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Gloria Swanson

Highest Rated:
100% Queen Kelly (1929)
Lowest Rated:
31% Airport 1975 (1974)
Birthday:
Mar 27, 1899
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
Gloria Swanson may not have been the world's best actress, but she was certainly one of the screen's greatest personalities. The daughter of a peripatetic army officer, she was educated in public schools from Chicago to Puerto Rico. While visiting Chicago's Essanay studios in 1913, the 15-year-old…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 31% - 100%
Number of Movies: 27
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2008 Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
  • Actor
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1974 Killer Bees
  • Madame von Bohlen
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1974 31% Airport 1975
  • Herself
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1973 The Age of Ballyhoo
  • Actor
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1962 Mio figlio Nerone
  • Actor
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1959 When Comedy Was King
  • Actor
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1952 Three for Bedroom "C"
  • Ann Haven
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1950 98% Sunset Boulevard
  • Norma Desmond
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1933 Perfect Understanding
  • Judy Rogers
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1931 Indiscreet
  • Geraldine Trent
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1931 Tonight or Never
  • Nella Vago
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1929 100% Queen Kelly
  • Director
  • Kitty Kelly
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1929 The Trespasser
  • Marion Donnell
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1928 83% Sadie Thompson
  • Sadie Thompson
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1927 The Love of Sunya
  • Sunya Ashling
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1926 Fine Manners
  • Orchid Murphy
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1924 Manhandled
  • Tessie McGuire
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1922 100% Beyond the Rocks
  • Theodora Fitzgerald
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1921 The Affairs of Anatol
  • Actor
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1920 Something to Think About
  • Ruth Anderson
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1920 Why Change Your Wife?
  • Beth Gordon
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1919 Male and Female
  • Mary Losenby
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1919 Don't Change Your Husband
  • Leila Porter
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1918 Shifting Sands
  • Marcia Grey
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1916 Teddy at the Throttle & Speeding Along
  • Actor
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1915 His New Job (Charlie's New Job)
  • Extra Stenographer
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1915 A Fool There Was
  • The Sultan's Wife
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Quotes from Gloria Swanson's Characters

    1. Norma Desmond: There's nothing else. Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my closeup.
    From Sunset Boulevard. Submitted by Mauricio R (8 months ago)
    1. Joe Gillis: You used to be big.
    2. Norma Desmond: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
    3. Joe Gillis: I knew there was something wrong with them.
    From Sunset Boulevard. Submitted by Mauricio R (8 months ago)

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