Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

The strange but true story of the undiscovered Sunset Boulevard musical

2021·1h 26m·★ 6.2

Documentary History

In the mid-1950s, Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, young composers and romantic partners, are hired by legendary silent film star Gloria Swanson to write a musical based on her film Sunset Boulevard, directed by Billy Wilder in 1950.

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