LEADER 02860nam 2200493Ia 450 001 9910779860103321 005 20230803021349.0 010 $a1-62103-991-9 010 $a1-61703-749-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000001106625 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1181939 035 $a(OCoLC)859581772 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28616 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1181939 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10740629 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL506990 035 $a(OCoLC)841517040 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001106625 100 $a20130425d2013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGloria Swanson$b[electronic resource] $eready for her close-up /$fTricia Welsch 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$d2013 215 $a479 p. $cill., ports 225 0 $aHollywood legends series 311 $a1-299-75739-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early Hollywood transformed their remarkable careers after their stars dimmed. This book brings Swanson back into the spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative, entrepreneurial, and thoroughly modern woman. Swanson cavorted in slapstick short films with Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett in the 1910's. The popularity of her films with Cecil B. DeMille helped create the star system. A glamour icon, Swanson became the most talked-about star in Hollywood, earning three Academy Award nominations, receiving 10,000 fan letters every week, and living up to a reputation as Queen of Hollywood. She bought mansions and penthouses, dressed in fur and feathers, and flitted through Paris, London, and New York engaging in passionate love affairs that made headlines and caused scandals. Frustrated with the studio system, Swanson became a talented businesswoman who patented inventions and won fashion awards for her clothing designs; a natural foods activist; an exhibited sculptor; and a designer employed by the United Nations. All the while she continued to act in films, theater, and television at home and abroad"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aMotion picture actors and actresses$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aMotion picture actors and actresses 676 $a791.4302/8092 676 $aB 686 $aBIO005000$aPER004000$aPER004030$2bisacsh 700 $aWelsch$b Tricia$01542448 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779860103321 996 $aGloria Swanson$93795208 997 $aUNINA