It is through Norma that Gloria Swanson, who began in the movies as an extra in 1913, is a star again in 1950, playing with the exaggeration, the intensity and some of the extraordinary technique ...

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't ...

The Sunset Boulevard cast comprises some of the most prominent performers in film and theatre history. Discover top actors ...

When she was just 17, Gloria Swanson married Wallace Beery—but the couple was doomed to a dark end. advertisement. The Shot. Gloria Swanson Lived A True Hollywood Nightmare.

Gloria Swanson Honed in on Her Future Gloria stayed focused on the future. “She always was able to use her name, her clout, her legend and image to keep income coming in,” Shearer says.

Welcome to "Saturday Night at the Movies". I'm your host, Glenn Holland. Tonight's movie is the 1950 black comedy, film noir, takedown of Hollywood, "Sunset Boulevard".

These days, Gloria Swanson is most famous for her star turn in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, where she played Norma Desmond, a delusional, champagne-swilling movie star whose best days have long ...

Jodorowsky also wanted Gloria Swanson, Mick Jagger, Udo Kier, David Carradine, Orson Welles and more to star. Jodorowsky cast his 12-year-old son to play Paul Atreides, the role filled in this ...

25 Movies We Call Home. The standout films shot in Los Angeles star the city itself as a charismatic, colorful, ... Gloria Swanson plays forgotten silent star Norma Desmond, ...

Gloria Somborn Daly, daughter of actress Gloria Swanson and for years the operator of the landmark hat-shaped Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles, died of brain cancer Dec. 11 in Carmel. She was 80.

Gloria Swanson was just 50 when she was cast as the horrifyingly outdated silent-film star at the center of this very dark comedy/film noir. Doesn’t matter; she kills it.

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 ...