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Sunset Boulevard
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Billy Wilder
Produced by
Charles Brackett
Written by
Charles Brackett
Billy Wilder
D. M. Marshman, Jr.
Starring
William Holden
Gloria Swanson
Erich von Stroheim
Nancy Olson
Fred Clark
Lloyd Gough
Music by
Franz Waxman
Cinematography
John F. Seitz
Edited by
Doane Harrison
Arthur Schmidt
Production
company
Paramount Pictures
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release date
August 10, 1950 (1950-08-10)
Running time
110 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$1.75 million
Box office
$5 million
Sunset Boulevard (stylized onscreen as SUNSET BLVD.) is a 1950 American film noir[1] directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett. It was named after the thoroughfare that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, California.
The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, and Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent film star who draws him into her fantasy world where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen, with Erich von Stroheim as Max von Mayerling, her devoted servant. Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough and Jack Webb play supporting roles. Director Cecil B. DeMille and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper play themselves, and the film includes cameo appearances by leading silent film actors Buster Keaton, H. B. Warner and Anna Q. Nilsson.
Praised by many critics when first released, Sunset Boulevard was nominated for eleven Academy Awards (including nominations in all four acting categories) and won three. Deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress in 1989, Sunset Boulevard was included in the first group of films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 1998, it was ranked number twelve on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 best American films of the 20th century, and in 2007, it was 16th on their 10th Anniversary list.
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Background
3.2 Writing
3.3 Casting
3.4 Cinematography and design
4 Score
5 Original release and responses
5.1 Previews and revision
5.2 Premiere and box-office receipts
5.3 Critical reception
6 Awards and recognition
6.1 Recognition since 1989
7 Aftermath
8 Restoration and home media
9 Musical adaptations
9.1 Stapley and Hughes
9.2 Other failed attempts
9.3 Lloyd Webber and Black & Hampton
10 In popular culture
10.1 Television
10.2 Literature
10.3 Music
11 See also
12 References
13 Bibliography
14 External links
Plot[edit]
At a Sunset Boulevard mansion in early 1949, the body of Joe Gillis floats in the swimming pool. In a flashback, Joe relates the events leading to his death.
Six months earlier, down-on-his-luck screenwriter Joe tries selling Paramount Pictures producer Sheldrake on a story he submitted. Script reader Betty Schaefer harshly critiques it in Joe's presence, unaware that he is the author. Later, while fleeing from men trying to repossess his car, Joe turns into the driveway of a seemingly deserted mansion. After concealing the car, he hears a woman calling him, apparently mistaking him for someone else. Ushered in by Max, her butler, Joe recognizes the woman as almost-forgotten silent film star Norma Desmond. Learning he is a writer, she asks his opinion of a script she has written for a film about Salome. She plans to play the title role herself in a comeback attempt. Joe finds her script abysmal, but flatters her into hiring him as a script doctor.
Moved into Norma's mansion at her insistence, Joe initially resents but gradually accepts his dependent situation. He sees that Norma refuses to face the fact that her fame has evaporated and learns the fan letters she still receives are secretly written by Max. Max tells him Norma is subject to depression and has made suicide attempts.
Norma lavishes attention on Joe and buys him expensive clothes. At her New Year's Eve party, he discovers he is the only guest and realizes she has fallen in love with him. He tries to let her down gently, but she slaps him and retreats to her room.
Joe leaves the mansion and visits his friend Artie Green, who is having his own New Year's Eve party. Joe asks Artie about staying at his place and again meets Betty, who he learns is Artie's girlfriend. Betty believes a scene in one of Joe's scripts has potential, but Joe is uninterested in pursuing it. When Joe phones Max to have him pack his things, Max informs him that Norma has cut her wrists with his razor. Joe returns to Norma.
Norma has Max deliver the edited Salome script to her former director, Cecil B. DeMille (played by himself), at Paramount. Afterwards, she begins to receive calls from Paramount executive Gordon Cole, but petulantly refuses to speak to anyone except DeMille. Eventually, she has Max drive her and Joe to Paramount in her 1929 Isotta Fraschini,[2] where she is greeted warmly by the older studio employees. DeMille receives her affectionately and treats her with great respect, but tactfully evades her questions about Salome. Meanwhile, Max learns that Cole merely wants to rent her unusual car for a film.
Unaware of this misunderstanding, Norma undergoes rigorous beauty treatments in preparation for her imagined comeback. Joe secretly works nights at Betty's office, collaborating with her on an original screenplay. His moonlighting is soon discovered by Max, who reveals that he was once a respected film director who discovered Norma as a teenage girl, made her a star, and became her first husband. After she divorced him, he found life without her unbearable and abandoned his career to become her servant.
Despite her engagement to Artie, Betty and Joe fall in love. When Norma discovers a manuscript with Joe and Betty's names on it, she telephones Betty and insinuates the sort of man that Joe really is. Overhearing, Joe invites Betty to come see for herself. When she arrives, Joe feigns satisfaction with his life as a kept man, but after Betty tearfully leaves, he packs to return to his old newspaper job. He disregards Norma's threat to kill herself and the gun she shows him. He bluntly informs her that the public has forgotten her, there will be no comeback, and her fan letters are written by Max. As Joe walks away, Norma shoots him three times. He falls into the pool, ending the flashback.
Norma's mansion is subsequently filled with policemen and reporters. Now having completely lost touch with reality, she believes the newsreel cameras are there to film Salome. Max pretends to set up a scene for her and calls "Action!" As the cameras roll, Norma dramatically descends her grand staircase. She pauses and makes an impromptu speech about how happy she is to be making a film again, concluding with the famous line, "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."[3]
Cast[edit]
William Holden as Joe Gillis
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond
Erich von Stroheim as Max von Mayerling
Nancy Olson as Betty Schaefer
Fred Clark as Sheldrake
Lloyd Gough as Morino
Jack Webb as Artie Green
Franklyn Farnum as Undertaker
Larry J. Blake as Finance man #1
Charles Dayton as Finance man #2
Cecil B. DeMille as himself
Hedda Hopper as herself
Buster Keaton (bridge player)
Anna Q. Nilsson (bridge player)
H. B. Warner (bridge player)
Ray Evans (pianist at Artie's party)
Jay Livingston (pianist at Artie's party)
Henry Wilcoxon as actor on DeMille's 'Samson and Delilah' set (uncredited)
Production[edit]
Background[edit]
An actual stenciled boulevard name was used as the opening title, as seen in this still image from the film.
