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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
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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 Gloria Swanson 1899-1983, American movie actress, b. Chicago. Swanson began her film career in 1913, displaying an elegant...films, but enjoyed continued success on television. Swanson appeared on Broadway in a revival of Twentieth Century...
William Cameron Menzies
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...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...
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...
Billy Wilder
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...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...
Polish Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement ...beginning of the twenty-first century Polish Americans participated fully in American society, and some, such as Gloria Swanson, Charles Bronson (Buchinski), and Loretta Swit, gained popularity and fame. Settlements According to estimates...
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...
Mack Sennett
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...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...

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Swanson, Gloria
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers SWANSON, Gloria Nationality: American. Born: Gloria...Somborn, 1919 (divorced), daughter: Gloria, adopted son: Joseph; 3) Marquis...DeMille; 1926—formed Gloria Swanson Productions, with backing of producer...
Sunset Boulevard
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...William Holden (Joe Gillis ); Gloria Swanson (Norma Desmond ); Erich von...Lawrence J., The Films of Gloria Swanson, Secaucus, New Jersey, 1984...Spring 1963. Bodeen, DeWitt, "Gloria Swanson," in Films in Review (New York...
Westmore Family, The
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Norma and Virginia; 2) the actress Gloria Dickson, 1938 (divorced 1940...Rector, 1955 (divorced 1955); 3) Gloria Christian, 1968. Career: George...look); and freelance artist for Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, and Sonia Henie...
The Lost Weekend
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Phillip Terry (Wick Birnam ); Doris Dowling (Gloria ); Frank Feylen (Bim ); Mary Young (Mrs. Deveridge...Milland had so far given in his career; however, like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard he was to find the role something...
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...
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...
Delaunay-Terk, Sonia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...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...

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The Kennedy's: Joe Sr. & the Gloria Swanson Affair Series: The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/22/1987; ; 700+ words ; Joe Kennedy first met Gloria Swanson in the Renaissance Room of the...American Saga." For Joe Kennedy, Gloria Swanson must have been, on first meeting...mad, lush years of the '20s, Gloria Swanson had decided early on that while...
GLORIA SWANSON, AT 78; HELPED SUPPORT VIETNAMESE ORPHANAGES
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/25/2000; 470 words ; Gloria Theresa (Carlson) Swanson, who raised money and collected food...longtime resident of Wareham, Mrs. Swanson was living in Jonesboro, Maine...was the wife of the late Robert C. Swanson, a career sergeant in the Air Force...
Starring role at last for THAT rug; Maria Breslin looks at how the fur flew over Gloria Swanson's tiger rug.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 8/14/1998; 640 words ; ...to Hollywood's own tigress, Gloria Swanson. The tiger skin on which the...last month. It was given to Ms Swanson - a major star of both silent...with her on some other fur?" Gloria Swanson, renowned for her lavish lifestyle...
Longue Vue Farm on market: former estate of Gloria Swanson.
Magazine article from: Fairfield County Business Journal; 3/28/2005; 700+ words ; ...once the country estate of actress Gloria Swanson, is being offered for sale by...the Hudson River and Palisades. Swanson bought the home while married to...Falaise, who was a filmmaker. Swanson's marriage to the marquis marked...
Ready for her close-up; In the larger-than-life role of silent- movie queen Norma Desmond, in the footsteps of film divas Gloria Swanson and Glenn Close, tonight at the Orpheum it's `Sunset Boulevard' starring ... Linda Balgord, a virtual unknown.(VARIETY)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 12/26/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Petula Clark and, of course, Gloria Swanson, you've got to be ready for...1950 Billy Wilder film, starring Gloria Swanson, William Holden and Erich von...through me. I can't imitate Gloria Swanson, and I never saw Glenn Close...
Gloria Swanson bracelets on display
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/2/1997; 217 words ; Gloria Swanson in Perfect Understanding (1933) wearing her diamond Cartier bracelets, on display from tomorrow at the British Museum's Cartier show
OBIT - ALDERMAN, GLORIA SWANSON
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 12/10/2006; 307 words ; Gloria Swanson Alderman, 77, of Hillsville, passed away Saturday, December 9, 2006 at Edgemont Center in Wytheville. Mrs. Alderman was...
An acquaintance with picture shows: From Fuzzy Knight to Gloria Swanson
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 3/29/2002; ; 640 words ; HOLLYWOOD movie scenes shot in New Martinsville (with Gloria Swanson) are recalled in the current Goldenseal magazine, a publication I recommend to all who are interested in our state's past...
Daddy Warbucks: when Joseph Kennedy came to Hollywood, he lay down with dogs and woke up with Gloria Swanson.(Carl Beauchamp's Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years )
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Magazine; 2/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...mainly, if dimly, as the man who wrecked Erich von Stroheim's career by pulling the plug--at the behest of Gloria Swanson, the production's long-suffering star and Kennedy's then-mistress--on the director's madly ambitious...
Fashion & style: Costume dramas Haute couture's love affair with Hollywood stretches back to the days of Gloria Swanson. And a new crop of style-conscious movies from the likes of Madonna and Renee Zellweger proves that the romance is still very much alive, says JAMES SHERWOOD
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/29/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...and How to Steal a Million. But there are far more tales of fashion-and-film fall-outs than of happy unions. Gloria Swanson fired Coco Chanel because she deemed the costumes for her 1931 film Tonight or Never too understated. Elsa Schiaparelli...