In celebration of the 70th anniversary of 'Sunset Blvd,' we take a look back Billy Wilder's Oscar-winning film, starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, and Erich von Stroheim. | IMDb

Sunset Boulevard (stylized onscreen as SUNSET BLVD.) is a 1950 American film noir. directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett. It was named after the thoroughfare with the same name 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 triumph