Gloria Swanson
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1899-03-27
Locus Natus: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Et ut: Gloria May Josephine Svensson, Gloria Mae, Глорія Свенсон
Sunset Boulevard
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
release : 1950.08.10popularis : 18.467
Sadie Thompson
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy...
release : 1928.01.07popularis : 5.347
Queen Kelly
A prince betrothed to a mad queen falls in love with an orphan girl from a convent.
release : 1932.10.18popularis : 4.316
Airport 1975
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the...
release : 1974.10.18popularis : 11.752
The Fable of the Syndicate Lover
Kate had a very devoted beau known as George. George loved the girl so hard that he loved all her relatives. He thought it his duty to give three...
release : 1915.01.27popularis : 2.609
Dangers of a Bride
Dangers of a Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence Badger and Bobby Vernon starring Gloria Swanson.
release : 1917.07.08popularis : 0.66
Nero's Mistress
Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When...
release : 1956.09.13popularis : 5.403
Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen...
release : 2004.07.28popularis : 8.617
Don't Change Your Husband
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries...
release : 1919.01.26popularis : 5.538
Beyond the Rocks
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her...
release : 1922.05.07popularis : 2.036
Male and Female
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
release : 1919.11.23popularis : 2.837
The Affairs of Anatol
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he...
release : 1921.09.25popularis : 1.906
Why Change Your Wife?
Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with...
release : 1920.05.21popularis : 3.983
The Trespasser
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives...
release : 1929.11.11popularis : 1.915
The Love of Sunya
A young woman at life's crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.
release : 1927.03.11popularis : 1.469
Father Takes a Wife
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
release : 1941.10.03popularis : 0.954
Indiscreet
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
release : 1931.04.25popularis : 3.902
The Fable of the Club Girls and the Four Times
Once a lot of grown-up girls organized a club for the discussion of current evils. The principal current evil they discussed was man. The object was...
release : 1914.12.02popularis : 2.887
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
release : 1961.05.24popularis : 1.641
Music in the Air
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.
release : 1934.12.13popularis : 2.779
Tonight or Never
A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
release : 1931.01.04popularis : 2.327
Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...
release : 1923.08.19popularis : 3.403
When Comedy Was King
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
release : 1960.03.29popularis : 1.861
The Camera Speaks
In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories.
release : 1934.08.11popularis : 2.087
Stage Struck
Daydreaming waitress Jennie Hagen fantasizes about becoming a famous actress, while in reality she and her cook boyfriend, Orme Wilson, hope to one...
release : 1925.11.16popularis : 4.522
Zaza
Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away...
release : 1923.10.21popularis : 3.36
The Sultan's Wife
On a sailing trip, sweethearts Bobby and Gloria arrive in a very sinister-looking India, where an evil rajah attempts to force Gloria into his harem.
release : 1917.09.29popularis : 0.836
Shifting Sands
Marcia Grey is wrongly convicted on trumped-up evidence of a German. After serving her term, she rebuilds her life and marries well.
release : 1918.08.01popularis : 1.787
Manhandled
Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
release : 1924.07.21popularis : 4.096
Killer Bees
A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard.
release : 1974.02.26popularis : 2.574
Perfect Understanding
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds...
release : 1933.01.15popularis : 3.298
Three for Bedroom C
After beginning their train trip to California, a famous film actress and her daughter discover their compartment has also been assigned to a...
release : 1952.06.26popularis : 1.579
The Casting Couch
An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and...
release : 1995.01.01popularis : 3.79
Fine Manners
The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.
release : 1926.08.29popularis : 0.56
A Trip to Paramountown
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at...
release : 1922.07.10popularis : 1.226
The House That Shadows Built
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...
release : 1931.07.08popularis : 2.453
Teddy at the Throttle
Gloria Dawn lives down the hall from her sweetheart, Bobbie Knight. The dishonest Henry Black is Gloria's guardian, and he is also in charge of...
