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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, October 15, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Von Stroheim at the wheel of an ancient leopards inline drives miss Swanson and Holden to the studios to see Cecil Demille about starring her in based on a script which she wrote and lured Holden to rewrite for Ovie fans who have not yet seen Sunset Boulevard have a great treat in store for Chance to see a great performance by two of the outstanding stars of All Gloria Swanson and Erich von in a Story peculiarly suited to their talents and miss who achieved her greatest Success in silent film plays the real life role of an actress who cannot 1 forget her past glory and wants desperately to return to the von Stroheim serves As her out of an old love for her and the memory of the Days when he was a great silent film director who discovered her and directed some of her greatest William Holden plays a but equally role As a unemployed Hollywood script writer who tumbles into the vast mausoleum on Sunset Boulevard where the aging Star and her faithful Butler live among the memories of bygone her friends Are three members of j Calls her k co Anna Gibson i forgotten stars of the silent films what her occasionally for a game of truly outstanding scenes Are the which and miss Swanson first Over the body of a dead and the drawing room of her fabulous wind coughing through the pipes offi origin set in one where she shades him to rewrite a script prepared and in which she Hopes to As Salome the new years eve eel and the final scene in which Swanson at last confronts the von who starred in some the great film classics of All incl ing grand is an a forge figure seated at the Organ playing a toccata and his fingers encased Correct White Nancy Olsen turns in a i restrained performance As an eager you jul script Reader who wants to Asi fall in love with Holden while Wor with him during night hours stolen fron his emotional Charles bracket produced the film and Billy Wilder was the the two collaborated with i a script which never puts its Reli Ance in no in less accomplished hands the Story might easily have Belona that it does in spite of Man i a tribute to these other new films to be released this week by the Neucom motion Pic Tutt service Are a lady without an Mem romantic adventure Story starring Hedjo Lamarr As a Lovely european seeking the enter the through and Jolon Hodiak cast As an immigration inspector whose task it is to Stop the flow of illegal the Story shifts from new York to Cuba and is climaxed by a me Florida an important Western by Warners in with Randolph Ruth roman and Zachary Scott but the real hero is the old the first weapon thai was used in the West by the forces of Law and the film was made in the California where the sidewalk Fox pre sents Dana Andrews As a new York policeman who disgraces his calling but wins redemption with the Aid of Gene cast As a fashion Andrew is a cop who kills a murder suspect by Accident in the course of an the White an Rio technicolor drama of Mountain climbing in the Swiss Alps with Glenn Claude Rains and Oscar it b the Story of six people who meet in the Alps and together climb a towering their struggle against the mute blinding freezing burning and their individual tons to problems of self preservation provide an interesting miss Swanson and Demille As he seeks some Means of explaining to her that her Hopes for a return to the screen May never be that she is a forgotten name out of the past to screen fans of the Climax of the film As Swanson plays her last scene before the cameras in the presence of news photographers and gossip columnists on the stairway of her Home on Sunset the fateful new years eve where Holden brutally spurns her As the orchestra plays a Graceful tango for them and von Stroheim polishes the Champagne the stars and  
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