Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson
Gloria May Josephine Swansonwas an American actress and producer best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a reclusive silent film star, in the critically acclaimed 1950 film Sunset Boulevard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth27 March 1899
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
key lived tropical west
We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
Nobody gets something for nothing.
sunset august hollywood
Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.
sunset swimming people
It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.
mother real
By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.
dream taken dark
So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.
book divorce given
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
romance married
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
yesterday-and-today debt stories
My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.
hunting remembered only-time
The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
song world mary
I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
years skeletons buried
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
stars long gone
I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.
long enough-chances able
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.