Billy Wilder Revisits “Sunset Boulevard”
David Freeman talks to the director about the making of his best-known film, starring Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, on the eve of the London première of “Sunset Boulevard” the musical, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring Patti LuPone as Norma Desmond.
"Every script, I tell them the same thing: Don't do it. Do they listen? They do it anyway. Nine times out of ten, the picture flops." — Billy Wilder on his Hollywood advisory role.