While were naming films we like, I'll go with Sunset Boulevard (1950). Everytime this film airs on TCM I have to record it and watch it again. Fans of William Holden, this is one of his best. I know this film is often performed as a play, I believe Glenn Close has been doing this for years.
It's the story of a faded 20's silent screen star known as Norma Desmond, played by Gloria Swanson. She lives in a Beverly Hills mansion and William Holden, a struggling movie script writer, is chased by repo men who are after his car. He just so happens to pull into Norma Desmond's home to avoid capture. He thinks the place is abandoned at first, because it's not in immaculate condition. Soon he's spotted by the butler, the only other person living there besides Norman, and they think he's to handle the funeral for Norma's pet monkey who has just died. After he explains who he really is and Norma finds out he's a writer, she hires him to tighten up a script that she wants to make into a film. A 10 out of 10 stars!!
