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Author : Lawrence J. Quirk
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0806510773
Author : Tricia Welsch
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617037504
Gloria 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 real Gloria Swanson never looked back.
Author : Stephen Michael Shearer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250013668
Gloria Swanson defined what it meant to be a movie star, but her unforgettable role in Sunset Boulevard overshadowed the true story of her life. Now Stephen Michael Shearer sets the record straight in the first in-depth biography of the film legend. Swanson was Hollywood's first successful glamour queen. Her stardom as an actress in the mid-1920s earned her millions of fans and millions of dollars. Realizing her box office value early in her career, she took control of her life. Soon she was not only producing her own films, she was choosing her scripts, selecting her leading men, casting her projects, creating her own fashions, guiding her publicity, and living an extravagant and sometimes extraordinary celebrity lifestyle. She also collected a long line of lovers (including Joseph P. Kennedy) and married men of her choosing (including a French marquis, thus becoming America's first member of "nobility"). As a devoted and loving mother, she managed a quiet success of raising three children. Perhaps most important, as a keen businesswoman she also was able to extend her career more than sixty years. Her astounding comeback as Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard catapulted her back into the limelight. But it also created her long-misunderstood persona, one that this meticulous biography shows was only part of this independent and unparalleled woman.
Author : Gloria Swanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 9060072766
Author : Gloria Swanson
Publisher : New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography
ISBN : 0671433547
Author : Lawrence J. Quirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015020636760
Author : Billy Wilder
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520218558
"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. This facsimile edition of the screenplay provides intriguing background information about Wilder and the film's casting and production.
Author : Lawrence J. Quirk
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1990-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0863695019
Author : Anne Helen Petersen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101635476
Celebrity gossip meets history in this compulsively readable collection from Buzzfeed reporter Anne Helen Peterson. This guide to film stars and their deepest secrets is sure to top your list for movie gifts and appeal to fans of classic cinema and hollywood history alike. Believe it or not, America’s fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Cardi B, Kanye's tweets, and the #metoo allegations that have gripped Hollywood. And the stars of yesteryear? They weren’t always the saints that we make them out to be. BuzzFeed's Anne Helen Petersen, author of Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, is here to set the record straight. Pulling little-known gems from the archives of film history, Petersen reveals eyebrow-raising information, including: • The smear campaign against the original It Girl, Clara Bow, started by her best friend • The heartbreaking story of Montgomery Clift’s rapid rise to fame, the car accident that destroyed his face, and the “long suicide” that followed • Fatty Arbuckle's descent from Hollywood royalty, fueled by allegations of a boozy orgy turned violent assault • Why Mae West was arrested and jailed for "indecency charges" • And much more Part biography, part cultural history, these stories cover the stuff that films are made of: love, sex, drugs, illegitimate children, illicit affairs, and botched cover-ups. But it's not all just tawdry gossip in the pages of this book. The stories are all contextualized within the boundaries of film, cultural, political, and gender history, making for a read that will inform as it entertains. Based on Petersen's beloved column on the Hairpin, but featuring 100% new content, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart.
Author : Richard M. Hudson,Raymond Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015003979153
Rescued from Mack Senett's slapstickers, Swanson was molded by Cecil B. DeMille into a living symbol of glamour. Fairly successful on stage and television, Swanson was also an excellent businesswoman. The brief text in this book sums up her life and provides brief synopses of 66 movies; the photographs include stills from her film, candid shots, and portraits.
Author : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748675654
Author : Jeanine Basinger
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307829184
From one of America's most renowned film scholars: a revelatory, perceptive, and highly readable look at the greatest silent film stars -- not those few who are fully appreciated and understood, like Chaplin, Keaton, Gish, and Garbo, but those who have been misperceived, unfairly dismissed, or forgotten. Here is Valentino, "the Sheik," who was hardly the effeminate lounge lizard he's been branded as; Mary Pickford, who couldn't have been further from the adorable little creature with golden ringlets that was her film persona; Marion Davies, unfairly pilloried in Citizen Kane; the original "Phantom" and "Hunchback," Lon Chaney; the beautiful Talmadge sisters, Norma and Constance. Here are the great divas, Pola Negri and Gloria Swanson; the great flappers, Colleen Moore and Clara Bow; the great cowboys, William S. Hart and Tom Mix; and the great lover, John Gilbert. Here, too, is the quintessential slapstick comedienne, Mabel Normand, with her Keystone Kops; the quintessential all-American hero, Douglas Fairbanks; and, of course, the quintessential all-American dog, Rin-Tin-Tin. This is the first book to anatomize the major silent players, reconstruct their careers, and give us a sense of what those films, those stars, and that Hollywood were all about. An absolutely essential text for anyone seriously interested in movies, and, with more than three hundred photographs, as much a treat to look at as it is to read.
Author : Tricia Welsch
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617037498
A biography of the "Queen of Hollywood" and her decades of successes and comebacks in film, art, fashion, and journalism.
Author : Patrice Petro
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813549293
With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s, Idols of Modernity reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia, and the United States, from the silent era into the emergence of sound. Bringing together the best new work on cinema and stardom in the 1920s, this illustrated collection showcases the range of complex social, institutional, and aesthetic issues at work in American cinema of this time. Attentive to stardom as an ensemble of texts, contexts, and social phenomena stretching beyond the cinema, major scholars provide careful analysis of the careers of both well-known and now forgotten stars of the silent and early sound era—Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, the Talmadge sisters, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, Greta Garbo, Anna May Wong, Emil Jannings, Al Jolson, Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, Lincoln Perry, and Marie Dressler.
Author : Matthew Kennedy
Publisher : Terrace Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299197700
At the dawn of sound, he wrote the story for the Academy Award-winning musical The Broadway Melody and collaborated memorably with Gloria Swanson and Joseph Kennedy for The Trespasser. He excelled at anti-war drama (White Banners, The Dawn Patrol, We Are Not Alone), fantastic Bette Davis weepies (Dark Victory, The Old Maid, The Great Lie), lilting romantic dramas (The Constant Nymph, Claudia), big-budgeted literary adaptations (The Razor's Edge), and even film noir (Nightmare Alley).
