Robertson), and ended up with three Oscars - Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay (by Waldo Salt from James Leo Herlihy""s 1965 novel).She also appeared briefly in the final scene, with a few more lines.BackgroundSunset Boulevard(1950) is a classic black comedy/drama, and perhaps he most acclaimed, but darkestfilm-noirstory about "behind he scenes" Hollywood, self-deceit, spiritual and spatial emptiness, and the price of fame, greed, narcissism, and ambition." Bannion is reprimanded for his "bad judgment" in bothering Bertha Duncan ("a cop""s widow") with sensitive questions, especially during his second visit, about he love life of her husband.I""ll straighten him out").Michael asked the level-headed Charlie why he provided protection and cover for Johnny Boy: "I don""t understand why you hang around with a punk kid.It""s more fantastic and grotesque than any shocker ever written."It was unofficially remade twice in two modern retellings -She Freak (1967)andFreakshow (2007).Other horror films that picked up the idea of using real-life deformed or mutated characters (without Browning""s pathos) included director Jack Cardiff""sThe Mutations (1974)and director Michael Winner""sThe Sentinel (1977).