Love the mention of Niles, CA. It is actually now a district in Fremont CA. It was the temporary home of Charlie Chaplin and the Bronco Billy films , where they shot some silent movies there. Charlie Chaplin;s Little Tramp was shot there. The Essanay Studio is no longer there, but some of the cottages for the workers and a duplex for the stars of some of the movies made there are still standing.
This was absolutely fascinating about Gloria Swanson's life and career! Enjoyed it tremendously! Wish I could see a complete copy of the 1929 film Queen Kelly.
My father shot her for an ad for a hosiery company in the 60's. She was in a shopping cart with her legs up, crossed at the ankles to show off the hosiery (and her legs). He said it couldn't possibly have been comfortable, but she was such a pro and so delightful to work with (and he had worked with a lot of celebrities). Unfortunately he lost so many of his tear sheets in Hurricane Betsy including that. If any Gloria fans read this and have a copy, please get in touch! I'd love to see it.
Such a fabulous story! Thank you for sharing this bit of history. I remember that commercial and also seeing her on the afternoon talk show circuit after I would come home from school. She and some of her contemporaries such as Josephine Baker would appear on the Merv Griffin or Mike Douglas shows. I was so fortunate to be able to see and spend a little bit of time with these iconic women and understand their place in entertainment history.
She signed a copy of her autobiography for me in London, where I was a student. There was a line of people out on the sidewalk waiting to see her, and she was warm, interested in these fans buying her book, and she had the MOST extraordinary eyes I've ever seen--her irises were multicolored, unforgettably beautiful. A true, one-off individual.
Yes. I saw her several times, up close, in NYC in the 70s. Her eyes were absolutely extraordinary. They were the eyes of a much younger person, beyond that, can't explain it; vivid, intense, mesmerizing.
THANK YOU! I’m a huge fan of Gloria Swanson, and there’s not enough of information on her. She was the epitome of the glamorous movie star, and I’d love to watch her silent films and know more about her. A biopic would be awesome!
@@MrQbenDanny Bette Davis was up for All About Eve. Spectacular. I also adore Judy Holiday but was fascinated that she was the choice. Could have been a two way between Miss Swanson and Miss Davis? Any thoughts?
@AuntieMamie Both played themselves in their movies. It's a tough call, but if I was a member of the academy, I would have voted for La Swanson. It's a historic and miraculous performance. The movie where DAVIS was truly robbed was "What ever happened to baby Jane." It was a symphonic tour de force performance by a true movie legend. Joan Crawford headed the assault out of envy and contempt she wasn't even nominated as a supporting actress, which is what Joan Crawford was. Bette Davis had top billing. Cheers.
@@MrQbenDanny I’m just love movies and was in the business. Gloria Swanson was Norma Desmond. Not Gloria Swanson. She loved saying that. Whatever-- it’s a truly iconic film.
I lived for most of my childhood and adolescence in the same building as gloria swanson She used to buy her health food personally at a long established health food store on lexington. A very gracious and larger than life person whom i wasildly scared of as she trundled her health food. She came to visit one day to our apartmrnt to enjoy a cinima presentation and small party featuring a student remake of Hollywood boulevard that was shown. She was very gracious and do it yourself. My fears as a younger child were baseless. She was just srtiking entering the building with shopping bags filled with goodies. When i met her properly she was very radiant with strikingly original couture ,and quite gracious to me.
I met her at Gateway Fred Meyer when she was shopping there and she was looking for max factor make up. My mom and I helped her find the make up. Sold it to her. And I told her how much I loved her work she had done and she said thank you and she was being followed by someone who didn’t like her for some reason. We just ignored this other woman. Then she purchased a red lipstick. I was so in awe of her I just stared at her and so did my mom. She was so striking and so beautiful. We were looking at her immaculate outfit. An all white wool suit with wide lapels and single row of buttons gold. The skirt was also white wool fit close to her body. She had white high heels on. She was so tiny. She weighed less then 100 lbs. so petite so gorgeous. Her make up was flawless. She was perfection!❤
I'm delighted to have a personally signed copy; she had tremendous star quality in spite of her diminutive size. Even at the book signing she had a tremendous awareness of how she was being photographed by the attendant press.
This was excellent. I recently read her Swanson on Swanson autobiography and Michael Shearer’s biography about Gloria Swanson. These interviews are like icing on the cake for me.