The street known as Sunset Boulevard has been associated with Hollywood film production since 1911, when the town's first film studio opened there. The film workers lived modestly in the growing neighborhood, but during the 1920s profits and salaries rose to unprecedented levels. With the advent of the star system, luxurious homes noted for their often incongruous grandeur were built in the area.
As a young man living in Berlin in the 1920s, Billy Wilder was interested in American culture, with much of his interest fueled by the country's films. In the late 1940s, many of the grand Hollywood houses remained, and Wilder, then a Los Angeles resident, found them to be a part of his everyday world. Many former stars from the silent era still lived in them, although most were no longer involved in the film business. Wilder wondered how they spent their time now that "the parade had passed them by" and began imagining the story of a star who had lost her celebrity and box-office appeal.[4]
The character of Norma Desmond mirrors aspects of the twilight years of several real-life faded silent film stars, such as the reclusive existence of Mary Pickford and the mental disorders of Mae Murray and Clara Bow. It is usually regarded as a fictional composite inspired by several different people, not just a thinly disguised portrait of one in particular. Nevertheless, some commentators have tried to identify specific models. One asserts that Norma Talmadge is "the obvious if unacknowledged source of Norma Desmond, the grotesque, predatory silent movie queen" of the film.[5] The most common analysis of the character's name is that it is a combination of the names of silent film actress Mabel Normand and director William Desmond Taylor, a close friend of Normand's who was murdered in 1922 in a never-solved case sensationalized by the press.[6]
Writing[edit]
Gloria Swanson and Billy Wilder
Wilder and Brackett began working on a script in 1948, but the result did not completely satisfy them. In August 1948, D.M. Marshman Jr., formerly a writer for Life, was hired to help develop the storyline after Wilder and Brackett were impressed by a critique he provided of their film The Emperor Waltz (1948).
In an effort to keep the full details of the story from Paramount Pictures and avoid the restrictive censorship of the Breen Code, they submitted the script a few pages at a time. The Breen Office insisted certain lines be rewritten, such as Gillis's "I'm up that creek and I need a job," which became "I'm over a barrel. I need a job." Paramount executives thought Wilder was adapting a story called A Can of Beans (which did not exist) and allowed him relative freedom to proceed as he saw fit. Only the first third of the script was written when filming began in early May 1949, and Wilder was unsure how the film would end.[6]
The script contains many references to Hollywood and screenwriters, with Joe Gillis making most of the cynical comments. He sums up his film-writing career with the remark: "The last one I wrote was about Okies in the dust bowl. You'd never know, because when it reached the screen, the whole thing played on a torpedo boat." In another exchange, Betty comments to Gillis: "I'd always heard that you had some talent." He replies: "That was last year. This year I'm trying to make a living."[3]
The fusion of writer-director Billy Wilder's biting humor and the classic elements of film noir make for a strange kind of comedy, as well as a strange kind of film noir. There are no belly laughs here, but there are certainly strangled giggles: at the pet chimp's midnight funeral, at Joe's discomfited acquiescence to the role of gigolo; at Norma's Mack Sennett-style "entertainments" for her uneasy lover; and at the ritualized solemnity of Norma's "waxworks" card parties, which feature such former luminaries as Buster Keaton as Norma's has-been cronies.[7]
Several of Desmond's lines, such as, "All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up," and "I am big, it's the pictures that got small!" are often quoted. Much of the film's wit is delivered through Norma Desmond's deadpan comments, which are often followed by sarcastic retorts from Gillis. Desmond appears to not hear some of these comments, as she is absorbed by her own thoughts and in denial, and so some of Gillis's lines are heard only by the audience, with Wilder blurring the line between the events and Gillis's narration. Gillis's response to Desmond's cry that "the pictures got small" is a muttered reply, "I knew something was wrong with them". Wilder often varies the structure, with Desmond taking Gillis's comments seriously and replying in kind. For example, when the two discuss the overwrought script Desmond has been working on, Gillis observes, "They'll love it in Pomona."[8] "They'll love it everyplace," replies Desmond firmly.[3]
Film writer Richard Corliss describes Sunset Boulevard as "the definitive Hollywood horror movie", noting that almost everything in the script is "ghoulish". He remarks that the story is narrated by a dead man whom Norma Desmond first mistakes for an undertaker, while most of the film takes place "in an old, dark house that only opens its doors to the living dead". He compares von Stroheim's character Max with the concealed Erik, the eponymous central character in The Phantom of the Opera, and Norma Desmond with Dracula, noting that, as she seduces Joe Gillis, the camera tactfully withdraws with "the traditional directorial attitude taken towards Dracula's jugular seductions". He writes that the narrative contains an excess of "cheap sarcasm", but ultimately congratulates the writers for attributing this dialogue to Joe Gillis, who was in any case presented as little more than a hack writer.[9]
Wilder preferred to leave analysis of his screenplays and films to others. When asked if Sunset Boulevard was a black comedy, he replied: "No, just a picture".[10]
The film refers to real films such as Gone with the Wind and real people such as D. W. Griffith, Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert, Tyrone Power, Alan Ladd, Adolphe Menjou, Bebe Daniels, Betty Hutton and Barbara Stanwyck, among others, along with the Black Dahlia murder case. Norma Desmond declares admiration for Greta Garbo.[3]
Casting[edit]
Wilder considered many actors for the lead roles, but chose Swanson and Holden.
