Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast:
Episode: Emmy-winning director, Jeffrey Schwarz with BOULEVARD! A HOLLYWOOD STORY
Description: Some times life is even more fascinating than fiction. Behind the mystique of "Sunset Boulvard" is a nuanced parallel story of a fading star, her unrequited love for a stunning younger man, and the gay love story it complicated. This story is not fiction, however, it was real.
Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley were two young songwriters and romantic partners in the 1950s. They found themselves caught in movie star Gloria Swanson’s web when she hired them to write a musical version of “Sunset Boulevard" long before the Andrew Lloyd Webber version was even imagined. Life imitated art when Gloria...