This was good! Her granddaughter is a carbon copy, I swear. She even speaks the same way, same voice. Swanson really had something, in movies and as a person. Her interviews are really good in that she projects her own character in a way that creates interest in herself that most actors never do. She seems so interesting.
I agree.....she said that she always had interests, personal and business outside of Hollywood. She didn't make Hollywood her everything. She seemed cool.
Yes, she was considered eccentric about diet but she was right about so many things in that regard. She was very intelligent and will to share al she had learned!
She was also way ahead of her time preaching healthy diet and exercise. There were a few short videos I saw where she demonstrated in her own kitchen what she ate. It was great!
Hi, folks! Thanks for watching. This video is comprised of outtakes from my film "Boulevard! A Hollywood Story" which is available for streaming on multiple platforms. It's the story of Gloria Swanson's attempts to produce a musical version of "Sunset Boulevard" in the 1950s. I hope Gloria fans who have been commenting on this video will enjoy it!
In her book, she described Joe's, shall we say, "lovemaking." Very quick work. Gloria also described meeting Joe's wife Rose and wondered how could she be so naive about what was going on. I dunno... kind of low-brow for the usually chic Gloria.
United States doesn’t have royalty but we have Gloria.,we admired her deportment. Her style. She gave us our dreams however individualistic as they come. Gloria stayed Gloria. Beautiful soul. I would’ve loved being her friend. Her humor and sensibility. Her anti drug stance is adm8rable. Also her knowledge of harmful effects of table sugar. She was ahead of her time.
when Fred Astaire came for the first time in Hollywood ,he see 2 limousines upholstered with leopard with two chauffeurs one for her dogs and the other for herself 😁
Great interview, and bio..Gloria, admittedly was not one of my favorite precode stars, however I have grown to like and admire the women she was...I liked William Powell, Edward G Robinson, Franchot Tone who came from the stage, and I also liked Joan Crawford, Kay Francis.
Please give my love to Cousin Arthur Whitelaw… He will remember me as Sandra Swann Grand daughter… Arthur was very kind to me! His family was my family… I have the locket Arthur gave my Grandma the last time I saw Arthur… I’m known as “Nurse Jane…or LCDR Swann, USN Retired… thank You so much…Deale, MD at Forevermore by the Bay…20751… Hi Cousin Arthur…I love our memories!
She did dangerous roles on film sets herself .like the one where the film she did with the lion that was her she said when doing that scene she said when she was lying down and the lion had its paw on her back the noise of the lions breathing was so noisy that the whole building echoed and was asked was she scared she said i was beyound fear that she was thaught lions could sence fear and she learnt how to control it.but 4 days after that scene the lion was killed because it killed its trainer. they should gave got Gloria to be that lions trainer.🤣.🙏rest in peace Gloria between you Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish you were all my favourites Rest in peace to Mary and Lillian too. Godbless you 🙏🙏🙏🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🌹🌹🌹AMEN.💫
Hi, folks! Thanks for watching. This video is comprised of outtakes from my film "Boulevard! A Hollywood Story" which is available for streaming on multiple platforms. It's the story of Gloria Swanson's attempts to produce a musical version of "Sunset Boulevard" in the 1950s. I hope Gloria fans who have been commenting on this video will enjoy it!
Thanks for this Glorious grab bag of vignettes. Miss Swanson was truly one of a kind. If she died a conservative, all the better -- more "diversity" is urgently needed in that regard in filmdom ;)
Bending toward conservatism as we age is a common phenomena, we hold on to the past it seems, but add that nasty Kennedy experience and it’s a wonder she wasn’t driven to the right much sooner. 😉
I'm 58 and people are shocked when they ask how old i am i don't mind aging ive accepted it but i find it funny telling them my age because the say you only look about 48 .I reply thanks for the complement. Maybe I look younger because im 5 foot never wore make up never dyed my hair which also has been mentioned how my hair is not thin and im not Gray yeat .I'm not been vain i never was but age is just a number .I feel young in my mind. but my body is beginning to feel its age. My moral think about today and hope for tomorrow. appricate life.👍💖.
Love the mention of Niles, CA. It is actually now a district in Fremont CA. It was the temporary home of Charlie Chaplin and the Bronco Billy films , where they shot some silent movies there. Charlie Chaplin;s Little Tramp was shot there.