According to Brackett, he and Wilder never considered anyone except Gloria Swanson for the role of Norma Desmond. Wilder, however, had a different recollection. He recalled first wanting Mae West and Marlon Brando for the leads, but never approached either with an offer. He contacted Pola Negri by telephone, but had a difficult time understanding her heavy Polish accent. They also asked Norma Shearer if she would portray Norma Desmond, but she rejected the role due to both her retirement and distaste for it. They were considering Fred MacMurray to play opposite her as Joe. The filmmakers approached Greta Garbo, but she expressed no interest. Wilder and Brackett then visited Mary Pickford, but before even discussing the plot with her, Wilder realized she would consider a role involving an affair with a man half her age an insult, so they departed. They had considered pairing Montgomery Clift with her.[11]
According to Wilder, he asked George Cukor for advice, and he suggested Swanson, one of the most feted actresses of the silent-screen era, known for her beauty, talent and extravagant lifestyle. At the peak of her career in 1925, she was said to have received 10,000 fan letters in a single week, and from 1920 until the early 1930s she lived on Sunset Boulevard in an elaborate Italianate palace. In many ways she resembled the Norma Desmond character and, like her, had been unable to make a smooth transition into talking pictures. The similarities ended there. Swanson accepted the end of her film career and in the early 1930s moved to New York City, where she worked in radio and, from the mid-1940s, in television and on the New York stage. Though Swanson was not seeking a comeback, she was intrigued when Wilder discussed the role with her.[4]
Swanson was chagrined at the notion of submitting to a screen test, saying she had "made twenty films for Paramount. Why do they want me to audition?" Her reaction was echoed in the screenplay when Norma Desmond declares, "Without me there wouldn't be any Paramount." In her memoir, Swanson recalled asking Cukor if it was unreasonable to refuse the screen test. He replied that since Norma Desmond was the role for which she would be remembered, "If they ask you to do ten screen tests, do ten screen tests, or I will personally shoot you." His enthusiasm convinced Swanson to participate,[12] and she signed a contract for $50,000.[13] In a 1975 interview, Wilder recalled Swanson's reaction with the observation, "There was a lot of Norma in her, you know."[14]
Montgomery Clift was signed to play Joe Gillis for $5,000 per week for a guaranteed twelve weeks, but just before the start of filming he withdrew from the project, claiming his role of a young man involved with an older woman was too close to the one he had played in The Heiress, in which he felt he had been unconvincing. An infuriated Wilder responded, "If he's any kind of actor, he could be convincing making love to any woman."[15] It has been suggested the fact Clift was himself having an affair with a much older woman (the singer Libby Holman) was his real reason for withdrawing from the film.[16][17]
Forced to consider the available Paramount stars, Wilder and Brackett focused on William Holden, who had made an impressive debut a decade earlier in Golden Boy (1939). Following an appearance in Our Town (1940), he served in the military in World War II, and his return to the screen afterward had been moderately successful. He was enthusiastic about the script and eager to accept the role. He did not know that his salary was $39,000 less than that offered to Clift.[18]
Erich von Stroheim, a leading film director of the 1920s who had directed Swanson, was signed to play Max, Norma's faithful servant, protector and former husband. For the role of Betty Schaefer, Wilder wanted a newcomer who could project a wholesome and ordinary image to contrast with Swanson's flamboyant and obsessive Desmond. He chose Nancy Olson, who had recently been considered for the role of Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah.[6]
DeMille, often credited as the person most responsible for making Swanson a star, plays himself, and was filmed on the set of Samson and Delilah at Paramount Studios. He calls Norma "young fella," as he had called Swanson.
Norma's friends who come to play bridge with her, described in the script as "the waxworks", were Swanson's contemporaries Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson and H. B. Warner, who, like DeMille, played themselves. Hedda Hopper also played herself, reporting on Norma Desmond's downfall in the film's final scenes.[6]
Cinematography and design[edit]
The film's dark, shadowy black-and-white, film noir cinematography was the work of John F. Seitz. Wilder had worked with him on several projects before, and trusted his judgment, allowing him to make his own decisions. Seitz recalled asking Wilder what he required for the pet chimpanzee's funeral scene. Wilder replied, "you know, just your standard monkey funeral shot." For some interior shots, Seitz sprinkled dust in front of the camera before filming to suggest "mustiness," a trick he had also used for Double Indemnity (1944).
Wilder was adamant that the corpse of Joe Gillis be seen from the bottom of the pool, but creating the effect was difficult. The camera was placed inside a specially constructed box and lowered underwater, but the result disappointed Wilder, who insisted on further experiments. The shot was finally achieved by placing a mirror on the bottom of the pool and filming Holden's reflection from above with the distorted image of the policemen standing around the pool and forming a backdrop.[6]
Film historian Tom Stempel writes, "In both Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard, Seitz does something that has always impressed me. Both are films noir, and he finesses the fact that both are set in the sunniest of locales, Los Angeles... he brings together the light and the dark in the same film without any seams showing... he brings together the realistic lighting of Joe Gillis out in the real world with the gothic look of Norma Desmond's mansion. Again with no seams showing."[6]
Edith Head designed the costumes. Wilder, Head and Swanson agreed that Norma Desmond would have kept somewhat up to date with fashion trends, so Head designed costumes closely resembling the Dior look of the mid-1940s. Embellishments were added to personalize them and reflect Norma Desmond's taste.
Swanson recalled in her biography that the costumes were only "a trifle outdated, a trifle exotic."[12] Head later described her assignment as "the most challenging of my career," and explained her approach with the comment, "Because Norma Desmond was an actress who had become lost in her own imagination, I tried to make her look like she was always impersonating someone." Head later said she relied on Swanson's expertise because "she was creating a past that she knew and I didn't."[6] Head also designed the costumes for William Holden and the minor characters; but for authenticity, Wilder instructed Von Stroheim and Nancy Olson to wear their own clothing.
The overstated decadence of Norma Desmond's home was created by set designer Hans Dreier, whose career extended back to the silent era. He had also been commissioned to complete the interior design for the homes of movie stars, including the house of Mae West. William Haines, an interior designer and former actor, later refuted criticism of Dreier's set design with the observation, "Bebe Daniels, Norma Shearer, and Pola Negri all had homes with ugly interiors like that."[6]
The bed in the shape of a boat that Norma Desmond slept in was actually owned by the dancer Gaby Deslys, who died in 1920. It had originally been bought by the Universal prop department at auction after Deslys's death. The bed appeared in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) starring Lon Chaney.
