CLASSIC MOVIE REVIEW Gloria Swanson in SUNSET BOULEVARD - STEVE HAYES Tired Old Queen at the Movies
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CLASSIC MOVIE REVIEW: Billy Wilder takes a sardonic look at Hollywood's past in the classic "SUNSET BLVD" (1950). The film stars William Holden, Nancy Olsen, Erich Von Stroheim and in the greatest comeback in motion picture history, Gloria Swanson as silent screen star Norma Desmond. Based on an Oscar winning original screenplay by Wilder and writing partner Charles Bracket, it tells the story of a down and out Hollywood screenwriter taken in by a faded silent star. Eventually, he finds himself trapped in her web of memories, money, sex and disillusionment. It's a gritty look at the motion picture industry that's as true today as the when it was made. A business that takes talented people, builds them up, puts them pedestals, then tosses them aside and forgets them once their talent and box office appeal have been used up. "Sunset Blvd" is fascinating, frustrating, funny and fragile. It's not a pretty picture, but just try and look away. STEVE HAYES: Tired Old Queen at the Movies
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Steve, my grandmother was great pals with Ms. Swanson and her hubby, in nyc. She was amazing. She looked fabulous and was such a health advocate. 💞💞💞💞
I sawher once through a store window while walking on madison Ae. She was so elegant & tiny.
It was a huge shame that Gloria Swanson didn't win the Academy Award for her magnificent performance as Norma Desmond!
I love both films, but if they were both on t.v. at the same time, I would watch Sunset Boulevard.
I think picking either Bette or Gloria would have been an impossible choice. If anything they should have tied. Both were extraordinary in their respective roles.
Sterling Ross such incredible power house actresses, both. So mesmerizing and multi faceted. LOVE!
001Broadway Way better? Though it is hard to beat Billy Wilder's greats. Idk Joseph L Mankiewicz is pretty fantastic. I LOVED BOTH OF THESE FILMS SO MUCH!
It was such a shame there were so many deserving of Oscar that year. Gloria Swanson may have had the most iconic role of the five nominated but her performance has some flaws that I found irritating. Blame the director for not making the perfect masterpiece. The music was great, William Holden was great, the supporting cast a delight and Gloria Swanson has a charisma thank the director for that too. The same can be said about Bette Davis is ALL ABOUT EVE. Having said that, I think the Academy voted wisely when Judy Holliday was chosen.
Can't count how many times I have watched this movie and it's better every time.
Brilliant on so many levels.
Don't make 'em like this anymore. Pitty.
Nope. But then, they don't count on witty dialogue anymore.
"I am big, it's the pictures that got small" Whoever wrote the screenplay did a beautiful job!
Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett. They got the Oscar for it. The also wrote; " Ball Of Fire", 'The Lost Weekend" and "Midnight" among others.
One of the finest movies ever made. Gloria Swanson is brilliant!
Fabulous! Thanks for watching! Don't forget to push the "Like" button. It really helps!.
MAX!!
I love this movie and especially the silent screen stars that were in this movie.
@@toddgiaro7657 You are so right!
I couldn't agree with you more, Sir!
As much as I love Judy Holliday in "Born Yeserday" I really think the Oscar that year should have gone to Gloria Swanson for this classic
You are among many.
Absolutely, a great year for female performances. Gloria Swanson's Norma Desmond was flawless. One of Oscar's mistakes.
what I love about Steve's reviews is that while I have seen many of these films it makes me go back to re-watch them with a new perspective.
I'm so glad! That comment make sme very happy!
'Words, words,and more words! We didn't need words then we had faces!"
One of my favorite lines.
Words, words, words indeed!. The story of a silent film star with some of the most brilliant dialogue ever. Fabulous!
Gloria Swanson should have won the Oscar that year.
The GRAND DIVA OF ALL TIME!
IS HERE FOR HER CLOSE UP!
Love you, Steve and Johnny!
Bill Holden was a good actor. I know some people who knew him. Self-effacing is how they described him. Interesting man. Something else there that he always kept back, I always thought. That was his appeal. Never really made a bad movie.
Nope. Always solid. The perfect leading man or heel. Great actor right to the end.
