Sunset Blvd. (1950)

I Am Big, It's the Pictures That Got Small

Joe (William Holden) is mistaken for a coffin maker when he meets the washed up movie star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson).

Directed by Billy Wilder.

© Paramount 2013

Released in 1950 by Paramount.

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