Gloria Swanson's biography

Gloria Swanson is 84 years old actor born at United States of America. She was born on Monday 27th of March 1899. According to year of birth 1899 she belongs to Lost Generation. Birthday on 27th of March means she is Aries. Aries is the most active sign of Zodiac, one born with this sign is a very quick learner, aggressive and passionate.She was married 2 times.

Gloria Swanson's spouse

She is married to Herbert K. Somborn

She is native english speaker. She is citizen of United States of America. She is an adherent of lutheranism. Her primary profession is to be actor. You can know her also as film producer, autobiographer, stage actor, television actor. She is recently known as film actor.

Gloria Swanson's dad

Gloria Swanson's father's name is Joseph T. Swanson.

Gloria Swanson's mom

Gloria Swanson's mother's name is Adelaide Klanowski.

Gloria Swanson's family

Gloria Swanson's spouse

Gloria Swanson's ex spouses

Wallace Beery

Gloria Swanson and Wallace Beery have been together since 1916 for 3 years. He is known as stage actor. Her ex spouse was born on Wednesday 1st of April 1885 in Clay County. Her ex spouse died on Friday 15th of April 1949. Wallace Beery was 50 years old, when this happened.

Gloria Swanson's schools

We found 1 school She attended. Name of the school: Lake View High School.

Gloria Swanson's career

Her main focus is to be actor. You could see her also in Sunset Boulevard.

How did Gloria Swanson die

She died on on Monday 4th of April 1983 when he was 84 years old. Gloria Swansons death was caused by heart ailment.

Awards and competitions

Gloria Swanson's Awards

She was awarded two Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6750 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Television at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

Gloria Swanson's Rankings

Her performance as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. (1950) is ranked #31 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Gloria Swanson's Nominations

She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Sunset Boulevard in 1951
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Sadie Thompson in 1929
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work The Trespasser in 1930

What Gloria Swanson has done for a first time

The first film shown at the original Roxy Theatre at 153 West 50th Street, New York City, was Swanson's The Love of Sunya (1927) in March 1927, and she attended the premiere. At its demolition in 1961, she posed in its ruins as a final farewell.
Along with Ruth Chatterton was one of the first stars to be Oscar nominated in two different years, for Sadie Thompson (1928) in 1929 and for The Trespasser (1929) in 1930.
Gave birth to her first child at age 21, a daughter Gloria Swanson Somborn on October 7, 1920. Child's father was her 2nd husband, Herbert K. Somborn.

Gloria Swanson's quotes

I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment a star.
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
When I die, my epitaph should read "She Paid the Bills". That's the story of my private life.
[To her mother following her triumphant return to Hollywood in 1924 after making Madame Sans-GÃªne (1925) in France] It's the saddest night of my life. I'm just 26. Where do I go from here?
[on her role in Airport 1975 (1974)] I was holding out for a picture I could take my grandchildren to see, something exciting and contemporary without senseless violence.
[on her pre-Cecil B. DeMille years as a comedienne working for Mack Sennett] I played my comedies like Duse [serious classical actress Eleonora Duse], which is probably why I was so funny.
It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that Sunset Blvd. (1950) was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.
[on Marlene Dietrich] Her legs may be longer than mine, but unlike me, she doesn't have 7 grandchildren.
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
After seven years in one place, not to mention two marriages and 32 pictures, I felt I had earned a vacation.
After years of negotiating, I felt bitter and resentful about Mr. Lasky [Jesse L. Lasky] and Paramount and I knew I always would.
A crisis arose when several newspapers questioned whether my singing voice was real. I had not sung--they wanted to know why.
All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
At 26, I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.
By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.
Every victory is also a defeat.
Hollywood has called me in turn "The Clothes Horse", "The Old Grey Mare"--and "Death of a Saleswoman". Since my comeback in Sunset Blvd. (1950), I'm glad to say they've thought up a new title: "Gloss".
[on Erich von Stroheim] The experience of working with him was unlike any I had had in more than 50 pictures. He was so painstaking and slow that I would lose all sense of time, hypnotized by the man's relentless perfectionism.
Two of the more trivial topics I never discuss are my marriage [of three weeks] to Wallace Beery and those frozen dinners which have become famous with my name on them.
Under God we became the freest, strongest, wealthiest nation on earth. Should we change that?
[during the first screening of The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922)} Did we make that on location or in the studio?
[To Michel Drucker, presenter, in "Champs Elysees" program in Paris, 1981] I don't wanna be remembered as Norma Desmond, the woman in that tragedy; I wanna be remembered as a comedian, who made people laugh.
I started carrying a carnation as a way to help me quit smoking; it has become my signature.
Why do men always call a carnation a "rose"?

Gloria Swanson's body shape

Lets describe how Gloria Swanson looks. We will focus on her body shape. Body build is average.

Gloria Swanson