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Gloria Mae Josephine Swanson<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> (March 27, 1899Template:SpndApril 4, 1983) was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which earned her a Golden Globe Award.
Swanson was born in Chicago and raised in a military family that moved from base to base. Her infatuation with Essanay Studios actor Francis X. Bushman led to her aunt taking her to tour the actor's Chicago studio. The 15-year-old Swanson was offered a brief walk-on for one film and eventually a stock-players contract, beginning her life's career in front of the cameras. Swanson left school, and was soon hired to work in California for Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios comedy shorts opposite Bobby Vernon.
She was eventually recruited by Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount Pictures, where she was put under contract for seven years and became a global superstar. She starred in a series of films about society, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, including Male and Female (1919). She continued as a successful movie star in The Affairs of Anatol (1921) and Beyond the Rocks (1922). She also starred in critically acclaimed performances such as Zaza (1923) and Madame Sans-Gêne (1925).
In 1925, Swanson joined United Artists as one of the film industry's pioneering women filmmakers. She produced and starred in the 1928 film Sadie Thompson, earning a nomination for Best Actress at the first annual Academy Awards. Her sound film debut performance in 1929's The Trespasser earned her a second Academy Award nomination. Queen Kelly (1928–29) was a box-office disaster, but is remembered as a silent classic. After almost two decades in front of the cameras, her film success waned during the 1930s. Swanson received renewed praise for her return to the screen in her role as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard (1950). She made only three more films, but guest-starred on several television shows, and acted in road productions of stage plays.
Early lifeEdit
Swanson was born in a small house in Chicago in 1899, the only child of Adelaide (née Klanowski) and Joseph Theodore Swanson (né Svensson), a soldier.Template:Sfn She was raised in the Lutheran faith. Her father was a Swedish American and her mother was of German, French, and Polish ancestry.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Because of her father's attachment to the U.S. Army, the family moved frequently. She spent some of her childhood in Key West, Florida, where she was enrolled in a Catholic convent school,Template:Sfn and in Puerto Rico, where she saw her first motion pictures.Template:Sfn
CareerEdit
1914–1918: Essanay/Keystone/TriangleEdit
Her family once again residing in Chicago, the adolescent Gloria developed a crush on actor Francis X. Bushman and knew he was employed by Essanay Studios in the city. Swanson later recalled that her Aunt Inga brought her at the age of 15 to visit Bushman's studio, where she was discovered by a tour guide. Other accounts have the star-struck Swanson herself talking her way into the business. In either version, she was soon hired as an extra.Template:Sfn
The movie industry was still in its infancy, churning out short subjects, without the advantage of today's casting agencies and talent agents promoting their latest find. A willing extra was often a valuable asset. Her first role was a brief walk-on with actress Gerda Holmes, that paid an enormous (in those days) $3.25.Template:Sfn The studio soon offered her steady work at $13.25 (Template:Inflation) per week.Template:SfnTemplate:Inflation-fn Swanson left school to work full-time at the studio.Template:Sfn In 1915, she co-starred in Sweedie Goes to College with her future first husband Wallace Beery.Template:Sfn
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Swanson's mother accompanied her to California in 1916 for her roles in Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios comedy shorts opposite Bobby Vernon and directed by Clarence G. Badger. They were met at the train station by Beery, who was pursuing his own career ambitions at Keystone.Template:Sfn Vernon and Swanson projected a great screen chemistry that proved popular with audiences. Director Charley Chase recalled that Swanson was "frightened to death" of Vernon's dangerous stunts.Template:Sfn Surviving movies in which they appear together include The Danger Girl (1916), The Sultan's Wife (1917), and Teddy at the Throttle (1917).Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Badger was sufficiently impressed by Swanson to recommend her to the director Jack Conway for Her Decision and You Can't Believe Everything in 1918.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Triangle had never put Swanson under contract, but did increase her pay to $15 a week. When she was approached by Famous Players–Lasky to work for Cecil B. DeMille, the resulting legal dispute obligated her to Triangle for several more months. Soon afterward, Triangle was in a financial bind and loaned Swanson to DeMille for the comedy Don't Change Your Husband.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
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1919–1926: Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount PicturesEdit
At the behest of DeMille, Swanson signed a contract with Famous Players–Lasky on December 30, 1918, for $150 a week, to be raised to $200 a week, and eventually $350 a week.Template:Sfn Her first picture under her new contract was DeMille's World War I romantic drama For Better, for Worse.Template:Sfn She made six pictures under the direction of DeMille,Template:Sfn including Male and FemaleTemplate:Sfn (1919), in which she posed with a lion as "Lion's Bride".Template:Sfn While she and her father were dining out one evening, the man who would become her second husband, Equity Pictures president Herbert K. Somborn, introduced himself, by inviting her to meet one of her personal idols, actress Clara Kimball Young.Template:Sfn
Why Change Your Wife?, Something to Think About (both 1920), and The Affairs of Anatol (1921) soon followed.Template:Sfn She next appeared in 10 films directed by Sam Wood,Template:Sfn starting with The Great Moment (1921) and including Beyond the Rocks in 1922 with her longtime friend Rudolph Valentino.Template:Sfn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Valentino had become a star in 1921 for his appearance in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but Swanson had known him since his days as an aspiring actor getting small parts, with no apparent hope for his professional future. She was impressed by his shy, well-mannered personality, the complete opposite of what his public image would become.Template:Sfn
