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Billy Wilder directing James Cagney and Lilo Pulver in ONE, TWO, THREE (1961).
Sunset Boulevard (1950, American)
up there again
Sunset Boulevard
“Alright, Mr DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”
Joe Gillis is a hack of a scriptwriter, running from his debts when he comes across Norma Desmond, an aging former star of the silent movies era. She asks him to polish a script she wrote for her big return to the silver screens. The script is poor but Norma pays well, feeds him, clothes him, houses him in a luxurious lifestyle. Joe accepts it all and begins a relationship with her.
When Joe starts looking elsewhere both romantically and professionally, Norma becomes more and more desperate for his attention and her fame.
It’s a dark comedy and thriller about Hollywood and stardom, and cinema. Gloria Swanson gives a wonderfully unhinged and powerful performance as Norma.
While it is true that there’s a certain amount of misogyny and ageism involved in the subgenre, I actually love a Grande Dame Guignol/ hagsploitation film, particularly older ones like this. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Nanny, Lady in a Cage. It feels powerful to me, and I love watching these actresses own their age and let loose with these wild performances. Bette Davis is a particular favourite of mine.
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Jack Lemmon, Some Like It Hot, Billy Wilder, 1959
Dir: Billy Wilder, Dir. of Photography: Charles Lang, "Some Like It Hot" (1959)
Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon (with director Billy Wilder in the bottom right photo) during production of the United Artists/Billy Wilder gender-bending crime comedy Some Like It Hot, black and white photos by Richard C. Miller, 1958.
Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder during the press conference for the official announcement of the filming of Some Like It Hot, at the Beverly Hills Hotel, on July 8, 1958.
