Gloria Swanson
Birthday: 1899-03-27
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography: Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Acadamy Award in the Best Actress catagory. In 1929, Swanson successfully transitioned to talkies with The Trespasser. However, personal problems and changing tastes saw her popularity wane during the 1930s when she moved into Theater and TV. Today she is best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a faded silent film start, in the critically aclaimed film Sunset Boulevard (1950). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gloria Swanson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Sunset Boulevard
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...
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Sadie Thompson
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago ...
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Queen Kelly
A prince betrothed to a mad queen falls in love with an orphan girl from a convent....
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Airport 1975
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardes...
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The Fable of the Syndicate Lover
Kate had a very devoted beau known as George. George loved the girl so hard that he loved all her re...
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Dangers of a Bride
Dangers of a Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence Badger and Bobby Verno...
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Nero's Mistress
Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is prepar...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to ...
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Don't Change Your Husband
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking...
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Beyond the Rocks
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman...
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Male and Female
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler....
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The Affairs of Anatol
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excit...
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Why Change Your Wife?
Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons...
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The Trespasser
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family...
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The Love of Sunya
A young woman at life's crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her fu...
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Father Takes a Wife
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate....
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Indiscreet
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past sh...
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The Fable of the Club Girls and the Four Times
Once a lot of grown-up girls organized a club for the discussion of current evils. The principal cur...
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and h...
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Music in the Air
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead rol...
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Tonight or Never
A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, unti...
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Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l...
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When Comedy Was King
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, B...
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The Camera Speaks
In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent f...
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Stage Struck
Daydreaming waitress Jennie Hagen fantasizes about becoming a famous actress, while in reality she a...
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Zaza
Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Ber...
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The Sultan's Wife
On a sailing trip, sweethearts Bobby and Gloria arrive in a very sinister-looking India, where an ev...
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Shifting Sands
Marcia Grey is wrongly convicted on trumped-up evidence of a German. After serving her term, she reb...
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Manhandled
A comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up ...
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Killer Bees
A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strang...
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Perfect Understanding
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement...
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Three for Bedroom C
After beginning their train trip to California, a famous film actress and her daughter discover thei...
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Fine Manners
The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve....
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A Trip to Paramountown
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, feat...
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The House That Shadows Built
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pict...
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Teddy at the Throttle
Gloria Dawn lives down the hall from her sweetheart, Bobbie Knight. The dishonest Henry Black is Glo...
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Dear Miss Gloria
A short subject, intended as the first of a series, where Gloria Swanson plays "Miss Gloria," advice...
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Her Husband’s Trademark
James Berkeley (who wants to get rich) and Allan Franklin (determined to be a great engineer) are ri...
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots....
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The Golden Twenties
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles...
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The Great Moment
Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Romani Russian, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's ...
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The Coast of Folly
Unable to abide her self-righteous husband, Nadine Gathway leaves home and drops out of sight for 20...
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist....
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Station Content
A wayward wife abandons her husband but finds redemption by preventing a railway accident and findin...
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Something to Think About
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to th...
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Men Who Rate a 10
Variety special hosted by Barbara Eden, Gloria Swanson, and Brooke Shields that celebrates the men w...
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For Better, for Worse
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, b...
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Society for Sale
Successful model, Phyllis Clyne, convinces a down-and-out nobleman, Billy, to pass her off in societ...
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What a Widow!
A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes par...
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My American Wife
Manuel La Tessa, son of a wealthy South American family, meets Natalie Chester, a young Kentucky wom...
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The Danger Girl
Madcap Gloria disguises herself as a man, in order to lure a "dangerous" vamp away from her beau, Bo...
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His New Job
When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and r...
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Round About Hollywood
This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen f...
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The Pullman Bride
The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring ...
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Bluebeard's 8th Wife
John Brandon, an American millionaire, has been married seven times but never found love. Then, when...
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Prodigal Daughters
Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Fo...
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The Humming Bird
A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war and she disguises herself...
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The Film Parade
Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the mo...
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era....
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well...
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Every Woman's Husband
A young woman whose domineering mother almost ruins her marriage eventually learns that mother does ...
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A Social Cub
A Social Cub is a 1916 short silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria S...
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A Society Scandal
Hector Colbert sues his wife Marjorie for a divorce after Peters, an admirer of Marjorie, deliberate...
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The Nick of Time Baby
The Nick of Time Baby is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starr...
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The Misjudged Mr. Hartley
In honor of his return from abroad, Mrs. Worthington invites her cousin, Brian Hartley, to dinner th...
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Wages of Virtue
A carnival strongman and his girlfriend flee to Algiers to escape a murder charge but there they are...
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Her Love Story
When Princess Marie of the Balkan kingdom of Viatavia falls in love with Captain Rudi of the King's ...
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The Untamed Lady
A spoiled rich girl is brought down to earth by the man who loves her....
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The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket
The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket is a 1915 silent film directed by Richard Foster ...
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Hearts and Sparks
Hearts and Sparks is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Parrott (Charley Chase) ...
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A Dash of Courage
A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fe...
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The Secret Code
Sally Carter Rand, married to an elderly senator, is accused of espionage, but she is able to clear ...
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You Can't Believe Everything
Patricia Reynolds, the belle of the summer resort she is visiting with her friend, Amy Powellson, at...
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Under the Lash
The wife of a tyrannical Boer husband discovers what life could be like when a handsome Englishmen v...
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Her Decision
A secretary (Gloria Swanson) uses her boss to get money for her unfortunate sister (Ann Kroman) but ...
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Wife or Country
Sylvia Hamilton rehabilitates an alcoholic attorney and marries him. When World War I breaks out, sh...
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Haystacks and Steeples
A farm boy falls for a glamorous society girl who is engaged to another man....
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Baseball Madness
Baseball Madness is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Billy Mason and starring Gloria S...
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Her Gilded Cage
A romance about a dancer seeking love and fame from Paris cabarets to New York society....
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Don't Tell Everything
Two men in love with the same woman are further complicated by the arrival of a second woman....
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At the End of a Perfect Day
The story opens with an old couple in the evening of life, sitting by the fireside reminiscing the h...
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The Ambition of the Baron
A young woman is used as a pawn to entice Count Jean de Lugnan into a game of ruritanian political i...
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The Romance of an American Duchess
The Duke de Longtour, a European nobleman, with impoverished estates, comes to America and wins the ...
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The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
Lance Bellew ignores his wife, Betty, for his mistress, Naomi Templeton, but becomes so enraged when...
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Sweedie Goes to College
Sweedie, the cook, reads an ad in the newspaper for a maid to give her services in exchange for coll...
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The Broken Pledge
Three young girls, pledged to spinsterhood and contempt for mankind, go camping in the woods. Three ...
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The Age of Ballyhoo
A television documentary about the Twenties told through the use of Hollywood movies, audio recordin...
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Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
In the mid-1950s, Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, young composers and romantic partners, are hir...
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Down Memory Lane
This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett sil...
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Broadway Gossip No.2
Leo Donnelly in the role of a Broadway columnist who interviews stars, celebrities and wannabees and...
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