Gloria May Josephine Swanson (March 27, 1899 - April 4, 1983) is an American actress and producer famous for her role as Norma Desmond, a silent movie star, in the critically acclaimed 1950 movie Sunset Sunset .
Swanson was also a star in the silent film era both as an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille. Throughout the 1920s, Swanson was a top Hollywood magnet.
Swanson starred in dozens of silent films and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the Best Actress category. She also produces her own films, including Sadie Thompson and The Love of Sunya. In 1929, Swanson switched to a talkie with The Trespasser. Personal issues and changing tastes saw her popularity diminish during the 1930s when she moved to the theater, and then to television.
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Gloria May Josephine Swanson was born in a small house in Chicago in 1899 to Adelaide (nÃÆ' Â © e Klanowski) and Joseph Theodore Swanson, a soldier. He attended the Hawthorne Scholastic Academy. His father came from a strict Swedish Lutheran American family, and his mother was of German, French and Polish origin.
Due to his father's attachment to the US Army, the family moved frequently and Swanson ended up spending most of his childhood in Puerto Rico, where he studied Spanish. He also spent time in Key West, Florida. It was not his intention to enter the show business, but with the fancy of one of his aunts took her to a small film company in Chicago called Essanay Studios to visit and Swanson was asked to return to work in addition.
After several months of extra work with others like Charlie Chaplin, and earning $ 13.50 a week, Swanson left school to work full time in the studio. Her parents soon split up and she and her mother moved to California.
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Careers
Initial years
Swanson made his film debut in 1914 as an addition to Essanay's The Song of Soul. He was reportedly asked to be in the movie just for fun. Essanay hired him to perform in several movies, including his New Jobs , directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin.
Swanson moved to California in 1916 to appear in the Keystone comedy Mack Sennett across Bobby Vernon. With their big screen chemistry, the couple became popular. Director Charley Chase recalls that he was "afraid of death" from Vernon's dangerous actions. However, conquering his fears, he often worked with Vernon. The surviving movies in which they appeared together included The Danger Girl (1916), The Sultan's Wife (1917), and Teddy in the Throttle > (1917)).
In 1919 he signed a contract with Paramount Pictures and often worked with Cecil B. DeMille, who turned him into a romantic cast in films like Do not Change Your Husband (1919), Men and Woman (1919) with a famous scene disguised as "The Bride of the Lion" with a real lion, Why Change Your Wife? (1920), Something to Think About (1920), and Anatol Affairs (1921).
Within two years, Swanson skyrocketed into a star and was one of Hollywood's most wanted actresses. He later appeared in a series of films directed by Sam Wood. She starred in Beyond the Rocks (1922) with her old friend Rudolph Valentino. (Long is believed to be a lost movie, Beyond the Rocks rediscovered in 2004 in a private collection in the Netherlands and is now available on DVD.) Swanson continues to make costume drama films over the next few years.. So successful was his films for Paramount that the studio was afraid of losing it and giving up on many of his wants and desires.
During Swanson's glory, the audience went to his film not only for his performance but also to see his wardrobe. He is often decorated with beads, jewels, peacocks and ostrich feathers and other bourgeois pieces of luxury haute couture. Fashion, hairstyle and jewelry are copied all over the world. He is the first horse display apparel and became one of the most famous and photographed ladies in the world.
In 1925, Swanson starred in the French-American Madame Sans-GÃÆ'ªne , directed by LÃÆ' Â © once Perret. Filming is allowed for the first time in many historical sites related to Napoleon. Although well received at the time, no prints were known to exist, and were regarded as missing films. During the production of Madame Sans-GÃÆ'ªne, Swanson met his third husband Henri, Marquis de la Falaise, who had been hired to be his translator during film production. After living for four months in France, he returned to the United States as a European nobleman, now known as the Marquise. She gets a big welcome home with parades in New York and Los Angeles. Swanson appeared in the short 1925 produced by Lee DeForest in his Phonofilm sound-in-film process. He made a number of movies for Paramount, among them The Coast of Folly, Stage Struck and Fine Manners.
