I. Gloria Swanson was an American actress. She was most prominent during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon. II. Born: March 27,1899 in Chicago, Illinois.
Family life: Gloria was the daughter of Adelaide and Joseph Theordore Swanson, soldier. She attended Hawthorne Scholastic Academy. She grew up mainly in Chicago, Puerto Rico and Key West, Florida. It was not her intention to enter show business. Her parents separated when she was still in school. After her formal education ended, she went to a small film studio in Chicago for a visit and ended up being asked to come back to work as an extra.
Occupation: She was in her 1st film debut in 1913 as an extra in The Song of Soul for Chicago's Essanay Studios. While on a tour of the studio, she asked to be in the movie just for fun. Essanay hired her to feature in several movies, including His New Job, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. She than continued to proceed in auditutioning for other parts in silent films.
Death date and location: April 4, 1983 in New York City in New York Hospital.
III Accomplishments: Gloria Swanson moved up from being an extra in silent films to starring in her first independent film, in which she costarred with John Boles and Pauline Garon, opened the Roxy Theatre in New York City on March 11, 1927. She was nominated for the first-ever Academy Award for Best Actress for her next film performance as the title character in the 1928 film Sadie Thompson, costarring and directed by Raoul Walsh, based on Somerset Maugham's short story "Miss Thompson", later called "Rain". She made a number of films for Paramount, among them The Coast of Folly, Stage Struck and Fine Manners. In 1927, she decided to turn down a million dollar a year contract with Paramount to join the newly-created United Artists, where she was her own boss and could make the films she wanted, with whom she wanted and when.
IV. Qualities that made the person interesting: She was destined to be perhaps one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. Her personality and antics in private definitely made her a favorite with America's movie going public. They said she was one of the most beautiful woman of her era. She had a carefree attitude towards life. She approached life in a more easygoing manner. Gloria Swanson had a great interest in poetry and fictional books. She was are optimistic and was an explorer.
V. Legacy: Gloria Swanson has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6748 Hollywood Boulevard and another for television at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard. Before her death, she sold her archives including photographs, copies of films and private papers to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The second largest collection of Swanson materials is held in the family archives of Timothy Rooks. In the last years of her life Swanson professed a desire to see Beyond the rocks, but the film was unavailable and considered lost. The film was later rediscovered and screened in 2005.
Timeline:
1899: Gloria Swanson was born in Chicago, Illinois 1913: Gloria Swanson was hired as an extra in her first film 1927: Swanson stars in her 1st independent film debut' costarring John Boles. - Swanson turns down a 1million dollar contract with Paramount to join the newly-created United Artists, where she was her own boss.
1924: Swanson obtained the rights to a French play called Madame Sans Gene and remarkably for the time, she also received permission to film in France. 1928: Oscar- Best Actress Nominee 1934: Gloria Swanson went into a semi-retirement, after the failure of The Music In The Air.
1941: A comeback was made when she was offered a role in a comedy called Father Take A Wife.
1950: Swanson had established a line of cosmetics that only used natural ingredients.
1951: Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture- Drama- Winner 1980: Swanson published her autobiography titled "Swanson on Swanon".
1983: Gloria Swanson dies due to a heart attack, she was 84.
Daira Salas pd. 4 OUTLINE: I Gloria Swanson is best known for her succesfull acting career. However not only is she known for her acting career, but also her cosmetic line "Essence of nature" and for her great taste in style.
II Personal Information
Born March 27, 1899 in Chicago Illinois.
Gloria was born into a military family . Mother, Adelaide, and father, Joseph Theodore Swanson would frequently move from one place to another. Howeve her parents split when she was still in school.
Due to her family's frequent traveling, she got her education in Chicago, Puerto Rico, Florida, San Juan and other places.
Gloria Swanson was an actress. After her formal education in Chicago she bgan to work as a sales clerk. Then in 1915, at 6, her aunt took her to a Chicago movie studio to see how motion pictures were made. Because ofher beauty, she was noticed and chosen to be an extra in the film , THE FABLE OF ELVIRA AND FARINA AND THE MEAL TICKET. Also appearing as an extra in AT THE END OF A PERFECT DAY. Soon, in a movie set, Gloria met her future husband Wallace Beery. After a while she started in hit after hit. By the 20's she was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. Gloria was just 30 when the sound revolution era came about. 1928, she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role of Sadie Thompson in a film by the same name, but lost to Mary Pickford in COQUETTE.
Gloria died from natural causes on April 4th, 1983 in New York City.
III Accomplishments
Gloria Swanson may have not been the greatest actress in the world, but she was certainly one of the screen's greatest personalities.
Her most successful business venture was a line of organic cosmetics, "Essence of Nature;" she was also very active in the burgeoning health food movement of the 1960s, her ageless beauty and boundless energy serving as the best arguments in favor of proper nutrition.
IV Qualities that made the person interesting
Gloria Swanson was a famous actress in the silent movie era and quickly adapted to the movies with sound era. Her spunky attitude made the public love her. Soo much that she remarried about 7 times.
