My father shot her for an ad for a hosiery company in the 60's. She was in a shopping cart with her legs up, crossed at the ankles to show off the hosiery (and her legs). He said it couldn't possibly have been comfortable, but she was such a pro and so delightful to work with (and he had worked with a lot of celebrities). Unfortunately he lost so many of his tear sheets in Hurricane Betsy including that. If any Gloria fans read this and have a copy, please get in touch! I'd love to see it.
She signed a copy of her autobiography for me in London, where I was a student. There was a line of people out on the sidewalk waiting to see her, and she was warm, interested in these fans buying her book, and she had the MOST extraordinary eyes I've ever seen--her irises were multicolored, unforgettably beautiful. A true, one-off individual.
I lived for most of my childhood and adolescence in the same building as gloria swanson She used to buy her health food personally at a long established health food store on lexington. A very gracious and larger than life person whom i wasildly scared of as she trundled her health food. She came to visit one day to our apartmrnt to enjoy a cinima presentation and small party featuring a student remake of Hollywood boulevard that was shown. She was very gracious and do it yourself. My fears as a younger child were baseless. She was just srtiking entering the building with shopping bags filled with goodies. When i met her properly she was very radiant with strikingly original couture ,and quite gracious to me.
I met her at Gateway Fred Meyer when she was shopping there and she was looking for max factor make up. My mom and I helped her find the make up. Sold it to her. And I told her how much I loved her work she had done and she said thank you and she was being followed by someone who didn’t like her for some reason. We just ignored this other woman. Then she purchased a red lipstick. I was so in awe of her I just stared at her and so did my mom. She was so striking and so beautiful. We were looking at her immaculate outfit. An all white wool suit with wide lapels and single row of buttons gold. The skirt was also white wool fit close to her body. She had white high heels on. She was so tiny. She weighed less then 100 lbs. so petite so gorgeous. Her make up was flawless. She was perfection!❤
This was excellent. I recently read her Swanson on Swanson autobiography and Michael Shearer’s biography about Gloria Swanson. These interviews are like icing on the cake for me.
This was good! Her granddaughter is a carbon copy, I swear. She even speaks the same way, same voice. Swanson really had something, in movies and as a person. Her interviews are really good in that she projects her own character in a way that creates interest in herself that most actors never do. She seems so interesting.
I agree.....she said that she always had interests, personal and business outside of Hollywood. She didn't make Hollywood her everything. She seemed cool.
Yes, she was considered eccentric about diet but she was right about so many things in that regard. She was very intelligent and will to share al she had learned!
I'm delighted to have a personally signed copy; she had tremendous star quality in spite of her diminutive size. Even at the book signing she had a tremendous awareness of how she was being photographed by the attendant press.
This was absolutely fascinating about Gloria Swanson's life and career! Enjoyed it tremendously! Wish I could see a complete copy of the 1929 film Queen Kelly.
She was also way ahead of her time preaching healthy diet and exercise. There were a few short videos I saw where she demonstrated in her own kitchen what she ate. It was great!
Love the mention of Niles, CA. It is actually now a district in Fremont CA. It was the temporary home of Charlie Chaplin and the Bronco Billy films , where they shot some silent movies there. Charlie Chaplin;s Little Tramp was shot there. The Essanay Studio is no longer there, but some of the cottages for the workers and a duplex for the stars of some of the movies made there are still standing.
THANK YOU! I’m a huge fan of Gloria Swanson, and there’s not enough of information on her. She was the epitome of the glamorous movie star, and I’d love to watch her silent films and know more about her. A biopic would be awesome!
Please give my love to Cousin Arthur Whitelaw… He will remember me as Sandra Swann Grand daughter… Arthur was very kind to me! His family was my family… I have the locket Arthur gave my Grandma the last time I saw Arthur… I’m known as “Nurse Jane…or LCDR Swann, USN Retired… thank You so much…Deale, MD at Forevermore by the Bay…20751… Hi Cousin Arthur…I love our memories!
