Billy Wilder`s timeless and prescient masterpiece Sunset Boulevard is perhaps the ultimate film about Hollywood.

It tells the story of Joe Gillis (Holden), a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who stumbles into the decaying mansion of former silent-movie star Norma Desmond (Swanson).

When Norma hires Joe to polish the script for her comeback, he is drawn into a celluloid web of delusion and madness. In this biting satire of the intoxicating highs and excruciating lows of show business, Swanson delivers one of the most electrifying performances ever put on film—embodying a woman who could not, or would not, change with the times.