We once had "stars" - not like today's celebrities and so-called influencers, but what were real stars: talented, charismatic, beautiful. Gloria Swanson was one of them.
Most entertainers now look like the person next door. No substance or presence like back in the day. And most aren't smart and have no talent or class. Thank God for the stars of yesteryear.
In 1940 she was diagnosed with an uterine cancer. So she discovered macrobiotic food and starved the tumor. balancelivebreathe.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/why-gloria-swanson-should-be-your-lifestyle-muse/
Gloria was great, she lived in Manhattan for 40 years and was very approachable. She was always on the talk shows of the day and doing things in and for the city. I met her in 1974 going into a play with my mom and she was so excited to meet her and exchange kind words. Gloria couldn't have been kinder to my mom and I've been a fan and loved her ever since. ps. my memory is that she was still quite beautiful at that time.
Miss Swanson is one of the greatest, most gifted and wonderful actress of all time. She was incredibly beautiful up until her last years. I adore her completely.
She was so poised and well spoken. I saw an old interview with Mike wallace and I can't forgive him for that mysoginistic interview he did with this fine woman and she handled it so graciously.
I used to live in her old penthouse in rundown part of Los Angeles, where she lived in the 1950's... I saw Sunset Blvd for the first time when I was there. Ive been in love with her for the past 25 years.
Eidelmania The way your sentence was constructed, it sounds like Gloria Swanson lived in a old penthouse in a rundown area of LA. If you are a writer, please be careful of your wording and sentence construction. Gloria Swanson never lived in a run down penthouse. It’s like her line, “ I am big”. It’s the pictures ( in this case L.A.) that got small!”
This is probably the best interview of Gloria's I've ever seen, no posturing, no pushing health foods or lamenting dull marriages, just clear, concise and to the point
When a person is born with such strongly defined facial features like a pointy nose or arched eyebrows, age wouldn't show on their faces, their features would retain their edginess and crisp with age... timeless beauty! love Gloria!
Also, Gloria Swanson eschewed sugar from the time she was in her 20's. She was ahead of her time and maintained a very healthful diet. It SHOWED! I heard her skin was RADIANT!!!
She's stunningly beautiful at 65! Her memories of Von Sternberg are fascinating and generous, considering she never recovered financially from Queen Kelly. A great role can be a curse as well as a gift. To the guys in the biz, she was forever Norma Desmond. She should have done many more class-A films. Instead she had to cobble together a career from scraps: Bev Hillbillies, lots of summer stock, speaking at lady's clubs and finally, the book, which was a best-seller. She knew how to survive, but she deserved better.
Priceless interview. Gloria Swanson talks from her firsthand experience as a movie star about how making a movie was much bigger a deal than it is nowadays. She was a great and intelligent actress, and a timeless beauty. With regard to the latter, she was like the best wine in that she aged gracefully and never lost her sex appeal.Thank you for posting.
Gloria Swanson was the first true movie star. The glamour, the beauty and the popularity. Before Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, Swanson established herself as the archetypal Hollywood star.
This must be the original’ Bob’ hairstyle that took over the salons about 8 years ago. Another brilliant Hollywood star of long ago. Well spoken and stylish.
PURE CLASS. Miss Swanson looks divine. Hairstyles and fashions made women in general younger than they looked in the early 1950s. Check her out in the 1990's and she still looks beautiful.
Robert Duffy It wasn’t her decision. No work for women over 40. It’s still the same today. She did some smaller films as a supporting player, Sunset Boulevard was a unusually brave film to make.
Swanson is grace and professionalism-she helped to build Hollywood - at a time when it was near impossible for women to do anything let alone wield any kind of influence or power. Good lord, she’s stunning in her older years and I’m so sickened that she was not working during the time of this interview.
Saved the film/producers a lot of money - by foreseeing an issue that no one else had apparently noticed. Great interview and story about "Convent Girl."
This is a great interview, thank you so much for posting it. Gloria Swanson was a talented, intriguing and beautiful woman. She had a very interesting career as well as a very interesting life.
Read Gloria's Swanson's autobiography. It's out of print but can be found from third party sellers on Amazon, at least that's where I found a hardbound edition of it. It's filled with wonderful stories about old Hollywood and her personal insights about life and living. She had one abortion and her telling of that story is bone chilling; it was a regret she lived everyday with for the rest of her life. She was an early advocate of healthy eating. I loved "Sunset Boulevrad" and love it even more now than i know more about tGloria Swanson.
