Which 1950 film features a faded silent film star and the line 'I'm ready for my close-up'?

Sunset Boulevard is the 1950 film about faded silent-film star Norma Desmond, whose final speech includes, “I’m ready for my close-up.” Gloria Swanson plays Norma, a former screen idol living in a decaying Hollywood mansion and imagining a triumphant return to the screen. William Holden plays Joe Gillis, a struggling screenwriter drawn into her increasingly dangerous fantasy.

Billy Wilder directed and co-wrote the film with Charles Brackett and D. M. Marshman Jr. The story is both film noir and a dark satire of Hollywood’s treatment of aging performers. Its portrait of a star trapped in the past is sharpened by Swanson’s own silent-era fame, while silent-film figures Buster Keaton, H. B. Warner, and Anna Q. Nilsson appear as Norma’s “waxworks” bridge companions.

The closing line is spoken as Norma descends her staircase, mistaking newsreel cameras for a film crew. The film earned 11 Academy Award nominations, won three, and entered the National Film Registry in 1989.