Myles' Favorite Movies
Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Blvd.)
Unrated
Norma Desmond (Gloria "ready for her closeup" Swanson) has to be one of cinema's greatest female roles. Miss Swanson chews the scenery to a pulp as the tragic, gothic heroine of this dark black comedy about the Hollywood dream gone sour. As Norma says" I am big it's the pictures that got small".
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
Unrated
Somewhat limp sequel to Baby Jane with Joan Crawford driven out by real life rival Bette Davis and replaced with Olivia De Havilland. Not surprisingly Bette hams it up chewing up the scenery with an equally hammy over the top performace from Agnes Moorehead as a couple of old southern crazies. More ham than you local butchers!Only poor old mary Astor manages an almost credible performance in this delicous nonsence.
