Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.This weekend here at Screen Gems, we thought we’d offer something a little different.
Back in 1950, two actresses gave two of the Greatest Performances in History and ended up competing against each other for the Academy Award.
We suggest it’s time to revisit their two respective films, and again face the question: who did it better?Sunset Blvd. lands on every list of the Greatest of All Movies, and for good reason–it doesn’t get much better.
The story follows a starving writer, Joe (William Holden). Pursued by bill collectors, he ends up in the driveway of former silent film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), a.