FAQ

1. They are apes.

The title is shown in the opening shot as "Sunset Blvd.", stenciled on the curb of the actual street (in the gutter, if you want to consider the symbolism). It is also listed as "Sunset Blvd." on its Library of Congress registration. However, it is very common to find it listed with an unabbreviated "Boulevard", and was named as such in its original trailer.

The movie poster on this site shows "Boulevard" spelled out.

Queen Kelly (1929), which was partly directed by Erich von Stroheim. The movie was financed by Joseph P. Kennedy, who fired von Stroheim when the movie ran way over budget, exasperating both Gloria Swanson and Kennedy. Another director was hired to complete it, but von Stroheim was able to prevent its release. It was not seen by the public until after Boulevard der Dämmerung (1950) was released.

No - an office building occupies the location now. It was called the Wilshire Phantom House, located at the north corner of Wilshire and Crenshaw. It was torn down in March of 1957.

Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, and H.B. Warner.

A 1929 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A Castagna Transformable that belonged to socialite Peggy Hopkins Joyce, who got it as a gift from auto magnate Walter Chrysler. (See .)

"While it is noted by her butler and first ex-husband Max that Norma has been married three times, we never learn what became of the husbands between Max and the present. Maybe the chimp was one of them. Or, less crazily, perhaps the chimp is nothing more than a reflection of the lavish and unusual commodities of an eccentric celebrity, and in the context of the film, a symbol for the life Joe Gillis would come to lead within the walls of Normas cold mansion."