Sentence examples for faded silent from inspiring English sources

More than 20 years after first playing the faded silent screen star Norma Desmond, Glenn Close is ready for another close-up.

She gives an iconic performance as faded silent screen star Norma Desmond, who hires a struggling young writer (Holden) to help work on her comeback vehicle.

Sunset Boulevard, the Andrew Lloyd Webber megamusical based on the groundbreaking 1950 Billy Wilder film about a faded silent film star, Norma Desmond, who latches onto a struggling screenwriter to make her ill-fated return to the screen, was my ultimate fanboy show.

As Joe Gillis, the jaded screenwriter so desperate for a job that he becomes the gigolo of a faded silent-film star, Holden found his niche and turned in a strong performance as the cynical leading man.

William Holden's character, a struggling young screenwriter, narrates the story, but Norma Desmond Gloria Swansonn), the faded silent-film actress, is the center of the universe in this scorching classic drama.

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950) is a classic instance: a dark comedy in which a failed screenwriter (William Holden) attempts to gain fame on the back of a faded silent-movie star (Gloria Swanson): she ends up mad, he, shot and drowned.

"I just want to play Norma Desmond," she concedes, referring to Sunset Boulevard's faded silent-movie star, played by Gloria Swanson in the 1950 Billy Wilder noir classic.

But she made one of Hollywood's most spectacular comebacks in 1949 as Norma Desmond, the faded, deranged silent star turned murderess in "Sunset Boulevard".

The trio shared the role of the canine companion to Jean Dujardin's fading silent film star in The Artist.

The trauma faded, Baby Marie grew up, silent movies became talkies in the late '20s, and in 1931 Ms. Osborne married Frank Dempsey.

But the marathon swimmer, vaudeville performer and silent movie star faded from view and nowadays she has been all but forgotten, even in her own country.