Another brilliant presentation, Mr. Hayes. Thank you for highlighting this extraordinary film. I happened to see it when it came out; I was only about nine at the time! Those were the days when movies cost a dime and I went every weekend.I thought it was one of the scariest films I'd ever seen, and I had no idea what it was about, except that I thought Gloria Swanson was horribly ugly (I'd grown up on Doris Day). Years later I realized what an amazingly beautiful woman she was, and a fine actor. Thanks again!🤩
Yes, it was definitely the role of a career ! Happy Holidays! Steve
Tried All Clean Of Danube Bees!
No matter how many times I watch Sunset Blvd (and I have, SO many times), I still get a chill when Max says "...I was Madame's first husband." And that final moment, as Miss Desmond has her 'closeup'...
Every performance in this film is wonderful; to think that Wilder went through such a list of actresses before choosing Gloria Swanson! Truly one of the all time greatest films from a director who gave us so many, many great films.
Thank you (from several years on) for showcasing this masterwork. As always, I look forward to watching you tell more great Hollywood stories! 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Cannot imagine seeing "All About Eve" & "Sunset Blvd" in the same year.
"I've got oils wells in Bakersfield..pumping, pumping.
Fantastic reviews Steve
My favorite quote!
Just discovered you and am now binge watching all your reviews.
You too?...I'm hooked on Steves anecdotes as well as watching highlights of so many great classics!
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@@Irishglen6 I'm so glad! Thank you so much! Don't forget to push the "Like" button. It really helps!.
Five years later and I am too!
One of my favorite movies and the final climax is one of the best of all-time.😷
I agree. Hautning final shot! Happy New Year, Trippy! As always, thanks so much for watching! Best; Steve
Now I have to watch this film all over again. ;D
I love "Sunset Boulevard", such a great movie. I live in Atlanta and there are a lot of commercial, television and film projects filmed here. My young nieces are in the industry and have done a lot of work. I like to show them old movies and discuss it with them and "Sunset Boulevard" is one of the many movies I have shown them. When one of my nieces was 8 she was auditioning for a commercial. As the casting people were dismissing the people they weren't interested in she, unfortunately fell in that group. As she was leaving she stopped right in front of the casting people and said "Haven't ya got any eyes? Have you forgotten what a star looks like?" They all burst out laughing and she got the part!
This made my day! That is, without a doubt the BEST classic film anecdote I ever heard!!! LOL! Thanks for sharing! So glad you are carrying on the tradition and passing on and influencing the next generation with these wonderful films! BRAVO!! Best; Steve
As amazing as Gloria Swanson is as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard I still think that they made the right decision when Judy Holliday won the Oscar for Born Yesterday. Judy's performance has aged I think better than Miss Swanson's. It seems fresher and more modern today than Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard which in some places in the film seems a little bit hammy and overacted. Sorry, Bette Davis in All About Eve your role in this film does not match the quality of the performances of both Judy Holliday and Gloria Swanson. As great as All About Eve is as a movie(It won best picture), Bette Davis acts throughout the whole film like she is tired,cynical & depressed
@@michaelverbakel7632 Well, that was the character of Margo Channing. Margo was basically patterned on Tallulah Bankhead and that description fits her to a T.
Hands down, "Sunset Blvd" was not only the BEST pic of 1950, but of the decade. ‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼
Well, there you are. For me, it was " Vertigo". Different strokes for different folks.
Steve you continue to be just the very best at everything you do! Few people understand the significance of Sunset Boulevard and Gloria's magnificent return.
So so sad that people were stupid to typecast her as Norma Desmond. She was
was quite a fine actress in her own created niche. Her performance in SB is the one
that will live eternally in the constant key light of cinema. Magnificent film all around.
PLEASE PLEASE Steve! Do a regular gig on TCM please please!!!
I haven't been asked, but thank you so much and please continue to watch "TOQ at the Movies" We love your company!
YAAAY!!!! Billy Wilder told off LB Mayer! That guy was such a two faced jerk! He put on the protective 'papa ' role to girls like Judy Garland and Liz Taylor, but as soon as they dared question him, they got told off or shown the door. Between him and Ethel Gumm, they worked poor Judy into drug addiction!
Apparently, Perry Como told him off , too. Good!
Gloria Swanson playing norma desmond is single handledly one of the best performances of all time. When she unravels, suddenly this quirky dark picture about Hollywood becomes so real. She's so real and so unhinged, cant make that shit up.
That's waht Billy Wilder said. This and Charles Laughton in " Wintness For The Prosecution " were his favorite performances he directed.
