We ARE big! It's the podcasts that got small. Today we delve into the Hollywood nightmare of Billy Wilder's SUNSET BLVD. (1950)

On this week’s show:

Our weird movie year
COVID adventures
RIP Chadwick Boseman
Joe the Gigolo
Skirting the production code
How Gloria Stuart built Paramount
Why Montgomery Clift turned down the film
RIP Olivia De Haviland
Is Holden too old for Olsen?
How Wilder filmed the pool shot
The original opening of the film
What is a “reader”
“This year I’m trying to make money.”
Monkey undertakers
Greta Garbo & Steve Gutenberg
The sad story of Yvette Vickers
Norma’s great Chaplin impression
The difference between Gloria and Betty
The often misquoted line
“You’ve befowled you’re own nest”
Who WAS the better actresses? Bette Davis or Gloria Stuart
Sunset Blvd the Musical

FILMS REFERENCED:

QUEEN KELLY (1932)
CAPTAIN BLOOD (1935)
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938)
GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
THE SNAKE PIT (1948)
THE HEIRESS (1949)
SAMSON AND DELILAH (1949)
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
BORN YESTERDAY (1950)
DRAGNET (1951 TV series)
ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN (1958)
THE APARTMENT (1960)
THE GODFATHER (1972)
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
42 (2013)
BLACK PANTHER (2018)
UNCUT GEMS (2019)
DA 5 BLOODS (2020)
TENET (2020)

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