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Sunset Boulevard [videorecording] by Holden, William,1918-1981.(CARDINAL)724540; Swanson, Gloria; Von Stroheim, Erich; Olsen, Nancy,1939-; Clark, Fred,1914-1968; Gough, Lloyd(CARDINAL)785050; Webb, Jack,1920-1982.(CARDINAL)278190; DeMille, Cecil B.(Cecil Blount),1881-1959(CARDINAL)153543; Hopper, Hedda,1890-1966.; Keaton, Buster,1895-1966.(CARDINAL)139561;
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 young script reader, but Norma breaks up their romance. Thinking she is mad, he tries to leave, but Norma kills him.MPAA rating : Not ratedDVD
Subjects: DVDs; Feature films.; Actors and actresses; Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.); Motion picture industry;
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Gloria Swanson : the ultimate star / by Shearer, Stephen Michael,1951-(CARDINAL)476678;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-476) and index.Gloria Swanson was Hollywood's first successful glamour queen. Realizing her box office value early in her career, she took control of her life. Soon she was not only producing her own films, she was choosing her scripts, selecting her leading men, casting her projects, creating her own fashions, guiding her publicity, and living an extravagant and sometimes extraordinary celebrity lifestyle. She also collected a long line of lovers (including Joseph P. Kennedy) and married men of her choosing (including a French marquis, thus becoming America's first member of "nobility"). As a devoted and loving mother, she managed a quiet success of raising three children. Perhaps most important, as a keen businesswoman she also was able to extend her career more than sixty years. Her comeback in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard catapulted her back into the limelight, but it also created a long-misunderstood persona. This biography sets the record straight.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Biographies.; Swanson, Gloria.; Motion picture actors and actresses;
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Gloria Swanson : ready for her close-up / by Welsch, Tricia.(CARDINAL)802278;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 448-455) and index.Includes filmography: pages 436-447."Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early Hollywood transformed their remarkable careers after their stars dimmed. This book brings Swanson back into the spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative, entrepreneurial, and thoroughly modern woman. Swanson cavorted in slapstick short films with Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett in the 1910s. The popularity of her films with Cecil B. DeMille helped create the star system. A glamour icon, Swanson became the most talked-about star in Hollywood, earning three Academy Award nominations, receiving 10,000 fan letters every week, and living up to a reputation as Queen of Hollywood. She bought mansions and penthouses, dressed in fur and feathers, and flitted through Paris, London, and New York engaging in passionate love affairs that made headlines and caused scandals. Frustrated with the studio system, Swanson became a talented businesswoman who patented inventions and won fashion awards for her clothing designs; a natural foods activist; an exhibited sculptor; and a designer employed by the United Nations. All the while she continued to act in films, theater, and television at home and abroad"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Swanson, Gloria.; Motion picture actors and actresses;
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Sunset Boulevard [videorecording] / by Holden, William.; Brackett, Charles.; Holden, William,1918-; Livingston, Jay.; Marshman, D.M.,Jr.,1922-2015.(CARDINAL)346021; Swanson, Gloria.; Von Stroheim, Erich,1885-1957.(CARDINAL)149835; Waxman, Franz.; Wilder, Billy,1906-; Paramount Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)356370; Paramount Home Video.; Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)(CARDINAL)360617; Paramount Pictures.;
Director of photography, John F. Seitz; art directors, Hans Dreier, John Meehan; film editor, Doane Harrison, Arthur Schmidt; music, Jay Livingston, Franz Waxman.William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough.Swanson stars as fading film star Norma Desmond and Holden plays the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness. Von Stroheim plays Desmond's discoverer, ex-husband, and butler.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD, Dolby digital mono.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion picture actors and actresses; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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Sunset Boulevard [videorecording] / by Brackett, Charles,1892-1969,production,writing.; Holden, William,cast.; Marshman, D. M.,Jr.,1922-2015writing.(CARDINAL)346021; Swanson, Gloria,cast.; Wilder, Billy,1906-2002,direction,writing.; Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)DLC.; LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)DLC.; Paramount Collection (Library of Congress)DLC.; Paramount Pictures Corporation.(CARDINAL)141482;
Director of photography, John F. Seitz ; edited by Arthur Schmidt ; music score, Franz Waxman.William Holden (Joe Gillis), Gloria Swanson (Norma Desmond), Erich von Stroheim (Max von Mayerling), Nancy Olson (Betty Schaefer), Fred Clark.Joe Gillis is found floating face down in the swimming pool of Norma Desmond. The dead Gillis narrates his story. Pursued by creditors, he swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma Desmond, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback, and Max von Mayerling, her former director and husband and now her servant, living there. She takes a fancy to Gillis 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 young script reader Betty Schaefer, but Norma breaks up their romance. Thinking she is mad, he tries to leave, but Norma kills him. Max, hoping to coax Norma into police custody, directs the big staircase scene which she believes is the highlight of her comeback movie.
