He chose to build a new studio, situated on five acres of land off Sunset Boulevard, with production facilities of the highest order.

Gloria Swanson immortalized DeMille with the oft-repeated line, " All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up " in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, wherein DeMille played himself.

The demise of the " studio system " spurred the self-commentary of films like Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and The Bad and the Beautiful ( 1952 ).

A half-decade after Double Indemnity and The Lost Weekend, Billy Wilder made Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and Ace in the Hole ( 1951 ), noirs that were not so much crime dramas as satires on, respectively, Hollywood and the news media.

He was on his way to a business meeting when he crashed his Corvette into a parked truck on Whittier Drive, near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard, in Beverly Hills.

Since then, former next-door neighbor RKO closed up shop in 1957 ; Warner Bros. ( whose old Sunset Boulevard studio was sold to Paramount in 1949 as a home for KTLA ) moved to Burbank in 1930 ; Columbia joined Warners in Burbank in 1973 then moved again to Culver City in 1989 ; and the Pickford-Fairbanks-Goldwyn-United Artists lot, after a lively history, has been turned into a post-production and music-scoring facility for Warners, known simply as " The Lot ".

Five streets demarcate the campus: Greenbriar Street, Rice Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, Main Street, and University Boulevard.

Sunset Boulevard shows the disconnect between the two eras in the character of Norma Desmond, played by silent film star Gloria Swanson, and Singin ' in the Rain deals with the period where the people of Hollywood had to face changing from making silents to talkies.

In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ( 1956 ), Ishmael ( Richard Basehart ) narrates the story and sometimes comments on the action in voice-over, as does Joe Gillis ( William Holden ) in Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and Eric Erickson ( William Holden ) in The Counterfeit Traitor ( 1962 ); adult Pip ( John Mills ) in Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Michael York in a television remake ( 1974 ).

In January 2006, actor Joaquin Phoenix overturned his car on a road above Sunset Boulevard.

By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, and in 1918 the brothers opened the Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

Spacey's voiceover is a throwback to Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ), which is also narrated in retrospect by a dead character.

The inside of the Burnhams ' home was shot at a house close to Interstate 405 and Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles ; the inside of the Fitts ' home was shot in the city's Hancock Park neighborhood.

One of her most notable roles on stage was Norma Desmond in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of Sunset Boulevard, for which Close won a Tony Award, playing the role on Broadway in 1994.

She appeared as Norma Desmond and performed songs from Sunset Boulevard.

* Sunset Boulevard ( musical, December 1993 )

* 1995: Best Actress in a Musical – Sunset Boulevard ( Won )

* 1995: Outstanding Actress in a Musical – Sunset Boulevard ( Won )

With his dancing success, Valentino found a room of his own on Sunset Boulevard and began actively seeking screen roles.

When casting the role of Norma Desmond for the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder offered West, then nearing 60, the role.

Despite the disappointments following The Trespasser, Swanson was remembered by Billy Wilder, a writer on Music in the Air, when he was casting the part of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ).

Carroll starred as the crazed silent movie star Norma Desmond in the Canadian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic film Sunset Boulevard.

In the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, the principal character Norma Desmond is portrayed as writing a screenplay for a silent film treatment of the legend of Salome, attempting to get the screenplay produced, and performing one of the scenes from her screenplay after going mad.

In 1993, LuPone returned to London to create the role of Norma Desmond in the original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber ’ s Sunset Boulevard at the Adelphi Theatre.

Paige made her Broadway debut in Sunset Boulevard in 1996, playing the lead role of Norma Desmond, to critical acclaim.

Paige stepped briefly into the role of Norma Desmond in Lloyd Webber's West End production of Sunset Boulevard in 1994, when Betty Buckley was taken ill due to her undergoing an emergency appendectomy.

Paige was the first Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard to sing one of the show's key songs, " With One Look ", which she did first at Lloyd Webber's wedding to Madeleine Gurdon, although at the time the song was called " Just One Glance ".

Director DeMille had a cameo in Billy Wilder's film Sunset Boulevard in a scene where the character of Norma Desmond meets with the director on a film set at Paramount studios.

The popular variety show not only established Burnett as a television superstar, but it also made her regular supporting cast household names with such sketches as " As the Stomach Turns ", ( a parody of As the World Turns ) and " Went with the Wind " ( a parody of Gone with the Wind, featuring a scene with Burnett as Starlett O ' Hara in the dress made from a window curtain, complete with the curtain rod ), " Carol & Sis ", " Mr. Tudball and Mrs. Wiggins ", " The Family " ( which would later spin off into a show called Mama's Family ), " Nora Desmond " ( Burnett's send-up of Gloria Swanson's character Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard ), and " Stella Toddler.

An example of this stereotype occurs when the character Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, announces " All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up " as she is taken into police custody in the film's finale.

