are caught in the web of silent film star Gloria Swanson when she hires them to write a musical version of Sunset Boulevard, her 1950 film directed by Billy Wilder.

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan ...

The opening of “Sunset Boulevard” reads like a Hollywood crime ... you see in old Hollywood movies.” Soon he’s beckoned ...