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Gloria Swanson Biography

orig. Gloria May Josephine Svensson

(1899 - 1983)

Related Works

Silent Films
1919 Male and Female
1919 Why Change Your Wife?

1921 The Affairs of Anatol
1923 Zaza
1923 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1924 Manhandled
1925 Madame Sans-Gene
1928 Sadie Thompson
1928 Queen Kelly
Sound
1929 The Trespasser
1931 Tonight or Never
1941 Father Takes a Wife
1950 Sunset Boulevard
1974 Killer Bees (TV)
1974 Airport 1975

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(born March 17, 1899, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died April 4, 1983, New York, N.Y.) U.S. film actress. She played minor roles in comedies at the Mack Sennett studio before she was hired by Cecil B. DeMille and achieved stardom in a series of farces, including Male and Female (1919), Zaza (1923), and Madame Sans-Gêne (1925). The glamorous queen of silent movies, she formed her own production company with backing from her lover Joseph P. Kennedy, making Sadie Thompson (1928) and then the disastrous Queen Kelly (1928). After The Trespasser (1929), her first talkie, and several lighter vehicles, she tired of the poor scripts available, stopped making films, and started several business ventures outside the motion-picture industry. She made an acclaimed comeback as an aging silent-film star in Sunset Boulevard (1950).