Sunset Boulevard

Cecil B. DeMille as Cecil B. DeMille Buster Keaton as Buster Keaton Archie Twitchell as Salesman at Men's Shop (uncredited) Franklyn Farnum as Undertaker H.B. Warner as H.B. Warner Ruth Clifford as Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited) Eddie Dew as Assistant Coroner (uncredited) Nancy Olson as Betty Schaefer Jack Webb as Artie Green Larry J. Blake as 1st Finance Man Hedda Hopper as Hedda Hopper Fred Clark as Sheldrake Frank O'Connor as Courtier (uncredited) Jack Warden as Party Guest (uncredited) Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond Fred Aldrich as Cop Who Drags Joe's Body from Pool (uncredited) John 'Skins' Miller as Hog-Eye Electrician (uncredited) Gerry Ganzer as Betty's Roommate Connie (uncredited) Creighton Hale as Creighton Hale (uncredited) Harold Miller as Man on Golf Course (uncredited) William Holden as Joe Gillis Erich von Stroheim as Max von Mayerling Lloyd Gough as Morino Jack Perrin as Detective (uncredited) Anne Bauchens as Editor (uncredited) Julia Faye as Hisham (uncredited) Anna Q. Nilsson as Anna Q. Nilsson Gertrude Messinger as Hairdresser (uncredited) Lee Miller as Dancing Party Guest / Paramount Studio Employee (uncredited) Jay Morley as Fat Man (uncredited) Henry Wilcoxon as Actor on DeMille's 'Samson & Delilah' Set (uncredited) Robert Emmett O'Connor as Older Paramount Gate Guard Jonesy (uncredited) Yvette Vickers as Giggling Girl on Phone at Party (uncredited) Gertrude Astor as Courtier (uncredited) Al Ferguson as Phone Standby (uncredited) Howard Negley as Police Captain (uncredited) Eva Novak as Courtier (uncredited)

Sam Comer Set Decoration Wally Westmore Makeup Supervisor Gerd Oswald Second Assistant Director Franz Waxman Original Music Composer John F. Seitz Director of Photography Sidney Cutner Orchestrator Edith Head Costume Design Billy Wilder Director, Screenplay Charles Brackett Screenplay, Producer