The Essanay Studio is no longer there, but some of the cottages for the workers and a duplex for the stars of some of the movies made there are still standing.
The San Francisco Bay Area...the first Hollywood.
Ithaca , New York was also Hollywood for a brief time. Until they figured out that it’s cold there half the time.
This was absolutely fascinating about Gloria Swanson's life and career! Enjoyed it tremendously! Wish I could see a complete copy of the 1929 film Queen Kelly.
it is on youtube
Thank you!@@mediterraneanworld
great! particularly i like Cari Beauchamp's contributions here, she really feels this history :)
My father shot her for an ad for a hosiery company in the 60's. She was in a shopping cart with her legs up, crossed at the ankles to show off the hosiery (and her legs). He said it couldn't possibly have been comfortable, but she was such a pro and so delightful to work with (and he had worked with a lot of celebrities). Unfortunately he lost so many of his tear sheets in Hurricane Betsy including that. If any Gloria fans read this and have a copy, please get in touch! I'd love to see it.
Such a fabulous story! Thank you for sharing this bit of history. I remember that commercial and also seeing her on the afternoon talk show circuit after I would come home from school. She and some of her contemporaries such as Josephine Baker would appear on the Merv Griffin or Mike Douglas shows. I was so fortunate to be able to see and spend a little bit of time with these iconic women and understand their place in entertainment history.
I have a package of the NYLONS...hard to find.
@@johnventrella3403 no way!
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She signed a copy of her autobiography for me in London, where I was a student. There was a line of people out on the sidewalk waiting to see her, and she was warm, interested in these fans buying her book, and she had the MOST extraordinary eyes I've ever seen--her irises were multicolored, unforgettably beautiful. A true, one-off individual.
Yes. I saw her several times, up close, in NYC in the 70s. Her eyes were absolutely extraordinary. They were the eyes of a much younger person, beyond that, can't explain it; vivid, intense, mesmerizing.
THANK YOU! I’m a huge fan of Gloria Swanson, and there’s not enough of information on her. She was the epitome of the glamorous movie star, and I’d love to watch her silent films and know more about her. A biopic would be awesome!
FANTÁSTICO POST!!! THANK YOU!!!
She deserved the best actress Oscar for Sunset Boulevard. I'm amazed at her personal life!!!
@@MrQbenDanny Bette Davis was up for All About Eve. Spectacular. I also adore Judy Holiday but was fascinated that she was the choice. Could have been a two way between Miss Swanson and Miss Davis? Any thoughts?
@AuntieMamie Both played themselves in their movies. It's a tough call, but if I was a member of the academy, I would have voted for La Swanson. It's a historic and miraculous performance.
The movie where DAVIS was truly robbed was "What ever happened to baby Jane." It was a symphonic tour de force performance by a true movie legend. Joan Crawford headed the assault out of envy and contempt she wasn't even nominated as a supporting actress, which is what Joan Crawford was. Bette Davis had top billing.
Cheers.
@@MrQbenDanny I’m just love movies and was in the business. Gloria Swanson was Norma Desmond. Not Gloria Swanson. She loved saying that. Whatever-- it’s a truly iconic film.
I lived for most of my childhood and adolescence in the same building as gloria swanson
She used to buy her health food personally at a long established health food store on lexington. A very gracious and larger than life person whom i wasildly scared of as she trundled her health food. She came to visit one day to our apartmrnt to enjoy a cinima presentation and small party featuring a student remake of Hollywood boulevard that was shown. She was very gracious and do it yourself. My fears as a younger child were baseless. She was just srtiking entering the building with shopping bags filled with goodies. When i met her properly she was very radiant with strikingly original couture ,and quite gracious to me.
@@katmandew2152 yes she got into macrobiotics in the 20’s and followed it for the rest of her life. You were so lucky!
I met her at Gateway Fred Meyer when she was shopping there and she was looking for max factor make up. My mom and I helped her find the make up. Sold it to her. And I told her how much I loved her work she had done and she said thank you and she was being followed by someone who didn’t like her for some reason. We just ignored this other woman. Then she purchased a red lipstick. I was so in awe of her I just stared at her and so did my mom. She was so striking and so beautiful. We were looking at her immaculate outfit. An all white wool suit with wide lapels and single row of buttons gold. The skirt was also white wool fit close to her body. She had white high heels on. She was so tiny. She weighed less then 100 lbs. so petite so gorgeous. Her make up was flawless. She was perfection!❤
So nice to read this. Thank you!
