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Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson 1899-1983, American movie actress, b. Chicago. Swanson began her film career in 1913, displaying an elegant comedic style in a series of films for director Cecil B. DeMille. Financed by Joseph Kennedy, she produced her own films from 1920 until 1929, including Sadie Thompson (1928)... Read more
motion pictures
motion pictures movie-making as an art and an industry, including its production techniques, its creative artists, and the distribution and exhibition of its products (see also motion picture photography ; Motion Picture Cameras under camera ). Origins Experiments in photographing mov... Read more

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Gloria Swanson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 1899-1983, American movie actress, b. Chicago. Swanson began her film career in 1913, displaying an elegant comedic...more films, but enjoyed continued success on television. Swanson appeared on Broadway in a revival of Twentieth Century (1952... Read more
Erich von Stroheim
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...left the United States and worked in Europe until his death in 1957. He returned to Hollywood only once, to portray Gloria Swanson's butler/ex-husband in Billy Wilder's 1950 film classic Sunset Boulevard. Von Stroheim enjoyed telling elaborate tales... Read more
Twentieth Century
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...over they added some touches of Jed Harris to their leading figure. The play was successfully revived in 1950 with Gloria Swanson and José Ferrer . Later it became the basis of the musical ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1978), written by Betty... Read more
William Cameron Menzies
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...for his work on The Dove and The Tempest. . Menzies' last silent film, made in 1928, was Sadie Thompson, starring Gloria Swanson. Menzies revolutionized film set decoration, transforming it from an incidental aspect of moviemaking to a central... Read more
Mack Sennett
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...his house in a bathtub. The Sennett Bathing Beauties, which featured such curvaceous creatures as Louise Fazenda and Gloria Swanson, added a touch of sexual delight to the then puritanical American film. Sennett's comedies, when they are at their... Read more
Billy Wilder
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Fox. One of his earliest film credits was as a writer for Music in the Air (1934), which featured the young actress Gloria Swanson; many years later she would become the star of Wilder's great film Sunset Boulevard. Wilder then went to Paramount... Read more

Dictionary entries related to " Gloria Swanson"

Swanson, Gloria
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers SWANSON, Gloria Nationality: American. Born: Gloria May Josephine Svensson in Chicago, Illinois...1919 — contract with Cecil B. DeMille; 1926 — formed Gloria Swanson Productions, with backing of producer Joseph Kennedy; 1938 — formed... Read more
Sunset Boulevard
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...William Holden ( Joe Gillis ); Gloria Swanson ( Norma Desmond ); Erich von Stroheim...Quirk, Lawrence J., The Films of Gloria Swanson , Secaucus, New Jersey, 1984...Spring 1963. Bodeen, DeWitt, "Gloria Swanson," in Films in Review (New York... Read more
Delaunay-Terk, Sonia
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...strong impact on the world of international fashion, designing creations for such famous women as Nancy Cunard and Gloria Swanson. The Depression affected her business, however, and in the 1930s she returned primarily to painting and became a member... Read more
The Lost Weekend
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...St. James ); Phillip Terry ( Wick Birnam ); Doris Dowling ( Gloria ); Frank Feylen ( Bim ); Mary Young ( Mrs. Deveridge ); Lillian...Ray Milland had so far given in his career; however, like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard he was to find the role something of a... Read more
Westmore Family, The
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...divorced 1936); daughters: Norma and Virginia; 2) the actress Gloria Dickson, 1938 (divorced 1940); 3) Julietta Novis, 1941...divorced 1951); 2) Johnnie Fay Rector, 1955 (divorced 1955); 3) Gloria Christian, 1968. Career: George: 1901 — opened hair...created the clean Latin look); and freelance artist ... Read more
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...unfulfilled writer who has taken to a form of prostitution by becoming the kept lover of a rich, older woman. Unlike Gloria Swanson, however, 2-E (Patricia Neal) isn't an actress but she displays a strong theatrical flair: on bursting into Paul's... Read more
Buckland, Wilfred
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...best proof of this is Cecil B. DeMille's Male and Female , which is best remembered for its bathroom sequence with Gloria Swanson. That bathroom owes as much to the imagination of Buckland as to DeMille's obsession with vulgarity. At the same time... Read more