She did dangerous roles on film sets herself .like the one where the film she did with the lion that was her she said when doing that scene she said when she was lying down and the lion had its paw on her back the noise of the lions breathing was so noisy that the whole building echoed and was asked was she scared she said i was beyound fear that she was thaught lions could sence fear and she learnt how to control it.but 4 days after that scene the lion was killed because it killed its trainer. they should gave got Gloria to be that lions trainer.🤣.🙏rest in peace Gloria between you Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish you were all my favourites Rest in peace to Mary and Lillian too. Godbless you 🙏🙏🙏🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🌹🌹🌹AMEN.💫
United States doesn’t have royalty but we have Gloria.,we admired her deportment. Her style. She gave us our dreams however individualistic as they come. Gloria stayed Gloria. Beautiful soul. I would’ve loved being her friend. Her humor and sensibility. Her anti drug stance is adm8rable. Also her knowledge of harmful effects of table sugar. She was ahead of her time.
when Fred Astaire came for the first time in Hollywood ,he see 2 limousines upholstered with leopard with two chauffeurs one for her dogs and the other for herself 😁
Great interview, and bio..Gloria, admittedly was not one of my favorite precode stars, however I have grown to like and admire the women she was...I liked William Powell, Edward G Robinson, Franchot Tone who came from the stage, and I also liked Joan Crawford, Kay Francis.
Hi, folks! Thanks for watching. This video is comprised of outtakes from my film "Boulevard! A Hollywood Story" which is available for streaming on multiple platforms. It's the story of Gloria Swanson's attempts to produce a musical version of "Sunset Boulevard" in the 1950s. I hope Gloria fans who have been commenting on this video will enjoy it!
I'm 58 and people are shocked when they ask how old i am i don't mind aging ive accepted it but i find it funny telling them my age because the say you only look about 48 .I reply thanks for the complement. Maybe I look younger because im 5 foot never wore make up never dyed my hair which also has been mentioned how my hair is not thin and im not Gray yeat .I'm not been vain i never was but age is just a number .I feel young in my mind. but my body is beginning to feel its age. My moral think about today and hope for tomorrow. appricate life.👍💖.
At 1:52 Gloria's mother Said" Let's just stay in Los Angeles, Maybe I don't want to be married to your father anymore". Jeeze, so basically, she just decided she was tired of being married. No problems in the marriage, I'm just bored. Think I'll just leave him. I've known a few men that were married to those kinds of wives. When women get tired of being married and want to leave, it's ok They're supposedly "finding their freedom and independence". But When the man gets tired of being married, then he's supposedly a terrible husband, Smh. The double standards women practice in relationships is just amazing. Why even bother getting married? Pfft.
@@sandrakenney567 Are you kidding? You must not have read his post very carefully. It doesn't sound like she was a "cool mother " at all. She deprived Gloria of having a father for her own selfishness motives. Like coffee said, women like to practice double standards when it comes to leaving their spouse. They were and still are just as selfish and all about themselves as they like to accuse men of being. Probably more so to be quite honest.
I imagine the bright lights of Hollywood and the strong possibility of living in fame and luxury vicariously through the hard work and talent of her daughter was too tempting to pass up regardless to who got hurt. Stage Mothers were the inspiration to Monster movies.
Thanks for this Glorious grab bag of vignettes. Miss Swanson was truly one of a kind. If she died a conservative, all the better -- more "diversity" is urgently needed in that regard in filmdom ;)
Hi, folks! Thanks for watching. This video is comprised of outtakes from my film "Boulevard! A Hollywood Story" which is available for streaming on multiple platforms. It's the story of Gloria Swanson's attempts to produce a musical version of "Sunset Boulevard" in the 1950s. I hope Gloria fans who have been commenting on this video will enjoy it!
My father shot her for an ad for a hosiery company in the 60's. She was in a shopping cart with her legs up, crossed at the ankles to show off the hosiery (and her legs). He said it couldn't possibly have been comfortable, but she was such a pro and so delightful to work with (and he had worked with a lot of celebrities). Unfortunately he lost so many of his tear sheets in Hurricane Betsy including that. If any Gloria fans read this and have a copy, please get in touch! I'd love to see it.
She signed a copy of her autobiography for me in London, where I was a student. There was a line of people out on the sidewalk waiting to see her, and she was warm, interested in these fans buying her book, and she had the MOST extraordinary eyes I've ever seen--her irises were multicolored, unforgettably beautiful. A true, one-off individual.
I lived for most of my childhood and adolescence in the same building as gloria swanson
She used to buy her health food personally at a long established health food store on lexington. A very gracious and larger than life person whom i wasildly scared of as she trundled her health food. She came to visit one day to our apartmrnt to enjoy a cinima presentation and small party featuring a student remake of Hollywood boulevard that was shown. She was very gracious and do it yourself. My fears as a younger child were baseless. She was just srtiking entering the building with shopping bags filled with goodies. When i met her properly she was very radiant with strikingly original couture ,and quite gracious to me.
