The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.