In 1927, he decided to refuse a million dollars a year (about $ 13.6 million in 2017) a contract with Paramount to join the newly created United Artist, where he is his own boss and can make the film he wants, with who he wants, and when. Her first independent film, The Love of Sunya, was directed by Albert Parker, based on The Eyes of Youth drama by Max Marcin and Charles Guernon. Produced by and starring Swanson, he starred in John Boles and Pauline Garon. This is the story of a young woman given the ability to see her future, including her future with different men. The story has been filmed earlier as Eyes of Youth starring Clara Kimball Young (the production was also directed by Albert Parker and responsible for Rudolph Valentino's discovery by June Mathis). Production is undermined by some problems, especially cameras that are suitable for handling complicated film double exposure, since Swanson is not used to take over, and the filming takes place in New York. The film premiered at the opening of the Roxy Theater in New York City on March 11, 1927. (Swanson was pictured in the ruins of Roxy on October 14, 1960, during the demolition of the theater, in a famous photo taken by Eliot Elisofon's Time-Life Photographer and published in > Life .) Production has become a disaster and Swanson feels his success will be mediocre. At the suggestion of Joseph Schenck, Swanson returned to Hollywood, where Schenck pleaded with him to film something more commercial. He agreed but eventually made the more controversial film Sadie Thompson instead.
Sadie Thompson
Feeling he would never have the artistic freedom and independence that he had at the time, Swanson decided that he "wanted to make [him] Gold Rush ". Schenck begged him to do a commercially successful film like The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. Swanson felt it was too formal, and decided to call director Raoul Walsh, who signed with Fox Film Corporation at the time. Walsh already knew for bringing controversial material to the film, and at their first meeting suggested John Colton/Clemence Randolph playing Rain (1923), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham in 1921 entitled Miss Thompson . He had seen Jeanne Eagels perform that role twice, and enjoyed it.
Because of its content, producing films under the strictest limits of the Hays Code is almost impossible. The drama was on an unofficial blacklist, and was secretly banned from filming the year before. To try to avoid problems with code, Swanson and Walsh left indecent words, renamed "Reverend Davidson" "Mr. Davidson", and declared it for the sake of morality to produce the image as it had been produced Irving Thalberg The Scarlet Letter (1926) at MGM.
Swanson invited Will Hays for lunch and summarized the plot, naming the author and the sticky points. According to Swanson, Hays made an oral appointment he would not have a problem with making such a film. Swanson set out to get the rights to the game by asking Schenck to pretend to buy it on behalf of the United Artist, who never used it. They can get the story right for $ 60,000 instead of the original $ 100,000. When news broke out about what the drama meant, the three writers threatened to sue. Swanson then contacted Maugham about the rights to the sequel, and he offered to give them $ 25,000. Maugham claimed Fox asked about the sequel at the same time Swanson had bought the original story right. The sequel is to follow Sadie's further exploits in Australia, but never made.
Swanson and Walsh began writing the script, and secretly advertised the movie, thinking no one was paying attention, as Charles Lindbergh had just completed his historic transatlantic flight. However, the press picked it up and censored the story. United Artists received a threatening two-page telegram from the MPAA signed by all its members, including Fox (Walsh studio) and Hays himself. In addition, the rest of the signers have several thousand theaters, and if they refuse to filter the movie it could be a financial disaster. This is the first time Swanson has heard the name of Joseph F. Kennedy, with whom he later cheated on, and who arranged financing for the next few photographs, including Queen Kelly (1929).
