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This free screening of Sunset Boulevard will follow the Live Music & Film event screening of Queen Kelly.

Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent film queen, alongside William Holden, as a struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters. Winner of three Academy Awards, director Billy Wilder's powerful orchestration of the bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. Wilder’s inspired, if not devilish, casting is a cinematic nod to the rise and fall of Hollywood’s greats including Gloria Swason, playing a fading movie diva, who at the time was herself a former silent film star in the twilight of her career. Her butler Max is Erich von Stroheim who directed the ill-fated Queen Kelly 1929 and in a scene of a card game, one of the players is none other than former silent film icon turned out of work actor Buster Keaton. From the unforgettable opening sequence – a body found floating in a decayed mansion's swimming pool – through to the inevitable unfolding of tragic destiny, Sunset Boulevard is the definitive statement on the dark and desperate side of Hollywood.

PG | Infrequent mild coarse language