Gloria Swanson

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 The film has only little success in Europe and it is withdrawn from the poster in the United States, which marks the end of a career of Erich Von Stroheim.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”.

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