Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

Sunset Boulevard

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Celebrity Delusion

Speaker

Norma Desmond

Actor

Gloria Swanson

Source

Sunset Boulevard

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Sunset Boulevard. Directed by Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures, 1950.

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I like to be in America!
Ok by me in America!
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Only the tiniest fraction of mankind want freedom.
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Time
1969 1960s 20th century
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Talk or dance, but, don't do both things at the same time.

Gilda

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Gilda
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Gilda
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Gilda. Directed by Charles Vidor, Columbia Pictures, 1946.