After her films with Wood, she appeared in Zaza (1923) directed by Allan Dwan. During her time at Famous Players–Lasky, seven more of her films were directed by Dwan.Template:Sfn
In 1925, Swanson starred in the French-American comedy Madame Sans-Gêne, directed by Léonce Perret.Template:Sfn Filming was allowed for the first time at many of the historic sites relating to Napoleon. While it was well received at the time, no prints are known to exist and it is considered to be a lost film.Template:Sfn Swanson appeared in a 1925 short produced by Lee de Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process.Template:Sfn She made a number of films for Paramount, including The Coast of Folly (1925), Stage Struck (1925) and The Untamed Lady (1926).Template:Sfn Before she could produce films with United Artists, she completed Fine Manners with Paramount and turned down an offer to make The King of Kings with DeMille.Template:Sfn
1925–1933: United ArtistsEdit
She turned down a one-million-dollar-a-year (Template:Inflation)Template:Inflation-fn contract with Paramount in favor of joining the newly created United Artists partnership on June 25, 1925, accepting a six-picture distribution offer from president Joseph Schenck.Template:Sfn At the time, Swanson was considered the most bankable star of her era.Template:Sfn United Artists had its own Art Cinema Corporation subsidiary to advance financial loans for the productions of individual partners.Template:Sfn The partnership agreement included her commitment to a buy-in of $100,000 of preferred stock subscription.Template:Sfn
Swanson Producing CorporationEdit
The Swanson Producing Corporation was set up as the umbrella organization for her agreement with United Artists.Template:Sfn Under that name, she produced The Love of Sunya with herself in the title role.Template:Sfn The film, co-starring John Boles, was directed by Albert Parker, based on the play The Eyes of Youth by Max Marcin and Charles Guernon.Template:Sfn The production was a disaster, with Parker being indecisive and the actors not experienced enough to deliver the performances he wanted. The film fell behind in its schedule and, by the time of its release, the end product had not lived up to Swanson's expectations.Template:Sfn While it did not lose money, it was a financial wash, breaking even on the production costs.Template:Sfn
Gloria Swanson ProductionsEdit
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} She engaged the services of director Raoul Walsh in 1927 and together they conceived of making a film based on W. Somerset Maugham's short story "Miss Thompson".Template:Sfn Gloria Swanson Productions proposed to film the controversial Sadie Thompson about the travails of a prostitute living in American Samoa, a project that initially pleased United Artists president Joseph Schenck.Template:Sfn As she moved forward with the project, association members urged Schenck to halt the production due to its subject matter. The members took further steps by registering their discontent with Will H. Hays, Chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America.Template:Sfn Walsh previously had his own battles with the Hays office, having managed to skirt around censorship issues with What Price Glory?Template:Sfn By bringing him to the table, literally over breakfast in her home, Hays and Swanson developed a working relationship for the film.Template:Sfn Hays was enthusiastic about the basic story, but did have specific issues that were dealt with before the film's release.Template:Sfn The project was filmed on Santa Catalina Island, just off the coast of Long Beach, California.Template:Sfn Gross receipts slightly exceeded $850,000 (Template:Inflation).Template:Inflation-fnTemplate:Sfn At the first annual Academy Awards, Swanson received a nomination for Best Actress for her performance, and the film's cinematographer George Barnes was also nominated.<ref name=Oscars>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Gloria ProductionsEdit
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By the end of 1927, Swanson was in dire financial straits, with only $65 in the bank.Template:Sfn Her two productions had generated income, but too slowly to offset her production loan debts to Art Cinema Corporation.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Swanson had also not made good on her $100,000 subscription for preferred United Artists shared stock.Template:Sfn She had received financial proposals from United Artists studio head Joseph Schenck, as well as from Bank of America, prior to engaging the services of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. as her financial advisor.Template:Sfn He proposed to personally bankroll her next picture and conducted a thorough examination of her financial records.Template:Sfn Kennedy advised her to shut down Swanson Producing Corporation. She agreed to his plan for a fresh start under the dummy corporate name of Gloria Productions, headquartered in Delaware.Template:Sfn Upon his advice, she fired most of her staff and sold her rights for The Love of Sunya and Sadie Thompson to Art Cinema Corporation.Template:Sfn Kennedy then created the position of "European director of Pathé" to put her third husband Henry de La Falaise on the payroll.Template:Sfn
Sound films were already becoming popular with audiences, most notably the films of singer Al Jolson, who had success with The Jazz Singer released in 1927 and The Singing Fool in 1928.Template:Sfn Kennedy, however, advised her to hire Erich von Stroheim to direct another silent film, The Swamp, subsequently retitled Queen Kelly. She was hesitant to hire Stroheim, who was known for being difficult to deal with and who was unwilling to work within any budget. Kennedy, nevertheless, was insistent and was able to get Stroheim released from contractual obligations to producer Pat Powers.Template:Sfn Stroheim worked for several months on writing the basic script.Template:Sfn Filming of Queen Kelly began in November.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His filming was slow, albeit meticulous, and the cast and crew suffered from long hours. Shooting was shut down in January, and Stroheim fired, after complaints by Swanson about him and about the general direction the film was taking.Template:Sfn Swanson and Kennedy tried to salvage it with an alternative ending shot on November 24, 1931, directed by Swanson and photographed by Gregg Toland.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Only two other films were made under Gloria Productions.Template:Sfn The Trespasser in 1929 was a sound production, and garnered Swanson her second Oscar nomination.<ref name=1931Oscars>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Written by Edmund Goulding, with Laura Hope Crews fine-tuning the dialogue, Kennedy approved funding for the go-ahead on the production.Template:Sfn The film was a melodrama, complete with musical numbers sung by Swanson and completed in 21 days.Template:Sfn The world premiere was held in London, the first American sound production to do so. Swanson was mobbed by adoring fans. Before leaving London, she sang at a concert carried over the BBC.Template:Sfn What a Widow! in 1930 was the final film for Gloria Productions.Template:Sfn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
