Trivia of Gloria Swanson


Trivia of Gloria Swanson (27 March 1899 - 4 April 1983)
*In 1915, at the age of 18, she decided to go to a Chicago movie studio with her aunt to see how motion pictures were made. She was plucked out of the crowd, because of her beauty, to be included as a extra player in the film The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket (1915).
*In 1925, Swanson joined United Artists as one of the film industry's pioneering women filmmakers. She produced and starred in the 1928 film Sadie Thompson, earning her a nomination for Best Actress at the first annual Academy Awards.
*Swanson was good friend with her legendary co-star in Beyond The Rocks (1922), Rudolph Valentino.Valentino had become a star in 1921 for his appearance in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but Swanson had known him since his days as an aspiring actor getting small parts, with no seeming hope for his professional future. She was impressed by his shy, well-mannered personality, the complete opposite of what his public image would become.
*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 (1950) as Norma Desmond, a past-her-prime silent film star determined to make a comeback.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.The movie was a box office smash and earned her a third Academy Award nomination as Best Actress.
*Her favorite leading man in silent films was Elliott Dexter, and her favorite leading man in talkies was William Holden.
*Swanson was known for her devotion to certain rituals and superstitions, among them her insistence that she would only sleep with her head pointing "due North." On numerous occasions, she insisted on having hotel rooms (and friends' guest rooms) completely rearranged to accommodate this quirk.
*Known for her extravagant lifestyle, it was reported that she earned $8,000,000 between 1918 and 1929 and spent nearly all of it. By the time of her death in 1983, her gross estate was valued at just over $1,440,000.

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