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Gloria Swanson
Gloria Mae Josephine Swanson was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which also earned her a Golden Globe Award.
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Born 27 March 1899 · Died 4 April 1983 · Q229232
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2026· 2 entries
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2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: Gloria Swanson’s 6 Husbands—Find Out Which One She Regreted the Most!
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo: Gloria Swanson ‘Lived Extravagantly’ and ‘Spent Wildly’: She ‘Always Lived for the Future’
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2013· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star
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1989· 1 entry
The Library of Congress chose Sunset Boulevard, along with 24 other films, "to be preserved in the permanent collection of the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as culturally, historically, and aesthetica
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1983· 3 entries
Died 1983-04-04.
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Having recently returned from her home on the Portuguese Riviera
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Much of the remainder of her holdings was purchased by UT Austin at an auction held at the Doyle New York gallery
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1982· 1 entry
A year before her death, Swanson sold her archives of more than 600 boxes for an undisclosed sum, including photographs, artwork, copies of films and private papers, including correspondence, contracts, and financial dea
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1981· 1 entry
He also ghostwrote Swanson's 1981 autobiography Swanson on Swanson, which became a commercial success.
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1980· 1 entry
Chaired the New York chapter of Seniors for Reagan-Bush
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1975· 2 entries
Swanson traveled the United States and helped to promote the book Sugar Blues written by her husband, William Dufty
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“Under God we became the freest, strongest, wealthiest nation on earth. Should we change that?”
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1974· 1 entry
Swanson was one of the honorees of the first Telluride Film Festival
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1973· 1 entry
Swanson reprised her impersonation of Charlie Chaplin from both Sunset Boulevard and Manhandled
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1964· 2 entries
Swanson spoke at a "Project Prayer" rally attended by 2,500 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles
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And, in the same year, she was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her performance in Burke's Law
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1962· 1 entry
And 1963 of the United States Supreme Court, which struck down mandatory prayer as conflicting with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution
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1960· 1 entry
Gloria Swanson was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures at 6750 Hollywood Boulevard, and another for television at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard
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1956· 1 entry
Swanson made Nero's Mistress, an Italian film shot in Rome, which starred Alberto Sordi, Vittorio de Sica and Brigitte Bardot
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1955· 1 entry
And 1957, Swanson was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film, and in 1966, the museum honored her with a career film retrospective, titled A Trib
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1954· 1 entry
Published Gloria Swanson's Diary, a general newsletter
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1953· 1 entry
In return, Swanson, who normally didn't do publicity events, helped to launch Devi's book at the Waldorf-Astoria in 1953.
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1951· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for Sunset Boulevard (1951).
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1948· 1 entry
In which she invited friends and others to be guests
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1947· 1 entry
Guest voiced on the CBS Suspense radio drama "Murder by the Book" portraying the lead character Emily Carlyle, an acclaimed yet trouble authoress who becomes involved in a real-life murder investigation while dealing
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1939· 1 entry
Created Multiprises, an inventions and patents company; Henri de la Falaise provided a transitional Paris office for the scientists and gave written documentation to authorities guaranteeing jobs for them
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1934· 1 entry
After she became involved with married British actor Herbert Marshall
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1931· 2 entries
Directed by Swanson and photographed by Gregg Toland
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Given that the movie title was inspired by the Offenthal fragrance name, an unprecedented tie-in advertising campaign was conceived to promote both the movie and the fragrance
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1930· 1 entry
Was the final film for Gloria Productions
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1929· 1 entry
Was a sound production, and garnered Swanson her second Oscar nomination
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1927· 1 entry
And together they conceived of making a film based on W
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1925· 3 entries
Accepting a six-picture distribution offer from president Joseph Schenck
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Swanson starred in the French-American comedy Madame Sans-Gêne, directed by Léonce Perret
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Swanson joined United Artists as one of the film industry's pioneering women filmmakers
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1923· 1 entry
Adopted one-year-old Sonny Smith, whom she renamed Joseph Patrick Swanson after her father
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1922· 1 entry
With her longtime friend Rudolph Valentino
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1921· 1 entry
For his appearance in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but Swanson had known him since his days as an aspiring actor getting small parts, with no apparent hope for his professional future
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1918· 1 entry
For $150 a week, to be raised to $200 a week, and eventually $350 a week
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1916· 2 entries
But by her wedding night she felt she had made a mistake and saw no way out of it
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For her roles in Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios comedy shorts opposite Bobby Vernon and directed by Clarence G
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1915· 1 entry
Co-starred in Sweedie Goes to College with her future first husband Wallace Beery
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1899· 2 entries
Born 1899-03-27.
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The only child of Adelaide (née Klanowski) and Joseph Theodore Swanson (né Svensson), a soldier
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