Pride Cinema
BOULEVARD, A HOLLYWOOD STORY
Tuesday, May 28th at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
For Gloria Swanson,
the iconic star of Sunset Boulevard,
both the movie and the character of Norma Desmond provided a renewed spotlight.
Seeing her role as a path back to stardom, Swanson began efforts to parlay Sunset Boulevard into a new phase of her
career – adapting a musical stage adaptation of the film. Dickson Hughes and Richard
Stapley, two young songwriters and romantic partners, soon find themselves
caught in Swanson’s web when she hires them to write a musical version of the
film. Life imitates art when Gloria falls for Richard, and the men find
themselves living a real-life version of the film. A tale of relentless passion
and unspoken desperation, the story of Swanson’s Sunset Boulevard musical
has remained an untold tale of Hollywood Babylon…until now. (2021, 85 mins)