GLORIA SWANSON
Arts
Born: March, 1899
Chicago, Ill.
Died: April 4, 1983
American actress Gloria Swanson was born Gloria Swenson. An "army brat," she had attended more than a dozen schools by her early teens. Finally settling in Chicago, at age 16 she obtained work as an extra while on a tour of the Chicago-based Essanay studio, where she met actor Wallace Beery. Three years later, in 1916, she and Beery were married and moved to Hollywood. Swanson acted in a series of Mack Sennett slapstick comedies before she started working in films directed by Cecil B. De Mille..
By the mid 1920s, now specializing in drama, she was a reigning Queen of Hollywood, expertly handling the film world's publicity machine to increase her own glamour. Meanwhile, she divorced Beery in 1919, married and divorced again, then married a marquis. Throughout the next four decades she appeared in five additional films. Gloria Swanson is best remembered for her performance in Sunset Boulevard, in which she played the role of the faded movie star Norma Desmond. She received her third Best Actress Oscar nomination for that role.
1. Gloria Swanson's real last name was _________ .
2. Swanson's first husband was Wallace _________ .
3. Swanson was the reigning Queen of _________ during the '20s.
4. Gloria Swanson is best remembered for her performance in _________ .
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