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A Short Biography of Gloria Swanson

Author Name:

Gloria Swanson

Born As:

Gloria Mae Josephine Svensson

Other Names:

Born:

27 Mar 1899

Died:

4 Apr 1983




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Selected Works:

Features:

Society for Sale - 1918
Her Decision - 1918
Station Content - 1918
You Can't Believe Everything - 1918
Everywoman's Husband - 1918
Shifting Sands - 1918
The Secret Code - 1918
Don't Change Your Husband - 1919
For Better, for Worse - 1919
Male and Female - 1919
Why Change Your Wife? - 1920
Something to Think About - 1920
The Great Moment - 1921
The Affairs of Anatol - 1921
Under the Lash - 1921
Don't Tell Everything - 1921
Her Husband's Trademark - 1922
Her Gilded Cage - 1922
Beyond the Rocks - 1922
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew - 1922
My American Wife - 1922
Prodigal Daughters - 1923
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife - 1923
Hollywood - 1923 - Cameo
Zaza - 1923
The Humming Bird - 1924
A Society Scandal - 1924
Manhandled - 1924
Her Love Story - 1924
Wages of Virtue - 1924
Madame Sans-Gêne - 1924
The Coast of Folly - 1925
Stage Struck - 1925
The Untamed Lady - 1926
Fine Manners - 1926
The Love of Sunya - 1927
Sadie Thompson - 1928
Queen Kelly - 1929
The Trespasser - 1929
What a Widow! - 1930
Indiscreet - 1931
Tonight or Never - 1931
Perfect Understanding - 1933
Music in the Air - 1934
Father Takes a Wife - 1941
Sunset Boulevard - 1950
Three for Bedroom "C" - 1952
Nero's Mistress - 1956
Chaplinesque, My Life and Hard Times - 1972 - documentary - narrator
Airport 1975 - 1974

Short Subjects

The Song of the Soul - 1914
At the End of a Perfect Day - 1915
The Ambition of the Baron - 1915
The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket - 1915
His New Job - 1915
Sweedie Goes to College - 1915
The Romance of an American Duchess - 1915
The Broken Pledge - 1915
The Nick of Time Baby - 1916
A Dash of Courage - 1916
Hearts and Sparks - 1916
A Social Cub - 1916
The Danger Girl - 1916
Haystacks and Steeples - 1916
Teddy at the Throttle - 1917
Baseball Madness - 1917
Dangers of a Bride - 1917
Whose Baby? - 1917
The Sultan's Wife - 1917
The Pullman Bride - 1917
Wife or Country - 1918
A Trip to Paramountown - 1922
Gloria Swanson Dialogue - 1925

Television Work

Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson - 1954-1955
Killer Bees - 1974
Guest on ABC Television's Dick Cavett Show, 1970 August 3, available on the DVD Dick Cavett Show Rock Icons.                          
Mother Adelaide Klanoski
Father Joseph Svensson

Husband one  Beery (1916-1919
Husband two Herbert K. Somborn - 1919-1922, one daughter Gloria Swanson Somborn
Husband three Henri de la Falaise - 1925-1931
Husband four Michael Farmer  - 1931-1934  one daughter Michelle Bridget Farmer
Husband five  William N. Davey - 1945-1948
Husband six William Dufty - 1976-1983                          
Academy Award nominations

1951 - Best Actress in a Leading Role - Sunset Boulevard
1930 - Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Trespasser
1929 - Best Actress in a Leading Role - Sadie Thompson
                          
Gloria Swanson said, she and Davey actually cohabited forty-five days.
Gloria Swanson had an affair with married tycoon Joseph Kennedy for a number of years. He became her business partner and their affair was an open secret in Hollywood circles.