Nancy Olson celebrates ‘Sunset Boulevard’ as it turns 70
played an ambitious studio script editor.She had just turned 22 when “Sunset Boulevard” opened in 1950.The Milwaukee native moved to Hollywood to attend UCLA, where she studied theater. “Sunset Boulevard” was only her second film, after appearing in the 1949 Western “Canadian Pacific.” Olson nabbed a role in the noir as Betty Schaefer, who’s engaged to assistant director Artie Green (“Dragnet” star Jack Webb) but falls for struggling, cynical screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden).