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 ...

A crush on a movie star inspired teenage Gloria to talk her way onto her first film set. Advertisement By the dawn of the 1920s, Gloria was among Hollywood’s biggest silent-movie stars.

Gloria Swanson photographed at her home in New York City, 1965. ... The Movie Star of All Movie Stars. Swanson would be raised out of the slapstick muck by director Cecil B. DeMille, ...

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 ...

BIG NIGHT On March 29, 1951, Oscar nominees Gloria Swanson (“Sunset Boulevard”), Judy Holliday (“Born Yesterday”) and Jose Ferrer (“Cyrano de Bergerac”) attended a party at a W. 52nd ...

Swanson couldn’t let go of the character and wanted to make a musical version of it. “She became a huge, gigantic movie star, but she always wanted to sing,” Boulevard! A Hollywood Story ...

Gloria Swanson, star of the silent movies, and 300 students watched the Miss Swanson of 30-years ago cavort on the Fogg Large Room screen Tuesday night in an Ivy Films presentation of "Male and ...

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".

For this final column, let's take a look back at one of the stranger offerings from the archives of ABC Movie of the Week. Long, long ago, Gloria Swanson (1899-1983) was the most famous and highest ...

loria Swanson practically invented the movie star. There had been a few forerunners, notably Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, but Pickford specialized in playing golden-haired ingenues, and ...