Gloria Swanson , of its name of birth Gloria Josephine Mae Svensson , born the March 27th 1897 with Chicago and dead the April 4th 1983, is an American actress .

Biography

Gloria Swanson begins its career into 1913 with the studios of Essanay with Chicago under the name of Gloria Mae. In 1916, she marries in first weddings Wallace Beery, movie actor attending the studios of Hollywood. Gloria Swanson plays in roles of heart to take, of assisted shopgirl, role very with the mode at the time. She plays one first big role in Don' T Change Your Husband (1919), film carried out by Cecil B. DeMille. She will interpret six roles in six films directed by DeMille, and which will be six triumphs.

In 1925, it makes in France a film carried out by Leonce Perret, friend of its third husband, the marquis Henri of the Cliff, in Madam off-handedness . She works on several projects with Joseph Patrick Kennedy, patriarch of the political clan of the United States, by making her beginnings of producing. Certain scandal sheets evoke some adventures between Gloria and Joseph P. Kennedy, adventures denied by the interested parties. Its first experiment as producing is not very happy. For its first produced film, the project is quickly abandoned for excessive going beyond of the budget envisaged.

It puts all its energy and its fortune (and that of his/her friends) in the production of a second film, Sadie Thompson (1928) by allotting the first role. Film which becomes a business success and critical undeniable, which catalogs it like voluntary and daring woman. She plays there the part of a prostitute violated by a fanatic monk, which is worth its first nomination as a better actress to him. The following year, it receives its second nomination for its role in the film The Trespasser . Its company of production carries out a daring film, the Queen Kelly (Queen Kelly) , directed by Erich Von Stroheim. Von Stroheim organizes a financial disorder, the whole added with erotic scenes, considered as libertines for the time. The film has only little success in Europe and it is withdrawn from the poster in the United States, which marks the end of a career of Erich Von Stroheim.

The journalists too early condemn the cinematographic career of Swanson, by inviting it through certain fallacious articles to withdraw itself in 1934. After some attempts at return, it succeeds in being essential in the film Boulevard of the twilight (Sunset Boulevard) of Billy Wilder, where it interprets a role very close to its life. It receives its third nomination for this film. It finishes its career with 747 in danger (Airport '75) in 1974.

Catalog of films

• 1916 : Teddy At the Throttle
• 1918: Every Woman' S Husband
• 1918: Her Decision
• 1918: The Secret Codes
• 1918: Shifting Sands
• 1918 : Society For Salts
• 1918: Station Content
• 1918: Wife gold Country
• 1918: You Can' T Believe Everything
• 1919: Don' T Changes Your Husband
• 1919: For Beter, For Worse
• 1919: Male and Female
• 1920: Something to Think Butt
• 1920: Does Why Change Your Wife?
• 1920: the Heart misleads us (The Affairs off Anatol)
• 1921: Don' T Such Everything
• 1921: The Great Moment
• 1921: Under the Lash
• 1922 : Beyond the Rock'n'rolls
• 1922: Her Gilded Cage
• 1922: Her Husband' S Trademark
• 1922: Impossible The Mrs. Bellew
• 1923 : Bluebeard' S Eighth Wife
• 1923: Hollywood
• 1923: My American Wife
• 1923 : Prodigal Daughters
• 1923 : Zaza
• 1924 : Her Love Story
• 1924: The Humming Bird
• 1924 : Manhandled
• 1924 : In Socitey Scandal
• 1924: Wages off Virtue
• 1924: Mrs Sans-Gêne of Leonce Perret
• 1925: The Coast off Folly
• 1925: Training course Struck
• 1926: Fine Manners
• 1926: The Untamed Lady
• 1927: The Coil Sunya
• 1928 off: Sadie Thompson
• 1928: the Queen Kelly (Queen Kelly) of Erich von Stroheim
• 1929: The Trespasser
• 1930 : What has Widow!
• 1931: Indiscreet
• 1931 : Tonight gold Never
• 1933: Perfect Understanding
• 1934 : Music in the Air
• 1941: Father Takes has Wife
• 1950: Boulevard of the twilight (Sunset Boulevard) with William Holden
• 1952: Three For Bedroom
• 1956 : Weekends of Néron (Me figlio Nerone)
• 1960: When Comedy Was King
• 1972 : Chaplinesque
• 1974 : 747 in danger (Airport 1975) of Jack Smight

Around Gloria

• First husband: Wallace Beery - married in 1916 and divorced in 1919

• Second husband: Herbert K. Somborn - married on December 20th, 1919 and divorced on August 9th, 1922 - 1 girl, Gloria Swanson Somborn (1921), and an adoptive son, Joseph Patrick
• Third husband: Marquis Henri of the Cliff of Coudraye - married the January 1925 and divorced in 1931
• Fourth husband: Michael Farmer - married in 1931 and divorced in 1934) - 1 girl, Michele Farmer (April 5th, 1932)
• Fifth husband: William Davey - married in 1945 and divorced in 1948
• Sixth husband: William Dufty - married in 1976 and divorced on April 4th, 1983

Anecdote

During a turning between Gloria and Rudolph Valentino, produced and distributed by the Paramount, a scene required a length kiss of good-bye. The American censure was present and refused these images, that must be withdrawn film, which made say to the director: “Each scene had to be drawn twice, for the American eyes ordered by a stop watch and the other for the foreigners. The Americans will see hardly the widened nostrils of Valentino”.