Twenty-five years before the hard-bitten Hollywood tale Sunset Boulevard, Swanson played a small-town waitress with a dream to act The stage on screen: more films about theatre Gloria Swanson's most enduring role is the imperious, bitterly eclipsed screen queen Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. But to fully appreciate Desmond's faded glory in Billy Wilder's 1950 noir classic, you need to see Swanson's silent films. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM on May 18, 2021