Boulevard du crépuscule (1950)
Sunset Boulevard
Réalisateur : Billy Wilder
Scénaristes : Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr., Charles Brackett
Genre : Drame
110 minutes
Status : Released
Budget : 1 752 000 $
Langue : English
Pays : United States of America
Société de production : Paramount Pictures
Synopsis
Norma Desmond, grande actrice du muet, vit recluse dans sa luxueuse villa de Berverly Hills en compagnie de Max von Meyerling, son majordome qui fut aussi son metteur en scène et mari. Joe Gillis, un scénariste sans le sou, pénètre par hasard dans la propriété et Norma lui propose de travailler au scénario du film qui marquera son retour à l'écran, Salomé. Joe accepte, s'installe chez elle, à la fois fasciné et effrayé par ses extravagances et son délire, et devient bientôt son amant. Quand son délire se transforme en paranoïa et qu'elle débarque au milieu des studios Paramount pour convaincre Cecil B. DeMille de tourner à nouveau avec elle, Gillis commence à prendre ses distances...
- William Holden - Joe Gillis
- Gloria Swanson - Norma Desmond
- Erich von Stroheim - Max von Mayerling
- Nancy Olson - Betty Schaefer
- Fred Clark - Sheldrake
- Lloyd Gough - Morino
- Jack Webb - Artie Green
- Franklyn Farnum - Undertaker
- Larry J. Blake - 1st Finance Man
- Charles Dayton - 2nd Finance Man
- Cecil B. DeMille - Cecil B. DeMille
- Hedda Hopper - Hedda Hopper
- Buster Keaton - Buster Keaton
- Anna Q. Nilsson - Anna Q. Nilsson
- H.B. Warner - H.B. Warner
- Ray Evans - Ray Evans
- Jay Livingston - Jay Livingston
- Fred Aldrich - Cop Who Drags Joe's Body from Pool (uncredited)
- Joel Allen - Prop Man #2 (uncredited)
- Gertrude Astor - Courtier (uncredited)
- Anne Bauchens - Editor (uncredited)
- Edward Biby - Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
- Danny Borzage - Accordionist (uncredited)
- Ken Christy - Homicide Captain (uncredited)
- Ruth Clifford - Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)
- John Cortay - Young Gate Guard Mac at Paramount Studios (uncredited)
- Archie R. Dalzell - Camera Operator (uncredited)
- Eddie Dew - Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
- Julia Faye - Hisham (uncredited)
- Al Ferguson - Phone Standby (uncredited)
- Gerry Ganzer - Betty's Roommate Connie (uncredited)
- Rudy Germane - Detective (uncredited)
- Kenneth Gibson - Salesman at Men's Shop (uncredited)
- Creighton Hale - Creighton Hale (uncredited)
- Chuck Hamilton - Grip on DeMille Set (uncredited)
- Len Hendry - Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- E. Mason Hopper - Doctor (uncredited)
- Stan Johnson - First Assistant Director (uncredited)
- Tiny Jones - Little Woman Outside Paramount Gate (uncredited)
- Howard Joslin - Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
- Arthur Lane - Camera Operator (uncredited)
- Perc Launders - Violinist at Norma's New Year's Eve Party (uncredited)
- William Meader - Party Guest (uncredited)
- Gertrude Messinger - Hairdresser (uncredited)
- Harold Miller - Man on Golf Course (uncredited)
- Howard Negley - Police Captain (uncredited)
- John "Skins" Miller - Hog-Eye Electrician (uncredited)
- Lee Miller - Dancing Party Guest / Paramount Studio Employee (uncredited)
- Ralph Montgomery - Prop Man #1 (uncredited)
- Bert Moorhouse - Gordon Cole (uncredited)
- Jay Morley - Fat Man (uncredited)
- Eva Novak - Courtier (uncredited)
- Frank O'Connor - Courtier (uncredited)
- Robert Emmett O'Connor - Older Paramount Gate Guard Jonesy (uncredited)
- Jack Perrin - Detective (uncredited)
- Sidney Skolsky - Sidney Skolsky (uncredited)
- Emmett Smith - Black Man (uncredited)
- Archie Twitchell - Salesman at Men's Shop (uncredited)
- Yvette Vickers - Giggling Girl on Phone at Party (uncredited)
- Henry Wilcoxon - Actor on DeMille's 'Samson & Delilah' Set (uncredited)
- James Hawley - Camera Assistant (uncredited)
- Bernice Mosk - Bernice (uncredited)
- Virginia L. Randolph - Courtier (uncredited)
- Bill Sheehan - Second Assistant Director (uncredited)
- Roy Thompson - Rudy, Shoeshine Boy (uncredited)
- Jack Warden - Party Guest (uncredited)
- Finn Zirzow - Actor on DeMille's 'Samson & Delilah' Set (uncredited)
