Every week we celebrate the Great White Way with films that inspired or were inspired by Broadway!
Desperate for cash, screenwriter Joe Gillis has a chance meeting with a faded silent film star. Norma Desmond lives in her crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion with only her butler to keep her company. She has become a sad demented recluse convinced that the outside world is clamoring for her dramatic return. Enticing him with the prospect of script work she puts him up in her mansion and he becomes ever more involved and entangled in her life.
Inspired the 1993 stage musical which was recently revived on Broadway.
Starring Williams Holden, Gloria Swanson and Erich von Stroheim
Directed by Billy Wilder
1950 | 1h 50m
The Main Library on Plainfield Avenue next to the Edison Train Station. The library offers an extensive children’s room, a Meeting Room/Event Space, and a dedicated Maker Space.
