![]() De Mille, Beyond the Rocks, which co-starred Rudolph Valentino, Madame Sans-GĂȘne (1925), the first American feature film shot abroad on location (in France), The Love of Sunya (1927), the first film she produced, Sadie Thompson (1928), source of one of her many run-ins with the censorious Hays Office but also of her first Oscar nomination, The Trespasser (1929), her first talkie, in which she also sang songs, and source of her second Oscar nomination, Father Takes a Wife (1941), her only film between 19-a commercial failure, Sunset Boulevard (1950), her masterpiece, which unwittingly traced her own fall from silent star published her autobiography Swanson on Swanson (1980). Made first film (1914) made first film in which she was billed by name, The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket (1915) gave other notable performances in The Danger Girl (1916), in which she drove a racing car and did her own stunts, Teddy at the Throttle (1917), in which she was tied to a railroad track and slipped into a hole between the rails at the last moment while a steam train rolled over her, Shifting Sands (1918), an anti-German propaganda film during World War I, Don't Change Your Husband (1919), the first of her films directed by Cecil B. 1920) (fourth marriage) Michele Farmer (b. Davey (an investment broker), in 1945 (divorced 1945) married William Dufty, in 1976 children: (second marriage) Gloria Somborn Anderson (b. Somborn, in 1920 (divorced 1925) married Henri, Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, in 1925 (divorced 1930) married Michael Farmer (an Irish sportsman), on Aug(divorced 1934) married William N. ![]() Born Gloria May Josephine Swenson on Ma(though her autobiography claims 1899), in Chicago, Illinois died on Apdaughter of Adelaide (Klanowski) Swenson and Joseph Theodore Swenson married Wallace Beery (an actor), in 1916 (divorced 1919) married Herbert K. Silent film star whose lasting legacy was her outsized performance as the ex-movie queen in the 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard.
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