Swanson was angry with the response, because he felt that the studios themselves had produced questionable films, and felt jealous that they had no chance to produce Rain. After another threatening telegram, he decided to appeal first to the MPAA, and then to the newspaper. He only hears news of Marcus Loew, who promises to appeal on his behalf, and because he has a theater chain, this eases some of his worries. Assuming silence means the problem has been dropped, Swanson began filming Sadie Thompson that already had $ 250,000 invested in it. Before the casting began, young Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. wanted to audition for the Charming O'Hara role. However, Swanson felt he was too young and not right for the role. Lionel Barrymore was first picked to play Davidson but was considered too ill at the time, though he eventually won the role. Barrymore wore the same outfit for a whole week, aggravating Swanson. He asked some crew to tell him to change and wash, which he did. In addition, Swanson is pleased with his performance. Walsh has not appeared in front of the camera in eight years, and is afraid he will not be able to direct and act at the same time. However, two days in filming, her fears are gone.
Many filming took place on Santa Catalina Island near Long Beach, California. Swanson soon fell ill, and met a doctor who started his love of the macrobiotic diet. A week before filming, Sam Goldwyn summoned cameraman George Barnes. Swanson was furious, but the loan contract had allowed Goldwyn to call him off as he pleased. Not wanting to let the extra hundred sit around for days, Swanson and Walsh try to hire two more cameramen, but they are not satisfactory. Mary Pickford had offered the services of her favorite cameraman Charles Rosher, who was called but despite doing a decent job could not match the work of Barnes. Swanson, remembering the kindness shown by Marcus Loew during telegram affairs, turned to him again, desperate to help. Even though Loew was sick and was about to die, he told MGM to give whoever he wanted. MGM lent him Oliver Marsh and he finished the drawing.
The failure of the cameraman is very expensive for production, but the shot continues. With a half-finished image, it's been over budget, and Schenck is wary, because Swanson's first image has also been over budget and underperforming. Swanson spoke with his advisor and sold his home in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, and offered to sell his New York City penthouse as well.
Despite reports that the words "dirty" can be read on the character's lips, Swanson said the sensors were examining everything with a toothed comb. However, Swanson admitted that the one line he shouted at Davidson went, "You will tear the wings of a butterfly, you bastard!" when telling a conversation with Walsh later on. If the word rain is used in the title, they request to be removed. They also wanted to turn Davidson's name into something else, but Swanson and Walsh refused.
The film is a success and is Swanson's only independent independent film successful at the box office. It was one of his last financially successful films, including The Trespasser and Sunset Blvd talkies. It continues to generate $ 1,000,000 during US runs. However, at Kennedy's suggestion, Swanson has sold his distribution rights to the film to Schenck, because Kennedy feels this is a commercial failure. He also does not care about the picture that Swanson portrays in the movie. At this point, Queen Kelly has been a disaster, and Swanson regrets it. The film also makes ten best photos from this year's list. It was Raoul Walsh's last role, because he lost his eyes in an accident. The film was nominated for awards for Best Actress in the Main Role (Gloria Swanson) and Best Cinematography. Swanson did not attend the ceremony, and always felt it was like "comparing apples to oranges". Contemporary reviews call it racy but excellent, and praise Swanson's performance. Currently, the movie, save for the last reel (stopped right after Davidson finds Sadie in his room), is in good condition.
Queen Kelly
One of the most famous unfinished Hollywood films, Queen Kelly (1929), directed by Erich von Stroheim and produced by Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., father of future President John F. Kennedy. Produced in 1928-29, the film starred Swanson in the title role, with Walter Byron and Seena Owen. This is the story of Prince Wolfram, engaged to the insane Queen Regina V Kronberg. On the maneuver (as a punishment for being accompanied by another woman), she spies on Kelly walking with other students from a monastery. Fascinated by her beauty, she kidnaps her that night from the monastery, takes her to her room and declares her love for her. When the Queen finds them together the next morning, she whips Kelly and kicks him out of the castle. Queen Regina then puts Wolfram in jail for her refusal to marry her. Kelly went to East Africa Germany to visit a dying Aunt, and was forced to marry Jan. A sad Aunt died after the wedding, and Kelly refused to stay with Jan, became the head of her aunt's brothel. Luxury and style earned him the name Queen Kelly.