United Artists stars on the radioEdit
Mary Pickford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks hosted the March 29, 1928, episode of the Dodge Hour radio program, originating from Pickford's private bungalow at United Artists, and broadcast to audiences in American movie theaters. The brainchild of Joseph Schenck, it was a promotional come-on to attract audiences into movie theaters to hear the voices of their favorite actors, as sound productions became the future of commercial films.Template:Sfn On hand were Swanson, Charlie Chaplin, Norma Talmadge, John Barrymore, Dolores del Río, and D. W. Griffith.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Gloria Swanson British Productions Ltd.Edit
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Before she began filming Perfect Understanding as Gloria Swanson British Productions Ltd., she finished a two-film package production for Art Cinema, which included Indiscreet and Tonight or Never (1931).Template:Sfn Perfect Understanding, a 1933 sound production comedy, was the only film produced by this company.Template:Sfn Made entirely at Ealing Studios, it co-starred Laurence Olivier as Swanson's on-screen husband.Template:Sfn United Artists bought back all of her stock with them, in order to provide her financing to make this film, and thereby ending her relationship with the partnership.Template:Sfn The film was panned by the critics upon its release and failed at the box office.Template:Sfn
1938–1950: Creating new pathsEdit
When she made the transition to sound films as her career simultaneously began to decline, Swanson moved permanently to New York City in 1938.Template:Sfn Swanson starred in Father Takes a Wife for RKO in 1941.Template:Sfn She began appearing in stage productions and starred in The Gloria Swanson Hour on WPIX-TV in 1948.Template:Sfn Swanson threw herself into painting and sculpting and, in 1954, published Gloria Swanson's Diary, a general newsletter.Template:Sfn She toured in summer stock, engaged in political activism, designed and marketed clothing and accessories, and made personal appearances on radio and in movie theaters.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
1950–1977: Later careerEdit
Sunset BoulevardEdit
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Template:Box quoteThe film Sunset Boulevard was conceived by director Billy Wilder and screenwriter Charles Brackett, and came to include writer D. M. Marshman Jr.Template:Sfn They bandied about the name of Mae West, whose public persona even in her senior years was as a sex symbol, but she objected to playing a has-been.Template:Sfn Mary Pickford was also considered for the lead role of Norma Desmond.Template:Sfn It was director George Cukor who suggested Swanson, noting that she was once such a valuable asset to her studio that she was "carried in a sedan chair from her dressing room to the set".Template:Sfn
The storyline of the film follows a faded silent movie actress Norma Desmond (Swanson), in love with a failed screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden).Template:Sfn She lives at the mansion with her former-husband-director-turned-butler Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim), who personally disliked the role and only agreed to it out of financial need.Template:Sfn A clip from Queen Kelly was used for the scene where Joe and Norma are watching one of her silent films, and she declares, "... we didn't need dialogue, we had faces".Template:Sfn Norma plays a card game of bridge with a group of actors also known as "the Waxworks". They included Buster Keaton, H.B. Warner and Anna Q. Nilsson.Template:Sfn During the scene leading up to Cecil B. DeMille's cameo, where Max chauffeurs Joe and Norma to the studio, her Isotta Fraschini luxury automobile was towed from behind the camera, because Stroheim had never learned how to drive.Template:Sfn Norma's dreams of a comeback are subverted, and when Gillis tries to break up with her, she threatens to kill herself, but instead kills him. She becomes delusional by the time the police and news media arrive. Max sets up the studio lighting towards her on the staircase and directs her down towards the waiting police and news cameras,Template:Sfn where she says, "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Although Swanson had objected to enduring a screen test for the film, she had been glad to be making much more money than she had been in television and on stage.Template:Sfn She found the overall experience of making the movie a pleasure, and later stated, "I hated to have the picture end ... When Mr. Wilder called ‘Print it!’ I burst into tears...”Template:Sfn She was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award, but lost to Judy Holliday.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Final filmsEdit
Swanson received several acting offers following the release of Sunset Boulevard, but turned most of them down, saying they tended to be pale imitations of Norma Desmond.Template:Sfn Her last major Hollywood motion picture role was also her first color film, the poorly received 3 for Bedroom C in 1952.Template:Sfn Nationally syndicated columnist Suzy called it "one of the worst movies ever made."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1956, Swanson made Nero's Mistress, an Italian film shot in Rome, which starred Alberto Sordi, Vittorio de Sica and Brigitte Bardot.Template:Sfn Her final screen appearance, in 1974, was as herself in Airport 1975.Template:Sfn
Television and theatreEdit
Swanson hosted The Gloria Swanson Hour, one of the first live television series in 1948 in which she invited friends and others to be guests.Template:Sfn Swanson later hosted Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson, a television anthology series in which she occasionally acted.Template:Sfn
