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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 W-15
No full text1/4 right side view of a Swanson W-15 civilian plane on the ground.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms223_photographs/2095/thumbnail.jp
284 - Clayton W. Swanson
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Motor cortex inhibition is significantly associated with complex bimanual control of the upper extremities. It remains unclear whether this same relationship exists for the lower extremities. We utilized transcranial magnetic stimulation to assess motor cortex inhibition and wireless, inertial sensors to quantify gait variables to assess how cortical inhibition contributes to the control of gait in healthy, young adults. Gait cycle duration variability was significantly correlated to right motor cortex inhibition. The results of this study indicate that motor cortex inhibition may be associated with complex components of gait in a similar fashion to its association with bimanual control
Testing of new materials
No full textProject report form no. 6 dated January 3, 1944. Some preliminary experiments on enzyme conversion of locust bean gum / John W. Swanson -- Project report form no. 7 dated 2/23/44. Conversion of locust bean gum by means of hypochlorite solutions / John W. Swanson -- Project report form no. 8 dated March 28,1944. Conversion of manno galactans during the cooking procedure by means of hypochlorite solutions / John W. Swanson -- Project report form no. 9 dated June 1, 1944. Conversion of mannogalactan mucilages in aqueous borax solutions / John W. Swanson -- Project report form no. 10 dated June 19, 1944. Bleaching of flame tree mucilage / John W. Swanson -- Project report form no. 11 dated July 28, 1944. Evaluation of several borax-sodium hypochlorite converted mucilages as clay coating adhesives / John W. Swanson -- Project report form no. 4 dated 1/7/44. Further experiments with Waring Blendor beating and the effects of locust bean gum addition / John W. Swanson.Title from folder label
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Daniel W. Kempner to O. R. Swanson discussing plans for installations
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Daniel W. Kempner to Swanson Plumbing and Heating Co. inquiring about a reply to a previous letter
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Daniel W. Kempner to Swanson Plumbing and Heating Co. quoting a letter from the Texas Public Service Company
Howard Swanson, April 4, 1951
No full textPortrait of Howard Swanson in front of a patterned background. Written on verso: Howard Swanson; Photograph by Carl Van Vechten; 101 Central Park West; Cannot be reproduced without permission; April 4, 1951
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