DVD Features:

• Rated: Not Rated
• Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
• Video: Black & White
• Released: January 8, 2013
• Originally Released: 1950
• Label: Paramount Catalog
• Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
• Note: Disc 1:
• Commentary by Ed Sikov (author of "On Sunset Boulevard: the Life and Times of Billy Wilder")
• Disc 2:
• Sunset Boulevard: the beginning
• The noir side of Sunset Boulevard by Joseph Wambaugh
• Sunset Boulevard becomes a classic
• Two sides of Ms. Swanson
• Stories of Sunset Boulevard
• Mad about the boy: a portrait of William Holden
• Recording Sunset Boulevard
• The city of Sunset Boulevard
• Morgue prologue script pages
• Franz Waxman and the music of Sunset Boulevard
• Behind the gates: the lot
• Hollywood location map
• Paramount in the '50s - retrospective featurette
• Edith Head - the Paramount Years featurette
• Original theatrical trailer
• Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
• Audio:
• English, French, Spanish
• Subtitles - English, French, Spanish

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Production Notes:

• SUNSET BOULEVARD was an original selection to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989.
• Erich Von Stroheim, who plays Norma's butler, Max Von Mayerling, was himself a famous silent film actor and director with whom Gloria Swanson had worked. In fact, a clip of the film QUEEN KELLY is used in the film. (Norma screens it for Joe in her home). QUEEN KELLY, produced by Joseph Kennedy, was only partially finished when Swanson desperately cabled Kennedy complaining of Von Stroheim's directorial tactics and (supposed) reckless disregard for money. Von Stroheim was subsequently fired from the shoot, an event alluded to in SUNSET BOULEVARD.
• SUNSET BOULEVARD showcases some of Hollywood's biggest players as themselves, including Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, and Buster Keaton. Among the famous stars and directors of the silent era who appear in the film are Anna Q. Nilsson and H. B. Warner.
• A theatrical version of SUNSET BOULEVARD, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, premiered in London in 1993, starring Patti LuPone. Glenn Close took the role of Norma in the Los Angeles version and, in 1994, reprised it for the Broadway premiere.
• According to Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's INSIDE OSCAR, among the actors and actresses considered for the part of Joe Gillis were Montgomery Clift and Fred MacMurray; those offered the role of Norma Desmond included Mae West, Mary Pickford, and Pola Negri.