{"id":25943,"date":"2014-06-03T05:42:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T09:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25943"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T15:26:41","slug":"sunset-boulevard-behind-the-scenes-now-this-is-funny-according-to-her-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25943","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sunset Boulevard&#8217;&#8230;Behind The Scenes: Now this is funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Sunset Boulevard&#8217;&#8230;Behind The Scenes<\/p>\n<p>Now this is funny. According to her daughter, Gloria Swanson stayed in character for the entire duration of the film&#8230;except for one hilarious break.<\/p>\n<p>On the day she filmed the Charlie Chaplin imitation scene, Swanson arrived on the set to find everyone there wearing a Chaplin bowler hat, and was amused but stayed in character.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, they had to film the monkey funeral scene. Just before the cameras rolled, William Holden opened the box with the monkey&#8217;s body to show Swanson. The stuffed monkey had on a Chaplin bowler too. She laughed so hard and so long, it took about an hour to get her makeup repaired and back into character.<\/p>\n<p>The photo up top is the Norma Desmond house being demolished in 1957. The interior scenes were shot on Paramount&#8217;s Stage 18, but the exterior shots were done a this house at 3810 Wilshire Boulevard. It was torn down for a 22 story tower that was home to Getty Oil. At the link is the film&#8217;s most famous scene&#8230;&#8221;Alright Mr. Demille, I&#8217;m ready for my close up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Alright Mr. DeMille, I&amp;apos;m ready for my close-up&quot; - Sunset Boulevard\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zIcC8YJrevQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/683593985011487\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Sunset-Boulevard...Behind-The-Scenes-Now-this-is-funny.-According-to-her-da\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/683600825010803\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Sunset Boulevard&#8217;&#8230;Behind The Scenes Now this is funny. According to her daughter, Gloria Swanson stayed in character for the entire duration of the film&#8230;except for one hilarious break. On the day she filmed the Charlie Chaplin imitation scene, Swanson arrived on the set to find everyone there wearing a Chaplin bowler hat, and was amused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[677,683],"class_list":["post-25943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60089,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25943\/revisions\/60089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}