Sunset Boulevard (movie)

Sunset Boulevard is a movie made in 1950. It featured Gloria Swanson as a fading silent screen star, Erich von Stroheim as her butler and William Holden as the screenwriter who befriends her. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won three.

Andrew Lloyd Webber created a musical of it in 1993. initially it starred Patti LuPone, later followed by Glenn Close, Betty Buckley, and Elaine Paige.