David Fantle Courtesy of Fantle Family Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment When Hollywood historian David Fantle and his friend and writing partner Tom Johnson walked into Vincente Minnelli's house in 1980, it looked to them like "silent screen siren Norma Desmond's decaying brick pile from Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard," Fantle recalled.