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Gloria Swanson : the ultimate star / Stephen Michael Shearer.
Van Pelt Library PN2287.S9 S53 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shearer, Stephen Michael, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swanson, Gloria.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 509 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Gloria Swanson was Hollywood's first successful glamour queen. Realizing her box office value early in her career, she took control of her life. Soon she was not only producing her own films, she was choosing her scripts, selecting her leading men, casting her projects, creating her own fashions, guiding her publicity, and living an extravagant and sometimes extraordinary celebrity lifestyle. She also collected a long line of lovers (including Joseph P. Kennedy) and married men of her choosing (including a French marquis, thus becoming America's first member of "nobility"). As a devoted and loving mother, she managed a quiet success of raising three children. Perhaps most important, as a keen businesswoman she also was able to extend her career more than sixty years. Her comeback in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard catapulted her back into the limelight, but it also created a long-misunderstood persona. This biography sets the record straight.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- 1 Chicago 7
- 2 Essanay 13
- 3 Sennett 23
- 4 Triangle 34
- 5 DeMille 47
- 6 Famous Players-Lasky 61
- 7 Paramount 74
- 8 Stardom 90
- 9 New York 103
- 10 Europe 117
- 11 La Grande Illusion 131
- 12 United Artists 145
- 13 Independence 157
- 14 Joseph P. Kennedy 169
- 15 Queen Kelly 185
- 16 The Trespasser 202
- 17 The Talkies 224
- 18 Hollywood 236
- 19 Transition 248
- 20 Hollywood Redux 263
- 21 New York Redux 277
- 22 Theater 290
- 23 Sunset Boulevard 304
- 24 Comeback 318
- 25 Career 331
- 26 Fashion 345
- 27 Television 359
- 28 Finale 372
- 29 Legend 386
- 30 Epilogue 401.
- Notes:
- "A Thomas Dunne book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-476) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781250001559
- 1250001552
- OCLC:
- 778421734
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