Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

The strange but true story of the undiscovered Sunset Boulevard musical

Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, two young composers and romantic partners, 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.

Documentary History

Robert Osborne

(Self)

Jeffrey Schwarz

(Self)

Steve Hayes

(Self)

Skip E. Lowe

(Self (archive footage))

Derrik Lewis

(Self)

Barbara Fixx

Luke Yankee

(Self)

David Del Valle

(Self)

Mark Saltzman

(Self)

Laurie Franks

(Self)

Stephen Michael Shearer

(Self)

Cari Beauchamp

(Self)

Elizabeth Wyler

(Self)

Stephen Bock

(Self)

Steve Wilson

(Self)

Brooke Anderson

(Self)

Richard Leibell

(Self)

Richard Wuerth

(Self)

A. Chandler Warren Jr.

(Self)

Alan Eichler

(Self)

Mike Wallace

(Self (archive footage))

Steve Allen

(Self (archive footage))

Gloria Swanson

(Self (archive footage))

Dickson Hughes

(Self (archive footage))

Richard Wyler

Carol Burnett

(Self (archive footage))

Glenn Close

(Self (archive footage))

Bob Hope

(Self (archive footage))

George Takei

(Self (archive footage))

Ed Wynn

(Self (archive footage))