Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

Cast

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  Jeffrey Schwarz Director
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  Muhammad Ali Self
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  Steve Allen Self
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  Brooke Anderson Self
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  Julie Andrews Self
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  Cari Beauchamp Self
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  Stephen Bock Self
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  Carol Burnett Self
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  Dick Cavett Self
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  Glenn Close Self - Norma Desmond
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  Broderick Crawford Self
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  David Del Valle Self

Available Subtitles

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Viewer comments

• the._.B O N D._.007 2023-05-29

  source: Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

• mira mdg 2023-05-23

  The problem with Gloria Swanson trying to make a musical out of "Sunset Boulevard" is a) she could not sing, b) the couple she hired to create the show were not good songwriters, and c) she did not have the rights to the material. A is the elephant in the room. B is hinted at but not faced head-on and the songs are presented as if they could support a Broadway show. (They couldn't.) And C ends up being a blessing because if this show had opened, Swanson would have received the worst reviews of her life. The "angle" of this documentary is that the songwriters were a gay couple whose relationship lasted for about as long as they were on Swanson's payroll. The problem is that by the time the director of this documentary decided to make it, all the characters in this story were dead. So we are left with video footage of a previous interview of one of the songwriters, an audio recording of an unexplained and undated interview with the other songwriter, and talking head "experts" telling us about Swanson's personality and life. Paper doll-style animation is used to illustrate the interviews. The big tease is that one number from this musical was performed on the Steven Allen show. The movie opens with a few seconds of this clip but you have to stay tuned to the end of the movie to see more of it. The clip only highlights that Swanson cannot sing and that the score is nothing you would walk out of the theater humming. One of the talking heads is Swanson's granddaughter, who looks qu

• bean77552 2023-03-02

  source: Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

• Parwaz Hussein برواس حسين 2022-11-22

  The problem with Gloria Swanson trying to make a musical out of "Sunset Boulevard" is a) she could not sing, b) the couple she hired to create the show were not good songwriters, and c) she did not have the rights to the material. A is the elephant in the room. B is hinted at but not faced head-on and the songs are presented as if they could support a Broadway show. (They couldn't.) And C ends up being a blessing because if this show had opened, Swanson would have received the worst reviews of her life. The "angle" of this documentary is that the songwriters were a gay couple whose relationship lasted for about as long as they were on Swanson's payroll. The problem is that by the time the director of this documentary decided to make it, all the characters in this story were dead. So we are left with video footage of a previous interview of one of the songwriters, an audio recording of an unexplained and undated interview with the other songwriter, and talking head "experts" telling us about Swanson's personality and life. Paper doll-style animation is used to illustrate the interviews. The big tease is that one number from this musical was performed on the Steven Allen show. The movie opens with a few seconds of this clip but you have to stay tuned to the end of the movie to see more of it. The clip only highlights that Swanson cannot sing and that the score is nothing you would walk out of the theater humming. One of the talking heads is Swanson's granddaughter, who looks qu

• Sandi 2022-11-22

  Boulevard! A Hollywood Story