Through the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, Swanson appeared on many different talk and variety shows such as The Carol Burnett Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to recollect her movies and to lampoon them as well.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On The Carol Burnett Show in 1973, Swanson reprised her impersonation of Charlie Chaplin from both Sunset Boulevard and Manhandled.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She was the "mystery guest" on What's My Line.Template:Sfn She acted in "Behind the Locked Door" on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in 1964 and, in the same year, she was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her performance in Burke's Law.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn She made a guest appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1970; a guest on the same show as Janis Joplin.Template:Sfn She made a notable appearance in a 1966 episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, in which she plays herself.Template:Sfn In the episode, the Clampetts mistakenly believe Swanson is destitute and decide to finance a comeback movie for her – in a silent film.Template:Sfn
After near-retirement from movies, Swanson appeared in many plays throughout her later life, beginning in the 1940s.Template:Sfn Actor and playwright Harold J. Kennedy, who had learned the ropes at Yale and with Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, suggested Swanson do a road tour of "Reflected Glory", a comedy that had run on the Broadway stage with Tallulah Bankhead as its star.Template:Sfn Kennedy wrote the script for the play A Goose for the Gander, which began its road tour in Chicago in August 1944.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Swanson also toured with Let Us Be Gay.Template:Sfn After her success with Sunset Boulevard, she starred on Broadway in a revival of Twentieth Century with José Ferrer, and in Nina with David Niven.Template:Sfn Her last major stage role was in the 1971 Broadway production of Butterflies Are Free at the Booth Theatre.Template:Sfn Kevin Brownlow and David Gill interviewed her for Hollywood, a television history of the silent era.Template:Sfn
Personal lifeEdit
Swanson was a vegetarian and an early health food advocateTemplate:Sfn who was known for bringing her own meals to public functions in a tin box.Template:Sfn
She was known for her love of fragrances and was often portrayed among her wide collection of bottles. For the promotion of Tonight or Never in 1931, given that the movie title was inspired by the Offenthal fragrance name, an unprecedented tie-in advertising campaign was conceived to promote both the movie and the fragrance.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
She was a pupil of the yoga guru Indra Devi and was photographed performing a series of yoga poses, reportedly looking much younger than her age, for Devi to use in her book Forever Young, Forever Healthy; but the publisher Prentice-Hall decided to use the photographs for Swanson's book, not Devi's. In return, Swanson, who normally didn't do publicity events, helped to launch Devi's book at the Waldorf-Astoria in 1953.Template:Sfn
As a Republican she supported the 1940 and 1944 campaigns for president of Wendell Willkie and Thomas E. Dewey respectively, and the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater.Template:Sfn In 1980, she chaired the New York chapter of Seniors for Reagan-Bush.Template:Sfn
In 1964, Swanson spoke at a "Project Prayer" rally attended by 2,500 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.Template:Sfn The gathering, which was hosted by Anthony Eisley, a star of ABC's Hawaiian Eye series, sought to flood the United States Congress with letters in support of mandatory school prayer, following two decisions in 1962 and 1963 of the United States Supreme Court, which struck down mandatory prayer as conflicting with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Joining Swanson and Eisley at the Project Prayer rally were Walter Brennan, Lloyd Nolan, Rhonda Fleming, Pat Boone, and Dale Evans. Swanson declared "Under God we became the freest, strongest, wealthiest nation on earth. Should we change that?"Template:Sfn
In 1975, Swanson traveled the United States and helped to promote the book Sugar Blues written by her husband, William Dufty.<ref name=PalmBeachPost>Template:Cite news</ref> He also ghostwrote Swanson's 1981 autobiography Swanson on Swanson, which became a commercial success.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Sfn The same year, she designed a stamp cachet for the United Nations Decade for Women, which was her last creative project.Template:Sfn
Marriages and relationshipsEdit
Wallace BeeryEdit
Wallace Beery and Swanson married on her 17th birthday on March 27, 1916, but by her wedding night she felt she had made a mistake and saw no way out of it.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn She did not like his home or his family and was repulsed by him as a lover. After becoming pregnant, she saw her husband with other women and learned he had been fired from Keystone.Template:Sfn Taking medication given to her by Beery, purported to be for morning sickness, she miscarried the fetus and was taken unconscious to the hospital.Template:Sfn Soon afterwards, she filed for divorce, which was finalized on December 12, 1918.<ref>"BEERY GIVEN DIVORCE FROM GLORIA SWANSON". Evening Express. December 12, 1918.</ref> Under California law in that era, after a divorce was granted, there was a one-year waiting period before it became finalized so that neither of the parties could remarry.Template:Sfn
Herbert K. SombornEdit
She married Herbert K. Somborn on December 20, 1919.Template:Sfn He was at that time president of Equity Pictures Corporation and later the owner of the Brown Derby restaurant.Template:Sfn Their daughter, Gloria Swanson Somborn, was born on October 7, 1920.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn In 1923, she adopted one-year-old Sonny Smith, whom she renamed Joseph Patrick Swanson after her father.Template:Sfn During their divorce proceedings, Somborn accused her of adultery with 13 men, including Cecil B. DeMille and Marshall Neilan.Template:Sfn The public sensationalism led to Swanson having a "morals clause" added to her studio contract.Template:Sfn Somborn was granted a divorce in Los Angeles, on September 19, 1923.<ref>"HUSBAND OF GLORIA SWANSON WINS DIVORCE". Los Angeles Record. September 19, 1923.</ref>
