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- When Michelle Bridget Farmer was born on 5 April 1932, her father, Michael Farmer, was 30 and her mother, Gloria May Josephine Swanson, was 33.
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When Michelle Bridget Farmer was born on 5 April 1932, her father, Michael Farmer, was 30 and her mother, Gloria May Josephine Swanson, was 33. She had at least 1 daughter with Albert Robert Amon. She immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1934 and lived in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1935 and New ...
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Born in St George Hanover Square, London, England UK on 5 Apr 1932 to Francis Michael Farmer and Gloria Swanson. Michelle Bridget Farmer-Amon married Albert Robert Amon and had 1 child . She passed away in New York, New York, New York .
- Female
- April 5, 1932
- St George Hanover Square, London, England UK
Parents. Michael Farmer, born May 9, 1902 (Friday) - Cork, Ireland, deceased in June, 1975 - Chester, Cheshire, UK aged 73 years old Married August 16, 1931 (Sunday) to; Gloria Swanson, born March 27, 1897 (Saturday) - Chicago, Illinois, USA, deceased April 4, 1983 (Monday) - New York City aged 86 years old,
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Gloria May Josephine Swanson entered the world on March 27, 1899, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the only child of her two parents Joseph Theodore Swanson and Adelaide Swanson (née Klanowski). Only child andan Aries? That’s a troublesome combo in the making. Don’t believe in that kind of thing? Well, just you wait and see... Wikimedia Commons
No one was a bigger star than Gloria Swanson in the final days of the silent film era. Of course, no one was paid as much either—but don’t think that Swanson saved her funds for a rainy day. She spent almost all of the $8 million she earned in the 1920s. Wikimedia Commons
After disappearing from the screen for most of the 30s and 40s, Swanson returned to Hollywood in an unforgettable way. She starred in iconic film Sunset Boulevard as Norma Desmond, a past-her-prime silent film star determined to make a comeback. It is easily ranked among the best films ever made—on countless critic’s lists top lists, the Library of...
When she played the unforgettable Norma Desmond, Gloria Swanson had the chance to drop some of the most iconic movie quotes in cinema history. Among them, “I am big! It’s the pictures that got small,” “We didn’t need dialogue, we had faces!” and perhaps the most famous line of all, “Alright, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my closeup.” Sunset Blvd. (195...
At the first ever Academy Awards in 1928, Gloria Swanson was nominated in the Best Actress category, making her one of three to have the honor of first nominee, alongside Louise Dresser and Janet Gaynor. At that point, nominees were judged on their body of work during the year, so while Swanson was nominated for one film, Sadie Thompson, Gaynor’s n...
In 1914, a young Gloria Swanson was visiting Chicago-based film studio Essanay with her aunt when a talent scout spotted her. She was asked to come back and work as an extra sometime. After a few months as an extra, Swanson dropped out of high school to work full time. Another famous Essanay alumni? Well, none other than Charlie Chaplin. Flickr, Th...
After a string of failed marriages ruined by extramarital affairs, Swanson was determined to keep one of her relationships on the straight and narrow—but sadly, this time she was faced with a problem even she couldn’t solve. Swanson’s fifth husband George William Daley was an alcoholic, and after she and her daughter found him passed out drunk, the...
In her early years in Hollywood, Swanson may have been known for her collaborations with Bobby Vernon, but her most iconic creative partnership was yet to come. When she signed with Paramount Pictures in 1919, she began working with director Cecil B. DeMille—he is now credited with turning little Gloria Swanson into a full-blown star. Wikimedia Com...
Between 1919 and 1921, Swanson and DeMille made a total of six films together, with him directing and her playing the romantic lead. Their first collaboration together, Don’t Change Your Husband, was Swanson’s first big hit film, setting the stage for the films that followed. Wikimedia Commons
One scene in DeMille’s 1919 film Male and Femalerequired Swanson, whose character is shipwrecked with a small group on a deserted island, to act alongside real lions. At first, DeMille had wanted to cut the scene entirely, knowing how dangerous it could be, but Swanson talked him into keeping it and even demanded that she do the scene herself. Howe...
Gloria Swanson with her husband, Michael farmer, her 4th husband. March 16, 1933. They arrived in NYC after she produced the English film, PERFECT UNDERSTANDING. It did not revive her movie career as hoped. Swanson was married to Farmer from 1931 to 1934. They had one child, Michelle Bridget Farmer.
Jun 30, 2008 · Michelle Bridget Farmer was born on 5 April 1932. 1 She is the daughter of Michael Farmer and Gloria May Josephine Swanson. 1 She married Robert Amon in 1951. 1 From 1951, her married name became Amon. 1
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