I love this film and the musical based on it. Billy Wilder almost never disappoints me
Nancy Olson, low key and vastly under-rated, laughs about the visit to De Mille and how he told her he considered her for Delilah. She thought that was beyond bizarre - she was even called "Wholesome Olson' in high school. Can you imagine her instead of Hedy?
Except for maybe Lana or Ava, I can't imagine a better Delilah than Hedy.
The scene where Norma is about to enter Paramount gate in her old car shows Oblath’s Cafe in the background. Had lunch there often in the early Seventies while working next door at KHJ-TV.
I love it when alot of the calssic locations still exist and are still in use. Wish her mansion was. It was torn down years ago, from what I understand. Happy Holidays! Steve
This movie can be watched over and over. I've read that the silent-film footage shown in this movie is from the never-finished Gloria Swanson movie "Queen Kelly". When my inbox showed "Steve Hayes has uploaded a video" that was the best news I'd had all day and the review and stories are even better!
Awww, thanks, Buddy! SO appreciated!
William Holden, one of my favorite actors and looking so good in Sunset Boulevard at the prime age of 32. Loved him in The Bridge On The River Kwai also. Who could forget that classic scene in I Love Lucy with Bill Holden and Lucille Ball. ❤️
I always found him masculine, real and adorable. Thanks for watching! Best; Steve
I don't think William Holden had a better year than 1950. Being nominated for Sunset Boulevard opposite his the glorious Gloria Swanson costar in this classic film. He had mixed feelings I guess when he found out she lost this award to Bill Holden's costar in his other real classic 1950 film, Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday.
Steve Hayes! You are a ⭐️ STAR ⭐️ Bless you .... ⭐️ Antonio
Anotnio, YOU are the star! Thank you so much! Lovely to hear from you and to know you are watching. Have lovely holidays and stay SAFE! Best; Steve
Your videos are so addicting! I've watched all of them and you reminded me about all the old movies I love and why I love them. Thank you, Steve!
I've only just started watching Steves reviews and like you, I'm becoming addicted as well.
I'm all for addiction..to classic movies, that is! Thanks for watching! Don't forget to push the "Like" button. It really helps!.
This is one of those movies that when somebody tells me "I don't like old black and white movies." I tell them they need to watch this and 10/10 times they always love it. It's a movie that is of its' time but also timeless. The issues brought up in this movie are the same issues that still happen in modern day Hollywood.
Great choice. It's a plot and charcater driven movie that has nothing to do with special effects and "The Quick Fix". It takes it's time and tells a brilliant story of love, loss, dreams, change, fear, and the agony at times of just being human. Thanks for watching. Steve
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ You know what was something I noticed this movie and All About Eve were came out in the same year and are essentially about the same subject: how the entertainment industry treats older actresses as well as somebody coming into the actress' life and using them for their own personal gain. However unlike similar times this has happened in Hollywood (for example Dante's Peak vs. Volcano or A Bug's Life vs. Antz) it wasn't done to so one studio could compete with the other. It was simply just a weird coincidence that both these films came out in the same year and it shows. It's obvious one wasn't rushed out in a hurry because a studio heard that the other movie was being made. It's probably why both movies are considered some of the greatest movies ever made. I like Sunset Boulevard over All About Eve because I love the former film's creepy LA Gothic atmosphere (sidenote: is "LA Gothic" a phrase like how somebody would say a story is Southern Gothic? If it isn't it really should be a phrase. Certain noir films like Chinatown for example you can call an "LA Gothic story" but I'm rambling) that being said both Sunset Boulevard and All About Eve will always have spots in my top ten favorite movies.
Gun to my head I cannot choose who gives the better performance between Davis and Swanson. They are both just amazing, you can't take your eyes off them.
@@stevencoffin328 I totally agree with everything you said. I think I prefer "Eve" a bit more because of the wit and becuase I've spent my life in New York in and around the theatre. But Sunset has that incredible script and the casting is brilliant. It also has, what I believe, is the greatest closing shot in movie history. And no, I cannot choose between the two actresses. Brilliant beyond words. Thanks for watching. Steve
I highly recommend her autobiography. Ms. Swanson was a woman of many talents and interests - from health foods to supporting inventors during WW2, in business, TV, radio and so on. If that’s not impressive enough- she was Joan Crawford’s idol! When JC and Stanwyck worship you that’s ultimate divadom!
That's certainly one way of looking at it. Thanks for watching!
William "Chest-rug" Holden. I don't know how I missed this! Better late than never!
