway and I still have never been as delusional about something as Glenn Close is about a Sunset Boulevard movie

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2026

    OTD 9/11/1967: Brilliant sketch comedy CAROL BURNETT SHOW premiered. So much heart, so many enduring characters! As kid, lived for brilliant movie parodies of Gone With the Wind, Sunset Boulevard, Mildred Pierce. Some of funniest moments in 📺 history. Even have WENT WITH THE WIND doll. #filmsky 📽

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  • Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.comBluesky · Feb 21, 2026

    My son is curating a BFI youth film festival this very Sunday at the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield. He’s chosen two films on the price of fame - Sunset Boulevard is one, and the other is Pearl. Tickets are still available.

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    #NowWatching SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950). Director: Billy Wilder. William Holden, Gloria Swanson. Revisiting Wilder's 11x Oscar nominated classic. No matter how many times I've seen, it never grows old! And isn't this a great poster?!? #filmsky 📽

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  • Frank Vatel @frankvatel312.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    TCM’s Summer of Darkness won’t get more “A-picture” than SUNSET BOULEVARD, tonight’s leadoff film. But stay tuned, afterward, for one of the great under-appreciated noirs. A bleak tale of adultery and murder, THE PROWLER pulls no punches and avoids cop-out endings. #TCMParty

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  • Mark Russell @manruss.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 22, 2025

    A boring and predictable yet nonetheless honest list of my 5 fav film noirs. What are some of yours? 1. Sunset Boulevard 2. The Third Man 3. Double Indemnity 4. Mildred Pierce 5. The Big Clock

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  • Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2026

    Poster for the movie, SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950), directed by Billy Wilder, starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, and Erich von Stroheim.

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  • Monstro ElisaShawn @shaaawndangooo.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2025

    4 photos from a film you consider a masterpiece🎬 ‘Sunset Boulevard’ (1950)

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  • Maia @maiamindel.bsky.socialBluesky · May 10, 2025

    > Nicole Sherzinger says they're thinking of turning the Sunset Boulevard musical into a movie

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  • Clipping @clppng.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2026

    And to everyone else’s point—when I used to teach film, the undergrads who told me they hated black and white movies all loved Casablanca and Sunset Boulevard and High Noon. They just needed somebody to show them

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  • βӀմҽ βɾìąղ @blue-brian.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2026

    Tonight's Movie: Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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  • MindyGraz @melkleingraz.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2025

    Day 1 #NoirvemberChallenge Favorite #filmnoir Opening? “Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.” I could continue. youtu.be/HduXGYkoc_w?...

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  • Ann Leckie @annleckie.comBluesky · Mar 4, 2024

    All right, folks. Sunset Boulevard is a fabulous film but it's not an example of "first person past tense narrator dies in the end" The movie tells you right up front that it's the dead man's story, plus "first person" in the context of film is more or less nonsensical. I mean, I love you all, just.

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  • Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2026

    Poster published in Poland in 1957 for the movie, SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950), directed by Billy Wilder, starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, and Erich von Stroheim. Poster art by Waldemar Świerzy (1931-2013).

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  • Carmelita Valdez McKoy @carmelitasays.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2025

    'Sunset Boulevard' was released 75 years ago today! Words fall short of expressing what the film means to me, but I have gushed about it at length... Cult Movies Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/6J1i... Blind Spots Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/56F6...

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  • Borderline Billy @borderlinebilly.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    On August 10, 1950, the classic film noir Sunset Boulevard premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Directed by Billy Wilder, the movie starred William Holden and Gloria Swanson in a dark, celebrated tale of Hollywood delusion and tragedy. #OTD #FilmSky #MovieSky

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  • badelf @[email protected]Lemmy · May 15, 2026

    REVIEW / Sunset Boulevard (1950). *Sunset Boulevard*, 10/10 Billy Wilder's *Sunset Boulevard* is a masterpiece of black comedy and savage Hollywood critique, a film so dark and so funny that it becomes something singular. Everything about it is wonderful: the performances, the direction, the audacity of its premise, the cruelty of its vision. It's a film about delusion and exploitation, about an industry that devours its own, and it tells that story with a viciousness that never stops being…

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  • Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2025

    the screening of Sunset Boulevard that I attended on Monday was the film being shown on film, which for the most part was really cool, but during the New Years eve scene, some of the film had been damaged, and at one point it just abruptly jumped to Norma saying "PUMPING AND PUMPING" with no context

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  • Clinton of the Damned 🎃👻 @puritythrufire.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2026

    Picking a (not so) random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #318 "Sunset Boulevard" (Billy Wilder/1950) All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. Classic line from a film that, unsurprisingly, I have not watched yet. Hopefully I will get to this one soon.

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  • Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.comBluesky · Aug 9, 2025

    My thoughts on Sunset Boulevard, which turns 75 tomorrow! "At 75, the film has lost none of its power and continues to serve as an adroit analysis of fame, power, and disillusionment." One of my absolute favorite films.

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  • LeesahSea @leesahsea.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 29, 2024

    Happy #LetterboxdFriday 📽️! Some older films. Some newer films. Another solid #LastFourWatched for me. What have you seen recently? They Drive By Night (1940) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Witches (2024) The Piano Lesson (2024)

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  • jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2024

    Ran into two folks yesterday who had just seen Sunset Boulevard, but have never seen the film. I'm heartbroken for them.

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2025

    Franz Waxman (with scenes from "Bride of Frankenstein", "Rebecca", "Humoresque " and "Sunset Boulevard" for which he composed the film scores) - BOTD

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2024

    Franz Waxman (with scenes from "Bride of Frankenstein", "Rebecca", "Humoresque " and "Sunset Boulevard" for which he composed the film scores) - BOTD

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  • TCM with a Twist @tcmwithatwist.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    Tonight: Sunset Boulevard + a Corpse Reviver No. 2. A movie narrated by a dead man in a pool needs a drink named for raising the dead. ¾ oz each gin, Cointreau, Lillet, lemon; shake, strain into an absinthe-rinsed coupe. #TCMParty #SummerOfDarkness

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  • Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 24, 2026

    Schwab's Pharmacy was a drugstore located at 8024 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, and was a popular hangout for movie actors and movie industry dealmakers from the 1930s through the 1950s. Schwab's closed in October 1983 & the building was demolished in 1988.

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  • Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2024

    I can never predict what they will respond to. “Sunset Boulevard” is hugely useful, but for the film bros, it’s smoking hot Grace Kelly in “Rear Window.”

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  • Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2026

    Hollywood Horror House (aka Savage Intruder - 1970) A fun, trippy blend of Psycho and Sunset Boulevard in which a scuzzy playboy weasels his way into the life of a forgotten movie starlet Starring Miriam Hopkins Written and directed by Donald Wolfe

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  • Leela Corman @leelacorman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2026

    Decline Of Western Civilization Pt. 1, Sunset Boulevard, Singin' In The Rain, and, not a movie but a series, Vida.

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  • Natscute @bluesky2020.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2026

    L'inoubliable Gloria Swanson, pour une photo promotionnelle de "Boulevard du crépuscule" (Sunset Boulevard ou Sunset Blvd), film noir américain réalisé par Billy Wilder, et sorti en 1950. #Cinémaaméricain #Filmnoir #Boulevardducrépuscule #SunsetBoulevard #BillyWilder #GloriaSwanson

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