Sunset Boulevard (1950)
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A failing screenwriter becomes the kept man of a forgotten silent-film star in her decaying Sunset Boulevard mansion. (Wikipedia) Billy Wilder directed and co-wrote it with Charles Brackett, who produced; William Holden stars as Joe Gillis with Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, Erich von Stroheim as Max, Nancy Olson as Betty Schaefer, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough and Jack Webb. Paramount Pictures released it August 10, 1950.
Watches
- Unidentified watch
- Worn by William Holden as Joe Gillis. Among the clothes Norma buys Joe is a dress watch with a minimalist rectangular case and a squared white dial with non-numeric hour indices, on a silver-toned double-wired bracelet of the "cordette" type with two tapered prongs at each end, worn on his left wrist. He wears it with white tie at Norma's New Year's Eve party for two, reading "quarter past ten" from it during their tango. BAMF Style notes that publicity photographs show Holden in the same watch more than a decade later and takes it for his own, and reports WatchUSeek discussion proposing a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso or a Cartier Tank; no frame confirms either, so the watch stays unidentified. (BAMF Style)
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