Gloria Swanson Trailers
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Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Acadamy Award in the Best Actress catagory. In 1929, Swanson successfully transitioned to talkies with The Trespasser. However, personal problems and changing tastes saw her popularity wane during the 1930s when she moved into Theater and TV. Today she is best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a faded silent film start, in the critically aclaimed film Sunset Boulevard (1950).
Most Popular Gloria Swanson Trailers
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19 August 1923
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 longtime boyfriend back in Centerville.
10 August 1950
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
18 October 1932
A prince betrothed to a mad queen falls in love with an orphan girl from a convent.
02 December 1914
Once a lot of grown-up girls organized a club for the discussion of current evils. The principal current evil they discussed was man.
03 February 1915
The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket is a 1915 silent film directed by Richard Foster Baker.
15 January 1933
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 himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
26 April 1919
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children.
01 February 1915
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.
29 March 1960
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
26 February 1974
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.
07 May 1922
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 unhappy honeymoon.
10 January 1960
A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.
26 January 1919
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy.
21 July 1924
Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
11 August 1934
In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories.
27 January 1915
Kate had a very devoted beau known as George. George loved the girl so hard that he loved all her relatives.
05 April 1922
A romance about a dancer seeking love and fame from Paris cabarets to New York society.
29 September 1917
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.
18 October 1974
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls.
11 November 1929
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 birth to a child.
16 July 1916
A Social Cub is a 1916 short silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Sn
16 August 2021
Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, two young composers and romantic partners, are caught in the web of silent film star Gloria Swanson when she hires them to write a musical version of Sunset Boulevard, her 1950 film directed by Billy Wilder.
19 January 1915
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 from her old address.
23 May 2007
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing.
24 May 1961
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
08 April 1950
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
07 October 1980
Variety special hosted by Barbara Eden, Gloria Swanson, and Brooke Shields that celebrates the men whose sex appeal transcends age and the ages.
01 August 1918
Marcia Grey is wrongly convicted on trumped-up evidence of a German. After serving her term, she rebuilds her life and marries well.
08 July 1917
Dangers of a Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence Badger and Bobby Vernon starring Gloria Swanson.
08 September 1918
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 is actually a baby sweater.
01 January 1933
Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915.
08 July 1931
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912.
22 May 1931
This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen from the streets.
17 June 1915
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 of living, likewise go camping.
01 January 1917
The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.
07 January 1928
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past.
25 September 1921
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement.
12 September 1930
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 rich playboy and a lawyer who works for her.
16 October 1920
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 off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident.
10 July 1922
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
16 November 1925
Daydreaming waitress Jennie Hagen fantasizes about becoming a famous actress, while in reality she and her cook boyfriend, Orme Wilson, hope to one day own their own diner.
13 November 1921
Two men in love with the same woman are further complicated by the arrival of a second woman.
03 October 1941
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
25 April 1931
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
21 May 1920
Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced.
04 June 1916
Hearts and Sparks is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Parrott (Charley Chase) and starring Gloria Swanson.
01 January 1943
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
11 March 1927
A young woman at life's crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.
29 January 1915
A young woman is used as a pawn to entice Count Jean de Lugnan into a game of ruritanian political intrigue.
01 December 1933
Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.
02 January 1925
A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.
01 August 1949
This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio.
13 January 1924
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.
01 January 1973
A television documentary about the Twenties told through the use of Hollywood movies, audio recordings and newsreels of the period.
10 November 1924
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 murder.
21 October 1923
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 for fear he will fall for her.
23 June 1918
Patricia Reynolds, the belle of the summer resort she is visiting with her friend, Amy Powellson, attracts the attention of Arthur Kirby, whom Amy loves.
29 December 1918
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 commits suicide rather than compromise her husbands career.
29 August 1926
The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.
