[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 d**h
[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