Gloria Swanson: Hollywood's First Glamour Queen

by Stephen Michael Shearer

Gloria Swanson is most remembered today for her role as "Norma Desmond" in Billy Wilder's noir sound classic Sunset Boulevard (1950), but Swanson during her heyday was heralded as filmdom's leading fashion queen, as proclaimed by director Cecil B. DeMille in such silent motion pictures as Male and Female (1919), Why Change Your Husband (1921), and The Affairs of Anatol (1922). Throughout that decade and well into the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149307704X
• ISBN13: 9781493077045
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 496 Pages