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Gloria Swanson Ready for Her Close-Up
No full textGloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early Hollywood transformed their remarkable careers after their stars dimmed. This book brings Swanson (1899-1983) back into the spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative, entrepreneurial, and thoroughly modern woman. Swanson cavorted in slapstick short films with Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett in the 1910s. The popularity of her films with Cecil B. DeMille helped create the star system. A glamour icon, Swanson became the most talked-about star in Hollywood, earning three Academy Award nominations, receiving 10,000 fan letters every week, and living up to a reputation as Queen of Hollywood. She bought mansions and penthouses, dressed in fur and feathers, and flitted through Paris, London, and New York engaging in passionate love affairs that made headlines and caused scandals. Frustrated with the studio system, Swanson turned down a million-dollar-a-year contract. After a wild ride making unforgettable movies with some of Hollywood's most colorful characters-including her lover Joseph Kennedy and maverick director Erich von Stroheim-she was a million dollars in debt. Without hesitation she went looking for her next challenge, beginning her long second act. Swanson became a talented businesswoman who patented inventions and won fashion awards for her clothing designs; a natural foods activist decades before it was fashionable; an exhibited sculptor; and a designer employed by the United Nations. All the while she continued to act in films, theater, and television at home and abroad. Though she had one of Hollywood's most famous exit lines-"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up"-the realGloria Swanson never looked back.Cover -- CONTENTS -- 1 Glory -- 2 Funny Girl -- 3 Triangle -- 4 The Lions' Den -- 5 In the Family Way -- 6 The Great Moment -- 7 Her Gilded Cage -- 8 East Coaster -- 9 French Idyll -- 10 American Royalty -- 11 Declaration of Independence -- 12 Let It Rain -- 13 The Swamp -- 14 People Will Talk -- 15 The Crash -- 16 Mad about the Boy -- 17 Perfect Misunderstanding -- 18 Reinventing Herself -- 19 "You Used to Be Big" -- 20 Dressing the Part -- 21 Not Ready for Her Retrospective -- 22 Last Act -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- FILMOGRAPHY -- WORKS CITED -- PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZGloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early Hollywood transformed their remarkable careers after their stars dimmed. This book brings Swanson (1899-1983) back into the spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative, entrepreneurial, and thoroughly modern woman. Swanson cavorted in slapstick short films with Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett in the 1910s. The popularity of her films with Cecil B. DeMille helped create the star system. A glamour icon, Swanson became the most talked-about star in Hollywood, earning three Academy Award nominations, receiving 10,000 fan letters every week, and living up to a reputation as Queen of Hollywood. She bought mansions and penthouses, dressed in fur and feathers, and flitted through Paris, London, and New York engaging in passionate love affairs that made headlines and caused scandals. Frustrated with the studio system, Swanson turned down a million-dollar-a-year contract. After a wild ride making unforgettable movies with some of Hollywood's most colorful characters-including her lover Joseph Kennedy and maverick director Erich von Stroheim-she was a million dollars in debt. Without hesitation she went looking for her next challenge, beginning her long second act. Swanson became a talented businesswoman who patented inventions and won fashion awards for her clothing designs; a natural foods activist decades before it was fashionable; an exhibited sculptor; and a designer employed by the United Nations. All the while she continued to act in films, theater, and television at home and abroad. Though she had one of Hollywood's most famous exit lines-"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up"-the realGloria Swanson never looked back.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Swanson, Nora M.
No full textNils Swanson - husbandhttps://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-memoranda-1941/1233/thumbnail.jp
Francine M. Burns Memorandum for Robert T. Swanson
No full textA memorandum for Robert T. Swanson from Francine M. Burns. Burns sends along the financial file for Thomas J. Murrin, of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), so that it may cleared in time for a meeting between PCAST and President Bush on July 10, 1991
M. Susan Swanson Oral History Interview
No full textAn oral history created by the Toledo Women Lawyers History Project. In this interview, M. Susan Swanson discusses her personal history and career as a lawyer. The interview was captured on June 14, 2021 and the interviewer was Judge Arlene Singer
Swanson, Charles G.
No full textAugusta M. Swanson - sisterhttps://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-memoranda-1929/1468/thumbnail.jp
Retrozine: Two Fandom Elders, One More Time! Issue 1
No full textIssue: August 2021E-zineEdited by Germaine Swanson."Retrozine is a digital fanzine for all kinds of new/original SF, Fanfiction, Music, Art and more."--Facebook
Clifford Hardin and C.E. Swanson
No full textOriginal caption: "Chancellor Hardin showing blueprints of new dorms to C.E. Swanson
Retrozine: Two Fandom Elders, One More Time! Issue 5
No full textIssue: Summer 2022E-zineEdited by Germaine Swanson."Retrozine is a digital fanzine for all kinds of new/original SF, Fanfiction, Music, Art and more."--Facebook
Retrozine: Two Fandom Elders, One More Time! Issue 8
No full textIssue: Summer 2023E-zineEdited by Germaine Swanson."Retrozine is a digital fanzine for all kinds of new/original SF, Fanfiction, Music, Art and more."--Facebook
Retrozine: Two Fandom Elders, One More Time! Issue 7
No full textIssue: Spring 2023E-zineEdited by Germaine Swanson."Retrozine is a digital fanzine for all kinds of new/original SF, Fanfiction, Music, Art and more."--Facebook
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