I met her at Gateway Fred Meyer when she was shopping there and she was looking for max factor make up. My mom and I helped her find the make up. Sold it to her. And I told her how much I loved her work she had done and she said thank you and she was being followed by someone who didn’t like her for some reason. We just ignored this other woman. Then she purchased a red lipstick. I was so in awe of her I just stared at her and so did my mom. She was so striking and so beautiful. We were looking at her immaculate outfit. An all white wool suit with wide lapels and single row of buttons gold. The skirt was also white wool fit close to her body. She had white high heels on. She was so tiny. She weighed less then 100 lbs. so petite so gorgeous. Her make up was flawless. She was perfection!❤
Loved the fascinating Gloria Swanson and miss Robert Osborne may they both rest in peace.
This was excellent. I recently read her Swanson on Swanson autobiography and Michael Shearer’s biography about Gloria Swanson. These interviews are like icing on the cake for me.
A surprising but wonderful find for me!
I do hope either of those books appear in audio form someday!
This was good! Her granddaughter is a carbon copy, I swear. She even speaks the same way, same voice. Swanson really had something, in movies and as a person. Her interviews are really good in that she projects her own character in a way that creates interest in herself that most actors never do. She seems so interesting.
I agree.....she said that she always had interests, personal and business outside of Hollywood. She didn't make Hollywood her everything. She seemed cool.
Yes, she was considered eccentric about diet but she was right about so many things in that regard. She was very intelligent and will to share al she had learned!
Very well done documentary. I can see the resemblance. Between Gloria Swanson and her granddaughter
FANTÁSTICO POST!!! THANK YOU!!!
She deserved the best actress Oscar for Sunset Boulevard. I'm amazed at her personal life!!!
Her autobiography is perhaps the best I've ever read. Certainly the best of any Hollywood star.
What's the name of that book?
@@beignet2012Swanson on Swanson
Completely agree! I believe it's the best Hollywood autobiography that will ever be written. No one told Gloria's story like Gloria.
I'm delighted to have a personally signed copy; she had tremendous star quality in spite of her diminutive size. Even at the book signing she had a tremendous awareness of how she was being photographed by the attendant press.
I read it so many yrs ago.
This was absolutely fascinating about Gloria Swanson's life and career! Enjoyed it tremendously! Wish I could see a complete copy of the 1929 film Queen Kelly.
it is on youtube
Thank you!@@mediterraneanworld
She was also way ahead of her time preaching healthy diet and exercise. There were a few short videos I saw where she demonstrated in her own kitchen what she ate. It was great!
She was decades ahead of her time.
Love the mention of Niles, CA. It is actually now a district in Fremont CA. It was the temporary home of Charlie Chaplin and the Bronco Billy films , where they shot some silent movies there. Charlie Chaplin;s Little Tramp was shot there.
The Essanay Studio is no longer there, but some of the cottages for the workers and a duplex for the stars of some of the movies made there are still standing.
The San Francisco Bay Area...the first Hollywood.
I saw her in Butterflies Are Free at the Papermill Play House, Milburn, NJ.
Ditto but in NYC.
THANK YOU! I’m a huge fan of Gloria Swanson, and there’s not enough of information on her. She was the epitome of the glamorous movie star, and I’d love to watch her silent films and know more about her. A biopic would be awesome!
These early stars knew how to be true movie stars They were appreciative of their fans
Gloria Swanson was a strong woman,she survived Papa Joe Kennedy ...
Love her! I read Swanson's autobiography many years ago - it's still one of my favorite Hollywood books.
Love it. The greatest star of the silent era.
That’s what makes one a star
She was a survivor of the Hollywood jungle. Nothing like Norma Desmond, which was a brilliant feat of acting.
Please give my love to Cousin Arthur Whitelaw… He will remember me as Sandra Swann Grand daughter… Arthur was very kind to me! His family was my family… I have the locket Arthur gave my Grandma the last time I saw Arthur… I’m known as “Nurse Jane…or LCDR Swann, USN Retired… thank You so much…Deale, MD at Forevermore by the Bay…20751… Hi Cousin Arthur…I love our memories!