I could bury my face in him and stay warm all winter!
As noted in your correction, Charles Brackett didn't co-write the screenplay to DOUBLE INDEMNITY, Raymond Chandler did. The reason that Brackett bowed out was because he considered James M. Cain's book to be "sordid and sleazy." Like SUNSET BOULEVARD isn't?
Steve is awesome. More Steve, more !
Thanks. Always more on the way!
Steve, YOU are 'a classic'!
Reviews as NO others -- ever!
And, no, you are not "tired."
(As for anything else, I've
simply noooo idea about.)
Sunset Boulevard belongs on the "Ten Greatest of All Time" list.
Norma Desmond one the most classic characters to appear on the big screen. So many people paid tribute to this role including Carol Burnett. I bet all the big stars were envious of this meaty and over the top role. Gloria Swanson got it and killed it. I recently watched 1975 'Airport 75' film and I think she actually played herself. Might have been her last film.
She always had trouble maintaning the success she had with this. It's influence followed her throughout her life.
Sunset Blvd is one of my favorite movies. Thanks for the great reviews. I love your passion for and knowledge of film.
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I recently rewatched this movie after a trip out to LA and long drive through the Hollywood Hills. It's so fantastic and indeed William Holden looks fantastic in it.
As they might say in The Museum Of Natural History, Holden was a "HUNK-A-Saurus Maximus"!
Breathtaking movie...and wonderful description of it! You rock, Steve.
No Kyle, YOU ROCK! These days, I mostly roll...
Every line and gesture of Swanson sealed her fate. Might have made a great comeback for Gloria. The story of it's aftermath is yet another Hollywood cautionary tale. It's said that Mommie Dearest ruined Faye Dunaway's career in a similar way. These two performances are opera, folklorics, fables but, above all, Great Films!
Perhaps, but I don't think Dunaway comes close to Swanson The material was better.
Marvelous darling!
I am big it’s the “picture that got small.”🎬
In her case, so true.
Wow! I thought I knew the backstory, but you brought some aspects to light I had not considered. Kudos!
Thank you so much! I love this film.
Alright, Mr. Hayes, I'm ready for your next movie critique!
STEVE!!!! WE MISS YOU, DO MORE, PLEASE!!!!!
We try to do one a month and we are pretty good at it...though life steps in at times and alters things a bit. Thanks so much! Steve
Steve check out Fullerton Auditorium. Its a national land mark. it has a silent movie organ. For Halloween I saw Buster Keaton in Haunted House and the original Dr Jekyle and Mister Hyde. They played the organ. It was awsome. The chandeliers were made in the metal shop. I showed a picture of the auditorium to a friend and it reminded him of Sunset Boulevard. The auditorium is located on the corner of Lemon and Chapman. In Fullerton. MY mothers name was Norma. Take care Steve.
There are so many gothic residences that bring to mind the Norma Desmond house. I love them all. .
Saw this film on the big screen two weeks ago. The theater was 3/4 full. It was great to see it as it was presented in theaters. The audience reaction - laughter or sadness - adds a lot to seeing this film. William Holden was so great in this movie and looked great, too. (If anyone reading this lives in the Dallas area you might want to check out the Big Movie night at the Magnolia. Every Tuesday evening an older film is presented at 7:30. A number of the films presented in Steve Hayes CZcams site have played at the Magnolia. A Letter to Three Wives and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes were two that were recently shown. It's fun to watch these films on the big screen and then take another look at Steve's review.)
+lvaughan53 There's nothing like seeing the classics on the big screen with an audience,
So glad! I love them on the big screen the way they were meant to be seen.
OK I'm "THICK" I didn't "hear" who walked down the aisle and kissed who's hem of who's gown? Gloria Swanson walked down the aisle and kissed Joan Crawfords or Joan Crawford kissed Swanson's gown? I'm confused
LOL! At the LA Premiere, Barbara Stanwyck knelt down and kissed the hem of Gloria Swanson's gown .
I'm so happy you did a review of Sunset Boulevard Steve! Such a great film. I'll never forget those shots of Gloria Swanson in her lounge room, with the ring cigarette holder and those dark glasses. Iconic. I'd love it if you could do a review of Cukor's 1939, "The Women." Your favourite gal, Roz is the best in it! Or Kubrick's "Lolita." Thanks for making these videos, you're the best!
