Norma Desmond

Norma Desmond is a fictional character from Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett's 1950 screenplay Sunset Boulevard and its 1993 stage musical adaptation by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black, and Christopher Hampton. Desmond is a star of 1920s silent films, who was unable to modify her acting style for the 1930s "talkies". In 1950, her attempt to return to the screen sets off a tragic chain of events including betrayal, madness, and murder.

Norma Desmond in "The Great White Way"
Norma Desmond was a Webberite champion in the Sondheim-Webber battle. She managed to lure the Sondhead champion Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm into an ambush and kill him. The Sondhead commander Trina Hutchinson then set a clever trap for Desmond, by having Pseudolus prepare her a drink in Marcus Lycus' dining room. Rather than poison, as Webberite commander Brent Birley expected, the glass contained a powerful love potion. Desmond and Pseudolus retired from the fighting, traveling off to find a suitable place to consummate their newfound obsession. The computer simulation was not equipped to depict this, so the two lovebirds simply disappeared from the action and were not seen again.