Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson ( Gloria May Josephine Svensson bourgeois; born March 27, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois, † April 4, 1983 in New York City ) was an American actress and producer. Gloria Swanson is one of the world's most recognized stars of the silent film era.
Career
Gloria Swanson began her film career in 1913 as one of the extras in the Essanay Company. There she met her first of six husbands, the well-known actor Wallace Beery know, and moved with him to Hollywood in 1915. The actress worked with often in the films of Mack Sennett. However, they insisted on never have been one of the bathing beauties who made lightly dressed in numerous comedies of Sennett variety.
In 1919 she was awarded a contract with Paramount, where she rose rapidly becoming one of the biggest stars of the studio. This was due primarily to the director Cecil B. DeMille. In his "Salon comedies " he put Swanson as a confident woman of society, has its own ideas about love and marriage. Why Change Your Wife strips as and Male and Female, a version of the comedy "The Admirable Crichton ", helped to make Swanson one of the most glamorous women of the 1920s. The actress took effect in 1922 and again in common with Rudolph Valentino in the film directed by Sam Wood Beyond the Rocks on. At the height of her career, she earned $ 22,500 per week and married in 1925 Henri de La Falaise, which earned her the title of Marquise de la Falaise. The studio tried everything in their power to build up an alleged rivalry between Swanson and Pola Negri, which Swanson but always rejected. Gloria Swanson presented in various films her talent for comedy and imitation of famous stars to the test. So they parodied Charles Chaplin in the strip Manhandled. Twenty-five years later, she presented him in a scene from Sunset Boulevard again dar. 1926 Gloria Swanson left the Paramount and produced her own films, to bring them about the company United Artists in the rental. Such an approach was time for big stars quite common. The Talmadge sisters Norma and Constance, Charlie Chaplin, Corinne Griffith and Colleen Moore acted at that time as an independent producer.
Most of the films were financially successful. The shooting of the film Queen Kelly, directed by Erich von Stroheim came, however, in 1928 fiasco. Swanson recognized during the filming that the film in the original version would never pass the censors. Stroheim was dismissed, and a hastily manufactured by Swanson even end could not save the movie. The filmed material landed in the archive. Swanson and her then life companion, Joseph P. Kennedy, the father of the 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy, with whom she had a son, allegedly lost $ 800,000 in this project. Gloria Swanson managed the change to talkies passable, and she was nominated for her performance in The Trespasser, directed by Edmund Goulding for an Oscar. However, the change in public taste led to a declining interest in their next films. After 1934, the actress drew largely back from the movie. A comeback attempt in the film Father Takes a Wife 1941 was unsuccessful.
Swanson played occasionally in the time and designed theater next to its own series of dresses that let them sell a large national retail chain. She worked a lot for the radio and came very early on television. In 1948 she was chosen by Life magazine to the " most beautiful grandmother in America."
Rather than fix solution Swanson in 1950 used by Billy Wilder in Sunset Boulevard as forgotten silent film diva Norma Desmond. She managed with Sunset Boulevard another great success, and she was nominated for the third time for the Oscar, but went to Judy Holliday. After that, she appeared in only three other films. Success for Gloria Swanson stayed out in the subsequent period; she was seen only in television productions and musicals. In addition, she was active as a defender of a healthy balanced diet.