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6 unusual facts about Gloria Swanson


Fireboy

In the album's liner notes McLennan said the songs were for Gloria Swanson, Kenneth Slessor, Brett Whiteley and Dean Martin.

Georges de la Falaise

James Henry Le Bailly de La Falaise, Ecuyer 1898—1972), who married American movie stars Gloria Swanson and Constance Bennett

Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A

Gloria Swanson's character Norma Desmond's initials are on the rear doors of the car.

Ken Sykora

For BBC Radio 2, he created and presented the program series Be My Guest, interviewing Count Basie, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Andrés Segovia, Isaac Stern and Gloria Swanson, among others.

Sara Leighton

She recalls her encounters with many of her clients and friends including Lord Olivier, The Prince of Wales, Muhammad Ali, Sheikh Yamani, Gloria Swanson, Pietro Annigoni, Sir Roger Moore, Jean Rook, David Niven, Shirley Bassey, Joan Collins, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, The Princess Royal and the Beaverbrook family.

The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket

Gloria Swanson - Farina, Elvira's Daughter (as Gloria Mae Swanson)


Cari Beauchamp

She has also appeared as expert on film history in over a half dozen documentaries including Gloria Swanson: The Greatest Star (AMC), Kevin Brownlow's Garbo for Turner Classic Movies, several episodes of Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood, narrated by Christopher Plummer (2010), and in 2012 she appeared in Mark Cousin's production of The Story of Film: An Odyssey.

Dixie Walesbilt Hotel

Original owners included then Governor Martin of Florida and silent screen star Thomas Meighan along with a consortium of other actors/actress' including Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow as well as famous Hollywood attorney Nathan Burkan and Hollywood Producer Victor Heerman.

Gabriel von Max

In 1908, his painting "The Lion's Bride" became celebrated, and was depicted in motion pictures as an hommage in the Gloria Swanson film, Male and Female, (1919), directed by Cecil B. de Mille.

George Ohsawa

William Dufty, sixth husband of actress Gloria Swanson and noted author of "Lady Sings the Blues", the 1956 autobiography of blues singer Billie Holiday, borrowed this concept as the title of his book "You Are All Sanpaku", which was based on Sakurazawa Nyoichi's teachings.

Gertrude Astor

Her best known silent appearances were as the visiting stage star in Stage Struck (1925) with Gloria Swanson, as the vamp who plants stolen money on Harry Langdon in The Strong Man (1926), and as Laura LaPlante's wisecracking travelling companion in The Cat and the Canary (1927).

Key West Heritage House Museum and Robert Frost Cottage

The Heritage House was the gathering place for some of the island's most famous celebrities, such as Robert Frost, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, Gloria Swanson and Sally Rand.

Keystone Studios

Many other important actors also worked at Keystone toward the beginning of their film careers, including Marie Dressler, Harold Lloyd, Mabel Normand, Roscoe Arbuckle, Gloria Swanson, Louise Fazenda, Raymond Griffith, Ford Sterling, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon, Al St. John and Chester Conklin.

Murray Bernthal

For many years, he welcomed a variety of stars to Central New York such as: Gloria Swanson, Charlton Heston, Tom Jones, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Bela Lugosi, Beverly Sills, Luciano Pavarotti and Arthur Rubinstein.

Return to Babylon

Photographed with a hand-cranked camera and scored with music of the roaring twenties, this silent film strings together the lives of the most famous and infamous stars of the 1920s, including Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lupe Vélez, Fatty Arbuckle, and William Desmond Taylor.


see also

Black Bread

The screenplay is based on the homonymous novel by Emili Teixidor, with elements of two other works by him, Retrat d'un assassí d'ocells and Sic transit Gloria Swanson.