Paramount Restores
December 1–2, 2002
The Department of Film and Media presents Paramount
Pictures' newly restored classic features from the 1950s, Billy
Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950) and William Wyler's Roman
Holiday (1954). The department thanks Martin Blythe and Paramount
Home Entertainment for the loan of the prints.
Organized by Mary Lea Bandy, Chief Curator,
and Natalie Hirniak, Manager, Department of Film and Media.
1950. USA. Directed by Billy Wilder. Screenplay by Wilder, Charles
Brackett. With Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim.
The blackest of comedies about Hollywood's good old days, with superb
performances by legendary figures of the silent era, Swanson and
von Stroheim. 110 min.
1954. USA. Directed by William Wyler. Screenplay by John Dighton,
Ian McKellan Hunter, based on a story by Dalton Trumbo. With Audrey
Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert. A princess and a reporter fall
in love in all the best places in Rome, in Hepburn's screen debut
as Hollywood's new leading princess. 119 min.
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