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Gloria Swanson

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Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.


— Gloria Swanson


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Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.


— Gloria Swanson


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From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.


— Gloria Swanson


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I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.


— Gloria Swanson


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I am a very pragmatic person.


— Gloria Swanson


#i #i am #person #pragmatic #very

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.


— Gloria Swanson


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I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.


— Gloria Swanson


#consider #could #fat #i #over

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.


— Gloria Swanson


#desmond #i #life #my life #over

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.


— Gloria Swanson


#chair #communists #corporation #desk #director

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.


— Gloria Swanson


#death #how #i #know #life






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DeMille made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the Best Actress category. Though the European scenes were full of innuendo and featured a philandering prince and a sex-crazed queen the scenes set in Africa were grim and Swanson felt distasteful. After the marriage to Henri and her affair with Kennedy were over Gloria Swanson married Michael Farmer (1902–1975) in August 1931.

Gloria Swanson (March 27 1899 – April 4 1983) was an American actress singer and producer who is best known for her role as Norma Desmond a faded silent film star in the critically acclaimed film Sunset Boulevard (1950). She had also produced her own films such as Sadie Thompson and The Love of Sunya. DeMille made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the Best Actress category.

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