The latter ultimately became a staged production more than four decades after its theatrical release, courtesy of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Sunday, July 12 marked exactly 33 years since Sunset Boulevard the musical opened in London, with Patti LuPone portraying the infamous Norma Desmond role originally brought to life on the big screen by Gloria Swanson.
Webber continued, per his website, "I stayed with my late '70s draft of the moment where Norma returns to Paramount, 'As If We Never Said Goodbye.' Otherwise mostly everything has been written since 1989."
Back in 1951, Sunset Blvd. the film won three Academy Awards, though it nominated for a whole lot more. As film buffs well know, it also stars William Holden — and by the turn of the century, the American Film Institute ranked the tragic dark comedy near the top of its “Greatest American Movies of All Time” list.
"An aging silent film queen (Swanson) refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young screenwriter (Holden) to help set up her movie comeback. The screenwriter believes he can manipulate her, but he soon finds out he is wrong. The screenwriter’s ambivalence about their relationship and her unwillingness to let go leads to a situation of violence, madness and death."
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