Thanks for sharing these memories, I just love hearing about the stars of yesteryear ❤
@auldreekie7768.same here
Many thanks for this very interesting documentary. Excellent.
really great stories from the interviewees!
great! particularly i like Cari Beauchamp's contributions here, she really feels this history :)
She did dangerous roles on film sets herself .like the one where the film she did with the lion that was her she said when doing that scene she said when she was lying down and the lion had its paw on her back the noise of the lions breathing was so noisy that the whole building echoed and was asked was she scared she said i was beyound fear that she was thaught lions could sence fear and she learnt how to control it.but 4 days after that scene the lion was killed because it killed its trainer. they should gave got Gloria to be that lions trainer.🤣.🙏rest in peace Gloria between you Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish you were all my favourites Rest in peace to Mary and Lillian too. Godbless you 🙏🙏🙏🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🌹🌹🌹AMEN.💫
United States doesn’t have royalty but we have Gloria.,we admired her deportment. Her style. She gave us our dreams however individualistic as they come. Gloria stayed Gloria. Beautiful soul. I would’ve loved being her friend. Her humor and sensibility. Her anti drug stance is adm8rable. Also her knowledge of harmful effects of table sugar. She was ahead of her time.
This is so good.
I'm looking this up on Amazon as I'm watching.
when Fred Astaire came for the first time in Hollywood ,he see 2 limousines upholstered with leopard with two chauffeurs one for her dogs and the other for herself 😁
Remember seeing her on the Beverly hillbillies.
Great interview, and bio..Gloria, admittedly was not one of my favorite precode stars, however I have grown to like and admire the women she was...I liked William Powell, Edward G Robinson, Franchot Tone who came from the stage, and I also liked Joan Crawford, Kay Francis.
Excellent!!! Thanks for posting!!!
She and Rudolph Valentino were great together in, "Beyond The Rocks. " Thank God it was found. 🎬
Wrong.... Her first Oscar nomination was for SADIE THOMPSON.
Hi, folks! Thanks for watching. This video is comprised of outtakes from my film "Boulevard! A Hollywood Story" which is available for streaming on multiple platforms. It's the story of Gloria Swanson's attempts to produce a musical version of "Sunset Boulevard" in the 1950s. I hope Gloria fans who have been commenting on this video will enjoy it!
YOU COULDN'T EVEN SHOW ONE PICTURE OF HER??? SHITTY!!!
Gloria was married 6 times! Never lucky in relationships. In my opinion she was a strange duck, a Swedish archetype.
I have Gloria Swanson's memoir.
Thank you.
will there be bluray?
I'm 58 and people are shocked when they ask how old i am i don't mind aging ive accepted it but i find it funny telling them my age because the say you only look about 48 .I reply thanks for the complement. Maybe I look younger because im 5 foot never wore make up never dyed my hair which also has been mentioned how my hair is not thin and im not Gray yeat .I'm not been vain i never was but age is just a number .I feel young in my mind. but my body is beginning to feel its age. My moral think about today and hope for tomorrow. appricate life.👍💖.
At 1:52 Gloria's mother Said" Let's just stay in Los Angeles, Maybe I don't want to be married to your father anymore". Jeeze, so basically, she just decided she was tired of being married. No problems in the marriage, I'm just bored. Think I'll just leave him. I've known a few men that were married to those kinds of wives. When women get tired of being married and want to leave, it's ok They're supposedly "finding their freedom and independence". But When the man gets tired of being married, then he's supposedly a terrible husband, Smh. The double standards women practice in relationships is just amazing. Why even bother getting married? Pfft.
@@sandrakenney567 Are you kidding? You must not have read his post very carefully. It doesn't sound like she was a "cool mother " at all. She deprived Gloria of having a father for her own selfishness motives. Like coffee said, women like to practice double standards when it comes to leaving their spouse. They were and still are just as selfish and all about themselves as they like to accuse men of being. Probably more so to be quite honest.
This happens with men much more than it does with women by a large factor
I imagine the bright lights of Hollywood and the strong possibility of living in fame and luxury vicariously through the hard work and talent of her daughter was too tempting to pass up regardless to who got hurt. Stage Mothers were the inspiration to Monster movies.
Thanks for this Glorious grab bag of vignettes. Miss Swanson was truly one of a kind. If she died a conservative, all the better -- more "diversity" is urgently needed in that regard in filmdom ;)
I didn’t see a single “out take”.
Hi, folks! Thanks for watching. This video is comprised of outtakes from my film "Boulevard! A Hollywood Story" which is available for streaming on multiple platforms. It's the story of Gloria Swanson's attempts to produce a musical version of "Sunset Boulevard" in the 1950s. I hope Gloria fans who have been commenting on this video will enjoy it!
Strong genes, granddaughter lovely like her GMa.
Cari Beauchamp....I can almost smell the stale smoke and nicotine through the screen. 😳
So what?
Love it!
Bobby VERNON.... Harron was with Griffith.