The expensive film production was closed after complaints by Swanson about von Stroheim and the general direction the film took. Though the European scenes are full of satire, and featuring a cheating prince and a sexually mad queen, the scenes in Africa are very bleak and, according to Swanson, is not fun. In later interviews, Swanson said that he has been misled by the script, which refers to his character who arrives, and takes over, a dance hall; see the rush, it is clear "ballroom" is actually a brothel.
Stroheim was fired from the film, and the African storyline was canceled. Swanson and Kennedy still want to save European material, because it is so expensive and time consuming, and has potential market value. An alternate ending was shot on November 24, 1931. At the end of this story, directed by Swanson and photographed by Gregg Toland, Prince Wolfram was shown visiting the palace. A nun leads her to the chapel, where Kelly's body is inside the country. This is called "the end of Swanson". The film was not released theatrically in the United States, but was shown in Europe and South America with the end of Swanson. This is because of the clause in the Stroheim contract.
A short extract from the film appeared on Sunset Boulevard (1950), representing an old still image of the character Swanson Norma Desmond - himself a silent movie star - was created. Von Stroheim is also the main character on Sunset Boulevard as his former director, ex-husband, and butler at the moment. In the 1960s, it was featured on television with the end of Swanson, along with the recorded preliminary and conclusions in which Swanson talked about the history of the project. In 1985, Kino International had acquired the rights to the film and returned two versions: one that used photos and subtitles in an attempt to complete the storyline, and the other was a "suicide" version of Europe.
Sound Era
On March 29, 1929, in Mary Pickford's bungalow at United Artists, Swanson, Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Norma Talmadge, John Barrymore, Dolores del RÃÆ'o and DW Griffith met to speak on the radio show The Dodge Brothers Hour , to prove that they can meet the challenge of speaking a movie. To try to recover from Queen Kelly's failure, Swanson went into talkie making, including The Trespasser (1929), What a Widow! (1930)), Indiscreet (1931), Perfect Understanding (1933), and Music in the Air (1934).
The Trespasser tells the story of a "mistress" who maintains a luxurious lifestyle. Swanson movie stars, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, Henry B. Walthall, and Wally Albright. The film was written and directed by Edmund Goulding and released by United Artists, and earned the Swanson award as an Academy Award nomination in his talkie debut. Swanson sang the song "Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere" written by Goulding and Elsie Janis. The Trespasser was filmed simultaneously in the silent and talking version, and was a huge success.
The Trespasser is an important film for Swanson, after the disaster of Queen Kelly and Sadie Thompson's blow, and Swanson earns her a second Oscar nomination. Unfortunately for Swanson, The Trespasser proved to be one of two hit talkies, the other Sunset Boulevard , made over 20 years later. Next follow-up like What is a Widow! , No Wisdom , Tonight or Never , Perfect Understanding , and Music in the Air all proved to be box-office flops. Despite the disappointment following The Trespasser, Swanson is well remembered by Billy Wilder, an author in Music in the Air, when he became part of Norma Desmond in his Sunset Sunset (1950).
Although he made the transition to a talkie, as his film career began to decline, Swanson moved permanently to New York City in 1938, where he started a discovery and patent company called Multiprises, which kept him busy during World War II years. This small company has the sole purpose of saving Jewish scientists and inventors from war-torn Europe and bringing them to the United States. He helped a lot escape, and some useful inventions came from the company.
Swanson made another film for RKO in 1941 ( Father Takes a Wife ), began appearing in a legitimate theater, and starred in his own television show in 1948. He threw himself into painting and sculpting, writing syndication columns, summer summer tours, engaging in political activism, radio and television work, designing and marketing clothing and accessories, and making occasional appearances on the big screen. But it was not until 1950 when Sunset Boulevard was released (earning him another Academy Award nomination) that he achieved mass recognition again.
