Les Amoureux du cinéma (TV Movie 1987)
excerpts"Histoire(s) du cinéma" Fatale beauté (TV Episode 1994)
"American Cinema" Film Noir (TV Episode 1995)
Clips shownMrs. Harris (TV Movie 2005)
In the opening credits
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era (TV Movie 1962)
Clip shown."Les dossiers de l'écran" Boulevard du crépuscule (TV Episode 1969)
complete film shown"V.I.P.-Schaukel" Episode #3.3 (TV Episode 1973)
Scenes from the movie are shown here."The Carol Burnett Show" Gloria Swanson (TV Episode 1973)
A clip from this film was shown during the opening segment.Casual Relations (1974)
Susan watches on TV, dialogue audible
Queen Kelly (1929)
The movie that Joe and Norma watch in the private screening room is this movie, which had not yet been released. It was directed by Erich von Stroheim, who plays the butler.
"The Ed Wynn Show" Charles Laughton, Beverly Tyler (TV Episode 1950)
Gloria Swanson is promoting the film"The Milton Berle Show" Episode #5.15 (TV Episode 1953)
Milton Berle briefly mentions this film while making a joke in response to Gertrude Berg's character jokingly comparing herself to Gloria SwansonSenso (1954)
A lonely older woman's destructive relationship with a younger gigolo."You Bet Your Life" Episode #6.13 (TV Episode 1955)
Answer to quiz question."The Mike Wallace Interview" Gloria Swanson (TV Episode 1957)
Mike Wallace discusses the film with Gloria Swanson.
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Max references D. W. Griffith, director who invented the close-up. This movie contains a famous quote about a close-up.Zaza (1923)
H.B. Warner has a cameo as one of Norma Desmond's "Waxworks".Waxworks (1924)
A likely inspiration for the Waxworks.The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Norma Desmond's bedroom is designed after the room the Phantom has prepared for Chriatine Daaé, and the elaborately carved, fairytale boat-shaped beds are identical.Stage Struck (1925)
Gloria Swanson earlier impersonated Charlie Chaplin in this film and her character also dreams of playing Salome.
"Lux Video Theatre" Sunset Boulevard (TV Episode 1955)
Einer frisst den anderen (1964)
Like the earlier film, the old lady and the derelict isolated house,and the butler who was her lover and still cares and protects her from strangers, are main characters in the drama."Dragnet 1967" The Bank Examiner Swindle (TV Episode 1967)
Episode features an old "has-been" actress who plans to return to pictures. She is introduced at the top of a staircase being photographed by the press, just like Gloria Swanson's character, and she seems obsessed with being well-known again. Also, Jack Webb was in both."The Carol Burnett Show" Steve Lawrence and Dick Martin (TV Episode 1971)
Parodied as "Sunnyset Boulevard".Heat (1972)
"The Carol Burnett Show" Pearl Bailey and Tim Conway (TV Episode 1972)
Parodied in the Nora Desmond sketch.