Gloria Swanson
American actress (1899-1983) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 84
Gloria Mae Josephine Swanson was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which also earned her a Golden Globe Award.
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HollywoodSeries1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimancheSeries1971V.I.P. SchaukelSeries1967
The Carol Burnett ShowSeries1963
Burke's LawSeries, Venus Hekate Walsh1962
The Alfred Hitchcock HourSeries, Mrs. Daniels1960
When Comedy Was KingFilm, (archive footage) (uncredited)1959The Big PartySeries1956
The Steve Allen ShowSeries1952
This Is Your LifeSeries1951Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture DramaAward1950
Sunset BoulevardFilm, Norma Desmond1948
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries1934
Music in the AirFilm, Frieda Hotzfelt1931
IndiscreetFilm, Geraldine 'Gerry' Trent1929
Queen KellyFilm, Producer1927
The Love of SunyaFilm, Sunya Ashling1925
Stage StruckFilm, Jennie Hagen1923
HollywoodFilm, Gloria Swanson1921
The Affairs of AnatolFilm, Vivian Spencer (Anatol's wife)1919
Don't Change Your HusbandFilm, Leila Porter1917
Teddy at the ThrottleFilm, Gloria Dawn1915
His New JobFilm, Stenographer (uncredited)1899Born27 March 1899People around Gloria
Cecil B. DeMille Directed Male and Female (1919)
Mack Sennett Produced The Danger Girl and The Sultan's Wife
Sam Wood Directed Beyond the Rocks (1922)
Adolph Zukor Produced Madame Sans-Gene and The Great Moment
Allan Dwan Directed A Society Scandal and Her Love Story
Jesse Louis Lasky Produced Male and Female and Beyond the Rocks
Clarence G. Badger Directed The Danger Girl and The Sultan's Wife
Julia Faye Also in Sunset Boulevard and Male and Female
Theodore Roberts Also in Male and Female (1919)
Albert Parker Directed The Love of Sunya and The Secret Code
Forrest Halsey Wrote A Society Scandal and Madame Sans-Gene
Jeanie MacPherson Wrote Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
Frank Tuttle Produced Manhandled (1924)
Elliott Dexter Also in For Better, for Worse (1919)
Sylvia Ashton Also in Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
Bobby Vernon Also in Teddy at the Throttle (1917)
Helen Dunbar Also in The Great Moment (1921)
Clarence Burton Also in Male and Female (1919)
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Produced The Trespasser (1929)
Jack Conway Directed Her Decision (1918)
Raymond Hatton Also in Male and Female (1919)
Ian Keith Gloria produced The Love of Sunya (1927)
Gertrude Astor Also in Sunset Boulevard and Beyond the Rocks- Frank Butler Also in My American Wife and The Great Moment
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Sunset Boulevard 1950
Queen Kelly 1929
Airport 1975 1974
His New Job 1915
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
129 credits on file
Television 24
Media & music
Photos 12
Bobby Vernon with Swanson and Teddy the Dog in Teddy at the Throttle (1917)
Swanson in 1917
Swanson photographed by Alfred Cheney Johnston (1919)
Swanson in a production still for Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
Swanson and Rudolph Valentino in Beyond the Rocks (1922)
Swanson on the March 7, 1925, cover of Liberty magazine
Portrait of Gloria Swanson by Milena Pavlović-Barili