I've reviewed 'The Women"check back with my past reviews! Thanks so much for watching!
Love, love, love this movie! And you too, sweetie!
Awwwww, You Cutie!
Gloria Swanson and Judy Holliday attended the Oscar ceremonies together, in New York because they couldn’t get to the actual ceremonies in California. When Judy won, all the focus of the reporters was on Gloria because they expected a Norma Desmond-like tirade, which of course never happened. But everybody thought Gloria was Norma; decades later, Sunset Blvd was shown for a special presentation in which one of her daughters attended. People would ask her “was your mother like that?” and the daughter would assure them she wasn’t.
Gloria later said “I guess I played that part TOO well.”
She did and nobody could have done it better. Consumate actress.
Wait. I known Erich von I can never remember his name - was a great film director in Germany as well. The casting was so haunting
Stroheim was a legendary director in Hollywodd and germany of silent movies. In fact the footage they watch is from Queen Kelly which he directed Swanson in and ended both their careers because it was so costly to make and bombed.
Please, please do Love is a Many Splendoured Thing
The ending always breaks me
It's on my "To Do" list! Thanks for watching! Best Wishes; Steve
@@stevenhayes4063 Can't wait! Thank you. You're always so fun to watch ; )
"Norma Desmond" was supposedly based on Alla Nazimova, who's version of Salome was disastrous, despite the purportedly all gay cast!
Yes, and somewhat on herself. Queen Kelly, the silent picture she screens, was directed by Von Sternberg, produced by her lover Joe Kannedy and was a huge flop, costing millions.
So much a favorite of mine for a variety of reasons. I recently gave a Polish replica of a movie poster to a since departed fan of the movie. He so treasured it
Who wouldn't! Plues it's been my experience that the European posters were always so much more colorful and imaginative!
Hi Steve! I love your reviews! Would you please do a review of Gilda? I just saw the movie and I loved it. I would love to see your review on it. Thanks!
Thanks for the suggestion! Thanks for watching! Don't forget to push the "Like" button. It really helps!.
Sunset Boulevard is, despite being a dark noir, also a kind of love letter to the Golden Age of Hollywood, silent pictures, and those of us stuck in them. A lost era of faded opulence when the lack of media and code of secrecy kept exactly this kind of goings-on out of public view, allowing us to maintain a mystique around actors largely chosen for their larger-than-life charisma. Hollywood has changed, standards of what makes a good actor have changed, the dark underbelly is out in broad daylight, and there will never be the likes of those actors and that era again. Or maybe I'm just projecting my agreement with Norma XD
And I, in turn, will project my agreement on all accounts, with both you and Norma! Thanks for watching ! Steve
Steve, Your reviews are a delight and I look forward to revisiting these films with fresh eyes !
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Another very interesting presentation. Wonderful attention to detail. (Gloria S looks SO sinister.)
Deranged.
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ Indeed. And you do her to spooky perfection.
Fabulous; thank you Steve!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching! Best; Steve
A cracking movie. A joy to watch
Ready for your close up? This is great.
Yes, but...not TOO close.
Mr. Steve Hayes Builds His Dream House!
Nope. Just shot "on location".
Dear Steve, You're absolutely right that this shows the brutal reality of Hollywood which executives didn't want seen, but Billy Wilder was always completely brilliant at telling unpleasant truths. The film has a wonderful, searing performance by Gloria Swanson, whose autobiography I loved, and it's tragic that the business imagined she was like the role and not acting, and wrote her off. And there's the extraordinary death of Billy Wilder's "golden boy", William Holden - so many years later, when I look at "Fedora", I understand completely why Billy Wilder made that film, given the position he found himself in at the time. I didn't like Tom Tryon's book (though I had liked some of his horror fiction) but I can understand what Billy Wilder planned to do with it and, despite difficulties, achieved. That a director of such brilliance, with so many triumphs over so many years behind him, should find himself in the position in which Wilder found himself then - "Sunset Boulevard" shows a horrible reality that twenty eight years later still had not changed. There's a line in T.S. Eliot, "In my end is my beginning". And now I'd like to explain why you got such a rude email from me. On your website, when you have replied to someone's response to a review, up comes a further Reply option for the viewer/listener. I'd always thought you could see and read this, so when you made the mistake (about "This Happy Breed", dear God!) I rushed to point it out in a puzzled reply, thinking you'd respond with something like "Oops!" But no response came. I waited until the following day, not having slept all night (pain - I need new hips which I won't get till 20 years after I'm dead) and sent you a stinking email. Not good on my part, but really and truly I thought you saw any such replies. By the way, if you hand out advice any time, tell people not to be hypermobile - the result later is you can't move at all. I treasure you, that's the problem - you're the most wonderful source of entertaining information about film and actors in the sea of rubbish on the internet and when you make a mistake my last hope has gone. Best wishes, Alida
Dear Alida; as you already know, I make TONS of mistakes. I try my best, sometimes succeed, sometimes blunder, but I'm FAR from an expert and I don't consider myself one by any means. Also, I answer so many comments that I seldom get a chance to go back and see if anyone has written a further comment. So, there are bound to be times when something slides past me without my knowing it. I apologize. Hope you are feeling better. Steve
Max, don't forget about Carol Burnett's take-off as Nora Desmond!
