Mr. DeMille, I'm Ready for My Close-Up - Sunset Blvd. (8/8) Movie CLIP (1950) HD

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In this classic scene, Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) gives her final performance as she descends into madness.

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Cast: Erich von Stroheim, Gloria Swanson
Director: Billy Wilder
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Producer: Charles Brackett
Screenwriter: Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr., Billy Wilder
Film Description: Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. The story begins at the end as the body of Joe Gillis (William Holden) is fished out of a Hollywood swimming pool. From The Great Beyond, Joe details the circumstances of his untimely demise (originally, the film contained a lengthy prologue wherein the late Mr. Gillis told his tale to his fellow corpses in the city morgue, but this elicited such laughter during the preview that Wilder changed it). Hotly pursued by repo men, impoverished, indebted "boy wonder" screenwriter Gillis ducks into the garage of an apparently abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. Wandering into the spooky place, Joe encounters its owner, imperious silent star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). Upon learning Joe's profession, Norma inveigles him into helping her with a comeback script that she's been working on for years. Joe realizes that the script is hopeless, but the money is good and he has nowhere else to go. Soon the cynical and opportunistic Joe becomes Norma's kept man. While they continue collaborating, Norma's loyal and protective chauffeur Max Von Mayerling (played by legendary filmmaker Erich von Stroheim) contemptuously watches from a distance. More melodramatic than funny, the screenplay by Wilder and Charles Brackett began life as a comedy about a has-been silent movie actress and the ambitious screenwriter who leeches off her. (Wilder originally offered the film to Mae West, Mary Pickford and Pola Negri. Montgomery Clift was the first choice for the part of opportunistic screenwriter Joe Gillis, but he refused, citing as "disgusting" the notion of a 25-year-old man being kept by a 50-year-old woman.) Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running musical version has served as a tour-de-force for contemporary actresses ranging from Glenn Close to Betty Buckley to Diahann Carroll.

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[carrotjuse]

No actress could have done that as well as Gloria Swanson.

[AandR1408]

In my top 10 favorite movie endings of all time. It's so dark, it's amazing.

[jrmetmoi]

Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane I think...

[psychoabattoirhorror]

Along with Citizen Cane this film should be required viewing for anyone interested in film

[janeyrevanescence12]

While Swanson's character scares me, I can't help but feel sorry for Norma in this.

[kcirdrab]

Now that's acting

[budooo]

No one could ever done this as well as Swanson. What a great actress she was! She should have won the Academy Award for this. She was stunning!

[yankeeangel26]

I have seen this ending quite a few times and it still sends chills down my spine. I can't think of any other movie that is simultaneously so absurd and so tragic.

I had heard that about Mae West--apparently she was rather offended at the offer. Gloria Swanson, on the other hand, was very excited to play the part. And boy did she play it!

[A.A. Freimann]

Damn; watching this clip makes me super-glad that I chose not to go into acting as an attempted profession even after years of training to do just that. Sheesh.

This scene never fails to make me feel so sorry for the protagonist as well as grateful for what little sanity I DO possess. 

[timothyj106]

Who did she lose to, I don't remember.