One of the reason why famous people are wary of the public because of idiots like that woman who hassle them for no reason.
@@steveweinstein3222 Maybe she thought Gloria shot Bill Holden.
Loved the fascinating Gloria Swanson and miss Robert Osborne may they both rest in peace.
wasn't it Mrs Robert Osborne?
I loved " SUNSET " it's my all time favourite movie , Gloria Swanson was amazing what a STAR , there are no stars anymore.
Her autobiography is perhaps the best I've ever read. Certainly the best of any Hollywood star.
What's the name of that book?
@@beignet2012Swanson on Swanson
Completely agree! I believe it's the best Hollywood autobiography that will ever be written. No one told Gloria's story like Gloria.
I'm delighted to have a personally signed copy; she had tremendous star quality in spite of her diminutive size. Even at the book signing she had a tremendous awareness of how she was being photographed by the attendant press.
I read it so many yrs ago.
This was excellent. I recently read her Swanson on Swanson autobiography and Michael Shearer’s biography about Gloria Swanson. These interviews are like icing on the cake for me.
A surprising but wonderful find for me!
I do hope either of those books appear in audio form someday!
Very well done documentary. I can see the resemblance. Between Gloria Swanson and her granddaughter
The eyes the facial features and the sweet disposition is your proud legacy. American grittiness a true legend.
This was good! Her granddaughter is a carbon copy, I swear. She even speaks the same way, same voice. Swanson really had something, in movies and as a person. Her interviews are really good in that she projects her own character in a way that creates interest in herself that most actors never do. She seems so interesting.
I agree.....she said that she always had interests, personal and business outside of Hollywood. She didn't make Hollywood her everything. She seemed cool.
Yes, she was considered eccentric about diet but she was right about so many things in that regard. She was very intelligent and will to share al she had learned!
really great stories from the interviewees!
Thanks for sharing these memories, I just love hearing about the stars of yesteryear ❤
@auldreekie7768.same here
I saw her in Butterflies Are Free at the Papermill Play House, Milburn, NJ.
Ditto but in NYC.
Love her! I read Swanson's autobiography many years ago - it's still one of my favorite Hollywood books.
Love it. The greatest star of the silent era.
That’s what makes one a star
I'm looking this up on Amazon as I'm watching.
Excellent!!! Thanks for posting!!!
34:20 very timely (the enemy→sugar and refined carbohydrates!) - she was ahead of her time!
She was a survivor of the Hollywood jungle. Nothing like Norma Desmond, which was a brilliant feat of acting.
She was also way ahead of her time preaching healthy diet and exercise. There were a few short videos I saw where she demonstrated in her own kitchen what she ate. It was great!
She was decades ahead of her time.
@@MothGirl007 absolutely. Hey Jack LaLanne too.
Magnificent star and personality like our Al jolson..grateful to you for creating this piece..David Huss archive director of the al jolson society
Hi, folks! Thanks for watching. This video is comprised of outtakes from my film "Boulevard! A Hollywood Story" which is available for streaming on multiple platforms. It's the story of Gloria Swanson's attempts to produce a musical version of "Sunset Boulevard" in the 1950s. I hope Gloria fans who have been commenting on this video will enjoy it!
YOU COULDN'T EVEN SHOW ONE PICTURE OF HER??? SHITTY!!!
So good! Thank you. I’m adding Boulevard! to my watch list now.
I felt bad for Robert Osborne, he seemed unwell. Loved that guy.
Gloria Swanson was a strong woman,she survived Papa Joe Kennedy ...
In her book, she described Joe's, shall we say, "lovemaking." Very quick work. Gloria also described meeting Joe's wife Rose and wondered how could she be so naive about what was going on. I dunno... kind of low-brow for the usually chic Gloria.
Many thanks for this very interesting documentary. Excellent.
These early stars knew how to be true movie stars They were appreciative of their fans
United States doesn’t have royalty but we have Gloria.,we admired her deportment. Her style. She gave us our dreams however individualistic as they come. Gloria stayed Gloria. Beautiful soul. I would’ve loved being her friend. Her humor and sensibility. Her anti drug stance is adm8rable. Also her knowledge of harmful effects of table sugar. She was ahead of her time.
