[00:01.150] NORMA
[00:01.985] Joe! Joe!
[01:15.657] JOE
[01:16.695] Come on in.
[01:17.855] BETTY
[01:18.238] What's going on, Joe?
[01:20.541] Why am I so scared?
[01:24.001] What was that woman saying?
[01:28.900] She sounded so weird
[01:33.161] I don't understand...
[01:35.877] Please, can you tell me what's happening?
[01:40.602] You said you loved me tonight
[01:44.956] Shall I just go?
[01:47.719] Say something, Joe
[01:49.379] JOE
[01:49.576] Have some pink champage and caviar
[01:51.480] When you go visit with a star
[01:53.163] The hospitality is stellar
[01:55.277] BETTY
[01:55.463] So this is where you're living?
[01:56.914] JOE
[01:57.157] Yes, it's quite a place, sleeps seventeen
[01:59.177] Eight sunken tubs, a movie screen
[02:00.954] A bowling alley in the cellar
[02:02.962] BETTY
[02:03.136] I didn't come to see a house, Joe
[02:04.553] JOE
[02:04.797] Sunset Boulevard
[02:06.898] Cruise the Boulevard
[02:08.976] Win yourself a Hollywood palazzo
[02:12.459] Sunset Boulevard
[02:14.861] Mythic Boulevard
[02:16.975] Valentino danced on that terrazzo
[02:20.040] BETTY
[02:20.260] Who's it belong to?
[02:20.817] JOE
[02:20.934] Just look around you
[02:21.735] BETTY
[02:21.897] That's Norma Desmond.
[02:22.838] JOE
[02:23.975] That's Norma Desmond
[02:24.974] That's Norma Desmond
[02:26.053] That's Norma Desmond
[02:27.133] That's Norma Desmond
[02:27.842] BETTY
[02:28.061] Why did she call me?
[02:28.920] JOE
[02:29.072] Give you three guesses
[02:30.418] It's the oldest story in the book
[02:32.497] Come see the taker being took
[02:34.679] The world is full of Joes and Normas
[02:38.034] Older woman, very well-to-do
[02:40.739] Meets younger man, the standard cue
[02:42.875] For two mechanical performers
[02:45.338] BETTY
[02:45.476] Just pack your things and let's go.
[02:46.393] JOE
[02:46.556] You mean all my things?
[02:48.111] Have you gone mad?
[02:49.295] Leave all these things I've never had?
[02:51.014] Leave this luxurious existence?
[02:54.438] You want me to face that one-room hell
[02:56.760] That murphy bed, that rancid smell
[02:59.095] Go back to living on subsistence?
[03:01.810] It's no time to begin a new life
[03:04.074] Now I've finally made a perfect landing
[03:07.812] I'm afraid there's no room for a wife
[03:10.377] Not unless she's uniquely understanding
[03:13.489] you should go back to Artie and marry the fool
[03:16.194] And you'll always be welcome to swim in my pool
[03:20.679] BETTY
[03:21.480] I can't look at you any more, Joe.
[04:20.760] NORMA
[04:22.455] Thank you,
[04:27.412] Thank you, Joe,
[04:31.111] Thank you...
[04:45.602] Thank you.
[05:03.705] What are you doing, Joe?
[05:09.428] You're not leaving me?
[05:15.744] JOE
[05:15.941] Yes, I am, Norma.
[05:17.300] NORMA
[05:17.508] You can't! Max!
[05:21.258] JOE
[05:21.444] It's been a bundle of laughs
[05:24.161] And thanks for the use of the trinkets
[05:27.679] A little ritzy for the copy desk back in Dayton
[05:34.319] And there's something you ought to know
[05:38.279] I want to do you this favour
[05:42.863] They'll never shoot that hopeless script of yours
[05:47.565] They only wanted your car
[05:51.919] NORMA
[05:52.105] That's a lie! They still want me!
[05:55.181] What about all my fan-mail?
[05:56.957] JOE
[05:57.259] It's Max who writes you letters
[06:01.798] Your audience has vanished
[06:05.258] They left when you weren't looking
[06:08.567] Nothing's wrong with being fifty
[06:12.583] Unless you're acting twenty
[06:20.679] NORMA
[06:22.165] I am the greatest star of them all.
[06:39.850] JOE
[06:40.944] Goodbye, Norma.
[06:42.964] NORMA
[06:43.662] No one ever leaves a star
[07:18.691] REPORTER
[07:19.794] And as dawn breaks over the murder house, Norma Desmond, famed star of yesteryear,
[07:26.911] is in a state of complete mental shock.
[07:31.210] NORMA
[07:32.288] This was dawn...
[07:37.339] I don't know why I'm frightened...
[07:41.182] Silent music starts to play!
[07:46.639] Happy New Year, Darling...
[07:50.387] If you're with me, next year will be,
[07:55.646] Next year will be...
[07:57.945] They bring in his head on a silver tray!
[08:03.077] She kisses his mouth!
[08:05.734] She kisses his mouth!
[08:10.521] ...Mad about the boy...
[08:16.372] They'll say Norma's back at last!
[08:21.840] MAX
[08:22.177] Madame, the cameras have arrived.
[08:26.720] NORMA
[08:27.625] Max! Where am I?
[08:32.736] MAX
[08:34.881] This is the staircase of the palace. And they're waiting for your dance.
[08:46.888] NORMA
[08:48.433] Of course. Now I remember. I was so frightened I might fall...
[09:02.572] MAX
[09:02.828] You are the greatest star of all!
[09:13.833] Lights! Cameras! Action!
[09:23.330] NORMA
[09:25.327] When he scorned me I
[09:30.424] Knew he'd have to die
[09:34.963] Let me kiss his severed head
[09:44.970] Compromise or death
[09:48.825] He fought to his last death
[09:53.202] He never had in him to surrender
[10:03.766] Just like me, he never could
[10:10.074] Surrender
[10:50.684] NORMA
[10:51.508] I can't go on with the scene! I'm too happy!
[11:02.479] May I say a few words, Mister DeMille?
[11:07.006] I can't tell you how wonderful it is to back in this studio making a picture.
[11:16.944] I promise you - I will never desert you again. This is my life.
[11:22.982] It always will be. There's nothing else. Just us. And the cameras.
[11:31.317] And all you wonderful people, out there in the dark.
[11:42.195] And now, Mister DeMille, I am ready for my close-up
[12:08.596] NORMA
[12:10.314] This time I'm staying
[12:12.509] I'm staying for good
[12:14.227] I'll be back where I was born to be
[12:20.635] With one look I'll be me