I first watched Sunset boulevard only about one and a half years ago which instantly became one of my favourite films. Afterwards Gloria stuck in my mind and I couldn't stop thinking of how brilliant she was. I rewatched it a few months after and I have since started to watch her earlier work. So far I have seen 6 of her films and she is now without any doubt my favourite actress, I plan to watch as much as I can of her. There's something completely enchanting and mesmerizing about her performances and her beauty that is unlike anything I've ever seen. Every time I see her on the screen I feel like I'm witnessing something divine. I have no doubts she will stay close to my heart for the rest of my life, and I'm so thankful I decided to dive deeper into film and discovered this amazing woman.
Tellement magnifique la grande dame Gloria Swanson la divine et tellement intelligente gracieuse et humble et si précise lorsqu' elle parle de ça carrière.
She made me obsessed with silent movies. Such an interesting, intelligent, modern woman with a lot of stories to tell. Plus She was really beautiful in every age PS: Watch Zaza!
Such a beautiful woman my goodness!!! 💖💖 So glamorous I love just watching her ❤️ Her hand movements her expressions her eyes Only a an actress from silent movies could capture and project such without speaking She was only 4’11” 🌞
Such a purely beautiful woman. Very much unlike Norma Desmond as well which is a testament to her performance. She could not be more opposite. She gracefully realized her career in film had ended and took it in stride. They don’t make actresses like this anymore.
Thank you for posting. What a great interview, do you know if more exist? I love her, what a character! Why is the talent of Hollywood so impoverished today? They are corporate and 'brands', back then Hollywood produced artists.
Joshua Taylor Because when Hollywood started at the beginning, they were artists! Today, it is just commercialism. There IS talent today, but it’s covered over with whatever massive blockbuster there selling at the moment.
Film Bulwar Zachodzącego Słońca, obejrzałem ,gdy byłem dzieckiem, wywarł na mnie takie wielkie wrażenie, że po 50 latach, co jakiś czas wracam do niego.Gloria jest wspaniałą ponadczasowa aktorka o wielkiem blasku, gwiazda, której współczesne aktorki nigdy nie dorównają.
Class, grace, beauty and one of a kind. Sunset Blvd got me hooked on old movies. She is the Queen of all Motion Pictures! So smart and just pure class! Forever my favorite actress and human being!
She was a remarkable star and women..she stayed beautiful her whole life..very principled or disciplined with her looks..as an actor should be .but shouldn't we all?
She had a very healthy life, drinking water, eating vegetables without artificial stuff and even wrote a book called Sugar Blues, explaining why people should stop eating sugar.
She drank only spring water from France, made her own flour from brown rice and her own sweetener from boiled organic raisins, and frequently fasted. “After one fast I was on for 10 days I swore I'd never eat again,” she said.
I've seen the reconstructed first part of "Queen Kelly," which was fabulous. The "dance hall" was actually a house of prostitution, and that "drooling scene" is included at the very end.
We once had "stars" - not like today's celebrities and so-called influencers, but what were real stars: talented, charismatic, beautiful. Gloria Swanson was one of them.
We didn't need CGI...We had FACES!
I completely agree. I love the classic movies. The crap they shovel out today can't hold a candle to what once was the real magic of cinema.
Calm down, they're just people.
Most entertainers now look like the person next door. No substance or presence like back in the day. And most aren't smart and have no talent or class. Thank God for the stars of yesteryear.
@@codybrown5775and man they used those faces. When I saw Gloria Swanson in the movie Sunset Boulevard I was so impressed. Instant fan.
she was 66 in this interview and looks amazing
Classy lady!
Yes. she looks 55
She was into yoga before it became popular.
Yes & beautiful ❤
@Ed Absolutely true.
No matter her age, Gloria Swanson had a timeless sexiness about her.
She looks younger here than she did in Sunset Blvd.
My goodness for a 65 year old woman she looks amazing!!!!
In 1940 she was diagnosed with an uterine cancer. So she discovered macrobiotic food and starved the tumor. balancelivebreathe.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/why-gloria-swanson-should-be-your-lifestyle-muse/
@Human Being I know it!