Wilder also made use of authentic locales. Joe Gillis's apartment is in the Alto Nido, a real apartment block in central Hollywood that was often populated by struggling writers. The scenes of Gillis and Betty Schaefer on Paramount's backlot were filmed on the actual backlot, and the interior of Schwab's Drug Store was carefully recreated for several scenes. The exterior scenes of the Desmond house were filmed at a house on Wilshire Blvd. built during the 1920s by the millionaire William O. Jenkins. Jenkins and his family lived in it for just one year, then left it abandoned for more than a decade, which earned it the nickname, The Phantom.[19] By 1949 it was owned by the former wife of J. Paul Getty. The house was later featured in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955). It was demolished by the Gettys in the early 1960s to allow construction of an office building .[20][21]
During filming, considerable publicity was given to health-conscious Gloria Swanson's youthful appearance, which made her look the same age as Holden. Wilder insisted that the age difference between the characters be delineated, and instructed makeup supervisor Wally Westmore to make Swanson look older. Swanson argued that a woman of Norma Desmond's age, with her considerable wealth and devotion to self, would not necessarily look old, and suggested Holden be made up to appear younger. Wilder agreed, and Westmore was assigned this task, which allowed Swanson to portray Norma Desmond as more glamorous a figure than Wilder had originally imagined.[6]
Score[edit]
Main article: Sunset Boulevard (film score)
The film was scored by Franz Waxman. His theme for Norma Desmond was based on tango music, inspired by her having danced the tango with Rudolph Valentino. This style was contrasted with Joe Gillis's bebop theme. Waxman also used distorted arrangements of popular film-music styles from the 1920s and 1930s to suggest Norma Desmond's state of mind. The film's score was recorded for compact disc by the Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joel McNeely and released in 2002.[22]
Original release and responses[edit]
Previews and revision[edit]
Wilder and Brackett, nervous about a major screening in Hollywood, held a preview in Evanston, Illinois, in late 1949. The original edit opened with a scene inside a morgue, with the assembled corpses discussing how they came to be there. The story began with the corpse of Joe Gillis recounting his murder to the others. The audience reacted with laughter and seemed unsure whether to view the rest of the film as drama or comedy. After a similar reaction during its second screening in Poughkeepsie, New York, and a third in Great Neck, the morgue opening was replaced by a shorter poolside opening,[23] using footage filmed on January 5, 1950.[24]
In Hollywood, Paramount arranged a private screening for the various studio heads and specially invited guests. After viewing the film, Barbara Stanwyck knelt to kiss the hem of Gloria Swanson's skirt. Swanson later remembered looking for Mary Pickford, only to be told, "She can't show herself, Gloria. She's too overcome. We all are." Louis B. Mayer berated Wilder before the crowd of celebrities, saying, "You have disgraced the industry that made and fed you! You should be tarred and feathered and run out of Hollywood!" Upon hearing of Mayer's slight, Wilder strode up to the mogul and retorted with a vulgarity that one biographer said was allegedly because Mayer, who was Jewish, suggested that Wilder, who was also Jewish, would be better off being sent back to Germany, an extraordinary sentiment so soon after the war and the Holocaust, in which Wilder's family perished.[25][26] The few other criticisms were not so venomous. According to one often-told but recently discredited anecdote,[27] actress Mae Murray, a contemporary of Swanson, was offended by the film and commented, "None of us floozies was that nuts."[28] The same quote, with the word "zonked" in place of "nuts," has also been attributed to actress-comedian Marion Davies.[citation needed]
Premiere and box-office receipts[edit]
Sunset Boulevard had its official world premiere at Radio City Music Hall on August 10, 1950.[29] After a seven-week run, Variety magazine reported the film had grossed "around $1,020,000", making it one of that theater's most successful pictures. Variety also noted that, while it was "breaking records in major cities, it is doing below average in ... the sticks." To promote the film, Gloria Swanson traveled by train throughout the United States, visiting 33 cities in a few months. The publicity helped attract people to the cinemas, but in many provincial areas it was considered less than a hit.[6]
The film earned an estimated $2,350,000 at the U.S. box office in 1950.[30]
Critical reception[edit]
Sunset Boulevard attracted a range of positive reviews from critics. Time described it as a story of "Hollywood at its worst told by Hollywood at its best",[31] while Boxoffice Review wrote "the picture will keep spectators spellbound."[32] James Agee, writing for Sight and Sound, praised the film and said Wilder and Brackett were "beautifully equipped to do the cold, exact, adroit, sardonic job they have done." Good Housekeeping described Swanson as a "great lady [who] spans another decade with her magic,"[6] while Look praised her "brilliant and haunting performance."[31]
Some critics accurately foresaw the film's lasting appeal. The Hollywood Reporter wrote that future generations would "set themselves the task of analyzing the durability and greatness" of the film, while Commonweal said that in the future "the Library of Congress will be glad to have in its archives a print of Sunset Boulevard."[6]
The rare negative comments included those from The New Yorker, which described the film as "a pretentious slice of Roquefort", containing only "the germ of a good idea".[6] Thomas M. Pryor wrote for The New York Times that the plot device of using the dead Joe Gillis as narrator was "completely unworthy of Brackett and Wilder, but happily it does not interfere with the success of Sunset Boulevard".[33]
In 1999, Roger Ebert praised the acting of Holden and von Stroheim and has described Swanson's as "one of the all time greatest performances." He says Sunset Boulevard "remains the best drama ever made about the movies because it sees through the illusions."[34] Pauline Kael described the film as "almost too clever, but at its best in its cleverness,"[35] and also wrote that it was common to "hear Billy Wilder called the world's greatest director."[36] When Wilder died in 2002, obituaries singled out Sunset Boulevard for comment, describing it as one of his most significant works, along with Double Indemnity (1944) and Some Like It Hot (1959).[37]
The modern review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 98% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 60 reviews with an average rating of 9.3/10, the site's consensus says, "Arguably the greatest movie about Hollywood, Billy Wilder's masterpiece Sunset Boulevard is a tremendously entertaining combination of noir, black comedy, and character study."[38]
Awards and recognition[edit]
At the 23rd Academy Awards, Sunset Boulevard received 11 Academy Award nominations and won three Academy Awards.[39]
Award
Result
Nominee
Best Motion Picture Nominated Paramount (Charles Brackett, Producer)
Best Director Nominated Billy Wilder
Best Actor Nominated William Holden
Best Actress Nominated Gloria Swanson
Best Supporting Actor Nominated Erich von Stroheim
Best Supporting Actress Nominated Nancy Olson
Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Won Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman, Jr., Billy Wilder
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White) Won Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) Nominated John F. Seitz
Best Film Editing Nominated Arthur Schmidt, Doane Harrison
Best Music (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) Won Franz Waxman
Of the various films that have attracted nominations in all four acting categories, Sunset Boulevard is one of only three not to win in any category, the others being My Man Godfrey (1936) and American Hustle (2013). Its eleven Oscar nominations were exceeded only by the fourteen received by All About Eve, which won six awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Many critics predicted that the Best Actress award would be given to Gloria Swanson or Bette Davis for All About Eve and were surprised that the recipient was newcomer Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday. Swanson recalled the press's reaction following Holliday's win: "It slowly dawned on me that they were asking for a larger-than-life scene, or better still, a mad scene. More accurately, they were trying to flush out Norma Desmond."[31]
In an interview years later, Davis bluntly stated that she and Swanson had "cancelled each other out,"[40] though in 1982 she told Playboy of her admiration for Swanson's performance, saying, "If she'd won, I'd have shouted hooray. She was sensational, just fantastic."[41]
Sunset Boulevard also received Golden Globe awards for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Motion Picture Actress (Swanson), Best Motion Picture Director and Best Motion Picture Score. Wilder and Brackett won a Writers Guild of America, East Award for Best Written American Drama, while the Directors Guild of America nominated Wilder for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. The National Board of Review voted it Best Picture, and Swanson received Best Actress.
