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- Joe Kennedy first met Gloria Swanson in the Renaissance Room of the elegant new Savoy Plaza Hotel on Nov. 11, 1927. Swanson was Hollywood's reigning sex goddess. Kennedy was a Hollywood mogul who had been asked by a mutual friend, Robert Kane, to help Swanson solve her serious financial problems.
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Mar 22, 1987 · Joe Kennedy first met Gloria Swanson in the Renaissance Room of the elegant new Savoy Plaza Hotel on Nov. 11, 1927. Swanson was Hollywood's reigning sex goddess. Kennedy was a Hollywood mogul...
Oct 12, 2021 · According to Shearer, Swanson actually went easy on Kennedy in Swanson on Swanson, not mentioning Kennedy’s disturbing penchant for having his son Jack voyeuristically watch them make love ...
“Gloria and Joe” begins with their meeting in 1927 in Manhattan over a lunch at which Swanson had sought financial advice from Kennedy, then the prime mover behind a film production company...
Oct 3, 2007 · As newly accessible archives disclose, the Boston financier devastated the careers of two major stars, one of them his mistress Gloria Swanson, in the merciless pursuit of movie-industry...
Swanson was born in a small house in Chicago in 1899, the only child of Adelaide (née Klanowski) and Joseph Theodore Swanson (né Svensson), a soldier. [2] She was raised in the Lutheran faith. Her father was a Swedish American and her mother was of German, French, and Polish ancestry.
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Feb 1, 2009 · Three decades before President Kennedy became his principal production, the ill-fated “Queen Kelly” and its silent star, Gloria Swanson, had marked the culmination and comeuppance of Joe...
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.