V Your Choice
Gloria Swanson certainly did not intend to go into show business. She started working as a department store sale's clerk. One day she simply decided to go to a Chicago movie studio and the simply wanted her to have some part in the film. They just wanted her to have some part, even if its small. That was her debut in being in the film making industry.
TIMELINE: 1899: Gloria Swanson was born in Chicago, Illinois 1913: Swanson, at the age of 15, is first hired as an extra in a film 1915: Not long after making a brief appearance in Charlie Chaplin's first Essanay starrer His New Job she accompanied her husband to Hollywood, where he'd been signed by Mack Sennett's Keystone studios 1917:Divorced from Beery in 1917, Swanson also left Keystone that same year to accept an offer to appear in dramatic roles for Triangle Pictures 1918: The Admirable Crichton, Society for Sale, Her Decision, Station Content, You Can't Believe Everything, Everywoman's Husband, Shifting Sands, The Secret Codehttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0841797/#Self18
1919: Don't Change Your Husband, For Better, For Worse, 'Male and Female
1920: Why Change Your Wife?, Something to Think About
1921: The Great Moment, The Affairs of Anatole, Under the Lash, Don't Tell Everything
1922: Her Husband's Trademark, Her Gilded Cage, Beyond the Rocks, The Impossible Mrs. Bellew, My American Wife
1923: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Prodigal Daughters, Zaza
1924: The Humming Bird, A Societal Scandal, Manhandled, Her Love Story, Wages of Virtue, Madame Sans-Gêne
1925: The Coast of Folly, Stage Struck
1926: The Untamed Lady, Fine Manners
1927: The Love of Sunya
1928: Sadie Thompson- Swanson's company went bankrupt as a result of her benighted association with the Erich Von Stroheim-directed fiasco Queen Kelly
1929: Queen Kelly, The Tresspasser
1930: What A Widow!
1931: Indiscreet, Tonight or Never
1933: Perfect Understanding
1934: Music in the Air
1941: Father Takes A Wife
1950: Sunset Boulevard
1952: Three for Bedroom C
1956: Nero's Mistress 1983: Gloria Swanson dies due to natural causes in NY.
Jyaclin Alvarado Pd.2
Outline:
I. Gloria Swanson was an American actress. She was most prominent during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon.II.
Born: March 27,1899 in Chicago, Illinois.
Family life: Gloria was the daughter of Adelaide and Joseph Theordore Swanson, soldier. She attended Hawthorne Scholastic Academy. She grew up mainly in Chicago, Puerto Rico and Key West, Florida. It was not her intention to enter show business. Her parents separated when she was still in school. After her formal education ended, she went to a small film studio in Chicago for a visit and ended up being asked to come back to work as an extra.
Occupation: She was in her 1st film debut in 1913 as an extra in The Song of Soul for Chicago's Essanay Studios. While on a tour of the studio, she asked to be in the movie just for fun. Essanay hired her to feature in several movies, including His New Job, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. She than continued to proceed in auditutioning for other parts in silent films.
Death date and location: April 4, 1983 in New York City in New York Hospital.
III Accomplishments:
Gloria Swanson moved up from being an extra in silent films to starring in her first independent film, in which she costarred with John Boles and Pauline Garon, opened the Roxy Theatre in New York City on March 11, 1927. She was nominated for the first-ever Academy Award for Best Actress for her next film performance as the title character in the 1928 film Sadie Thompson, costarring and directed by Raoul Walsh, based on Somerset Maugham's short story "Miss Thompson", later called "Rain".
She made a number of films for Paramount, among them The Coast of Folly, Stage Struck and Fine Manners. In 1927, she decided to turn down a million dollar a year contract with Paramount to join the newly-created United Artists, where she was her own boss and could make the films she wanted, with whom she wanted and when.
IV. Qualities that made the person interesting:
She was destined to be perhaps one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. Her personality and antics in private definitely made her a favorite with America's movie going public. They said she was one of the most beautiful woman of her era. She had a carefree attitude towards life. She approached life in a more easygoing manner. Gloria Swanson had a great interest in poetry and fictional books. She was are optimistic and was an explorer.
V. Legacy:
Gloria Swanson has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6748 Hollywood Boulevard and another for television at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard. Before her death, she sold her archives including photographs, copies of films and private papers to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The second largest collection of Swanson materials is held in the family archives of Timothy Rooks. In the last years of her life Swanson professed a desire to see Beyond the rocks, but the film was unavailable and considered lost. The film was later rediscovered and screened in 2005.
Timeline:
1899: Gloria Swanson was born in Chicago, Illinois1913: Gloria Swanson was hired as an extra in her first film
1927: Swanson stars in her 1st independent film debut' costarring John Boles.
- Swanson turns down a 1million dollar contract with Paramount to join the newly-created United Artists, where she was her own boss.
1924: Swanson obtained the rights to a French play called Madame Sans Gene and remarkably for the time, she also received permission to film in France.
