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Sunset Boulevard (also known 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 boulevard that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, California.
The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent movie star who draws him into her fantasy world where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen with Erich von Stroheim as Max Von Mayerling, her butler and ex-husband. Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough and Jack Webb play supporting roles. Director Cecil B. DeMille and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper play themselves, and the film includes cameo appearances by leading silent film actors Buster Keaton, H. B. Warner and Anna Q. Nilsson.
Praised by many critics when first released, Sunset Boulevard was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won three. It is widely accepted as a classic, often cited as one of the greatest films of American cinema. Deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress in 1989, Sunset Boulevard was included in the first group of films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 1998, it was ranked number twelve on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 best American films of the 20th century, and in 2007 it was 16th on their 10th Anniversary list.
Going to find myself today in a place that I know
Going to find myself today in a place I thought I'd never go
Picture yourself here
You are dead and unaware
You're dead in the water
There is no other
Who can help but him who says
"I will never leave"
Going to fine myself today in a
Place I am breathlessly staring
The captain says the ship is going down
It sort of reminds me of home
Cold blooded lips reminice of the way things use to be
Cold blooded wrists miss the hands that carry me home tonight
Picture yourself there
You are dead and unaware
Of the hand that's holding you and reaching out to me
I never wrote you off
You were right outside the door
Going to find myself today in a place that Im lying face
Down I'll never stay
An Angel is singing songs for me
About lovers at night and when she is taking me home
Cold blooded lips remind me of the way things used to be
Cold blooded wrists touch the hands that won't leave me alone