Après lui, le déluge
Before the film was released, Nancy Olson had grown disenchanted with film as a career partly because the themes of "Sunset Boulevard" resonated with her, and also because she had become engaged to songwriter Alan Jay Lerner and decided to move to New York with him. Nevertheless, Olson's pairing with William Holden was considered a success, and she appeared opposite him in several films during the 1950s, although none of them repeated their earlier success; she returned to Hollywood to make several other films, including "The Absent-Minded Professor" (1961) and "Son of Flubber" (1963), in which she was paired with Fred MacMurray.