Sunset Boulevard
After Mae West, Mary Pickford and Pola Negri all rejected the role, Swanson starred in 1950's Sunset Boulevard, portraying Norma Desmond, a faded silent movie star who falls in love with younger screenwriter Joe Gillis, played by William Holden. Desmond lives in the past, assisted by the butler Max, played by Erich von Stroheim. His dream of comeback was subverted as he became delusional. There are brilliant acts of silent era actors in the film, including Buster Keaton, H. B. Warner and Anna Q. Nilsson. Cecil B. DeMille plays herself in an important scene. Several lines of film have become pop-culture mainstays, including the "Biggest Star of them all"; "I'm big, it's small pictures"; "We do not need dialogue, we have faces"; and "Well, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." She received an Oscar nomination for her third Best Actress, but lost to Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday.
Swanson received several subsequent acting offers but turned most of them down, saying they tended to be a pale imitation of Norma Desmond. The role of his last major Hollywood film was the badly received Three Bedrooms "C" in 1952. In 1956, Swanson made Madame Nero , also starring Alberto Sordi, Vittorio de Sica and Brigitte Bardot. Her final screen appearance is like herself at Airport 1975 . Although Swanson only made three films after Sunset Boulevard, he starred in many stage and television productions during his final years. She is active in business ventures, traveling extensively, writing articles, columns, and autobiographies, painted and carved, and being a vigorous advocate of various health and nutrition topics. Television and theater
Swanson hosted one of the first live television series in 1948, The Gloria Swanson Hour, where he invited friends and others to be guests. Swanson also later hosted the television anthology series,
Throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, Swanson appeared on numerous talk and variety shows such as The Carol Burnett Show in 1973 and The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson to relive his films and revile them too. He's twice a "mysterious guest" on What's My Line . She acted in "Behind the Locked Door" at The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in 1964, and in the same year was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her performance in Burke's Law. She made guest appearances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1970; a guest at the same event as Janis Joplin, who died later that year.
She made a prominent appearance in the 1966 episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, called "The Gloria Swanson Story", in which she played herself. In the episode, Clampetts mistakenly believes that Swanson is poor, and decides to finance his comeback movie - in a silent film. His last acting role, in addition to playing at Airport 1975 , was the made-for-TV horror film Killer Bees (1974). After nearly retiring from the film, Swanson appeared in many dramas throughout his life at a later date, beginning in the 1940s. She toured with A Goose for the Gander , Reflected Glory and Let Us Be Gay . After his success with Sunset Boulevard, he starred Broadway in the Twentieth Century revival 1951 with Josà ©  © Ferrer, and at Nina with David Niven. His last big stage role was in the 1971 production of Broadway Butterflies Are Free at Booth Theater. Swanson appeared at The Carol Burnett Show in 1973, sketched out where he flirted with Lyle Wagoner. The episode was called "Carol and Sis/The Guilty Man."
In 1980, Swanson's autobiography, Swanson on Swanson , was published and became a commercial success. Kevin Brownlow and David Gill interviewed him for Hollywood (1980), the silent era of television history.
Personal life
Swanson became vegetarian around 1928 and was an early health food advocate who was known to bring his own food to public functions in paper bags. Swanson told actor Dirk Benedict about the macrobiotic diet when he battled prostate cancer at a very early age. He rejected conventional therapy and credited this type of diet and ate healthy with his recovery. In 1975, Swanson traveled to the United States and helped promote the book Sugar Blues written by her husband, William Dufty.
In the early 1980s, Stanley's 520-page autobiography, Swanson on Swanson, was published by Random House and became a national best-seller. It was translated into French, Italian and Swedish editions. In the same year, he also designed a stamp cap for the United Nations Postal Administration.
Religion
Swanson is an old member of the Lutheran church; his father was of Swedish Lutheran descent. In 1964, Swanson spoke at a "Project Prayer" meeting attended by 2,500 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The meeting, hosted by Anthony Eisley, the star of the ABC Hawaiian Eye series, attempted to flood the United States Congress with letters to support school prayer, following two decisions in 1962 and 1963 from United. Declare the Supreme Court, which follows up the practice as contrary to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution Clause. Joining Swanson and Eisley at the Project Prayer meeting are Walter Brennan, Lloyd Nolan, Rhonda Fleming, Pat Boone, and Dale Evans. Swanson states, "Under God, we become the richest, strongest, and richest nation in the world, should we change it?"
