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Gloria Swanson ‘Lived Extravagantly’ and ‘Spent Wildly’: She ‘Always Lived for the Future’
Gloria Swanson represented an 'image of glamour' during her Hollywood career, author Stephen Shearer exclusively tells Closer. She was 'in love with life.'
In a 1957 interview with reporter Mike Wallace, Hollywood legend Gloria Swanson, 58, sits in an elegant dress topped with an elaborate off-the-shoulder bow, her white-gloved hands twirling a flower in her lap. As Wallace prods her with questions about her talent, her age, and if she’s done with Hollywood after her best-known role as fading actress Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, Gloria smiles calmly. Barely 5-feet tall, with luminous eyes and the aura of a star, Gloria started in silent films at 14, first in her native Chicago and then in Los Angeles, working with such legends as Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino and Cecil B. DeMille.
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