release : 1917.04.01popularis : 1.742
Madame Sans-Gêne
A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.
release : 1925.01.02popularis : 0.872
Dear Miss Gloria
A short subject, intended as the first of a series, where Gloria Swanson plays "Miss Gloria," advice columnist to the lovelorn.
release : 1946.01.01popularis : 1.639
Her Husband’s Trademark
James Berkeley (who wants to get rich) and Allan Franklin (determined to be a great engineer) are rivals for the hand of Lois Miller. Berkeley...
release : 1922.02.01popularis : 1.145
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.
release : 1933.12.01popularis : 4.459
The Golden Twenties
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
release : 1950.04.08popularis : 2.806
The Great Moment
Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Russian Gypsy, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin,...
release : 1921.09.03popularis : 6.159
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.
release : 1960.01.10popularis : 2.854
Station Content
A wayward wife abandons her husband but finds redemption by preventing a railway accident and finding her way back to him.
release : 1918.06.16popularis : 1.042
Something to Think About
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs...
release : 1920.10.16popularis : 1.148
Men Who Rate a 10
Variety special hosted by Barbara Eden, Gloria Swanson, and Brooke Shields that celebrates the men whose sex appeal transcends age and the ages.
release : 1980.10.07popularis : 3.646
For Better, for Worse
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed...
release : 1919.04.26popularis : 4.487
Society for Sale
Successful model, Phyllis Clyne, convinces a down-and-out nobleman, Billy, to pass her off in society as titled gentry. They fall in love and when it...
release : 1918.04.21popularis : 0.888
What a Widow!
A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a...
release : 1930.09.12popularis : 1.964
The Danger Girl
Madcap Gloria disguises herself as a man, in order to lure a "dangerous" vamp away from her beau, Bobbie.
release : 1916.08.24popularis : 1.233
His New Job
When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a...
release : 1915.02.01popularis : 5.283
Round About Hollywood
This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen from the streets. Considerable time is taken...
release : 1931.05.22popularis : 0.731
The Pullman Bride
The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.
release : 1917.01.01popularis : 1.438
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
John Brandon, an American millionaire, has been married seven times but never found love. Then, when he is in Paris, Mona de Briac comes into his...
release : 1923.08.05popularis : 0.836
Prodigal Daughters
Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her...
release : 1923.04.15popularis : 1.165
The Humming Bird
A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war and she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.
release : 1924.01.13popularis : 1.338
The Film Parade
Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915. He finally released a...
release : 1933.01.01popularis : 1.746
Whose Baby?
Bobby Vernon is fooled into a mock bigamist gag and chaos assures.
release : 1917.07.08popularis : 0.774
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
release : 1943.01.01popularis : 2.099
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines...
release : 2007.05.23popularis : 8.644
The Love Goddesses
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry...
release : 1965.03.03popularis : 6.832
Every Woman's Husband
A young woman whose domineering mother almost ruins her marriage eventually learns that mother does not always know best when her father commits...
release : 1918.07.17popularis : 1.221
A Social Cub
A Social Cub is a 1916 short silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson
release : 1916.07.16popularis : 1.556
A Society Scandal
Hector Colbert sues his wife Marjorie for a divorce after Peters, an admirer of Marjorie, deliberately compromises her. Colbert's lawyer, Daniel...
release : 1924.03.09popularis : 1.692
The Nick of Time Baby
The Nick of Time Baby is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.
release : 1916.12.22popularis : 0.209
The Misjudged Mr. Hartley
In honor of his return from abroad, Mrs. Worthington invites her cousin, Brian Hartley, to dinner that evening, but forgets to tell him she has moved...
release : 1915.01.19popularis : 1.44
Wages of Virtue
A carnival strongman and his girlfriend flee to Algiers to escape a murder charge but there they are caught again in a web of jealousy, deceit and...
release : 1924.11.10popularis : 0.443
Her Love Story
When Princess Marie of the Balkan kingdom of Viatavia falls in love with Captain Rudi of the King's Guards, her father quickly arranges her marriage...
