Daily Dialogue — March 16, 2019

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

— Sunset Blvd. (1950), written by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder & D.M. Marshman Jr.

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Hollywood Insiders.

Trivia: One of only 13 films to be nominated for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Director. For the record, the other 12 films to achieve a similar feat are Mrs. Miniver (1942), Johnny Belinda (1948), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), Network (1976), Coming Home (1978), Reds (1981), Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and American Hustle (2013).

Dialogue On Dialogue: Norma Desmond, played brilliantly by Gloria Swanson, suffers from having been a Hollywood insider. Losing that status has driven her mad.