TV Guide: Gloria Swanson

Video: Indiscreet

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Geraldine "Jerry" Trent (Gloria Swanson) tries to protect her sister Joan from Jim Woodward, a former lover of hers. Joan discovers the past relationship between Jerry and Jim and believes her sister is preventing her relationship with Jim due to jealousy. Eventually things work out for the best when both Jerry and Joan find their perfect mates.

Video: Indiscreet

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Sunset Boulevard stars William Holden as down-on-his-luck screenwriter Joe Gillis, and Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded movie star and femme fatale who entraps the unsuspecting Gillis into her fantasy world in which she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen.

Video: 'Beyond the Rocks'

NY Times — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A. O. Scott reviews the 1922 silent melodrama "Beyond the Rocks," starring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson.

Video: Sennett on His Humble Beginnings

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Canadian-born director Mack Sennett, the creator of the Keystone Kops, is regarded as the father of American slapstick comedy. Originally a performer in vaudeville and theater, he studied silent-film direction under the tutelage of D. W. Griffith.

Video: Sunset Blvd. - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Former silent star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) entertains screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) with impressions in this scene from Sunset Blvd. (1950), directed by Billy Wilder.

Video: Sunset Blvd. - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) instructs Joe Gillis (William Holden) on the monkey's funeral in this scene from Sunset Blvd. (1950), directed by Billy Wilder.

Video: Sunset Blvd. - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

These are the main title credits to the 1950 melodrama, Sunset Blvd., directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson.

Video: Sunset Blvd - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A silent-screen star (Gloria Swanson) becomes involved with an unemployed screenwriter (William Holden) in Billy Wilder's masterpiece Sunset Blvd (1950).

Video: Sunset Blvd. - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A demented Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) gets ready for her final close-up before being arrested in this scene from the 1950 melodrama, Sunset Blvd., directed by Billy Wilder.

Video: Age Of Ballyhoo (1986)

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The fabulous Roaring Twenties live again in these two films, which capture the glamour and excitement of the snazziest and most audacious era of the American experience. The nation was at peace, the economy was flush, and a whole new generation was swept up in a wave of good times. Gloria Swanson, legendary star of the silent screen, narrates The Age of Ballyhoo, which is enriched with her own colorful memories, film clips and photographs. Winner of two film festival Gold Medals, two Silver Medals, and three Emmys from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, this 1973 documentary is assembled from rare, authentic souvenirs of the period: songs, graphics, newsreels and movies. Among them are scenes of Swanson in Manhandled and The Loves of Sunya, the sound newsreel of Lindbergh's take-off for Paris, sound footage of the original 1927 production of Show Boat and of blues legend Bessie Smith!

Video: Don't Change Your Husband

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In Don't Change Your Husband, Cecil B. DeMille's first film with Gloria Swanson, Leila Porter (Swanson) tires of her dull nouveau-riche husband (Elliot Dexter) who is inattentive, sloppy and an eater of green onions. She trades him for Schuyler Van Sutphen, a suave but two-timing playboy (Lew Cody), but when she learns Van Sutphen is having an affair with Nanette the maid (Julia Faye), she encourages her now-reformed husband to pursue and remarry her.

Video: Don't Change Your Husband

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Affairs Of Anatol