AUGUST 22: Gloria Swanson - 7:00pm

Sunset Blvd.

Billy Wilder (1950) 110 mins PG

Deceased screenwriter Joe Gillis' (William Holden) ethereally detached voice reveals his fateful personal & professional entanglement with Hollywood silent screen diva Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). Billy Wilder's ghoulish noir presents an intensely cynical & cruel view of Hollywood. This iconic masterpiece was awarded 3 Oscars for script (Charles Brackett), art direction (Hans Dreier) & music (Franz Waxman). Also starring Erich von Stroheim, Buster Keaton, Nancy Olson, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper.

Followed at 9.00pm by Queen Kelly.

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