In Sunset Boulevard, Joe Gillis compared Norma Desmond to Havisham during his narration.

In the film noir drama Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson and Erich von Stroheim, the name of Swanson's character, " Norma Desmond ," references Taylor's middle name and the surname of one of his actress friends, Mabel Normand.

The 1950 film Sunset Boulevard with William Holden and Gloria Swanson featured a fictional, ageing silent screen actress named Norma Desmond whose name was taken from Taylor's middle name and Mabel Normand's last name as a way to resonate with the widely publicised scandals of almost thirty years before.

A nod to Normand's celebrity in early Hollywood came through the name of a leading character in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, " Norma Desmond ", which has been cited as a combination of the names Mabel Normand and William Desmond Taylor.

In 1976, after a conversation with Hal Prince, who had the theatrical rights to Sunset, Lloyd Webber wrote " an idea for the moment when Norma Desmond returns to Paramount Studios "; Lloyd Webber did no further work on the play until after 1989's Aspects of Love.

# New Year's Eve ( Back at the House on Sunset )- Joe, Norma

Their relationship to each other is toyed with in the episode " Sepulveda Boulevard ", ( a parody of Sunset Boulevard with a nod to the novelty song " Pico and Sepulveda ") in which Elmyra and Max have characters based on the Norma Desmond and Joe Gilis characters respectively.

Carney compares Rowlands to Norma Desmond, the Gloria Swanson character in Sunset Boulevard, and accuses her of whitewashing her husband's life, denying bouts of depression and doubt.

In 1948, director Billy Wilder approached Negri to appear as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ), after Mae Murray, Mae West, and Mary Pickford declined the role.

Later stage work includes Someone Like You in 1989 and 1990, for which she composed the score ; Blood Brothers, in which she made her Broadway debut in 1993 at the Music Box Theatre, followed by the American tour ; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, appearing in both the West End and American touring productions from 1995 through 2000.

Sunset over Nakano, with Nakano Broadway in the distance

Paige transferred to the American production of Sunset Boulevard to make her Broadway debut at the Minskoff Theatre on 12 September 1996, staying with the show until it closed on 22 March 1997.

On the Sunset Boulevard set in Broadway, the staircase steps had to be raised six inches ( 15 cm ) in order to accommodate Paige's short stature, or it would have been hard to see her behind the banister.

In the 1960s, MacDonald was approached about starring on Broadway in a musical version of Sunset Boulevard.

In addition to some of her rarer compositions and several tracks that would later receive fuller arrangements on Sobule's next major-label release, Sobule performed offbeat cover versions of such standards as the old Doris Day theme song " Que Sera Sera " and " Sunrise / Sunset " from the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof.

She is featured on the following Original Cast Recordings: The Littlest Revue, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, High Spririts, 42nd Street, and Sunset, as well as a TV Cast Album of the televised version of George M Cohan's " 45 Minutes from Broadway ".

He won a second Tony award for his role as Max Von Mayerling in the original Broadway production of Sunset Boulevard, and was nominated again for playing Otto Frank in the 2000 revival of The Diary of Anne Frank.

Hearn's recordings include Sunset Boulevard ( 1994 Los Angeles Cast, and later the Broadway Cast Recording ), Sweeney Todd Live at the New York Philharmonic, Mack & Mabel ( 1988 London Concert Cast ), I Remember Mama ( 1985 Studio Cast ), Follies in Concert ( 1985 Live Performance ), and A Stephen Sondheim Evening ( 1983 Concert Cast ).

NJPAC has also played host to tours of popular Broadway musicals such as Evita, The Sound of Music, Grease, Annie, Blast !, Bring in ‘ da Noise, Bring in ‘ da Funk, Fame, Fosse, Sunset Boulevard, Peter Pan, Movin ’ Out, Les Misérables, The Full Monty, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma, 42nd Street, The Producers, Beauty and the Beast, and Cats.

The show and album parody shows like Show Boat, Beauty and the Beast, The King and I, Cats, Sunset Boulevard, and Rent, stars like Ann Reinking, Cameron Mackintosh, and Julie Andrews, and attack topics such as the Disneyfication of Broadway, the money the producers of the British shows make from souvenirs, the success of Cats, and the hype over Rent.

Beginning at South Broadway / South Jefferson Avenue in St. Louis and ending at the Interstate 44 / Interstate 270 interchange in Sunset Hills, it was established in 1979 when US 66 was decertified between Chicago, Illinois and Joplin, Missouri.

# Broadway Closer To Sunset Blvd ( 3: 33 )

Some recent Broadway productions that fall into the category of flop-hit are Woman of the Year, Jerome Robbins ' Broadway, The Will Rogers Follies, and Sunset Boulevard, the latter of which ran more than two years on Broadway in the mid-90s without paying back any of its more than US $ 10 million outlay.