release : 1924.10.06popularis : 1.172
The Untamed Lady
A spoiled rich girl is brought down to earth by the man who loves her.
release : 1926.03.14popularis : 1.428
The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket
The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket is a 1915 silent film directed by Richard Foster Baker. Gloria Swanson made her first credited...
release : 1915.02.03popularis : 1.61
Hearts and Sparks
Hearts and Sparks is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Parrott (Charley Chase) and starring Gloria Swanson. When Mack Sennett...
release : 1916.06.04popularis : 0.623
A Dash of Courage
A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fellow passenger, who is a police commissioner. The...
release : 1916.05.07popularis : 1.043
The Secret Code
Sally Carter Rand, married to an elderly senator, is accused of espionage, but she is able to clear herself by proving that her mysterious knitting...
release : 1918.09.08popularis : 1.197
You Can't Believe Everything
Patricia Reynolds, the belle of the summer resort she is visiting with her friend, Amy Powellson, attracts the attention of Arthur Kirby, whom Amy...
release : 1918.06.23popularis : 0.896
Under the Lash
The wife of a tyrannical Boer husband discovers what life could be like when a handsome Englishmen visits their home.
release : 1921.10.16popularis : 1.086
Her Decision
A secretary (Gloria Swanson) uses her boss to get money for her unfortunate sister (Ann Kroman) but eventually falls in love with him.
release : 1918.05.12popularis : 0.42
Wife or Country
Sylvia Hamilton rehabilitates an alcoholic attorney and marries him. When World War I breaks out, she is persuaded to help the German cause and later...
release : 1918.12.29popularis : 0.867
Haystacks and Steeples
A farm boy falls for a glamorous society girl who is engaged to another man.
release : 1916.10.01popularis : 0.4
Baseball Madness
Baseball Madness is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Billy Mason and starring Gloria Swanson.
release : 1917.05.08popularis : 0.308
Her Gilded Cage
A romance about a dancer seeking love and fame from Paris cabarets to New York society.
release : 1922.04.05popularis : 0.857
Don't Tell Everything
Two men in love with the same woman are further complicated by the arrival of a second woman.
release : 1921.11.13popularis : 1.551
At the End of a Perfect Day
The story opens with an old couple in the evening of life, sitting by the fireside reminiscing the happenings of their younger days. How the young...
release : 1915.01.26popularis : 0.878
The Ambition of the Baron
A young woman is used as a pawn to entice Count Jean de Lugnan into a game of ruritanian political intrigue.
release : 1915.01.29popularis : 0.496
The Romance of an American Duchess
The Duke de Longtour, a European nobleman, with impoverished estates, comes to America and wins the hand of Stephana Martin, an American heiress,...
release : 1915.06.08popularis : 1.049
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
Lance Bellew ignores his wife, Betty, for his mistress, Naomi Templeton, but becomes so enraged when he finds Betty in the company of Jerry Woodruff...
release : 1922.10.22popularis : 1.739
Sunshine
A 1916 short starring Jack Cooper, Hank Mann & Bobby Dunn.
release : 1916.05.06popularis : 0.816
Sweedie Goes to College
Sweedie, the cook, reads an ad in the newspaper for a maid to give her services in exchange for college tuition. She applies and is accepted.
release : 1915.02.08popularis : 0.532
The Broken Pledge
Three young girls, pledged to spinsterhood and contempt for mankind, go camping in the woods. Three boys, unpledged to anything save fun and the joy...
release : 1915.06.17popularis : 0.897
The Age of Ballyhoo
A television documentary about the Twenties told through the use of Hollywood movies, audio recordings and newsreels of the period. Narrated by...
release : 1973.01.01popularis : 2.589
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, two young composers and romantic partners, are caught in the web of silent film star Gloria Swanson when she...
release : 2021.08.16popularis : 2.369
Down Memory Lane
This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo...
release : 1949.08.01popularis : 1.231