Monica Blom absolutely elegant! Even in the 60s she looked like a goddess! I live in NYC and there is a theater that has her footprints in the cement, it’s off saint marks place. And every time i walk by i put my foot next to hers and her shoes were like child sized. She may have only been 5’1 but she always seemed like a giant to me.
Seeing Gloria in 'Sunset Blvd' and then 20 years later on 'Dick Cavett' it almost looks as if she was younger in 1970. A tremendously talented, wonderful, and beautiful woman.
She played an Older Woman in Sunset Blvd and the makeup was applied to make her that. By the way, Eric von Stromheim, the director of Queen Kelly, played the Butler in Sunset Blvd.
Gloria Swanson was one of the few actors who made a graceful transformation from silent to talkie. Her eyes carried her across the great divide. She knew how to "listen" in a scene. Watch her reactions within scenes to see how well she supports any film she was in.
This is the real Gloria. What a great find! was this from her own 1960s local NY TV program? It certainly looks like something that was broadcast locally as opposed to nationally. She was just like this in real life right up till the end. A Great Dame.
Compare Gloria to the "stars" of today, no comparison! Amazing to think she was only 50 when she filmed Sunset Boulevard. Gloria recalling the 20s here is the equivalent to us in the 2010s recalling the disco era of the 70s!
It's the 2020s and I remember the disco days as if they were yesterday, but your comparison puts it in perspective. She was in her 50s and in some scenes they had to age her because she looked so good.
Agree 100% I never followed MS Gloria but I'm so sorry I missed her movies then , She is so cool n def aged gracefully ! Very honest n down to Earth. Very bohemian in this video
@rommanos Oh you're so very welcome! I am glad it helped you to understand more about what messed up with the production. I wish it could have been completed...
You know you see all these modern stars today in holloywood Agilina joile etc... but no one has the class and calabor of the original stars of holloywood. at least in my opinian
This clip is not from the 40's or 50's. It's definitely from the 60's judging by her hairstyle and her clothes. Also TV was still black and white until the mid, late 60's.
It's odd how she speaks of herself and her era as if it were ancient and yet her period - the 20s and 30s - were only as old then as the 70s and 80s are now and she herself was only in her 60s.
I thought something similar while watching Sunset Blvd. The film's stars of 20 to 25 years earlier, Norma Desmond and the "waxworks," are all but forgotten, and their real-life analogs were too, which is why the film worked. But in our time, stars of 1992 or 1997 are still people we're going to see in movies. The world has changed in some ways since 1992, but that past doesn't seem as distant. I don't think it's entirely about the silent-to-sound transition in movies. A decade or two used to "weigh" more. Less was recorded and preserved; the past was more "remembered" than something easily revisited. And of course, Swanson here is looking back on a time before a Depression and a World War.
You have to understand. Time passes so much more quickly than it did back then. There weren't the constant distractions of the internet or smart phones to stimulate them when life became mundane. They only cinema and theatre to rely on for larger than life experiences. That's why 30 years seemed so much longer back then it does today. Nowadays people are stunned when they look up and realize that 20 years have passed, but back then life moved slowly so in 1950, being a star of the 1920's did seem like a millennium. Like Simon says above, a decade "weighed" much more and also people didn't expect to live as long so years had more value.
Because most silent film stars were regarded as relics of a bygone era. Remember how popular Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey and Mike Myers were? They ruled Hollywood in the 1980s and 90s, now the only way they gonna get in the movies is to buy a ticket!
can someone do a translation into Italian of what she says? can someone give a brief summary of what she says in English? Please I do not understand English very well
I'm guessing this originally aired in the 40's to 50's. I say that because this is in black and white which ended in the 60's she was born in 1899. this would put her 40- 50. She is beautiful. she is not 65. on the dick cavett show in 1970 she is noticeably older. amazing women regardless.
For someone who doesn’t like “talking about the past”, she seems to have reveled in it... She was most like Nora Desmond than she admits, while blowing her own horn. Still, a great actress. And a good reminder of what was great about the early days of Hollywood, and the stories behind it.
