Gloria Swanson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gloria Swanson write by Tricia Welsch. This book was released on 2013-07-27. Gloria Swanson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A biography of the "Queen of Hollywood" and her decades of successes and comebacks in film, art, fashion, and journalism.
Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gloria Swanson write by Stephen Michael Shearer. This book was released on 2013-08-27. Gloria Swanson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gloria Swanson defined what it meant to be a movie star, but her unforgettable role in Sunset Boulevard overshadowed the true story of her life. Now Stephen Michael Shearer sets the record straight in the first in-depth biography of the film legend. Swanson was Hollywood's first successful glamour queen. Her stardom as an actress in the mid-1920s earned her millions of fans and millions of dollars. Realizing her box office value early in her career, she took control of her life. Soon she was not only producing her own films, she was choosing her scripts, selecting her leading men, casting her projects, creating her own fashions, guiding her publicity, and living an extravagant and sometimes extraordinary celebrity lifestyle. She also collected a long line of lovers (including Joseph P. Kennedy) and married men of her choosing (including a French marquis, thus becoming America's first member of "nobility"). As a devoted and loving mother, she managed a quiet success of raising three children. Perhaps most important, as a keen businesswoman she also was able to extend her career more than sixty years. Her astounding comeback as Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard catapulted her back into the limelight. But it also created her long-misunderstood persona, one that this meticulous biography shows was only part of this independent and unparalleled woman.
Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gloria Swanson write by Richard M. Hudson. This book was released on 1970. Gloria Swanson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rescued from Mack Senett's slapstickers, Swanson was molded by Cecil B. DeMille into a living symbol of glamour. Fairly successful on stage and television, Swanson was also an excellent businesswoman. The brief text in this book sums up her life and provides brief synopses of 66 movies; the photographs include stills from her film, candid shots, and portraits.
Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gloria Swanson write by Tricia Welsch. This book was released on 2013-08-21. Gloria Swanson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 modern woman. Swanson cavorted in slapstick short films with Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett in the 1910s. The popularity of her films with Cecil B. DeMille helped create the star system. A glamour icon, Swanson became the most talked-about star in Hollywood, earning three Academy Award nominations, receiving 10,000 fan letters every week, and living up to a reputation as Queen of Hollywood. She bought mansions and penthouses, dressed in fur and feathers, and flitted through Paris, London, and New York engaging in passionate love affairs that made headlines and caused scandals. Frustrated with the studio system, Swanson turned down a million-dollar-a-year contract. After a wild ride making unforgettable movies with some of Hollywood’s most colorful characters—including her lover Joseph Kennedy and maverick director Erich von Stroheim—she was a million dollars in debt. Without hesitation she went looking for her next challenge, beginning her long second act. Swanson became a talented businesswoman who patented inventions and won fashion awards for her clothing designs; a natural foods activist decades before it was fashionable; an exhibited sculptor; and a designer employed by the United Nations. All the while she continued to act in films, theater, and television at home and abroad. Though she had one of Hollywood’s most famous exit lines—"All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up!”—the real Gloria Swanson never looked back.
Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sunset Boulevard write by Billy Wilder. This book was released on 1999-06-24. Sunset Boulevard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. This facsimile edition of the screenplay provides intriguing background information about Wilder and the film's casting and production.