I just discovered you like 2 hours ago. Should be working. Ha. I have watched so far your review of Cabaret (how I discovered you), All About Eve, Birds, Psycho, and now one of my favoritest movies!!!
A nice collection of Billy Wilder movies. I am just missing ONE, TWO THREE Billy Wirlder´s wonderfull crazy satiric comady about the AFTER WAR BERLIN with James Cagney and Horst Buchholz. Cagney had played in it the Senior Manager of the Coca Cola Franchise in Germany with the seat in West- Berlin and Horst Buchholz the young idealistic East German Communist in love with the daughter of Cagney´s Boss. It is a wonderfull comady about the earlier days of West Berlin I love it.
By the way back in the earlier days of the Bundesrepublik many companies had their formal main office in West Berlin due to the better tax rates they got from the West Germans for doing so.
It's on my "To Do" list alng with "A Foreign Affiar". Thanks for watching and please stay SAFE! Best; Steve
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ Thank you too. Basically you are doing great. THIS " FUNNY " OPENING of your clip (0:12) is not so much my cup of tea but I guess that is the generation gap between us both. You can see socalled Gags like this in other international clips as from the German GameStar magazin as well.
Yes, I am a German-American, American Father, German Mother and I grew up here in Munich and Berlin in the Sixties. So that movie is a bit nostalgia for me as well. How do you got to ONE TWO THREE ?
Yes the movie had proven to me that James Cagney really was a great actor as some told me. This movie is the proof.
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Awesome review!!!
I’m really missing a few movie reviews from you. Homicidal, Straitjacket, Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, Dead Ringer. Thanks!☺️
Ya can't miss 'em if they ain't there. LOL!
I just found you again. Love this!!!!!
Hooray! That's rather like an old movie titlae: "I Found You Again!" Love it!
Norma Desmond was supposedly based on Alla Nazimova. Who's own version of "Salome" was a disaster, and ended her career.
I've always wanted to see the cut framing device in the morgue.
Me too! That and Joan Crawford's cut scenes from " Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte".
I have always enjoyed your reviews and this happens to be my favorite movie.
Hooray! Thanks for watching! Best Wishes; Steve
This is my favourite movie!
Good choice! Happy Holidays!
Great review. Steve do you think you could possibly review "Samson and Delilah" in an upcoming episode of Tired Old Queen at the Movies?
I sure could! I love DeMille!
You could play everyone’s part your up there with the best
WELL, THANK YOU...BUT DON'T TELL GLORIA, WHE'S WTING AT THE PAERLY GATES TO STRANGLE ME. LOL! MUCH APPRECIATED! THANKS FOR WATCHING! BEST WESHES; STEVE
Gloria Swanson's performance in "Sunset Boulevard" was head and shoulders above Bette Davis' in "All About Eve" and Judy Holliday in "Born Yesterday". The story goes that because Anne Baxter insisted on being nominated as Best Actress along with Bette Davis in "All About Eve", votes were siphoned off both Swanson and Davis and Holliday won because of it. In any case, Swanson was clearly robbed.
Well, many people certainly think so. It's been debated for years.
This one's a pip--both the movie and your review, Steve. Hope your new house is soon a home for you--though you strolling players are wont to wander, aren't you? Thanks so much for the richly layered review.
I wish. I simply shot "on location". I'm still in Manhattan ...and still love my little pad!
Excellent review.
Why thank you!
will you ever review Bette Davis & Olivia De Havilland in This Our Life?
Absolutely, I have it tucked away fro a special occasion...perhaps Halloween! I'm kidding. It's definitely on my agenda!