It was dramatized as an hour-long radio play on the September 17, 1951 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater with Gloria Swanson and William Holden in their original film roles.[42]
Recognition since 1989[edit]
The famous "I'm ready for my close-up" scene from Sunset Boulevard
In 1989 the film was among the first group of 25 deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.[43]
American Film Institute included the film on these lists:
1998 – AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies – #12
2005 – AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes:
"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." – #7
"I am big, it's the pictures that got small!" – #24
2005 – AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – #16
2007 – AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – #16
Aftermath[edit]
Sunset Boulevard was the last collaboration between Wilder and Brackett. They parted amicably and respected their long-term partnership by not airing any grievance publicly. Their mutual respect and courteous integrity remained in force throughout the rest of their lives. In later years, Brackett confided in screenwriter/director Garson Kanin that he had not anticipated the split, or had ever understood exactly what happened or why. He described it as "an unexpected blow" from which he never recovered fully. When asked to respond to Brackett's comments, Wilder remained silent.[44]
The two men briefly reunited in October 1951 to face charges that they had plagiarized Sunset Boulevard. Former Paramount accountant Stephanie Joan Carlson alleged that in 1947 she had submitted to Wilder and Brackett, at their request, manuscripts of stories, both fictional and based on fact, she had written about studio life. She claimed that one in particular, Past Performance, served as the basis for the Sunset script, and sued the screenwriters and Paramount for $100,000 in general damages, $250,000 in punitive damages, $700,000 based on the box office returns, and an additional $350,000 for good measure, for a total of $1,400,000. Carlson's suit was dismissed after two and a half years. In 1954, a similar suit was filed by playwright Edra Buckler, who claimed material she had written had been the screenplay's source. Her suit was dismissed the following year.[45]
Brackett's Hollywood career continued after his split with Wilder. He won an Academy Award for his screenplay for Titanic (1953), and wrote Niagara (1953), the breakthrough film for Marilyn Monroe as a dramatic actress. It was Wilder, however, who realized Monroe's comedic abilities in The Seven Year Itch and Some Like it Hot. Brackett's career waned by the end of the decade, though he did produce the critically praised and Oscar-nominated film The King and I (1956).
William Holden began receiving more important parts and his career rose. He won the Best Actor Oscar for Stalag 17 (1953), also directed by Wilder, and by 1956 he was the top box-office attraction in the United States.
Nancy Olson's pairing with William Holden was considered a success, and she appeared opposite him in several films during the 1950s, although none of them repeated their earlier success. She went on to star in The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) and Son of Flubber (1963), in which she was paired with Fred MacMurray, but despite the films' popularity with movie-goers, her career stalled. Holden and Wilder also rejoined forces in 1978 for Fedora, another film critical of Hollywood.
Similarly, Gloria Swanson was not able to leverage her own success in Sunset Boulevard. Although offered scripts, she felt that they all were poor imitations of Norma Desmond. Imagining a career that would eventually reduce her to playing "a parody of a parody," she virtually retired from films.[4]
Sunset Boulevard was shown again in New York City in 1960, and drew such a positive response that Paramount arranged for a limited rerelease in theaters throughout the United States.
Films that discuss Sunset Boulevard in their screenplays or pay homage in scenes or dialogue include Soapdish (1991), The Player (1992), Gods and Monsters (1998), Mulholland Drive (2001),[6] Inland Empire (2006) and Be Cool (2005). The ending of Cecil B. Demented (2000) is a parody of Sunset Boulevard's final scene.
Restoration and home media[edit]
By the late 1990s, most Sunset Boulevard prints were in poor condition, and as the film was shot using cellulose nitrate filmstock, much of the original negative had perished. Paramount Studios, believing the film merited the effort of a complete restoration, mounted an expensive project to have it digitally restored. This restored version was released on DVD in 2002.[46][47] In 2012, the film was digitally restored by Paramount Pictures for Blu-ray Disc debut. Frame-by-frame digital restoration by Prasad Corporation removed dirt, tears, scratches and other defects.[48][49]
Musical adaptations[edit]
Stapley and Hughes[edit]
From around 1952 to 1956, Gloria Swanson herself worked with actor Richard Stapley (aka Richard Wyler) and cabaret singer/pianist Dickson Hughes on an adaptation titled Boulevard! (at first Starring Norma Desmond). Stapley and Hughes first approached Swanson about appearing in a musical revue they had written, About Time (based on Time). Swanson stated that she would return to the stage only in a musical version of her comeback film. Within a week, Stapley and Dickson had written three songs which Swanson approved.[50]
In this version, the romance between Gillis and Schaefer was allowed to blossom, and rather than shoot Gillis at the end, Norma gave the couple her blessing, sending them on their way to live "happily ever after."
Although Paramount gave verbal permission to proceed with the musical, there was no formal legal option. In the late 1950s, Paramount withdrew its consent, leading to the demise of the project.
In 1994, Dickson Hughes incorporated material from Boulevard! into a musical Swanson on Sunset, based on his and Stapley's experiences in writing Boulevard!.
Other failed attempts[edit]
Around 1980, Stephen Sondheim and Hal Prince were working on a musical adaptation with Norma to be played by Angela Lansbury.[51]
Sondheim gave up the venture after meeting Billy Wilder, who proposed he write an opera instead of a musical. John Kander and Fred Ebb were asked to write it.[citation needed] Finally Andrew Lloyd Webber took the opportunity to create a musical.
Lloyd Webber and Black & Hampton[edit]
Main article: Sunset Boulevard (musical)
A musical adaptation with a book written by Don Black and Christopher Hampton, and music and lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber was staged in 1993 in London. It closely followed the film story, retained much of the dialogue and attempted to present similar set designs. It reached Broadway in 1994, with Glenn Close playing Norma Desmond. The production staged 17 previews beginning November 1, 1994, and played 977 performances at the Minskoff Theatre from November 17, 1994 through March 22, 1997.[52] In 2017, Close reprised the role, this time at the Palace Theater in Times Square, in a critically acclaimed performance; the limited 12-week run, from February 2, 2017 through June 25, 2017, followed a sold-out run in London’s West End.
