This is the text of Andrew Lloyd Webber's show based on Billy Wilder's Hollywood movie. It tells the story of a young Hollywood writer who becomes involved with a faded star of the silent screen.
This facsimile edition of the screenplay provides intriguing background information about Wilder and the film's casting and production.
Avec une sensibilité cinématographique appuyée, Giorgio Andreotta Calò capture les silhouettes vaporeuses des palmiers et des voitures sous le ciel radieux de Sunset Boulevard et Beverly Drive.
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood.
A companion to the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical features archival photographs from the original film, memorabilia, material from interviews with Billy Wilder, Lloyd Webber, and others, as well as the libretto
Sunset Boulevard: Cruising the Heart of Los Angeles
McBride, Joseph and Todd McCarthy (1979), 'Going for the Innings', Film Comment 15 (1), pp. 40– 8. McNally, Karen (2021), The Stardom Film: Creating the Hollywood Fairy Tale (New York: Wallflower). Nadel, Alan (2018), Demographic Angst: ...
"Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood.
Sunset Boulevard: From Movie to Musical
While Jojo and Myla continue to work on their relationship as sisters, friend Jake is cast in a film being shot at their school and must find a way to deal with the very real possibility that he will be the "Next Big Thing."