In , Swanson successfully transitioned to talkies with The Trespasser. However, personal problems and changing tastes saw her popularity wane during the s. Today she is best known for her role as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard. She attended Hawthorne Scholastic Academy. Swanson herself was as a Lutheran. Self - Panelist as Miss Gloria Swanson. Self - Co-Host. Show all 9 episodes. Self - Actress.
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Also represented is Swanson's involvement in other entertainment branches, which extended to radio , including The Gloria Swanson Show, , television , including The Gloria Swanson Hour broadcast during the "stone age" of television in , and theatre , including three Broadway productions, Twentieth Century, Nina, and Butterflies Are Free.
The film stills and other numerous photographs in this collection include the work of many photographers, among them Ernest A. Bachrach, Edward O. Swanson also kept extensive records of her efforts as a businesswoman, which included cosmetics, a fashion line, hosiery, an inventions and patents company, a travel agency, and writing assignments. Included are the records of Gloria Swanson Enterprises, Inc. Her fruitful and long lived association with Puritan Fashions Corp. Swanson's childhood, family life, and personal life are further documented through such personal papers as address books, appointment books, photographs, and various personal financial, legal, and property records.
There is a wide range of correspondence, located primarily in Series I. Bredin, Harry A. Delaney, Cecil B. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Schenck, Else Schiaparelli, David O. Somborn, Adela Rogers St. An extensive index of correspondents which also includes photographic subjects, prominent photographers, and some topics has been created in order to locate materials which are dispersed through the collection. The index is selective and should by no means be considered exhaustive.
Persons and subjects were selected for their own intrinsic importance, as well as their quantity and importance within the collection. Individual actors in the stills are not indexed. However, a Film Credits List is included in this inventory which lists the individual cast members for each of Swanson's films.
Though this collection is substantially complete, it is probably weakest in the area of personal materials for the s through the mids. The permanent move to New York in the late s, the arrival of long-time staffers such as Gladys Griffith in the s, and the longevity of these arrangements seem to have contributed to a more stable and consistent climate in which the more comprehensive papers of the s through the s were created. Items not present in this archive include the bulk of Miss Swanson's film holdings, which were acquired by George Eastman House in For further information on those materials, see folders For the disposition of certain other items after her death in , see box Series Descriptions.
Portrait of Gloria Swanson, oil on canvas, by P. Gina Tinnani. Portrait of Gloria Swanson, oil on canvas, by Randy J. Book Collection Books ca. The Collection File in the Reading Room card catalog also provides catalog cards for these items.
Included in Miss Swanson's library were copies of her autobiography, Swanson on Swanson including several foreign editions , inscribed copies of works by friends and acquaintances, and a number of rare volumes, including a first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses.
Also included are photographs of the exhibit while on display, as well as the reproductions, labels, captions, and videotapes used in the exhibit.
Files of press clippings document reaction to the exhibit. The papers of this well-known American actress encompass her long film and theater career, her extensive business interests, and her interest in health and nutrition, as well as personal and family matters. Open for research. For further information on the life of Gloria Swanson, see:. Swanson, Gloria. Born Mar. Paramount films made included: Her Husband's Trademark rel.
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