Marriage and relationships
Throughout his life and many marriages, Swanson has always been known as Miss Swanson. Although she formally takes the names of her husband, her personality and her own fame always haunts them. Her first husband was actor Wallace Beery, whom she married on her 17th birthday on March 27, 1916. In her autobiography Swanson on Swanson, Swanson writes that Beery raped her on their wedding night. She became pregnant in 1917. Do not want her to have a child, she claims she tricked her into drinking a potion that triggers an abortion. They were still working together at Sennett but they split in June 1917 and Swanson filed for divorce that year, it was settled in 1918.
She married Herbert K. Somborn (1919-1925), president of the Equity Image company and then owner of the Brown Derby restaurant, in 1919; they had a daughter, Gloria Swanson Somborn (October 7, 1920 - December 28, 2000). Their divorce, settled in January 1925, was sensational and led Swanson to have a "moral clause" added to his studio contract. Somborn accused him of committing adultery with thirteen people including Cecil B. DeMille, Rudolph Valentino and Marshall Neilan. During their divorce, Swanson wanted another child, and in 1923 he adopted a baby boy, Sonny Smith (1922-1975), whom he named Joseph Frankson Swanson.
Swanson's third husband is the French aristocrat Henri, Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, whom he married on January 28, 1925, after Somborn's divorce was completed. Although Henri is the Marquis and the grandchildren of Richard and Martha Lucy Hennessy of the famous Hennessy Cognac family, she is not rich and must work to earn a living. He was originally hired to be his assistant and translator in France while he was filming Madame Sans-GÃÆ'ªne (1925). Swanson was the first movie star to marry European nobility, and the marriage became a global sensation. He conceived a child with him, but had an abortion, which, in his autobiography, he said he was sorry. Later, Henri became a film executive who represented PathÃÆ'Â © (USA) in France through Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., who runs the studio. Many now consider him given a position, which keeps him in France for ten months of the year, to keep him away from the road. This marriage ended in a divorce in 1930
While still married to Henri, Swanson had an affair with the married Joseph P. Kennedy, father of President John F. Kennedy, for several years. He became his business partner and their relationship was a public secret in Hollywood. He took over all his personal and business affairs and should have made it millions. Unfortunately, Kennedy left him after the disaster of Queen Kelly and his finances were in worse shape than when he came into his life. Two books have been written about adultery.
After the marriage with Henri and his relationship with Kennedy ended, Swanson married Michael Farmer (1902-1975) in August 1931. Since the possibility of Swanson's divorce from La Falaise was not final at the time of marriage, he was forced to remarry with Farmer in November next, four months pregnant with Michelle Bridget Farmer, who was born on April 5, 1932. Swanson and Farmer divorced in 1934, after she was involved with the married British actor, Herbert Marshall. The media reported extensively about his affair with Marshall. After nearly three years with the actor, Swanson left him once he realized that he would never divorce his wife, Edna Best, for her. In his original autobiographical script written in his own hands several decades later, Swanson remembers, "I have never been so convincing and truly loved as I am by Herbert Marshall."
In 1945, Swanson married William N. Davey and according to him after finding Davey in a drunken, he and his daughter Michelle, believed that they were helping, leaving behind traces of Alcoholics Anonymous literature around the apartment. Davey quickly packs up and leaves. The divorce of Swanson-Davey was completed in 1946. For the next thirty years Swanson will remain unmarried and able to pursue his own interests.