In popular culture[edit]
Television[edit]
The movie was parodied on The Carol Burnett Show in a recurring sketch in which Carol Burnett played the insane "Nora Desmond" and Harvey Korman (in a bald cap) her servant Max.
The Tiny Toon Adventures episode, "Sepulveda Boulevard", is a parody of the movie.
In the episode of American Dad!, entitled "Star Trek", the plot revolves around the downfall of stardom and pays homage by replicating the opening scene of the movie. The plot of the episode "A Star is Reborn" is also based on the film.
The Bunheads episode "Take the Vicuna" includes the line "As long as the lady's paying for it, why not take the vicuna?"
The Archer season 7 finale and segue to the film noir Archer: Dreamland season 8 recreate the pool scene from the opening of the film.
The Twin Peaks character Gordon Cole is named after the Sunset Boulevard character. A scene from the film itself appears in Part 15 of Twin Peaks: The Return. In the scene, being viewed by Dale Cooper, the name "Gordon Cole" is spoken, which stirs Cooper's buried memory of his time in the FBI.
Literature[edit]
Sunset Boulevard is heavily referenced in The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell. Quotes from the film are used as epigrams to many chapters, while the plot and themes of the film are directly invoked to point out parallels in the production of The Room.
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight issue number 41 was influenced by Sunset Boulevard with the title 'Sunset'. In the story, Batman is still in the early stages of his crime fighting career and is being chased by the police. He finds an abandoned film studio to hide out in and is knocked out by a rather large man, who is the valet to a former silent film actress, Nina Demille, someone that supposedly died years before. She puts Batman under her thrall and he is virtually a prisoner in her home. Some of the scenes in the movie parallel in the comic book, such as driving around in the car outside. In the end, it is revealed she is a vampire.
Music[edit]
The Metallica song 'The Memory Remains' is either based on, or inspired by Sunset Boulevard.
See also[edit]
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References[edit]
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Jump up ^ Petersen, Anne Helen (23 September 2014). "Scandals of Classic Hollywood: The Long Suicide of Montgomery Clift". Vanity Fair. Condé Nast. Retrieved 3 December 2016. He was also close with stage actress Libby Holman, 16 years his senior, who had become a notorious feature in the gossip columns following the suspicious death of her wealthy husband, rumors of lesbianism, and her general practice of dating younger men. Clift was so protective of Holman that when offered the plum role of the male lead in Sunset Boulevard, he turned it down—reportedly to avoid any suggestion that Libby Holman was his own delusional Norma Desmond, using a handsome young man to pursue her lost stardom.
Jump up ^ Gritten, David (3 February 2013). "Montgomery Clift: better than Brando, more tragic than Dean". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited. Retrieved 3 December 2016. His agent Herman Citron later suggested to Clift's biographer Patricia Bosworth that the Gillis role might have been too close for comfort; at the time, the 30-year-old actor was conducting a secret liaison with singer-actress Libby Holman, 16 years his senior, a state of affairs that would have been considered scandalous.
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Jump up ^ 'Wilshire Phantom House Soon to be Only Memory", Los Angeles Times, February 24, 1957
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Jump up ^ "Soundtrack details: Sunset Blvd". SoundtrackCollector. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
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Jump up ^ Eyman, Scott (2005). Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-0481-6.
Jump up ^ Ankerich, Michael G. (2013). Mae Murray: the girl with the bee-stung lips (lack of capitalization sic per colophon), The University Press of Kentucky. According to Kevin Brownlow's foreword (page ix), the "rigorous work" of Ankerich "indicates that Murray never made this remark."
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Hadleigh, Boze (1996). Bette Davis Speaks. Barricade Books. ISBN 1-56980-066-9.
Kael, Pauline (1982). 5001 Nights at the Movies. Zenith Books. ISBN 0-09-933550-6.
Kirgo, Julie (1979). "Sunset Boulevard". In Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward, eds, Film noir: An encyclopedic reference to the American style. Woodstock: Overlook Press, 1979. ISBN 0-87951-055-2.
Perry, George & Andrew Lloyd Webber (1993). Sunset Boulevard, From Movie to Musical. Pavilion. ISBN 1-85793-208-0.
Sikov, Ed (1998). On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 0-7868-6194-0.
Staggs, Sam (2001). All About "All About Eve". St Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-27315-0.
Staggs, Sam (2002). Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream. New York St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-27453-X.
Swanson, Gloria (1981). Swanson on Swanson, The Making of a Hollywood Legend. Hamlyn. ISBN 0-600-20496-0.
Wiley, Mason and Damien Bona (1987). Inside Oscar, The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-34453-7.
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Anna Chlumsky
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Anna Chlumsky
Anna Chlumsky in 2013
Born
Anna M. Chlumsky
(1980-12-03) December 3, 1980 (age 37)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1989–1998
2006–present
Spouse(s)
Shaun So (m. 2008)
Children
2
Anna M. Chlumsky (/ˈklʌmski/; born December 3, 1980)[1] is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress, best known playing the lead role of Vada Sultenfuss in My Girl (1991) and its 1994 sequel. Between 1999 and 2005, Chlumsky's career entered a hiatus while she attended college. She returned to acting with roles in several independent films, including Blood Car (2007) and In the Loop (2009). Since 2012, Chlumsky has portrayed Amy Brookheimer on the HBO television series Veep, for which she has received five consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
Contents
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1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 1989–1998
2.2 1999–2005: Hiatus from acting
2.3 2006–present: Return
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
5 Awards and nominations
6 References
7 External links
Early life[edit]
Chlumsky was born in Chicago, Illinois,[1] the daughter of Nancy (née Zuncic), a singer, actress, and former flight attendant, and Frank Chlumsky, Jr., a chef and saxophone player.[2][3][4] She was raised in a Roman Catholic family.[5] Chlumsky is of Czech[6][7] and Croatian descent.[8]
Career[edit]
1989–1998[edit]
Chlumsky entered show business at an early age, modeling with her mother in an advertising campaign, though her roles in My Girl (1991) and My Girl 2 (1994) brought her fame. She also starred in Trading Mom (1994) alongside Sissy Spacek, as well as in Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain with Christina Ricci. In the mid to late 1990s, she appeared or starred in several television films and series.[citation needed]
1999–2005: Hiatus from acting[edit]
Chlumsky attended the University of Chicago, graduating in 2002 with a BA in International Studies. After graduation she worked as a fact-checker for the Zagat Survey and served as an editorial assistant for a HarperCollins science fiction-fantasy imprint. She found this work unsatisfying and decided to return to acting. She went to the Atlantic Acting School in Manhattan to receive formal training.[9]
2006–present: Return[edit]
Chlumsky appeared as Mary Calvin in a season 17 episode of Law & Order, first airing on January 12, 2007; and as Lisa Klein in a season 20 episode, first airing March 15, 2010. In March 2007, she appeared in the 30 Rock episode "The Fighting Irish" as Liz Lemler, a romantic rival of protagonist Liz Lemon, who receives flowers meant for Lemler. Chlumsky was in four episodes of the ABC dramedy Cupid in 2009.[10]
She starred in the Off Broadway production of Unconditional by Brett C. Leonard at The Public Theater, which opened on February 2008; it was produced by the LAByrinth Theater Company, She also starred in Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead in November 2005 at the American Theatre of Actors in New York City.[11]
In 2009 she appeared in Armando Iannucci's BBC Films political satire In The Loop, co-starring with Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Chris Addison, James Gandolfini, and Mimi Kennedy, a quasi-spinoff of Iannucci's BBC TV series The Thick of It.[12] She plays Liza, a State Department assistant in the movie. From 2012, Chlumsky has played Amy Brookheimer, aide to Julia Louis-Dreyfus's character in HBO's Veep, also produced by Iannucci.[13] In June 2012, she starred in the world premiere of David Adjmi's 3C at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York.
