Norma Desmond

...Music; or Spring Awakening's fantastic young discoveries Aneurin Barnard and Charlotte Wakefield; or for Kathryn Evans, who brought Norma Desmond to life so tenderly and powerfully with her incredible vocals in Sunset Boulevard. Compare...

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...witty dialogue, and nifty special effects are all backdrop to Glenn Close's tour de force as Cruella De Vil. Her melding of Norma Desmond and the Bride of Frankenstein will delight adults while the kids are amused by the high jinks of...

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...GALLIANO For his upbeat sartorial remake of "Sunset Boulevard," Galliano recast the movie's tragic heroine -- the faded screen siren Norma Desmond -- as a tough cookie whose iron will and magpie eye allow her to prevail in the end.

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...a block by wide receiver Pat Simonds Saturday at Hamilton. Syracuse, N.Y. -- It was nearly 60 years ago in the flick, "Sunset Boulevard," that Norma Desmond, primped and primed, turned to her boss and declared, "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm...

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...hearing music inside his head and you couldn't hear it." Later in the year she appears in a postdivorce comedy, It's Complicated. The Norma Desmond role in the remake of Sunset Boulevard is still for the taking. "Ooh, yes. It would be...

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...Dunaway on her autobiography, "Looking for Gatsby," when she was stunned by Andrew Lloyd Webber's decision to cut her from stepping into the Norma Desmond role in "Sunset Boulevard" during its L.A. run. In all the backstage talks about how to...

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...for her movie. Elegantly striding toward a news camera, she utters the iconic line, "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." Norma Desmond was played on screen by Gloria Swanson. The actresses who were considered for the role of...

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...the former Spice Girl channelling the spirit - and the over-made up look - of tragic Sunset Boulevard character Norma Desmond. Ready for her close-up: Victoria Beckham wore her hair backcombed and heavy make-up ahead of her TV moment at the...

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...mortality to pop immortality to his favourite film, Sunset Boulevard. "Norma is deluded that she is still a star," he says of aging actress Norma Desmond, played by Gloria Swanson. "The pop world is full of such deluded stars who don't realise...

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She was Greta Garbo. Garbo famously enjoyed her privacy and accepted her place in cinematic history as a young beauty. She was no Norma Desmond, the demented silent-movie star clawing for a comeback in the 1950 film noir classic "Sunset...

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