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Gloria Josephine Mae Swanson [1] (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) 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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Actress: Sunset Boulevard. Gloria Swanson was born Gloria May Josephine Svensson in Chicago, Illinois. She was destined to be perhaps one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. Her personality and antics in private definitely made her a favorite with America's movie-going public.
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- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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May 14, 2024 · Gloria Swanson (born March 17, 1899, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died April 4, 1983, New York, New York) was an American motion-picture, stage, and television actress who was known primarily as a glamorous Hollywood star during the 1920s and as the fading movie queen Norma Desmond in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard. Swanson, Gloria. Gloria Swanson.
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Oct 12, 2021 · Gloria Swanson Was More Than Ready for Her Close-Up. In her delicious (and slightly catty) autobiography Swanson on Swanson, the icon opened up about her feud with Charlie Chaplin, her...
Gloria Swanson was born Gloria May Josephine Svensson in Chicago, Illinois. She was destined to be perhaps one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. Her personality and antics in private definitely made her a favorite with America's movie-going public.
- Actress, Producer, Costume Designer
- April 4, 1983
- March 27, 1899
Mar 30, 2022 · Gloria Swanson had been one of the biggest and grandest stars in the silent movie era. So profound was her fame in the 1920s that newspapers of the era often referred to her simply as “Gloria”—everyone knew exactly who they meant.
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Apr 5, 1983 · Gloria Swanson, a symbol of enduring glamour who was perhaps the most glittering goddess of Hollywood's golden youth in the 1920's, died of a heart ailment yesterday in New York Hospital.