Dan Aykroyd, who played her father in the two My Girl films, has said that a script for a third film has been in development since 2003.[14] In April 2012 Chlumsky "put to rest" any rumors that such a film was in development.[15] In addition to her role on Veep, Chlumsky has appeared in multiple television series between 2011 and 2013, including White Collar, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and NBC's adaptation of Hannibal.[10]
Chlumsky has appeared on Broadway in You Can't Take It with You, and beginning in April 2015 as editor Iris Peabody in the comedy Living on Love, with Renee Fleming, Jerry O'Connell and Douglas Sills.
In 2017, Chlumsky appeared in the fourth season of AMC Networks' Halt and Catch Fire as Dr. Katie Herman, the love interest of Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy).[16]
Personal life[edit]
In October 2007, Chlumsky announced her engagement to Chinese-American Army Reserve member Shaun So;[17] the two had met as students at the University of Chicago in 2000.[18] So was deployed to Afghanistan from 2004 to 2006.[19] They married on March 8, 2008, in Brooklyn, New York and have two daughters.[20][21]
In 2017 during an interview in RuPaul’s "What's the Tee?" podcast, she stated that she has lived in Brazil and speaks fluent Brazilian Portuguese.
Filmography[edit]
Film
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1989 Uncle Buck School Child
1991 My Girl Vada Sultenfuss
1994 My Girl 2 Vada Sultenfuss
1994 Trading Mom Elizabeth Martin
1995 Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain Jody Salerno
2005 Wait Cara Short film
2007 Blood Car Lorraine
2008 Eavesdrop Chelsea
2009 In the Loop Liza Weld
2009 The Good Guy Lisa
2009 My Sweet Misery Chloe
2010 Civil Unions: A Love Story Unnamed Short film
2011 The Pill Nelly
2012 Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship Sabrina
2015 The End of the Tour Sarah
Television
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1997 A Child's Wish Missy Chandler Movie
1997 Miracle in the Woods Gina Weatherby / Field Pea Movie
1998 Cupid Jill Episode: "Meat Market"
1998 Early Edition Megan Clark Episode: "Teen Angels"
2007 Eight Days a Week Riley McGann Unaired series
2007 30 Rock Liz Lemler Episode: "The Fighting Irish"
2007
2010 Law & Order Mary Calvin,
Lisa Klein "Charity Case"
"Innocence"
2009 House Rules Scotty Fisher Movie
2009 Cupid Josie 4 episodes; reworking of original Cupid series
2009 12 Men of Christmas Jan Lucas Movie
2010 The Quinn-tuplets Rachel Quinn Pilot movie
2010 Covert Affairs Vivian Long Episode: "I Can't Quit You Baby"
2011 Lights Out Charlie Episodes: "Headgames", "The Shot"
2011 Three Weeks, Three Kids Jennifer Mills Movie
2011 White Collar Agent Melissa Matthews Episodes: "Where There's a Will", "Countdown"
2012–present Veep Amy Brookheimer 58 episodes
2012 Army Wives Jessica Anderson Episode: "Tough Love"
2012 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Jocelyn Paley Episode: "Twenty-Five Acts"
2013–14 Hannibal Miriam Lass 4 episodes
2017 Halt and Catch Fire Dr. Katie Herman Season 4
Awards and nominations[edit]
Year
Association
Category
Work
Result
Ref.
1991 Chicago Film Critics Association Most Promising Actress My Girl Nominated [22]
MTV Movie Awards Best Kiss (shared with Macaulay Culkin) Won
Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Culkin) Nominated
Young Artist Awards Most Promising Young Newcomer Won [22]
1994 Best Performance by a Young Actress Starring in a Motion Picture My Girl 2 Won
1995 Best Young Leading Actress – Feature Film Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain Won
1997 Best Performance in a TV Movie/Pilot/Mini-Series - Leading Young Actress A Child's Wish Nominated
1998 Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series - Guest Starring Young Actress Cupid Won
2012 Online Film & Television Association Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Veep Nominated [23]
2013 Primetime Emmy Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated
Online Film & Television Association Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Nominated [23]
Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nominated
2014 Primetime Emmy Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated
Online Film & Television Association Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Nominated [23]
Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nominated
2015 Gracie Awards Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Comedy or Musical Won [22]
Primetime Emmy Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated
Online Film & Television Association Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Nominated [23]
Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nominated
2016 Primetime Emmy Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated
Critics' Choice Television Award Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nominated
2017 Primetime Emmy Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated [24]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Anna Chlumsky Actor". TVGuide.com. Archived from the original on November 18, 2015. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
Jump up ^ Profile, FilmReference.com; accessed May 14, 2014.
Jump up ^ Obituary for Frank Chlumsky, Jr., legacy.com; accessed May 14, 2014.
Jump up ^ Pearlman, Cindy (January 26, 1992). "The minors become a major force on the screen". Chicago Sun-Times.
Jump up ^ Strasburger, Chantal (May 26, 2016). "It's Pronounced KLUM-ski". Sweet. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
Jump up ^ YouTube. youtube.com.
