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Gloria Swanson gives a career-defining performance as faded silent screen star Norma Desmond in director Billy Wilder s dark and masterful film classic Sunset Boulevard. William Holden is Joe Gillis the young down-on-his-luck screenwriter whom Norma drafts to help provide her with a workable script for her planned return to the modern-day screen. Erich von Stroheim is Max von Mayerling Norma s devoted servant and chauffeur who harbors a few personal revelations of his own. Hollywood has never taken a more ominous compelling or electrifying look at Hollywood than in this brilliant Oscar®-winning tour de force that still mesmerizes with it s witty sardonic script unforgettable cast and provocative storyline. The exceptional cast also includes Nancy Olson Fred Clark Lloyd Gough Jack Webb and - as themselves - Cecil B. DeMille Hedda Hopper Buster Keaton Anna Q. Nilsson and H.B. Warner. (English) Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond an aging silent-film queen and William Holden as the struggling