Henri de la FalaiseEdit
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During the production of Madame Sans-Gêne, Swanson met her third husband, Henri, Marquis de la Falaise (commonly known as Henri de la Falaise),<ref name=DesMoines>Template:Cite news</ref> who had been hired to be her translator during the film's production.Template:Sfn Though Henri was a Marquis and related to the famous Hennessy cognac family, he had no personal wealth.Template:Sfn She had conceived a child with him before her divorce from Somborn was final, a situation that would have led to a public scandal and possible end of her film career. She had an abortion, which she later regretted.Template:Sfn They married on January 28, 1925, after the Somborn divorce was finalized.<ref name=DesMoines/> Following a four-month recuperation from her abortion, they returned to the United States as European nobility. Swanson now held the title of Marquise.Template:Sfn She received a huge welcome home with parades in both New York and Los Angeles. He became a film executive representing Pathé (USA) in France.Template:Sfn This marriage ended in divorce in 1930.Template:Sfn
In spite of the divorce they remained close, and Falaise became a partner in her World War II efforts to aid potential scientist refugees fleeing from behind Nazi lines.Template:Sfn Swanson described herself as a "mental vampire", someone with a searching curiosity about how things worked, and who pursued the possibilities of turning those ideas into reality.Template:Sfn In 1939, she created Multiprises, an inventions and patents company; Henri de la Falaise provided a transitional Paris office for the scientists and gave written documentation to authorities guaranteeing jobs for them.Template:Sfn Viennese electronics engineer Richard Kobler, chemist Leopold Karniol, metallurgist Anton Kratky, and acoustical engineer Leopold Neumann, were brought to New York and headquartered in Rockefeller Center.Template:Sfn The group nicknamed her "Big Chief".Template:Sfn
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.Edit
While still married to Henri, Swanson had a lengthy affair with the married Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., father of future President John F. Kennedy.Template:Sfn He became her business partner, and their relationship was an open secret in Hollywood. He took over all of her personal and business affairs and was supposed to make her millions.Template:Sfn Kennedy left her after the disastrous Queen Kelly.Template:Sfn
Michael FarmerEdit
After the marriage to Henri and her affair with Kennedy was over, Swanson became acquainted with Michael Farmer, the man who would become her fourth husband. They met by chance in Paris when Swanson was being fitted by Coco Chanel for her 1931 film Tonight or Never. Farmer was a man of independent financial means who seemed not to have been employed. Rumors were that he was a gigolo. Swanson began spending time with him,Template:Sfn during which she discovered a breast lump and also became pregnant, but was not yet divorced from Henri.Template:Sfn She was not interested in marrying Farmer, but he did not want to break off the relationship. When Farmer found out she was pregnant, he threatened to go public with the news unless she agreed to marry him, something she did not want to do. Her friends, some of whom openly disliked him, thought she was making a mistake.Template:Sfn They married on August 16, 1931, and separated 2 years later.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Sfn
Because of the possibility that Swanson's divorce from La Falaise had not been finalized at the time of the wedding, she was forced to remarry Farmer the following November, by which time she was four months pregnant with Michelle Bridget Farmer, who was born on April 5, 1932.Template:Sfn
Herbert MarshallEdit
Swanson and Farmer divorced in 1934 after she became involved with married British actor Herbert Marshall. The media reported widely on her affair with Marshall.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After almost three years with the actor, Swanson left him once she became convinced he would never divorce his wife Edna Best, for her. In an early manuscript of her autobiography written in her own hand decades later, Swanson recalled "I was never so convincingly and thoroughly loved as I was by Herbert Marshall."Template:Sfn
William M. DaveyEdit
Davey was a wealthy investment broker whom Swanson met in October 1944 while she was appearing in A Goose for the Gander. They married January 29, 1945.Template:Sfn Swanson had initially thought she was going to be able to retire from acting, but the marriage was troubled from the start by Davey's alcoholism. Erratic behavior and acrimonious recriminations followed. Swanson and her daughter Michelle Farmer visited an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and gathered AA pamphlets, which they placed around the apartment.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Davey moved out.Template:Sfn In the subsequent legal separation proceedings, the judge ordered him to pay Swanson alimony. In an effort to avoid the payments, Davey unsuccessfully filed for divorce on the grounds of mental cruelty. He died within a year, not having paid anything to Swanson, and left the bulk of his estate to the Damon Runyon Cancer Memorial Fund.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Sfn
William DuftyEdit
Swanson's final marriage occurred in 1976 and lasted until her death. Her sixth husband William Dufty was a writer who worked for many years at the New York Post, where he was assistant to the editor from 1951 to 1960. He was the co-author (ghostwriter) of Billie Holiday's autobiography Lady Sings the Blues, the author of Sugar Blues, a 1975 best-selling health book still in print, and the author of the English version of Georges Ohsawa's You Are All Sanpaku.<ref name=LAT/> They met in the mid-1960s and moved in together.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Swanson shared her husband's enthusiasm for macrobiotic diets, and they traveled widely together to speak about nutrition.<ref name=PalmBeachPost/> Swanson and her husband first got to know John Lennon and Yoko Ono because they were fans of Dufty's work.Template:Sfn Swanson testified on Lennon's behalf at his immigration hearing in New York City, which led to his becoming a permanent US resident.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Besides her Fifth Avenue apartment, she and Dufty spent time at their homes in Beverly Hills, California; Colares, Portugal; Croton-on-Hudson, New York; and Palm Springs, California.<ref name="Harry Ransom Center" >{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After Swanson's death, Dufty returned to his former home in Birmingham, Michigan. He died of cancer in 2002.<ref name=LAT>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
