In Sunset Boulevard, the last shot of all is a massive close-up of the almond-shaped eyes, the squared mouth and the shining teeth of Gloria Swanson. The man who invented the close-up was David ...

All that madness in Gloria Swanson’s eyes at the end of Billy Wilder’s 1950 masterpiece Sunset Boulevard is amplified ... a big ol’ staircase and the stinging behind-the-scenes feud between ...

In a 1957 interview with reporter Mike Wallace, Hollywood legend Gloria Swanson, 58 ... known role as fading actress Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, Gloria smiles calmly.

For women, being 50 in Hollywood has always been a tragedy, not necessarily for the woman, but for her career. Actresses are ...

An oldie but a goodie now with Gloria Swanson ... Takes a Wife, Swanson was absent from feature films for almost an entire decade, until she appeared in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, a seminal ...

Like the 1950 movie classic with Gloria Swanson and William Holden, “Sunset Boulevard” follows a forgotten silent-film star ...