star  Gloria Swanson (qv). Two years later, additional footage was shot  to complete the picture. Since Erich von Stroheim (qv) owned part  of the property, he refused to grant releasing rights in the U.S.  and elsewhere for this bastardized version. It was not exhibited in  the U.S. until after _Sunset Blvd. (1950)_ (qv), when it received  minor theatrical release and a showing on television in 1966.