DeathEdit
Swanson died of a heart ailment at the New York Hospital on April 4, 1983, having recently returned from her home on the Portuguese Riviera.<ref name=obit>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Her body was cremated and her ashes interred at the Church of the Heavenly Rest on Fifth Avenue in New York City, attended by a small number of family members.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
After Swanson's death, there was a series of auctions from August to September 1983 at William Doyle Galleries in New York. Collectors bought her furniture and decorations, jewelry, clothing, and memorabilia from her personal life and career.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Honors and legacyEdit
In 1960, Gloria Swanson was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures at 6750 Hollywood Boulevard, and another for television at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1955 and 1957, Swanson was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and in 1966, the museum honored her with a career film retrospective, titled A Tribute to Gloria Swanson, which screened several of her movies.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1974, Swanson was one of the honorees of the first Telluride Film Festival.Template:Sfn A parking lot by Sims Park in downtown New Port Richey, Florida, is named after the star, who is said to have owned property along the Cotee River.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 1982, a year before her death, Swanson sold her archives of over 600 boxes for an undisclosed sum, including photographs, artwork, copies of films and private papers, including correspondence, contracts, and financial dealings, to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Upon her death in 1983, much of the remainder of her holdings was purchased by Template:Nowrap at an auction held at the Doyle New York gallery. An undisclosed amount of memorabilia was also gifted to the HRC Center between 1983 and 1988.<ref name="Harry Ransom Center" />
In 1989, the Library of Congress chose Sunset Boulevard, along with 24 other films, "to be preserved in the permanent collection of the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as culturally, historically, and aesthetically important".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
PortrayalsEdit
Swanson has been played both on television and in film by the following actresses:
- 1971: Carol Burnett on The Carol Burnett Show<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1984: Diane Venora in The Cotton ClubTemplate:Sfn
- 1990: Madolyn Smith in The Kennedys of Massachusetts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- 1991: Ann Turkel in White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- 2008: Kristen Wiig in Saturday Night Live<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- 2013: Debi Mazar in Return to Babylon<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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StageEdit
Note: The list below is limited to New York Broadway theatrical productions.
| Title | Date | Role | Template:Abbr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Goose for the Gander | January 23, 1945 – February 3, 1945 | Katherine | <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
| Bathsheba | March 26, 1947 – April 19, 1947 | <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> | |
| Twentieth Century | December 24, 1950 – June 2, 1951 | Lily Garland | <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
| Nina | December 5, 1951 – January 12, 1952 | Nina | <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
| Butterflies Are Free | September 7, 1971 – July 2, 1972 | Mrs. Baker | <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
FilmographyEdit
| Template:Dagger | Denotes a lost or presumed lost film. |
ShortsEdit
| Title | Year | Role | Notes Studio/Distributor |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Song of the Soul Template:Dagger | 1914 | Unconfirmed | Template:Sfn | |
| The Misjudged Mr. Hartley Template:Dagger | 1915 | Maid | Template:Sfn | |
| At the End of a Perfect Day Template:Dagger | 1915 | Hands Bouquet to Holmes | Uncredited, actual release date of January 26, 2015 | Template:Sfn |
| The Ambition of the Baron | 1915 | Bit part | Essanay Film starring Francis X. Bushman |
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| His New Job | 1915 | Stenographer | Essanay Film Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin |
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| The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket Template:Dagger | 1915 | Farina, Elvira's Daughter | Credited as Gloria Mae Essanay Film |
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| Sweedie Goes to College Template:Dagger | 1915 | College Girl | Wallace Beery played Sweedie in a series of shorts Essanay Film |
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| The Romance of an American Duchess Template:Dagger | 1915 | Minor Role | Uncredited Essanay Film |
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| The Broken Pledge Template:Dagger | 1915 | Gloria | Essanay Film | Template:Sfn |
| A Dash of Courage Template:Dagger | 1916 | Keystone/Triangle with Bobby Vernon directed by Clarence G. Badger |
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| Hearts and Sparks Template:Dagger | 1916 | Keystone/Triangle with Bobby Vernon directed by Clarence G. Badger |
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| A Social Cub Template:Dagger | 1916 | Keystone/Triangle with Bobby Vernon directed by Clarence G. Badger |
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| The Danger Girl | 1916 | Reggie's madcap sister | Keystone/Triangle with Bobby Vernon directed by Clarence G. Badger |
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| Haystacks and Steeples Template:Dagger | 1916 | Keystone/Triangle with Bobby Vernon directed by Clarence G. Badger |
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| The Nick of Time Baby | 1916 | Keystone/Triangle with Bobby Vernon directed by Clarence G. Badger |
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| Teddy at the Throttle | 1917 | Gloria Dawn, His Sweetheart | Uncredited with Bobby Vernon Keystone/Triangle directed by Clarence G. Badger |