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Pradise found: the belongings of yesterday's stars turn into treasures at a former Catholic church.(Innovation)(Company overview)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 8/13/2007; ; 700+ words ; NOT many businesses stock Liberace's chandeliers, Gloria Swanson's pink toilet and a pine table that belonged to Marlon...Hollywood household treasures. Among the prizes are Gloria Swanson's bathroom fixtures, an Irish Pine table that belonged... Read more
The call of the sirens: fashion this fall has the gleam and glamour of Hollywood's great glory days.
Magazine article from: Interview; 9/1/2005; ; 283 words ; ...Lauren Bacall, STEPHANIE B/Models 1 as Tippi Hedren and Gloria Swanson, DONNA McPHAIL/FM MODELS as Rita Hayworth, ANNABELLE...of Rita Hayworth [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shades of Gloria Swanson Echoes of Diana Dors Above: Dress by ALEXANDER McQUEEN... Read more
SOCIETY WORLD.
Magazine article from: Jet; 3/1/1999; 393 words ; * Sacred Union: Charles Routen and Gloria Swanson united in love at Messiah-St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church in Chicago, IL. The bride, a graduate of the Chicago College of Commerce... Read more
Sunset Boulevard. (New York, New York)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 2/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...noir about films, in which fading silent-screen siren Gloria Swanson played fading silent-screen siren Norma Desmond, and...the pictures that got small! and We had faces then! (Swanson spoke with exclamation marks.) In a dizzying circle... Read more
Star struck in the promised land. (investments by millionaires in motion picture industry)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 6/15/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...s simple - Hollywood. Since the days when actress Gloria Swanson was asking Mr. DeMille for those famous close-ups...West. He proceeded to have an affair with actress Gloria Swanson, among many others, and produced a number of films... Read more
James E. Shea, 80.(DEATHS)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 2/2/2008; 112 words ; ...loving wife, Alice Shea. Survived by sister, Margaret M. Swanson, of Medway and brother, William F. Shea of Bellingham. Survived...stepdaughter, Marie Samia of Rochdale, and nieces Pauline Swanson of Medway, Gloria Swanson-Ream of Tucson, AZ, and Kathleen Schram of Pascoag, RI... Read more
Washington abandons the family. (American family and budget deficit)
Magazine article from: National Review; 7/18/1986; ; 700+ words ; ...for the element of hypocrisy, the family has made, in terms of campaign appeals, the most spectacular comeback since Gloria Swanson's in sunset Boulevard. Ronald Reagan sings the family's praises; Mario Cuomo echoes and garbles them. The 1984 Republican... Read more
Seductive cipher: the first U.S. museum show for Katharina Sieverding centered on multiple self-portraits whose large scale and exaggerated glamour offer a wry critique of consumerist image manufacture.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...living room filled with countless portraits of the house's owner, Norma Desmond, a fading silent-movie star played by Gloria Swanson. She was just plain craw when it came to that one subject, her celluloid self, he says in a voiceover. One could have... Read more
(book reviews)
Magazine article from: Monthly Labor Review; 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; By Gloria Garrett Sampson. Westport, CT, Greenwood...interested in civil rights causes. As author Swanson also notes, Johnson was not alone in his...wealthy, university-degreed individuals. Swanson's style and writing makes the book easy... Read more
Closer up.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 6/11/2002; ; 145 words ; ...through the whole indelible story of Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) and her doomed gigolo (William Holden). He revisits...Brackett, their brilliant casting of the down-to-earth Swanson as the insane Norma, and the film's triumphant premiere... Read more