Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up

by Tricia Welsch

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 (1899-1983) back into the spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative, entrepreneurial, and thoroughly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617037494
• ISBN13: 9781617037498
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"