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Gloria Josephine Mae Swanson [1] (March 27, 1899 – April 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 also earned her a Golden Globe Award.
Male and Female is a 1919 American silent adventure/drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gloria Swanson and Thomas Meighan. [2] Its main themes are gender relations and social class. The film is based on the 1902 J. M. Barrie play The Admirable Crichton. [1] [3] A previous version was filmed the year before in England as The ...
Many critics predicted that the Best Actress award would be given to Gloria Swanson or Bette Davis for All About Eve and were surprised that the recipient was newcomer Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday. [13] Bette Davis believed that her and Swanson's comparable characters effectively "cancelled each other out", allowing Holliday to win. [60]
Gloria Swanson, in her sound film debut, received an Academy Award nomination. It was written and directed by Edmund Goulding and was first filmed as a silent film. A sound version was quickly made and was a big hit for its star, Gloria Swanson. Goulding remade the film as That Certain Woman (1937) with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda.
The film was directed by Erich von Stroheim, starred Gloria Swanson, in the title role, Walter Byron as her lover, and Seena Owen. The film was produced by Joseph P. Kennedy, who was Swanson's lover at the time. [1] In 1932, Swanson was able to release a part-sound version in Europe and South America only because of her contract with Stroheim.
The film stars Gloria Swanson as an aging movie star. Music by Heinz Roemheld. Plot. Ann Haven, an aging movie actress, receives an urgent wire demanding that she ...
The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy and Gloria Swanson – as a fictionalized version of herself – in her final film role. [ 4 ] The plot concerns the dramatic events aboard an airborne Boeing 747 when a small aircraft crashes into the cockpit , causing the fatalities of the First Officer and Flight Engineer and the ...
Tonight or Never is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas (in his screen debut) and Boris Karloff.The film is inspired by the Hungarian play of the same name, written by Lili Hatvany and performed on Broadway between November 1930 and June 1931.