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Sunset Boulevard

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ISBN-10: 0520218558

ISBN-13: 9780520218550

Edition: 1999

Authors: Billy Wilder, Jeffrey Meyers

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Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D. M. Marshman Jr., who later joined the team. Together they created a film both allusive and literate, with Hollywood's worst excesses and neuroses laid out for all to see. After viewing Sunset Boulevard Louis B. Mayer exclaimed: "We should throw this Wilder out of town!" The New York Times, however, gave the movie a rave review, praising "that rare blend of pungent writing, expert acting, masterly direction, and unobtrusively artistic photography."…    
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Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/24/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 143
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Jeffrey Meyers, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has written biographies of such literary greats as D.H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, & F. Scott Fitzgerald.