gloriaswanson &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:gloriaswanson @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:32:24 +0200 Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/sunset-blvd <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="occasion" Short Girl Appreciation Day/div div class="img" Sunset Blvd. (1950)/div div class="caption" Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) descending an ornate staircase. The size of the set gives you an approximate idea of her height. Even when several steps above him, Swanson's dwarfed by the photographer in the dark suit and glasses. DP: John F. Seitz./div div class="txt" The main character is a "short girl" I do not agree with the infantilizing wording] on [Short Girl Appreciation Day (USA) &nbsp; The great Gloria Swanson (4'11" – 5ft 2 / 1,49 m) – fabulously decked out by Edith Head (5'1" / 1,55 m) with an endless parade of platform shoes – in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. (1950).\ "I am big. It's the pictures that got small." ### – Norma Desmond\ Also starring, Buster Keaton, who was 5'5" / 1,65 m./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #ShortGirlAppreciationDay #BillyWilder #GloriaSwanson #BusterKeaton #WilliamHolden #ErichVonStroheim #JackWebb #FranzWaxman #JohnFSeitz #drama #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)

Dec

21

Short Girl Appreciation Day

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) descending an ornate staircase. The size of the set gives you an approximate idea of her height. Even when several steps above him, Swanson's dwarfed by the photographer in the dark suit and glasses. DP: John F. Seitz.

The main character is a “short girl” [I do not agree with the infantilizing wording] on Short Girl Appreciation Day (USA)

 

The great Gloria Swanson (4'11” – 5ft 2 / 1,49 m) – fabulously decked out by Edith Head (5'1” / 1,55 m) with an endless parade of platform shoes – in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. (1950).

“I am big. It's the pictures that got small.”

– Norma Desmond

Also starring, Buster Keaton, who was 5'5” / 1,65 m.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #ShortGirlAppreciationDay #BillyWilder #GloriaSwanson #BusterKeaton #WilliamHolden #ErichVonStroheim #JackWebb #FranzWaxman #JohnFSeitz #drama #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

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