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| Baseball Madness Template:Dagger | 1917 | Victor Film/Universal | Template:Sfn | |
| Dangers of a Bride Template:Dagger | 1917 | Keystone/Triangle directed by Clarence G. Badger |
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| Whose Baby? | 1917 | Keystone/Triangle with Bobby Vernon directed by Clarence G. Badger |
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| The Sultan's Wife | 1917 | Gloria | Keystone/Triangle with Bobby Vernon directed by Clarence G. Badger |
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| The Pullman Bride | 1917 | The Girl | Paramount-Mack Sennett directed by Clarence G. Badger |
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| A Trip to Paramountown | 1922 | Herself | Paramount | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
FeaturesEdit
| Title | Year | Role | Notes Studio/Distributor |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Society for Sale Template:Dagger | 1918 | Phylis Clyne | Triangle Film Corporation | <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
| Her Decision Template:Dagger | 1918 | Phyllis Dunbar | Triangle Film Corporation directed by Jack Conway |
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| You Can't Believe Everything Template:Dagger | 1918 | Patricia Reynolds | Triangle Film Corporation directed by Jack Conway |
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| Station Content | 1918 | Kitty Manning | Triangle Film Corporation directed by Arthur Hoyt One reel survives |
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| Everywoman's Husband | 1918 | Edith Emerson | Triangle Film Corporation directed by Gilbert P. Hamilton |
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| Shifting Sands | 1918 | Marcia Grey | Triangle Film Corporation directed by Albert Parker |
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| The Secret Code Template:Dagger | 1918 | Sally Carter Rand | Triangle Film Corporation directed by Albert Parker |
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| Wife or Country Template:Dagger | 1918 | Sylvia Hamilton | Triangle Film Corporation directed by E. Mason Hopper |
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| Don't Change Your Husband | 1919 | Leila Porter | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Cecil B. DeMille |
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| For Better, for Worse | 1919 | Sylvia Norcross | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Cecil B. DeMille |
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| Male and Female | 1919 | Lady Mary Lasenby | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Cecil B. DeMille |
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| Why Change Your Wife? | 1920 | Beth Gordon | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Cecil B. DeMille |
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| Something to Think About | 1920 | Ruth Anderson | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Cecil B. DeMille |
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| The Affairs of Anatol | 1921 | Vivian Spencer – Anatol's Wife | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Cecil B. DeMille |
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| The Great Moment Template:Dagger | 1921 | Nada Pelham/Nadine Pelham | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Sam Wood |
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| Under the Lash Template:Dagger | 1921 | Deborah Krillet | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Sam Wood |
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| Don't Tell Everything Template:Dagger | 1921 | Marian Westover | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Sam Wood |
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| Her Husband's Trademark | 1922 | Lois Miller | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Sam Wood |
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| Her Gilded Cage Template:Dagger | 1922 | Suzanne Ornoff | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Sam Wood |
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| Beyond the Rocks | 1922 | Theodora Fitzgerald | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Sam Wood |
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| The Impossible Mrs. Bellew Template:Dagger | 1922 | Betty Bellew | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Sam Wood |
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| My American Wife Template:Dagger | 1922 | Natalie Chester | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Sam Wood |
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| Prodigal Daughters Template:Dagger | 1923 | Swifty Forbes | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Sam Wood |
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| Bluebeard's 8th Wife Template:Dagger | 1923 | Mona deBriac | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Sam Wood |
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| Hollywood Template:Dagger | 1923 | Cameo role | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount | <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| Zaza | 1923 | Zaza | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Allan Dwan |
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| The Humming Bird | 1924 | Toinette | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Sidney Olcott |
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| A Society Scandal Template:Dagger | 1924 | Marjorie Colbert | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Allan Dwan |
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| Manhandled | 1924 | Tessie McGuire | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Allan Dwan |
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| Her Love Story Template:Dagger | 1924 | Princess Marie | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Allan Dwan |
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| Wages of Virtue Template:Dagger | 1924 | Carmelita | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Allan Dwan |
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| Madame Sans-Gêne Template:Dagger | 1925 | Madame Sans-Gêne | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Léonce Perret |
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| The Coast of Folly Template:Dagger | 1925 | Joyce Gathway/Nadine Gathway | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Allan Dwan |
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| Stage Struck | 1925 | Jennie Hagen | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Allan Dwan |