Gloria was great, she lived in Manhattan for 40 years and was very approachable. She was always on the talk shows of the day and doing things in and for the city. I met her in 1974 going into a play with my mom and she was so excited to meet her and exchange kind words. Gloria couldn't have been kinder to my mom and I've been a fan and loved her ever since. ps. my memory is that she was still quite beautiful at that time.
She was beautiful, especially her eyes. She was a great actress. Gloria Swanson will always be my favorite actress and movie star of ALL time.
so do i , glad to see there still are some fans
This woman was pure class. So witty, honest and genuine and what a lovely speaking voice. I could listen to her entertaining anecdotes all day long.
Miss Swanson is one of the greatest, most gifted and wonderful actress of all time. She was incredibly beautiful up until her last years. I adore her completely.
You are not alone.
She was so poised and well spoken. I saw an old interview with Mike wallace and I can't forgive him for that mysoginistic interview he did with this fine woman and she handled it so graciously.
Gloria here is as incredible looking a woman as has ever lived. Just gorgeous.
Hard to believe that she was 65...What a beautiful woman 😍
I just discovered the icon that is Gloria Swanson in 2019 and I am
Obsessed
Same. Absolutely a marvel.
Same too, but I just find her most interesting as a business person. Very level headed and straightforward about show business.
Read her autobiography
I'm worse than you. I never heard her name until May 13 2020. She was very attractive
Same here she's was a beutiful woman a great actress
She was phenomenal in Sunset Boulevard and she looked really good in this interview.
She is so beautiful in this clip.
Besides being a beautiful lady, she speaks in a such an interesting way.
She seemed so humble, wise and down to earth.
I used to live in her old penthouse in rundown part of Los Angeles, where she lived in the 1950's... I saw Sunset Blvd for the first time when I was there. Ive been in love with her for the past 25 years.
Eidelmania The way your sentence was constructed, it sounds like Gloria Swanson lived in a old penthouse in a rundown area of LA. If you are a writer, please be careful of your wording and sentence construction. Gloria Swanson never lived in a run down penthouse. It’s like her line, “ I am big”. It’s the pictures ( in this case L.A.) that got small!”
I could hear her talk all day she was an amazing woman
One of the most articulate, well-enunciated persons in any interview ever. And she looks fabulous.
Absolutely Gorgeous. 66 years old.
Gorgeous. Health wise she took very good care of herself and it shows.
and she is 65 at this time. gorgeous!
This is probably the best interview of Gloria's I've ever seen, no posturing, no pushing health foods or lamenting dull marriages, just clear, concise and to the point
Great, on point comment.
Truth. She looks great too.
Great interview. She is so on point and looks every bit the legend.
Such an intelligent, interesting person to listen to and learn from! Thank you very much for this.
When a person is born with such strongly defined facial features like a pointy nose or arched eyebrows, age wouldn't show on their faces, their features would retain their edginess and crisp with age... timeless beauty! love Gloria!
indeed！
narumi ye As Mom used to say, “It’s the cheekbones”. My mother knew her from childhood..
Also, Gloria Swanson eschewed sugar from the time she was in her 20's. She was ahead of her time and maintained a very healthful diet. It SHOWED! I heard her skin was RADIANT!!!
Omg she looks absolutely stunning with that whole 60s look!!! Gloria exuded glamour and elegance ♥️♥️♥️♥️
She's stunningly beautiful at 65! Her memories of Von Sternberg are fascinating and generous, considering she never recovered financially from Queen Kelly. A great role can be a curse as well as a gift. To the guys in the biz, she was forever Norma Desmond. She should have done many more class-A films. Instead she had to cobble together a career from scraps: Bev Hillbillies, lots of summer stock, speaking at lady's clubs and finally, the book, which was a best-seller. She knew how to survive, but she deserved better.
How very true, and well said. Thank you.
You mean Von Stroheim. I don't think she ever worked with Von Sternberg.
You are so right!
Gloria loved to travel by train. She promoted the Santa Fe's "Super Chief" in a film for Paramount.
She should have OWNED Paramount! Gloria was one of the BEST!!!!
Nothing like old Hollywood....so classy
I Love Gloria Swanson. She was so beautiful and so amazing. I love all Her movies. May She R.I.P. ❤✝️❤️🕊🙏🏼🌹🌸🌺
Lovely interview with the glorious Gloria Swanson! ❤
Gloria Swanson was so classy and elegant !
