Mr. DeMille, I’m Ready for My Close-Up - Sunset Blvd. (8/8) Movie CLIP (1950) HD

Sunset Blvd. movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don’t miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: In this classic scene, Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) gives her final performance as she descends into madness. FILM DESCRIPTION: Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. The story begins at the end as the body of Joe Gillis (William Holden) is fished out of a Hollywood swimming pool. From The Great Beyond, Joe details the circumstances of his untimely demise (originally, the film contained a lengthy prologue wherein the late Mr. Gillis told his tale to his fellow corpses in the city morgue, but this elicited such laughter during the preview that Wilder changed it). Hotly pursued by repo men, impoverished, indebted “boy wonder“ screenwriter Gillis ducks into the garage of an apparently abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. Wande