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| The Untamed Lady Template:Dagger | 1926 | St. Clair Van Tassel | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Frank Tuttle |
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| Fine Manners | 1926 | Orchid Murphy | Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount directed by Richard Rosson |
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| The Love of Sunya | 1927 | Sunya Ashling | Swanson Producing Corporation/United Artists directed by Albert Parker |
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| Sadie Thompson | 1928 | Sadie Thompson | Gloria Swanson Productions/United Artists directed by Raoul Walsh |
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| Queen Kelly | 1928 | Kitty Kelly/Queen Kelly | Joseph P. Kennedy/United Artists directed by Erich von Stroheim |
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| The Trespasser | 1929 | Marion Donnell | Gloria Productions/United Artists directed by Edmund Goulding Released in two versions, one silent, and the other with sound |
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| What a Widow! Template:Dagger | 1930 | Tamarind Brook | Gloria Productions/United Artists directed by Allan Dwan |
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| Indiscreet | 1931 | Geraldine "Gerry" Trent | Feature Productions, Inc. A DeSylva, Brown & Henderson Production directed by Leo McCarey |
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| Tonight or Never | 1931 | Nella Vago | Feature Productions, Inc./United Artists directed by Mervyn LeRoy |
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| Perfect Understanding | 1933 | Judy Rogers | Gloria Swanson British Productions, Ltd./United Artists directed by Cyril Gardner |
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| Music in the Air | 1934 | Frieda Hotzfelt | Erich Pommer Productions/Fox Film directed by Joe May |
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| Father Takes a Wife | 1941 | Leslie Collier Osborne | Marcus Lee/RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. directed by William Dorfman |
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| Sunset Boulevard | 1950 | Norma Desmond | Charles Brackett/Paramount directed by Billy Wilder |
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| 3 for Bedroom C | 1952 | Ann Haven/costume designer | Brenco Pictures Corporation/Warner Bros. directed by Milton H. Bren |
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| Nero's Mistress | 1956 | Agrippina | Les Films Marceau and Titanus/Manhattan Films International directed by Steno |
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| Airport 1975 | 1974 | Herself | Universal Pictures directed by Jack Smight |
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TelevisionEdit
| Title | Year | Role | Notes | Template:Abbr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Gloria Swanson Hour | 1948 | Hostess | Variety show | Template:Sfn | |
| The Peter Lind Hayes Show | 1950 | Herself | Episode #1.1 sitcom show |
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| Hollywood Opening Night | 1953 | Episode: "The Pattern" | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | ||
| Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson | 1954–1955 | Hostess | 25 episodes | Template:Sfn | |
| The Steve Allen Show | 1957 | Norma Desmond | Episode #3.8 | Template:Sfn | |
| Straightaway | 1961 | Lorraine Carrington | Episode: "A Toast to Yesterday" | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |
| Dr. Kildare | 1963 | Julia Colton | Episode: "The Good Luck Charm" | Template:Sfn | |
| Burke's Law | 1963–1964 | Various roles | 2 episodes | Template:Sfn | |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | 1964 | Mrs. Charlotte Heaton | Segment: "Who Is Jennifer?" | Template:Sfn | |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | 1964 | Mrs. Daniels | Episode: "Behind the Locked Door" | Template:Sfn | |
| My Three Sons | 1965 | Margaret McSterling | Episode: "The Fountain of Youth" | Template:Sfn | |
| Ben Casey | 1965 | Victoria Hoffman | Episode: "Minus That Rusty Old Hacksaw" | Template:Sfn | |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | 1966 | Herself | Episode: "The Gloria Swanson Story" | Template:Sfn | |
| The Eternal Tramp Special | 1972 | Narrator | aka Chaplinesque, My Life and Hard Times | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |
| The Carol Burnett Show | 1973 | Herself | Episode #7.3 | Template:Sfn | |
| Killer Bees | 1974 | Madame Maria von Bohlen | Television movie | Template:Sfn | |
| The Great Debate | 1974 | Herself | Canadian interview show with James Bawden | Template:Sfn | |
| Hollywood | 1980 | Herself | Television documentary | <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Awards and nominationsEdit
| Year | Award | Result | Category | Film or series | Template:Abbr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | Academy Award | rowspan=3 Template:Nom | Best Actress | Sadie Thompson | <ref name=Oscars/> | |
| 1931 | The Trespasser | <ref name=1931Oscars/> | ||||
| 1951 | Sunset Boulevard | <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> | |||
| 1951 | Golden Globe Award | Template:Won | Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | ||
| 1964 | Template:Nom | Best TV Star – Female | Burke's Law | Template:Sfn | ||
| 1951 | Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists | Template:Won | Best Actress – Foreign Film (Migliore Attrice Straniera) | Sunset Boulevard | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |
| 1951 | Jussi Award | Template:Won | Best Foreign Actress | <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> | |
| 1950 | National Board of Review of Motion Pictures | rowspan=2 Template:Won | Best Actress | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | ||
| 1980 | Career Achievement Award | check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |||
| 1975 | Saturn Award | Template:Won | Special Award | check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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NotesEdit
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- Gloria Swanson Template:Webarchive at the Women Film Pioneers Project
- Glorious Gloria Swanson – Tribute site
- Gloria Swanson's papers Template:Webarchive at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
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InterviewsEdit
- Gloria Swanson, video of The Mike Wallace Interview, April 28, 1957
- Template:YouTube, August 3, 1970