She was an extraordinary woman - brave and honest about her life and choices.
So gorgeous here!
Really enjoyed this. What an articulate well spoken woman.
I never realized what a gorgeous lady she was ! 😍
wow. her look is so beautiful..
She wasn't too bright falling for Joseph Kennedy who was married with nine kids and just used her.
Priceless interview. Gloria Swanson talks from her firsthand experience as a movie star about how making a movie was much bigger a deal than it is nowadays. She was a great and intelligent actress, and a timeless beauty. With regard to the latter, she was like the best wine in that she aged gracefully and never lost her sex appeal.Thank you for posting.
Gloria Swanson was the first true movie star. The glamour, the beauty and the popularity. Before Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, Swanson established herself as the archetypal Hollywood star.
This must be the original’ Bob’ hairstyle that took over the salons about 8 years ago.
Another brilliant Hollywood star of long ago. Well spoken and stylish.
She was not timeless!
She was ahead of her time.
PURE CLASS. Miss Swanson looks divine. Hairstyles and fashions made women in general younger than they looked in the early 1950s. Check her out in the 1990's and she still looks beautiful.
Stephen Williams she died in 1983.
@@water2wine1 I meant until the early 1980's. Thank you for the correction.
Gloria Swanson looks so luminous here. Never understood why she didn’t continue on with her movie career.
Robert Duffy It wasn’t her decision. No work for women over 40. It’s still the same today. She did some smaller films as a supporting player, Sunset Boulevard was a unusually brave film to make.
the fact that the bankers came right away after she warned them is a tribute to the respect that she had in the industry. like Mary Pickford, etc.
Bob Lowney You point is well taken, but it was The Banks money, not Strohheims he was spending.
paul w You really need to also wash your mouth out with that soap for 20 seconds too dude....uncalled for.
What a wonderful interview!! Ans I thought I knew everything about "Sunset Blvd."!
Ditto!
I admire Miss Swanson!
Gloria looks amazing for 66ish !!
Memerizing eyes. Steichens photo of them behind black lace is iconic.
Such a gorgeous woman
Swanson is grace and professionalism-she helped to build Hollywood - at a time when it was near impossible for women to do anything let alone wield any kind of influence or power.
Good lord, she’s stunning in her older years and I’m so sickened that she was not working during the time of this interview.
What a sweet, intelligent, charming lady.
Dazzling. Her and her story. Artists at the top of their game.
Saved the film/producers a lot of money - by foreseeing an issue that no one
else had apparently noticed. Great interview and story about "Convent Girl."
What an actress...
She was one beautiful and sexy woman in her day. Sexy eyes, voice and mannerisms. I see why men tripped over themselves when in her presence.
Just watched Sunset Blvd again. Swanson is magnificent!
What an amazing interview....a wonderful story about one of my all time favorite films!! And WOW she was gorgeous right up until her 80's.
This is a great interview, thank you so much for posting it. Gloria Swanson was a talented, intriguing and beautiful woman. She had a very interesting career as well as a very interesting life.
She was a very sharp and intelligent lady
Read Gloria's Swanson's autobiography. It's out of print but can be found from third party sellers on Amazon, at least that's where I found a hardbound edition of it. It's filled with wonderful stories about old Hollywood and her personal insights about life and living. She had one abortion and her telling of that story is bone chilling; it was a regret she lived everyday with for the rest of her life. She was an early advocate of healthy eating. I loved "Sunset Boulevrad" and love it even more now than i know more about tGloria Swanson.
I first watched Sunset boulevard only about one and a half years ago which instantly became one of my favourite films. Afterwards Gloria stuck in my mind and I couldn't stop thinking of how brilliant she was. I rewatched it a few months after and I have since started to watch her earlier work. So far I have seen 6 of her films and she is now without any doubt my favourite actress, I plan to watch as much as I can of her. There's something completely enchanting and mesmerizing about her performances and her beauty that is unlike anything I've ever seen. Every time I see her on the screen I feel like I'm witnessing something divine. I have no doubts she will stay close to my heart for the rest of my life, and I'm so thankful I decided to dive deeper into film and discovered this amazing woman.
I have such a soft spot for Gloria Swanson. So matter of fact and to the point but yet oozes elegance.
