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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.
The film was the third of six "marriage films" directed by DeMille and the first DeMille film starring Gloria Swanson. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A Chinese silent film, Don't Change Your Husband (1929) , used the same English title, and a similar plot arc.
A Society Scandal is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Allan Dwan, and starring Gloria Swanson and Rod La Rocque.Distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is based on a 1922 play The Laughing Lady, by Alfred Sutro which starred Ethel Barrymore in 1923 on Broadway and originally in 1922 with Edith Evans in UK.
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.
Gloria Swanson in Teddy at the Throttle Teddy at the Throttle Vernon with Gloria Swanson and Teddy the Dog in Teddy at the Throttle. Teddy at the Throttle is a 1917 American silent comedy short film starring Bobby Vernon, Gloria Swanson, and Wallace Beery. [1] Wallace Beery and Gloria Swanson were briefly husband and wife offscreen during this ...
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.
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 ...
From left to right: Wallace Reid, Dorothy Cumming, Gloria Swanson, and Elliott Dexter. Don't Tell Everything is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson and Wallace Reid. Wood apparently created this film in part from outtakes left over from Cecil DeMille's The Affairs of Anatol (1921).