Gloria Swanson
1899-1983|
Biography
Born in Chicago, Illinois, USA 
Gloria Swanson Quotes
“The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.”“The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.” “The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.” “Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.” “My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.” “Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.” “Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.” “Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.” “I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.” “I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.” “All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.” “Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don’t know how.” “When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That’s the story of my private life.” “The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.” “The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.” “If you’re 40 years old and you’ve never had a failure, you’ve been deprived.” “There was no place at all for me in my father’s military world.” “I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.” “My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.” “Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.” “I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.” “As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.” “I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.” “In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.” “The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.” “Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.” “All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.” “By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.” “My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.” “I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.” “I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.” “We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.” “I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.” “After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.” “At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.” “Because I take care of my body, it doesn’t look like the body of a woman of my years.” “From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.” “I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.” “I am a very pragmatic person.” “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.” “I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director’s chair.” “I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.” “I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book.” “Nobody gets anything for nothing.” “One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn’t care for the medium. It depressed me.” “The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.” “The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.” “Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don’t eat.” |
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The Actress
Gloria Swanson has appeared in the following films:The Song of the Soul (1914) The Misjudged Mr. Hartley (1915) At the End of a Perfect Day (1915) The Ambition of the Baron (1915) His New Job (1915) The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket (1915) Sweedie Goes to College (1915) The Romance of an American Duchess (1915) The Broken Pledge (1915) The Nick of Time Baby (1916) Sunshine (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) 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) Wife or Country (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) Gloria Swanson and Thomas Meighan (1922) 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) 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) Mio figlio Nerone (1956) Airport 1975 (1974) |
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