Close-up on Sunset Boulevard
Subtitle: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: February 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780312302542
Subjects: Film & Video - Direction & Production; Performing Arts / Film / General; Film & Video - General; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Performing Arts/Dance
First sentence: The seed of Sunset Boulevard was not necessarily the pathetic story of D.W. Griffith, although that encounter at Romanoff's and the subsequent funeral must have stirred the psychological sediment of Billy Wilder and of Charles Brackett.