1928: Oscar- Best Actress Nominee
1934: Gloria Swanson went into a semi-retirement, after the failure of The Music In The Air.
1941: A comeback was made when she was offered a role in a comedy called Father Take A Wife.
1950: Swanson had established a line of cosmetics that only used natural ingredients.
1951: Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture- Drama- Winner
1980: Swanson published her autobiography titled "Swanson on Swanon".
1983: Gloria Swanson dies due to a heart attack, she was 84.
Bibliography:
Oliver, Phillip. "Glorious Gloria." http://home.hiwaay.net/~oliver/swanson.htm. Phillip Oliver, 1/1999. Web. 15 Dec 2010.Daira Salas pd. 4
OUTLINE:
I Gloria Swanson is best known for her succesfull acting career. However not only is she known for her acting career, but also her cosmetic line "Essence of nature" and for her great taste in style.
II Personal Information
- Born March 27, 1899 in Chicago Illinois.
- Gloria was born into a military family . Mother, Adelaide, and father, Joseph Theodore Swanson would frequently move from one place to another. Howeve her parents split when she was still in school.
- Due to her family's frequent traveling, she got her education in Chicago, Puerto Rico, Florida, San Juan and other places.
- Gloria Swanson was an actress. After her formal education in Chicago she bgan to work as a sales clerk. Then in 1915, at 6, her aunt took her to a Chicago movie studio to see how motion pictures were made. Because ofher beauty, she was noticed and chosen to be an extra in the film , THE FABLE OF ELVIRA AND FARINA AND THE MEAL TICKET. Also appearing as an extra in AT THE END OF A PERFECT DAY. Soon, in a movie set, Gloria met her future husband Wallace Beery. After a while she started in hit after hit. By the 20's she was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. Gloria was just 30 when the sound revolution era came about. 1928, she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role of Sadie Thompson in a film by the same name, but lost to Mary Pickford in COQUETTE.
- Gloria died from natural causes on April 4th, 1983 in New York City.
III Accomplishments- Gloria Swanson may have not been the greatest actress in the world, but she was certainly one of the screen's greatest personalities.
- Her most successful business venture was a line of organic cosmetics, "Essence of Nature;" she was also very active in the burgeoning health food movement of the 1960s, her ageless beauty and boundless energy serving as the best arguments in favor of proper nutrition.
IV Qualities that made the person interesting- Gloria Swanson was a famous actress in the silent movie era and quickly adapted to the movies with sound era. Her spunky attitude made the public love her. Soo much that she remarried about 7 times.
V Your Choice- Gloria Swanson certainly did not intend to go into show business. She started working as a department store sale's clerk. One day she simply decided to go to a Chicago movie studio and the simply wanted her to have some part in the film. They just wanted her to have some part, even if its small. That was her debut in being in the film making industry.
TIMELINE:1899: Gloria Swanson was born in Chicago, Illinois
1913: Swanson, at the age of 15, is first hired as an extra in a film
1915: Not long after making a brief appearance in Charlie Chaplin's first Essanay starrer His New Job she accompanied her husband to Hollywood, where he'd been signed by Mack Sennett's Keystone studios
1917:Divorced from Beery in 1917, Swanson also left Keystone that same year to accept an offer to appear in dramatic roles for Triangle Pictures
1918: The Admirable Crichton, Society for Sale, Her Decision, Station Content, You Can't Believe Everything, Everywoman's Husband, Shifting Sands, The Secret Codehttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0841797/#Self18
1919: Don't Change Your Husband, For Better, For Worse, 'Male and Female
1920: Why Change Your Wife?, Something to Think About
1921: The Great Moment, The Affairs of Anatole, Under the Lash, Don't Tell Everything
1922: Her Husband's Trademark, Her Gilded Cage, Beyond the Rocks, The Impossible Mrs. Bellew, My American Wife
1923: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Prodigal Daughters, Zaza
1924: The Humming Bird, A Societal Scandal, Manhandled, Her Love Story, Wages of Virtue, Madame Sans-Gêne
1925: The Coast of Folly, Stage Struck
1926: The Untamed Lady, Fine Manners
1927: The Love of Sunya
1928: Sadie Thompson- Swanson's company went bankrupt as a result of her benighted association with the Erich Von Stroheim-directed fiasco Queen Kelly
1929: Queen Kelly, The Tresspasser
1930: What A Widow!
1931: Indiscreet, Tonight or Never
1933: Perfect Understanding
1934: Music in the Air
1941: Father Takes A Wife
1950: Sunset Boulevard
1952: Three for Bedroom C
1956: Nero's Mistress
1983: Gloria Swanson dies due to natural causes in NY.
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"BIO." gloriaswanson.com. BTIA, n.d. Web. 13 Dec 2010. http://www.gloriaswanson.com/bio.shtml.
"Gloria Swanson(1897-1983)." goldensilents.com. goldensilent, n.d. Web. 13 Dec 2010. http://www.goldensilents.com/stars/gloriaswanson.html.
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