Sunset Boulevard

Screenwriter Joe (William Holden), now dependent on faded star Norma (Gloria Swanson), realizes that she's planned the New Year's Eve party for just two, in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd., 1950.

The first appearance of Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), instructing screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden), who's there because he had a blowout while fleeing repo-men, on her chimp's funeral, having presumed he's the undertaker she called, from Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd., 1950.

Desperate screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) visits Paramount (where this picture was made) and executive Sheldrake (Fred Clark), his pitch shot down by Miss Schaefer (Nancy Olson), early in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd., 1950.

Hard-up screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden), now resigned to residing with ex-movie star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) while he re-writes her comeback picture, offers details of his life with her, in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd., 1950.

Starting, as has been noted, in the gutter, the opening credits and the first part of William Holden (as "Joe Gillis") narrating his own homicide, from Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd., 1950.