Schenck, and D. W. Griffith. Of all the women in the movies then, only Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson had their own producing units. Miss Pickford had the assistance of Douglas Fairbanks ...

Gloria Swanson might have been a pioneer within the film industry, as the star of the film Sunset Boulevard (which inspired the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical) among many other credits, but it wasn ...

This sumptuous illustrated biography, weighing in at more than four pounds, begins: “Gloria Swanson was a great motion picture star. Her pictures for Paramount in the 1920s made millions, and her ...

If you’ve seen the black-and-white film and Gloria Swanson’s hyper-dramatic performance as Norma Desmond, you’ll feel a sense of déjà vu watching Anna Sandor’s “Knock Loudly,” a play ...

Cinemagoers who saw Gloria Swanson in The Trespasser (TIME, Nov. 11) were surprised when she sang the tawdry theme song in a voice exceedingly pleasant. Hungarian Franz Lehar, venerable comic ...