Gossip columnist Hedda Hopper makes a cameo appearance in the media circus at the end of this film, and Buster Keaton makes another cameo as one of the "wax works" that plays bridge. After a short car chase, the protagonist is mistaken for the undertaker of a chimpanzee; after confessing that he is only a writer, he is hired to write a film version of Salome. The protagonist of this film is confined to a (*) mansion while working, but manages to 
Gossip columnist Hedda Hopper makes a cameo appearance in the media circus at the end of this film, and Buster Keaton makes another cameo as one of the "wax works" that plays bridge. After a short car chase, the protagonist is mistaken for the undertaker of a chimpanzee; after confessing that he is only a writer, he is hired to write a film version of Salome. The protagonist of this film is confined to a (*) mansion while working, but manages to escape nightly to meet with Betty Schafer for another script. Beginning with a corpse floating upside down in a swimming pool, this work sees Joe Gillis finishes the script intended for the eccentric Norma Desmond, who uses her connections from the silent era to meet with a director. Starring William Holden as a writer who becomes the love interest of Gloria Swanson, for 10 points, name this Billy Wilder film noir that sees the delivery of the line "Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up," and at a house on a certain Los Angeles street.
Gossip columnist Hedda Hopper makes a cameo appearance in the media circus at the end of this film, and Buster Keaton makes another cameo as one of the "wax works" that plays bridge.
{Sunset Boulevard}