SUPERB PERFORMANCES ♥️
Oh, Steve! I love you. Hey, have you moved? I almost can hear an echo! LOL! This review is marvelous. I haven't watched this one in a long time and because of your review, I think that I need to see it again with new eyes. BTW, your segment on TCM was excellent. I think that some of your observations gave even Robert Osborne something to think about. Heh.
Steve please tell the story of your move from a NYC apartment to a house! (Definitely a redone 1920 - 1950 one, or a modern retro recreation.)
OMG! Thabnks so much! I had such a great time with him! Afterwards we had lunch together. A kinder, more knowledgable gentleman never lived. Thanks for watching! Don't forget to push the "Like" button. It really helps!.
@@emjayay LOL! OMG! I didn't move. I simply 'went on location'. That was the home of my cinematographer/editor in Conn. I was up there doing a musical and it was more convenient to shoot there. I still live in that same apartment I've been in since I moved to Manhattan 43 years ago! Thanks for watching! Don't forget to push the "Like" button. It really helps!.
This movie is one of me favorites and loved your review.
By the way, did you spot the coincidental connection between Norma Desmond and Buster Keaton, who played one of ‘the waxworks’? The name Norma came from his sister-in-law, Norma Talmadge.
Steve is Magnificent.
You just made my day! Thanks a million and thanks for watching! Happy Holidays! Steve
Mr. DeMille I'm ready for my close-up, or I am big it's the pictures that got small.
Merry Christmas ☃️🎄 Steve and John from NJ
Happy Holidays to you, Marie! Thanks so much for watching! Best Wishes; Steve
So great! So accurate.....so well done. Couldn't have done it better myself.... from obe TOQ to another.... stylish and fun you are.
Thank you form the bottom of my heart!
Love your impressions and commentary. I checked and couldn't find The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone? If you haven't done it, both versions are very good.
Being a big Vivien Leigh fan, I prefer the first one. and it's on my to do list!, Thanks for watching and for the suggestion! Steve
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ Awesome🤗! Looking forward to it.
I love this movie, one of my all time favorites! anyone else think of carol burnett as 'nora desmond' and Harvey korman as 'max' when you see this? great movie, but I still pick all about eve for the 1950 Oscar over this.
Steve I would like to see you do a review on Blood and Sand with Rita Hayworth, and Tyrone Power, and Linda Darnell, and Nazimova! Also, there is a cute movie with Lucille Ball and Maureen O Hara called "Dance Lady Dance!
I believe the title is technically "Dance Girl Dance" from 1940 but know what you meant
Thanks for the suggestions! Thanks for watching!
I ❤ 1910s 20s, so I'm interested this movie. I like the caroll Burnett version 😂 of norma desmond.
Eve?
No. It's more wonderful more popularity more interested is sunset Blvd.very great movie.
I'm so glad you like it! Steve
I always look forward to the hilarious, campy, but uncanny impersonations of the actors concerned.
Thank yu so much and thanks for watching! Best; Steve
Always love watching Sunset Blvd
Me too, Jimmy! "And MUST you chew gum?"
Steve Hayes of course.
It is surprised Hollywood tell about their darkness to the public at the same age. I wonder What movie had won the oscar best picture and best actress that year.
"All About Eve"- Best Picture 1950 Judy Holliday in " Born yesterday" Best Avtress- 1950 Gloria and Bette both lost to Judy.
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ 🤨 who remember judy 😆
Yeah, I like All About Eve better, it has snappier dialogue (paraphrasing) "I'm not one of those backwards children you play tricks on", "maybe some snowy night in front of the fire", "everything but the bloodhounds snapping at her heels", "a milkshake?" 😂
This is the most horrible, most beautiful, most surreal documentary Hollywood ever made. Sublime. (A close second is Mulholland Drive.)
Something for everyone.
I saw the Carol Burnett spoof on this long before I saw the movie; I think I did enjoy all about Eve more
Carol did alot of 'em. Thanks for watching and Happy Holidays! Steve
Gives me a new perspective on this great film. Thanks!
Hooray!Thanks for watching! Don't forget to push the "Like" button. It really helps!.
“You’re Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big”
“I am big!” “It’s the pictures that got small.”
And don't you forget it, Mister! LOl!
Delightful review steve
Thanks so much , Tony! I'm so delghted you still watch! Do you subscribe? If not, PLEASE do!