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‘Boulevard! A Hollywood Story’: Doc Reveals Gloria Swanson’s Star-Crossed Attempt To Make Her Own ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Musical

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When Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard premiered in 1993, it became a major hit. But few people then, or even now, are aware of a much earlier attempt to bring the classic film to the stage—by Gloria Swanson herself.Boulevard!

A Hollywood Story, directed by Jeffrey Schwarz, explores how Swanson, five years after her star turn as Norma Desmond in the 1950 Billy Wilder drama, threw herself into the adaptation project with a pair of unknowns.

Her collaborators: handsome young composer Dickson Hughes and even more handsome young lyricist Richard Stapley. “[Hughes and Stapley] were creative partners and also life partners,” Schwarz noted Tuesday night at the world premiere of his documentary at the Outfest film

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