Swanson's last marriage took place in 1976 and lasted until his death. Her sixth husband and widower, author William Dufty (1916-2002), is a co-author of the autobiography of Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues, Sugar Blues writer, 1975's best-selling health books printed, and the English language writer Georges Ohsawa You Are All Sanpaku. Dufty was a ghost writer and journalist, working for years at the New York Post where he became an assistant editor from 1951 to 1960. He first met Swanson in the year 1965 and in 1967 both lived together as a couple. Swanson shares his great husband's enthusiasm for the macrobiotic diet and they travel together to talk about sugar and food. They promoted his book Sugar Blues together in 1975 and also wrote a syndicated column together. Through Sugar Blues that Dufty and Swanson first got to know John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Swanson testified on behalf of Lennon at an immigration trial in New York, which made him a permanent resident. Dufty ghost-wrote his best-selling autobiography of 1980, Swanson on Swanson, based on his early concepts, sometimes handwriting and notes. He personally revised the manuscript several times. They are a leading socialite, have many homes and live in many places, including New York City, Rome, Portugal, and Palm Springs, California. After Swanson's death, Dufty returned to his former home in Birmingham, Michigan. He died of cancer in 2002.
Political view
Swanson is a Republican and supports the 1940 and 1944 campaigns for president Wendell Willkie, and the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater. In 1980, he chairs the New York of Seniors to Reagan-Bush chapter.
Death
Shortly after returning to New York from his home in Portugal, on April 4, 1983, Swanson died in New York City at New York Hospital due to heart disease, aged 84 years. He was cremated and his ashes buried in the Celestial Episcopal Church. Resting on Fifth Avenue, in New York City, was attended by only a small circle of families. Fellow mute star Jacqueline Logan died on the same day.
After Swanson's death, there was a series of auctions from August to September 1983 at William Doyle Gallery in New York from star furniture and decorations, jewelry, clothing, and memorabilia from his personal life and career.
Legacy
In 1960, Gloria Swanson was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for the film at 6750 Hollywood Boulevard, and another for television at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1955 and 1957, Swanson was awarded The George Eastman Award, awarded by George Eastman House for his remarkable contribution to the art of film, and in 1966 the museum honored him with a retrospective film career, A Tribute to Gloria Swanson , which aired several films between May 12-18. The parking lot by Sims Park in downtown New Port Richey, Florida, is named after the star, which is said to have properties along the Cotee River.
In 1982, a year before his death, Swanson sold more than 600 boxes of archives for an undisclosed amount, including photographs, artwork, film copies and personal papers including correspondence, contracts and financial transactions to Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. in Austin. The second largest collection of Swanson material is stored in the family archive of Timothy A. Rooks. In the last years of his life Swanson expressed a desire to see Beyond the Rocks , but the movie was not available and was considered missing. The film was rediscovered and screened in 2005.
As one of Hollywood's earliest major stars, today Swanson is best remembered for his role as Norma Desmond in the 1950s Sunset Boulevard.
Depictions
Swanson has been played on television and movies by the following actresses:
- 1984: Diane Venora at the Cotton Club
- 1990: Madolyn Smith at The Kennedys of Massachusetts
- 1991: Ann Turkel on White Hot: The Mysterious Killings of Thelma Todd
- 2008: Kristen Wiig on Saturday Night Live
- 2013: Debi Mazar at Return to Babylon
Moviesography
Awards and nominations
See also
- List of actors with Academy Award nominations
Note
References
- 1900 United States Federal Census, Chicago Ward 25, Lakeview Town, Cook County, Illinois, District Enumeration 760, page 8A (J.T. Swanson)
Further reading
External links
General
- Gloria Swanson on IMDb
- Gloria Swanson in the TCM Movie Database
- Gloria Swanson on Broadway Internet Database
- Gloria Swanson at Women's Film Pioneer Project
- Glorious Swanson - Tribute Site
- Gloria Swanson's paper at Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
- Gloria Swanson's photo and bibliography
Interview
- Gloria Swanson, video of The Mike Wallace Interview , April 28, 1957
- Gloria Swanson, interview at the Dick Cavette Show on YouTube, August 3, 1970
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