Gloria Swanson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1899-03-27 (84 years old)

Deathday

1983-04-04

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Gloria Swanson

Biography

Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Acadamy Award in the Best Actress catagory. In 1929, Swanson successfully transitioned to talkies with The Trespasser. However, personal problems and changing tastes saw her popularity wane during the 1930s when she moved into Theater and TV. Today she is best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a faded silent film start, in the critically aclaimed film Sunset ...

Acting

1950

Sunset Boulevard

as Norma Desmond

1928

Sadie Thompson

as Sadie Thompson

1932

Queen Kelly

as Kitty Kelly / Queen Kelly

1974

Airport 1975

as Gloria Swanson

1915

The Fable of the Syndicate Lover

as Department Store Customer (uncredited)

1956

Nero's Mistress

as Agrippina

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd (archive footage)

1919

1922

Beyond the Rocks

as Theodora Fitzgerald

1919

Male and Female

as Lady Mary Lasenby

1920

Why Change Your Wife?

as Beth Gordon

1921

The Affairs of Anatol

as Vivian Spencer (Anatol's wife)

1929

The Trespasser

as Marion Donnell

1931

Indiscreet

as Geraldine 'Gerry' Trent

1941

Father Takes a Wife

as Leslie Collier Osborne

1927

The Love of Sunya

as Sunya Ashling

1914

The Fable of the Club Girls and the Four Times

as One of the Club Girls (uncredited)

1961

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

as Self (archive footage)

1934

Music in the Air

as Frieda Hotzfelt

1931

Tonight or Never

as Nella Vago

1923

Hollywood

as Gloria Swanson

1960

When Comedy Was King

as edited from 'Teddy at the Throttle' (archive footage)

1934

The Camera Speaks

as Self (archive footage)

1925

Stage Struck

as Jennie Hagen

1923

Zaza

as Zaza

1917

1918

Shifting Sands

as Marcia Grey

1924

Manhandled

as Tessie McGuire

1974

Killer Bees

as Madame Maria von Bohlen

1933

Perfect Understanding

as Judy Rogers

1952

1926

Fine Manners

as Orchid Murphy

1931

The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)

1917

Teddy at the Throttle

as Gloria Dawn

1925

Madame Sans-Gêne

as Catherina Hubscher

1946

Dear Miss Gloria

as Miss Gloria

1922

1933

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1950

The Golden Twenties

as Self (archive footage)

1921

The Great Moment

as Nada Pelham / Nadine Pelham

1925

The Coast of Folly

as Joyce Gathway / Nadine Gathway

1918

Station Content

as Kitty Manning

1920

Something to Think About

as Ruth Anderson

1919

For Better, for Worse

as Sylvia Norcross

1918

Society for Sale

as Phylis Clyne

1930

What a Widow!

as Tamarind Brook

1922

My American Wife

as Natalie Chester

1915

His New Job

as Stenographer (uncredited)

1916

The Danger Girl

as The Danger Girl - Reggie's Madcap Sister

1917

The Pullman Bride

as The Pullman Bride

1923

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

as Mona deBriac

1923

Prodigal Daughters

as Swifty Forbes

1924

The Humming Bird

as Toinette

1933

The Film Parade

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1917

Whose Baby?

as The Wife

1943

Happy Times and Jolly Moments

as (archive footage)

2007

1918

Every Woman's Husband

as Edith Emerson

1916

A Social Cub

as Gloria

1924

A Society Scandal

as Marjorie Colbert

1916

The Nick of Time Baby

as The Blacksmith's Daughter

1926

The Untamed Lady

as St. Clair Van Tassel

1924

Her Love Story

as Princess Marie

1924

Wages of Virtue

as Carmelita

1916

A Dash of Courage

as The Prominent Citizen

1916

Hearts and Sparks

as Gloria - Bobby's Sweetheart

1916

Haystacks and Steeples

as Gloria - the Society Girl

1917

Baseball Madness

as The Heiress

1918

Her Decision

as Phyllis Dunbar

1918

You Can't Believe Everything

as Patricia Reynolds

1918

The Secret Code

as Sally Carter Rand

1918

Wife or Country

as Sylvia Hamilton

1921

Under the Lash

as Deborah Krillet

1921

Don't Tell Everything

as Marian Westover

1922

Her Gilded Cage

as Suzanne Ornoff

1915

At the End of a Perfect Day

as Hands Bouquet to Holmes

1915

The Ambition of the Baron

as Minor Role (uncredited)

1915

Sweedie Goes to College

as Betty - College Girl

1915

The Romance of an American Duchess

as Minor Role (uncredited)

1915

1922

1973

2021

Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

as Self (archive footage)

1949

Down Memory Lane

as (archive footage)

Production

1930

What a Widow!

as Producer

1933

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