We once had "stars" - not like today's celebrities and so-called influencers, but what were real stars: talented, charismatic, beautiful. Gloria Swanson was one of them.
Most entertainers now look like the person next door. No substance or presence like back in the day. And most aren't smart and have no talent or class. Thank God for the stars of yesteryear.
In 1940 she was diagnosed with an uterine cancer. So she discovered macrobiotic food and starved the tumor. balancelivebreathe.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/why-gloria-swanson-should-be-your-lifestyle-muse/
Gloria was great, she lived in Manhattan for 40 years and was very approachable. She was always on the talk shows of the day and doing things in and for the city. I met her in 1974 going into a play with my mom and she was so excited to meet her and exchange kind words. Gloria couldn't have been kinder to my mom and I've been a fan and loved her ever since. ps. my memory is that she was still quite beautiful at that time.
Miss Swanson is one of the greatest, most gifted and wonderful actress of all time. She was incredibly beautiful up until her last years. I adore her completely.
She was so poised and well spoken. I saw an old interview with Mike wallace and I can't forgive him for that mysoginistic interview he did with this fine woman and she handled it so graciously.
Gloria Swanson was the first true movie star. The glamour, the beauty and the popularity. Before Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, Swanson established herself as the archetypal Hollywood star.
I used to live in her old penthouse in rundown part of Los Angeles, where she lived in the 1950's... I saw Sunset Blvd for the first time when I was there. Ive been in love with her for the past 25 years.
Eidelmania The way your sentence was constructed, it sounds like Gloria Swanson lived in a old penthouse in a rundown area of LA. If you are a writer, please be careful of your wording and sentence construction. Gloria Swanson never lived in a run down penthouse. It’s like her line, “ I am big”. It’s the pictures ( in this case L.A.) that got small!”
This is probably the best interview of Gloria's I've ever seen, no posturing, no pushing health foods or lamenting dull marriages, just clear, concise and to the point
When a person is born with such strongly defined facial features like a pointy nose or arched eyebrows, age wouldn't show on their faces, their features would retain their edginess and crisp with age... timeless beauty! love Gloria!
Also, Gloria Swanson eschewed sugar from the time she was in her 20's. She was ahead of her time and maintained a very healthful diet. It SHOWED! I heard her skin was RADIANT!!!
She's stunningly beautiful at 65! Her memories of Von Sternberg are fascinating and generous, considering she never recovered financially from Queen Kelly. A great role can be a curse as well as a gift. To the guys in the biz, she was forever Norma Desmond. She should have done many more class-A films. Instead she had to cobble together a career from scraps: Bev Hillbillies, lots of summer stock, speaking at lady's clubs and finally, the book, which was a best-seller. She knew how to survive, but she deserved better.
Priceless interview. Gloria Swanson talks from her firsthand experience as a movie star about how making a movie was much bigger a deal than it is nowadays. She was a great and intelligent actress, and a timeless beauty. With regard to the latter, she was like the best wine in that she aged gracefully and never lost her sex appeal.Thank you for posting.
Robert Duffy It wasn’t her decision. No work for women over 40. It’s still the same today. She did some smaller films as a supporting player, Sunset Boulevard was a unusually brave film to make.
Such a purely beautiful woman. Very much unlike Norma Desmond as well which is a testament to her performance. She could not be more opposite. She gracefully realized her career in film had ended and took it in stride. They don’t make actresses like this anymore.
Swanson is grace and professionalism-she helped to build Hollywood - at a time when it was near impossible for women to do anything let alone wield any kind of influence or power. Good lord, she’s stunning in her older years and I’m so sickened that she was not working during the time of this interview.
This is a great interview, thank you so much for posting it. Gloria Swanson was a talented, intriguing and beautiful woman. She had a very interesting career as well as a very interesting life.
This must be the original’ Bob’ hairstyle that took over the salons about 8 years ago. Another brilliant Hollywood star of long ago. Well spoken and stylish.
Tellement magnifique la grande dame Gloria Swanson la divine et tellement intelligente gracieuse et humble et si précise lorsqu' elle parle de ça carrière.
If you have seen Sunset Boulevard before you watch this interview (like me), Gloria Swanson's achievement comes into full relief. In SB, she truly was a woman in decline; here, she is timelessly sexy and on her game.
I first watched Sunset boulevard only about one and a half years ago which instantly became one of my favourite films. Afterwards Gloria stuck in my mind and I couldn't stop thinking of how brilliant she was. I rewatched it a few months after and I have since started to watch her earlier work. So far I have seen 6 of her films and she is now without any doubt my favourite actress, I plan to watch as much as I can of her. There's something completely enchanting and mesmerizing about her performances and her beauty that is unlike anything I've ever seen. Every time I see her on the screen I feel like I'm witnessing something divine. I have no doubts she will stay close to my heart for the rest of my life, and I'm so thankful I decided to dive deeper into film and discovered this amazing woman.
PURE CLASS. Miss Swanson looks divine. Hairstyles and fashions made women in general younger than they looked in the early 1950s. Check her out in the 1990's and she still looks beautiful.
She made me obsessed with silent movies. Such an interesting, intelligent, modern woman with a lot of stories to tell. Plus She was really beautiful in every age PS: Watch Zaza!
Saved the film/producers a lot of money - by foreseeing an issue that no one else had apparently noticed. Great interview and story about "Convent Girl."
Read Gloria's Swanson's autobiography. It's out of print but can be found from third party sellers on Amazon, at least that's where I found a hardbound edition of it. It's filled with wonderful stories about old Hollywood and her personal insights about life and living. She had one abortion and her telling of that story is bone chilling; it was a regret she lived everyday with for the rest of her life. She was an early advocate of healthy eating. I loved "Sunset Boulevrad" and love it even more now than i know more about tGloria Swanson.
Such a beautiful woman my goodness!!! 💖💖 So glamorous I love just watching her ❤️ Her hand movements her expressions her eyes Only a an actress from silent movies could capture and project such without speaking She was only 4’11” 🌞
Thank you for posting. What a great interview, do you know if more exist? I love her, what a character! Why is the talent of Hollywood so impoverished today? They are corporate and 'brands', back then Hollywood produced artists.
Joshua Taylor Because when Hollywood started at the beginning, they were artists! Today, it is just commercialism. There IS talent today, but it’s covered over with whatever massive blockbuster there selling at the moment.
Film Bulwar Zachodzącego Słońca, obejrzałem ,gdy byłem dzieckiem, wywarł na mnie takie wielkie wrażenie, że po 50 latach, co jakiś czas wracam do niego.Gloria jest wspaniałą ponadczasowa aktorka o wielkiem blasku, gwiazda, której współczesne aktorki nigdy nie dorównają.
She had a very healthy life, drinking water, eating vegetables without artificial stuff and even wrote a book called Sugar Blues, explaining why people should stop eating sugar.
She drank only spring water from France, made her own flour from brown rice and her own sweetener from boiled organic raisins, and frequently fasted. “After one fast I was on for 10 days I swore I'd never eat again,” she said.
Class, grace, beauty and one of a kind. Sunset Blvd got me hooked on old movies. She is the Queen of all Motion Pictures! So smart and just pure class! Forever my favorite actress and human being!
She was a remarkable star and women..she stayed beautiful her whole life..very principled or disciplined with her looks..as an actor should be .but shouldn't we all?
I've seen the reconstructed first part of "Queen Kelly," which was fabulous. The "dance hall" was actually a house of prostitution, and that "drooling scene" is included at the very end.