Jump up ^ "My Girl's Anna Chlumsky Engaged". PEOPLE.com.
Jump up ^ The NBA on Christmas Day: Talking with Anna Chlumsky, allball.blogs.nba.com, December 18, 2014; accessed February 5, 2017.
Jump up ^ Caro, Mark (May 19, 2010). "'My Girl' star Anna Chlumsky all grown up". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
^ Jump up to: a b Staff. "Anna Chlumsky: Actress". IMDB.com. Amazon. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
Jump up ^ "Anna Chlumsky to Star in Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead Off-B'way", broadway.com; accessed May 14, 2014.
Jump up ^ "Chlumsky, Gandolfini in 'In The Loop'". Ew.com. 2008-05-01. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
Jump up ^ Bentley, Jean (December 3, 2010). "Congress Bans Loud Commercials, 'Dora the Explorer' Actress Withdraws Lawsuit and More". TV Squad. AOL.com. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
Jump up ^ "Dan Aykroyd Switches Gears and Starts Push for My Girl 3". ScrapeTV.com. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
Jump up ^ "Anna Chlumsky Declines My Girl 3". YouTube. April 27, 2012. Retrieved 2015-09-06.
Jump up ^ "Anna Chlumsky Cast in Season Four of AMC's "Halt And Catch Fire"". AMC Networks. 9 June 2017.
Jump up ^ "My Girl's Anna Chlumsky Engaged". People. October 11, 2007. Archived from the original on March 29, 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
Jump up ^ Cooper, Gael Fashingbauer (October 24, 2014). "'Veep' star discusses struggles of life as a military girlfriend". TODAY.com. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
Jump up ^ D'Zurilla, Christie (2016-08-26). "Anna Chlumsky welcomes her second daughter with husband Shaun So". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
Jump up ^ Saad, Nardine (18 July 2013). "Anna Chlumsky of 'Veep' toasts Emmy nomination, 1-week-old baby girl". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
Jump up ^ Juneau, Jen; Jordan, Julia (August 26, 2016). "Anna Chlumsky Welcomes Daughter Clara Elizabeth". People.com. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Awards".
^ Jump up to: a b c d "2013-14 Season".
Jump up ^ "Emmys 2017: Full List of Nominations". Variety. July 13, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
External links[edit]
Anna Chlumsky on IMDb
Anna Chlumsky at the Internet Broadway Database
Anna Chlumsky at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
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Anna Chlumsky & Macaulay Culkin in My Girl (1992)
Christian Slater & Marisa Tomei in Untamed Heart (1993)
Demi Moore & Woody Harrelson in Indecent Proposal (1994)
Jim Carrey & Lauren Holly in Dumb and Dumber (1995)
Natasha Henstridge & Anthony Guidera in Species (1996)
Will Smith & Vivica A. Fox in Independence Day (1997)
Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore in The Wedding Singer (1998)
Gwyneth Paltrow & Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love (1999)
Sarah Michelle Gellar & Selma Blair in Cruel Intentions (2000)
Julia Stiles & Sean Patrick Thomas in Save the Last Dance (2001)
Jason Biggs & Seann William Scott in American Pie 2 (2002)
Tobey Maguire & Kirsten Dunst in Spider-Man (2003)
Owen Wilson, Carmen Electra & Amy Smart in Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams in The Notebook (2005)
Heath Ledger & Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain (2006)
Will Ferrell & Sacha Baron Cohen in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2007)
Briana Evigan & Robert Hoffman in Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)
Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart in Twilight (2009)
Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2010)
Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2011)
Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2012)
Jennifer Lawrence & Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook (2013)
Emma Roberts, Jennifer Aniston & Will Poulter in We're the Millers (2014)
Ansel Elgort & Shailene Woodley in The Fault in Our Stars (2015)
Rebel Wilson & Adam DeVine in Pitch Perfect 2 (2016)
Ashton Sanders & Jharrel Jerome in Moonlight (2017)
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Modern Family, season 1/season 2 (2010): Bowen, Burrell, Ferguson, Gould, Hyland, O'Neill, Rodriguez, Stonestreet, Vergara, Winter
Modern Family, season 2/season 3 (2011): Anderson-Emmons, Bowen, Burrell, Ferguson, Gould, Hyland, O'Neill, Rodriguez, Stonestreet, Vergara, Winter
Modern Family, season 3/season 4 (2012): Anderson-Emmons, Bowen, Burrell, Ferguson, Gould, Hyland, O'Neill, Rodriguez, Stonestreet, Vergara, Winter
Modern Family, season 4/season 5 (2013): Anderson-Emmons, Bowen, Burrell, Ferguson, Gould, Hyland, O'Neill, Rodriguez, Stonestreet, Vergara, Winter
Orange Is the New Black, season 2 (2014): Aduba, Biggs, Brooks, Cox, Cruz, Curtin, DeLaria, Fowler, Freeman, Gardner, Glenn, Golden, Guerrero, Harney, Jeudy, Lake, Lapkus, Leyva, Lyonne, Manning, Marsh Garland, McGorry, Moore, Mulgrew, Myles, Pimentel, Polanco, Reiner, Roberts, Rodriguez, Rosenblat, Sandow, Savage, Schilling, Shulman, Soules, Stone, Toussaint, Tucci, Wiley
Orange Is the New Black, season 3 (2015): Aduba, Birbiglia, Blake, Brooks, Cox, Cruz, Curtin, DeLaria, Fowler, Glenn, Golden, Guerrero, Harney, Jeudy, Leyva, Manning, Marsh Garland, Moore, Mulgrew, Myles, Peters, Petty, Pimentel, Polanco, Prepon, Rodriguez, Rose, Sandow, Savage, Schilling, Shulman, Soules, Stone, Wiley
Orange Is the New Black, season 4 (2016): Aduba, Aisenberg, Brooks, Brown, Cruz, DeLaria, Dover, Glenn, Golden, Gómez, Guerrero, Harney, Henke, Jeudy, Lake, Leyva, Lyonne, Manning, McMenamin, Moore, Mulgrew, Myles, Peters, Petty, Pimentel, Polanco, Prepon, Purdy, Rodriguez, Sandow, Savage, Schilling, Shulman, Soules, Stone, Tucci, Wiley
Veep, season 6 (2017): Bakkedahl, Chlumsky, Cole, Colin, Dunn, DuVall, Franklin, Hale, Louis-Dreyfus, Richardson, Scheer, Scott, Simons, Sutherland, Walsh
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