Daily Dialogue — July 26, 2010

“All right Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my closeup.”

 — Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), Sunset Blvd. (1950), written by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder & D.M. Marshman Jr.

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is notable last lines. Sunset Blvd. was recommended by Eve Montana.

Trivia: Eugene Walter was a prolific Hollywood screenwriter of the 1920s and 1930s. 6350 Franklin Avenue was the address of the Alto Nido Apartments, where Walter lived, sometimes worked, and, ultimately died in 1941. As Sunset Blvd. (1950) opens, William Holden’s character Joe Gillis describes himself as a Hollywood screenwriter “living in an apartment house above Frankin Avenue”. As the camera cranes up into the apartment, we can see it’s the Alto Nido. 

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