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Sunset Blvd. [videorecording] by Brackett, Charles,1892-1969.; Clark, Fred,1914-1968.; DeMille, Cecil B.(Cecil Blount),1881-1959.(CARDINAL)153543; Gough, Lloyd.(CARDINAL)785050; Harrison, Doane,d. 1968.; Head, Edith.(CARDINAL)169975; Holden, William,1918-1981.(CARDINAL)724540; Hopper, Hedda,1890-1966.; Marshman, D. M.,Jr.,1922-2015.(CARDINAL)346021; Olson, Nancy,1928-; Schmidt, Arthur.; Seitz, John F.,d. 1979.; Swanson, Gloria.; Von Stroheim, Erich,1885-1957.(CARDINAL)149835; Waxman, Franz,1906-1967.; Webb, Jack,1920-; Wilder, Billy,1906-2002.(CARDINAL)509136; Paramount Pictures Corporation.(CARDINAL)141482;
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.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.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD, Dolby digital mono, Region 1 encoding.Academy Awards, USA, 1951: Oscar - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer); Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Franz Waxman); Best Writing, Story and Screenplay (Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.)
Subjects: Feature films.; Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Actors; Motion picture industry; Actors;
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Sunset Boulevard [videorecording] / by Brackett, Charles,1892-1969,film producer,screenwriter.; Clark, Fred,1914-1968,actor.; DeMille, Cecil B.(Cecil Blount),1881-1959,actor.(CARDINAL)153543; Gough, Lloyd,actor.(CARDINAL)785050; Harrison, Doane,1894-1968,editor of moving image work.; Head, Edith,costume designer.(CARDINAL)169975; Holden, William,1918-1981,actor.(CARDINAL)724540; Hopper, Hedda,1890-1966,actor.; Marshman, D. M.,Jr.,1922-2015,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)346021; Olson, Nancy,1928-actor.(CARDINAL)859386; Schmidt, Arthur,editor of moving image work.; Seitz, John F.(John Francis),1892-1979,cinematographer.; Swanson, Gloria,actor.; Von Stroheim, Erich,1885-1957,actor.(CARDINAL)149835; Waxman, Franz,1906-1967,composer.; Webb, Jack,1920-1982,actor.(CARDINAL)278190; Wilder, Billy,1906-2002,film director,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)509136; Paramount Pictures Corporation.(CARDINAL)141482;
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.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.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD; Dolby digital mono, Region 1 encoding, NTSC.
Subjects: Feature films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Actors; Motion picture industry;
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Sunset Boulevard Special collector's edition [videorecording] / by Brackett, Charles,1892-1969,film producer,screenwriter.; Clark, Fred,1914-1968,actor.; DeMille, Cecil B.(Cecil Blount),1881-1959,actor(CARDINAL)153543; Gough, Lloyd,actor.(CARDINAL)785050; Harrison, Doane,1894-1968,editor of moving image work.; Head, Edith,costume designer(CARDINAL)169975; Holden, William,1918-1981,actor(CARDINAL)724540; Hopper, Hedda,1890-1966,actor.; Marshman, D. M.,Jr.,1922-2015,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)346021; Olson, Nancy,1928-actor.(CARDINAL)859386; Schmidt, Arthur,editor of moving image work.; Seitz, John F.(John Francis),1892-1979,cinematographer.; Swanson, Gloria,actor.; Von Stroheim, Erich,1885-1957,actor(CARDINAL)149835; Waxman, Franz,1906-1967,composer.; Webb, Jack,1920-1982,actor.(CARDINAL)278190; Wilder, Billy,1906-2002,film director,screenwriter(CARDINAL)509136; Paramount Pictures Corporation.(CARDINAL)141482;
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.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.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD; Dolby digital mono, Region 1 encoding, NTSC.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Classics; Academy Award Winners.; Actors; Award Winners.; DVD-video discs; Film noir; Historical films; Horror films; Motion picture industry; National Film Registry.; Afi (American Film Institute).; Classic Film;
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The Carol Burnett Show [videorecording]. by Burnett, Carol.(CARDINAL)128391; Conway, Tim.(CARDINAL)748754; Korman, Harvey,1927-2008.(CARDINAL)843936; Lawrence, Steve.; Lawrence, Vicki,1949-(CARDINAL)388206; Sand, Paul,1935-; Swanson, Gloria.; Guthy-Renker Entertainment.; Whacko, Inc. (Firm);
Episode 705: guest star, Gloria Swanson (originally aired 9/29/73) -- Episode 709: guest stars, Steve Lawrence, Paul Sand (originally aired 11/3/73).Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence.Two episodes of the television show featuring a variety of comedy skits, songs, dances, and satires ; includes introductions to each episode by Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, and Harvey Korman.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Television programs.;
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Swanson on Swanson. by Swanson, Gloria,1897-1983.(CARDINAL)709944;
Subjects: Biographies.; Actors;
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