Everyone knows the famous quote "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up," but what film is it from?

One of the great femme fatales of old Hollywood, Norma Desmond (played by Gloria Swanson) is a fading silent film star who becomes increasingly delusional as she clings desperately to her past. Billy Wilder's black comedy is as packed with cameos (Cecil B. DeMille, Buster Keaton, Hedda Hopper, etc.) as his script is with enduring zingers ("I am big. It's the pictures that got small," "We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!")

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