Title: Sunset Boulevard (film)
Content: and a third in [[Great Neck, New York|Great Neck]], the morgue opening was replaced by a shorter poolside opening, using footage filmed on January 5, 1950. In Hollywood, Paramount arranged a private screening for the various studio heads and specially invited guests. After viewing the film, [[Barbara Stanwyck]] knelt to kiss the hem of Gloria Swanson's skirt. Swanson later remembered looking for [[Mary Pickford]], only to be told, "She can't show herself, Gloria. She's too overcome. We all are." [[Louis B. Mayer]] berated Wilder before the crowd of celebrities, saying, "You have disgraced the industry that made and fed you!

Title: Sunset Boulevard (film)
Content: Sunset Boulevard (film) Sunset Boulevard (stylized onscreen as SUNSET BLVD.) is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett. It was named after the thoroughfare with the same name that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, California. The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, and Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent-film star who draws him into her fantasy world, where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen. Erich von Stroheim plays Max von Mayerling, her devoted servant, and Nancy Olson,

Title: Sunset Boulevard (film)
Content: Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by [[Joel McNeely]] and released in 2002. Wilder and Brackett, nervous about a major screening in Hollywood, held a preview in [[Evanston, Illinois]], in late 1949. The original edit opened with a scene inside a [[morgue]], with the assembled corpses discussing how they came to be there. The story began with the corpse of Joe Gillis recounting his murder to the others. The audience reacted with laughter and seemed unsure whether to view the rest of the film as drama or comedy. After a similar reaction during its second screening in [[Poughkeepsie (city), New York|Poughkeepsie, New York]],

Title: Sunset Boulevard (film)
Content: "None of us floozies was "that" nuts." The same quote, with the word "zonked" in place of "nuts," has also been attributed to actress-comedian [[Marion Davies]]. "Sunset Boulevard" had its official world premiere at [[Radio City Music Hall]] on August 10, 1950. After a seven-week run, "[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]" magazine reported the film had grossed "around $1,020,000", making it one of that theater's most successful pictures. "Variety" also noted that, while it was "breaking records in major cities, it is doing below average in ... the sticks." To promote the film, Gloria Swanson traveled by train throughout the United States, visiting

Title: Sunset Boulevard (film)
Content: by Charles Brackett]] [[Category:Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles)]] [[Category:United States National Film Registry films]] Sunset Boulevard (film) Sunset Boulevard (stylized onscreen as SUNSET BLVD.) is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett. It was named after the thoroughfare with the same name that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, California. The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, and Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent-film star who draws him into her fantasy world, where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen.

Question: Which American city saw the premiere of Sunset Boulevard?
Answer: Los Angeles