Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Aug 16, 2021 | IMDB 6.2
86 min Watch NowDocumentary, 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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