A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
William Holden
Joe Gillis
Gloria Swanson
Norma Desmond
Erich von Stroheim
Max von Mayerling
Nancy Olson
Betty Schaefer
Fred Clark
Sheldrake
Lloyd Gough
Morino
Jack Webb
Artie Green
Franklyn Farnum
Undertaker
Larry J. Blake
1st Finance Man
Charles Dayton
2nd Finance Man
Cecil B. DeMille
Hedda Hopper
Buster Keaton
Anna Q. Nilsson
H.B. Warner
Ray Evans
Jay Livingston
Fred Aldrich
Cop Who Drags Joe's Body from Pool (uncredited)
Joel Allen
Prop Man #2 (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Courtier (uncredited)
Be Kind Rewind
2008
Boogie Nights
1997
Wonderland
2003
Lifeguard
1976
Joyland
2022
Ashes and Diamonds
1958
Aurélien
The Inquisitor
1981
The Day of the Locust
1975
Bicycle Thieves
1948
L'Avventura
1960
Control
2007
Vixen!
1968
L'Âge d'or
1930
The Send-Off
Circuit
2001
Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959
Companions
2023
Pather Panchali
1955
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
1971