Gloria Swanson
Birthday: 1899-03-27
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Synopsis
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Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Acadamy Award in the Best Actress catagory. In 1929, Swanson successfully transitioned to talkies with The Trespasser. However, personal problems and changing tastes saw her popularity wane during the 1930s when she moved into Theater and TV. Today she is best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a faded silent film start, in the critically aclaimed film Sunset Boulevard (1950).
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Acting
Music in the Air
as Frieda Hotzfelt
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.
Killer Bees
as Madame Maria von Bohlen
A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard.
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Nero's Mistress
as Agrippina
Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.
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Sunset Boulevard
as Norma Desmond
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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Perfect Understanding
as Judy Rogers
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
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Tonight or Never
as Nella Vago
A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
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Sadie Thompson
as Sadie Thompson
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.
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The Love of Sunya
as Sunya Ashling
A young woman at life's crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.
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Beyond the Rocks
as Theodora Fitzgerald
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
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The Affairs of Anatol
as Vivian Spencer (Anatol's wife)
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats on him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.
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Male and Female
as Lady Mary Lasenby
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
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His New Job
as Stenographer (uncredited)
When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a dice game and gets on many people's nerves. When he finally gets to act, he ruins his scene, accidentally destroys the set, and tears the skirt of the star of the movie.
