WNET Introduction by Gloria Swanson (1966)
#BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #KinoLorber #MilestoneFilms #ErichVonStroheim #GloriaSwanson
Happy Birthday Gloria Swanson. (RIP) #HappyBirthdayGloriaSwanson #GloriaSwanson #Birthday #Legend #Legends
#onthisday #onthisdate #otd April 4, 1983 #actress #gloriaswanson died at the age of 84. On this special #podcast listen to a #goldenage of #radio #oldtimeradio #otr #audio #drama starring Gloria Swanson. rileyandkimmyshow.blogspot.com/2022/04/podc...
"I am big! It's the pictures that got small." (Sunset Boulevard)
🎭 Hollywood legend #GloriaSwanson passed away #OTD 4 April 1983. #Film #Filmmaking
Remem #GloriaSwanson on her Birthday❤️Silent film star nom for an Oscar for SADIE THOMPSON. Then nom for an Oscar for her 1st Talkie-THE TRESPASSER. Left film, returned, and was nom. for her 3rd Oscar for Norma Desmond in one of the best films ever made-SUNSET BOULEVARD. #TCMParty #FilmSky #MovieSky
#GloriaSwanson was born #OnThisDay in 1899, one of the great stars of the silent screen; she made a comeback in the 'talkies' in an unforgettable performance as #NormaDesmond in Billy Wilder's 1950 film noir classic "SunsetBoulevard":
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Celebrate the birthday of Gloria Swanson—the iconic silent film star and unforgettable Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard! 🎬✨
Explore her life and legacy here: hometownstohollywood.com/illinois/glo...
#GloriaSwanson #ClassicHollywood #SilentFilm #OldHollywood #FilmHistory #OnThisDay
Take a terror-filled trip with Today’s Decay
#gloriaswanson #patriciadouglas #sunrecords #kidcongopowers #fiveyearsagoscontentbutimcontentwithit
how could I not :)
"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
#GloriaSwanson #SunsetBlvd
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Remembering Gloria Swanson, born in Chicago on this day in 1899.
#gloriaswanson #famousbirthdays #onthisday #classichollywood #sunsetboulevard
#BOTD #GloriaSwanson at her office at Puritan Dress Co., which produced her signature line of women's wear FOREVER YOUNG, New York, New York.
📸 Jack Mitchell
1960
"It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that SUNSET BLVD. was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool."
—Gloria Swanson
#botd
At home with #GloriaSwanson in New York City, 1960
📸: © Jack Mitchell
"I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too."
Born Gloria May Josephine Svensson in Chicago, IL #OTD 1899 . . . Remembering #GloriaSwanson!
Gloria Swanson emoting on site of the Roxy Theater which was being destroyed in New York, NY, 1960
She's ready. #GloriaSwanson was #BOTD ✨
📷: Gloria Swanson, in black-and-white and in color, amongst the remains of the Roxy Theater (her silent movie THE LOVE OF SUNYA was the first movie to play at the Roxy when it opened in 1927)
📸: Eliot Elisofon
New York, NY, 1960
© Time
open-face cheeseburger, lettuce, tomato, red onion, extra pickles
i became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944
#gloriaswanson #botd
MARCH 27TH
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#March27 #March27th #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #EarlyBlues #Ragtime #78rpm #OldMusic #jugBand #TinPanAlley #EarlyRecordings #HotJazz #ClassicJazz #Music #LeroyCarr #HalKemp #GloriaSwanson #CharlieChaplin
Long after Gloria Swanson's silent film career, she brought her style and influence into the fashion world. In 1951, she launched the "Forever Young" line with Puritan Dress, catering to petite & mature.
#FashionConservatory #GloriaSwanson #ForeverYoung #VintageFashion #FashionHistory #1950sStyle
Remembering #GloriaSwanson on her 127th birthday!
Swanson achieved fame in silent films in the 1920s. Nominated 3x for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which also earned her a Golden Globe Award. #Films #FilmNoir 🎬⭐🎥
On today’s #positive #podcast 4485 we play #trivia and a #goldenage of #radio #oldtimeradio #otr #audio #thriller starring #actress #gloriaswanson who was born #onthisday #onthisdate #otd March 27, 1899. rileyandkimmyshow.blogspot.com/2026/03/podc...
Remembering #gloriaswanson on her March 27th birthday.
#arttribute #scottclarke #scottclarkestudio
“Never say never. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.”
🌹🎭 Hoĺlywood legend #GloriaSwanson was #BOTD 27 March 1899. #Film #Filmmaking
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in the final shot of the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, directed by Billy Wilder.
“Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.”
#GloriaSwanson
American #film actress
#botd March 27, 1899 -
April 4, 1983
Actors like Swanson sacrificed happy private lives to remain in the spotlight.
#WomensHistory #WHM
#SheShed
Such a wonderful evening at @drydentheatre.bsky.social - thanks to everyone who came out, and thanks to everyone at @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social!
#silentfilm
#livemusic
#gloriaswanson
Gloria Swanson at the Roxy Theater ruins 1960
#filmsky #gloriaswanson #lifemagazine
Chicago-born silent film legend Gloria Swanson became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars of the 1920s.
Read about her Illinois roots:
hometownstohollywood.com/illinois/glo...
#GloriaSwanson #ClassicHollywood #SilentFilm #ChicagoHistory #FilmHistory 🎬
Samedi 14 février à 15h (4.50€) au Cinéma Le Sévigné :
FESTIVAL TRAVELLING AU SÉVIGNÉ
BOULEVARD DU CRÉPUSCULE – VO
De Billy Wilder
Avec #gloriaswanson #williamholden #erichvonstroheim
#billywilder #lesevigne #cinema #film #boulevardducrepuscule #cessonsevigne #rennes #festivaltravelling
#queenkelly #gloriaswanson #erichvonstroheim
En Kronberg, capital de un reino centroeuropeo, el príncipe Wolfram, enamorado locamente de ella decide raptarla conduciéndola a sus habitaciones en palacio, a pesar de que la Reina ya ha anunciado su boda para el día siguiente.
#alphabetchallenge
#weekDforDramatic
Please excuse me posting this c.1920 silent film clip. What movie was it? The young actress was #GloriaSwanson, she who would much later star in #SunsetBoulevard, and whose critical signature line was, "We had faces, then!" Did she ever!