Tellement magnifique la grande dame Gloria Swanson la divine et tellement intelligente gracieuse et humble et si précise lorsqu' elle parle de ça carrière.
This made for fantastic viewing! Thank you for posting this treasure.
She made me obsessed with silent movies. Such an interesting, intelligent, modern woman with a lot of stories to tell. Plus She was really beautiful in every age
PS: Watch Zaza!
She was marvelous actress and an exceptional human being.
Such a beautiful woman my goodness!!! 💖💖
So glamorous
I love just watching her ❤️
Her hand movements her expressions her eyes
Only a an actress from silent movies could capture and project such without speaking
She was only 4’11” 🌞
Classy lady.
Such a purely beautiful woman. Very much unlike Norma Desmond as well which is a testament to her performance. She could not be more opposite. She gracefully realized her career in film had ended and took it in stride. They don’t make actresses like this anymore.
She is timeless!!1
she had an incredible diamond and Jewelry collection.
THE ICONIC NORMA DESMOND!!! ✨
This is brilliant, so interesting
Such a beautiful woman unlike the character she played in Sunset Blvd
Gloria Swanson had beautiful sneaky cat eyes!
...so chic
Incredible interview.... class all the way
65 years old. Wow. Amazing.
What almost every man fears in a woman - The combination of ,Beauty, Creativity, and above all, Inteligence.
And that is whatwe have in this Lady
Bob Downes Ain’t it the truth??? I’m so blessed with a husband who appreciates ALL those qualities! Now that is a REAL man!
Thank you for posting. What a great interview, do you know if more exist? I love her, what a character! Why is the talent of Hollywood so impoverished today? They are corporate and 'brands', back then Hollywood produced artists.
I found it on a franch website, hope i knew how to speak french
Are you willing to say "sluts" ???????
Joshua Taylor Because when Hollywood started at the beginning, they were artists! Today, it is just commercialism. There IS talent today, but it’s covered over with whatever massive blockbuster there selling at the moment.
I love her. ❤❤❤
Gorgeous 🌹
She literally doesn't look like someone who had worked in silent film upto that point. Immaculately gorgeous
GREAT STAR
En 1965 elle était encore très belle . A l époque de l âge d or elle était la plus belle et grande star d Hollywood.
wonderful video! thank you so much for posting it
What a marvelous interview! So many great stories!
Film Bulwar Zachodzącego Słońca, obejrzałem ,gdy byłem dzieckiem, wywarł na mnie takie wielkie wrażenie, że po 50 latach, co jakiś czas wracam do niego.Gloria jest wspaniałą ponadczasowa aktorka o wielkiem blasku, gwiazda, której współczesne aktorki nigdy nie dorównają.
Class, grace, beauty and one of a kind. Sunset Blvd got me hooked on old movies. She is the Queen of all Motion Pictures! So smart and just pure class! Forever my favorite actress and human being!
She looked so youthful and beautiful I couldn’t help falling in love with her myself.
2020 here! Thanks for the upload! Fascinating to watch these old interviews! So interesting!
She was a remarkable star and women..she stayed beautiful her whole life..very principled or disciplined with her looks..as an actor should be
.but shouldn't we all?
Wonderfully fascinating! Thank you so much🙌👏👏👏
She looks younger prettier and healthier here than she did in the 50s.
Really true.
She had a very healthy life, drinking water, eating vegetables without artificial stuff and even wrote a book called Sugar Blues, explaining why people should stop eating sugar.
She drank only spring water from France, made her own flour from brown rice and her own sweetener from boiled organic raisins, and frequently fasted. “After one fast I was on for 10 days I swore I'd never eat again,” she said.
wow she looks gorgeous!!
FABULOUS
I've seen the reconstructed first part of "Queen Kelly," which was fabulous. The "dance hall" was actually a house of prostitution, and that "drooling scene" is included at the very end.
Norma Desmond should have WON the Oscar
And Bette Davis as Margot Channing. Both were spectacular performances ...
I'm just reading her autobiography, Swanson on Swanson, nearly finished it in fact & she's a fascinating lady, great actress, great character.
Movingly interview.
I always wondered how things in life goes sometimes.
16 years earlier (in 195O), she appeared on "What's My Line?" & looks far younger in this segment
Wow, what a beauty. I have had an image of her as Norma Desmond until now.