This is so good.
This is wonderful ! Thank you !
Great Docu , very well made
when Fred Astaire came for the first time in Hollywood ,he see 2 limousines upholstered with leopard with two chauffeurs one for her dogs and the other for herself 😁
Great interview, and bio..Gloria, admittedly was not one of my favorite precode stars, however I have grown to like and admire the women she was...I liked William Powell, Edward G Robinson, Franchot Tone who came from the stage, and I also liked Joan Crawford, Kay Francis.
Please give my love to Cousin Arthur Whitelaw… He will remember me as Sandra Swann Grand daughter… Arthur was very kind to me! His family was my family… I have the locket Arthur gave my Grandma the last time I saw Arthur… I’m known as “Nurse Jane…or LCDR Swann, USN Retired… thank You so much…Deale, MD at Forevermore by the Bay…20751… Hi Cousin Arthur…I love our memories!
She and Rudolph Valentino were great together in, "Beyond The Rocks. " Thank God it was found. 🎬
She did dangerous roles on film sets herself .like the one where the film she did with the lion that was her she said when doing that scene she said when she was lying down and the lion had its paw on her back the noise of the lions breathing was so noisy that the whole building echoed and was asked was she scared she said i was beyound fear that she was thaught lions could sence fear and she learnt how to control it.but 4 days after that scene the lion was killed because it killed its trainer. they should gave got Gloria to be that lions trainer.🤣.🙏rest in peace Gloria between you Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish you were all my favourites Rest in peace to Mary and Lillian too. Godbless you 🙏🙏🙏🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🌹🌹🌹AMEN.💫
Thank you.
Remember seeing her on the Beverly hillbillies.
10:55 meant is Madame Sans-Gêne, (not "Madame Sanjana")
Fascinating
Wrong.... Her first Oscar nomination was for SADIE THOMPSON.
will there be bluray?
How did I miss all those outtakes? I must be getting senile
She came in Montreal around 1979 to soak about nutrition. I saw her , she was very good at that talk. Loved her
To speak…
It's not SNA Studios, it was Essanay Studios.
Beautiful and very
talented Woman...
❤
Gloria was married 6 times! Never lucky in relationships. In my opinion she was a strange duck, a Swedish archetype.
Quack quack
In her autobiography, she says that Wallace Beery was physically abusive. She was terrified of him.
Strong genes, granddaughter lovely like her GMa.
God; I miss Cari Beauchamp.😢
An interesting snapshot of a fascinating woman
I have Gloria Swanson's memoir.
I didn’t see a single “out take”.
Hi, folks! Thanks for watching. This video is comprised of outtakes from my film "Boulevard! A Hollywood Story" which is available for streaming on multiple platforms. It's the story of Gloria Swanson's attempts to produce a musical version of "Sunset Boulevard" in the 1950s. I hope Gloria fans who have been commenting on this video will enjoy it!
I only wish she weren’t involved with Joseph Kennedy.
Why? She was an adult !
@@sanfordpress8943 that’s not my point. Do you know who Joseph Kennedy really was?
So did she, according to her own book
Cari Beauchamp....I can almost smell the stale smoke and nicotine through the screen. 😳
So what?
Love it!
Thanks for this Glorious grab bag of vignettes. Miss Swanson was truly one of a kind. If she died a conservative, all the better -- more "diversity" is urgently needed in that regard in filmdom ;)
Bending toward conservatism as we age is a common phenomena, we hold on to the past it seems, but add that nasty Kennedy experience and it’s a wonder she wasn’t driven to the right much sooner. 😉
Gloria, the first real femme fatal just gorgeous
She sounds like her Grandmother
I'm 58 and people are shocked when they ask how old i am i don't mind aging ive accepted it but i find it funny telling them my age because the say you only look about 48 .I reply thanks for the complement. Maybe I look younger because im 5 foot never wore make up never dyed my hair which also has been mentioned how my hair is not thin and im not Gray yeat .I'm not been vain i never was but age is just a number .I feel young in my mind. but my body is beginning to feel its age. My moral think about today and hope for tomorrow. appricate life.👍💖.
Bobby VERNON.... Harron was with Griffith.
My uncle Stache' dated her.
all i know is this: we are all humans and we think of ourselves first all day long. but u might be able to make money talking about this one.