عنوان

Gloria Swanson :

(Number (ISBN

1617037494 (hardback)

(Number (ISBN

9781617037498 (hardback)

Erroneous ISBN

1617037508 (ebook)

Erroneous ISBN

9781617037504 (ebook)

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Title Proper

Gloria Swanson :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

ready for her close-up /

First Statement of Responsibility

Tricia Welsch

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

479 pages, 32 pages of unnumbered plates :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Hollywood legends series

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 448-455) and index

Text of Note

Includes filmography: pages 436-447

Text of Note

Machine generated contents note: 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

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Text of Note

"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 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 became a talented businesswoman who patented inventions and won fashion awards for her clothing designs; a natural foods activist; 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"--

Title

Gloria Swanson

International Standard Book Number

9781617037504

Swanson, Gloria

Motion picture actors and actresses-- United States, Biography.

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Class number

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Welsch, Tricia.

Date of Transaction

20150220013546.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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