Ogunquit Playhouse - Behind the Scenes | Sunset Boulevard

In the first of two interviews conducted by the Rodgers&Hammerstein organisation, we get an insight into the workings of one of the first professional second-class productions of Sunset Boulevard, which recently finished its run at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. Here Director Shaun Kerrison, Scenic Designer Todd Edward Ivans, Ogunquit Playhouse Artistic Director Brad Kenney, Todd Gearhart (Joe Gillis) and Stefanie Powers (Norma Desmond) give us their thoughts on the production...
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Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American black comedy/drama film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett. It was named after the boulevard 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 movie star who draws him into her fantasy world where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen, with Erich von Stroheim as Max Von Mayerling, her devoted servant. Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough and Jack Webb play supporting roles. Director Cecil B. DeMille and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper play themselves, and the film includes cameo appearances by leading silent film actors Buster Keaton, H. B. Warner and Anna Q. Nilsson.