In Gloria Swanson’s most engaging autobiography Swanson on Swanson (1980), she describes—in typically grand Swanson style—the industry response to the first big screening of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd. In this case, judging by the…
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Eating With the Stars: Gloria Swanson’s Potassium Broth
Though its name, “Gloria Swanson’s Potassium Broth,” is more suggestive of a seventh grade science class experiment than something we’d want to actually ingest, closer examination of said broth reveals that Miss Swanson was really…
Gloria Swanson Standing in the Rubble
I learned a few interesting things in that nanosecond it took me to research the origin of my true or untrue memory of this photograph. The 5,920 seat Roxy theater was erected in 1927 and was razed in 1960. In its day it was the most exquisite and largest of all the movie palaces. Interestingly, the choice of Gloria Swanson wasn’t random—the Roxy’s opening film was a silent Swanson feature called The Love of Sunya, which told the story of a young woman who was given the power to see into her future.
After Gloria Swanson by Edward Steichen, 1925
I realized a few days ago that I am officially at the age where I need diffusion on the lens! Indeed, shooting through a veil resolves a myriad of problems, as any student of Old…
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