Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Acadamy Award in the Best Actress catagory. In 1929, Swanson successfully transitioned to talkies with The Trespasser. However, personal problems and changing tastes saw her popularity wane during the 1930s when she moved into Theater and TV. Today she is best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a faded silent film start, in the critically aclaimed film Sunset Boulevard (1950).
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Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Known For
Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
Norma Desmond
Airport 1975
(1974)
Gloria Swanson
Manhandled
(1924)
Tessie McGuire
Full Filmography
Acting
The Fable of the Club Girls and the Four Times
(1914)
One of the Club Girls (uncredited)
The Romance of an American Duchess
(1915)
Minor Role (uncredited)
The Ambition of the Baron
(1915)
Minor Role (uncredited)
The Misjudged Mr. Hartley
(1915)
Maid
The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket
(1915)
Farina, Elvira's Daughter
The Broken Pledge
(1915)
Gloria
Sweedie Goes to College
(1915)
Betty - College Girl
His New Job
(1915)
Stenographer (uncredited)
The Fable of the Syndicate Lover
(1915)
Department Store Customer (uncredited)
At the End of a Perfect Day
(1915)
Hands Bouquet to Holmes
Haystacks and Steeples
(1916)
Gloria - the Society Girl
The Nick of Time Baby
(1916)
The Blacksmith's Daughter
The Danger Girl
(1916)
The Danger Girl - Reggie's Madcap Sister
Sunshine
(1916)
A Social Cub
(1916)
Gloria
Hearts and Sparks
(1916)
Gloria - Bobby's Sweetheart
A Dash of Courage
(1916)
The Prominent Citizen
Baseball Madness
(1917)
The Heiress
Dangers of a Bride
(1917)
The Pullman Bride
(1917)
The Pullman Bride
Teddy at the Throttle
(1917)
Gloria Dawn
The Sultan's Wife
(1917)
Gloria
Whose Baby?
(1917)
The Wife
Shifting Sands
(1918)
Marcia Grey
Her Decision
(1918)
Phyllis Dunbar
The Secret Code
(1918)
Sally Carter Rand
Station Content
(1918)
Kitty Manning
Wife or Country
(1918)
Sylvia Hamilton
Every Woman's Husband
(1918)
Edith Emerson
Society for Sale
(1918)
Phylis Clyne
You Can't Believe Everything
(1918)
Patricia Reynolds
Male and Female
(1919)
Lady Mary Lasenby
Don't Change Your Husband
(1919)
Leila Porter
For Better, for Worse
(1919)
Sylvia Norcross
Why Change Your Wife?
(1920)
Beth Gordon
Something to Think About
(1920)
Ruth Anderson
Don't Tell Everything
(1921)
Marian Westover
The Affairs of Anatol
(1921)
Vivian Spencer (Anatol's wife)
Under the Lash
(1921)
Deborah Krillet
The Great Moment
(1921)
Nada Pelham / Nadine Pelham
Her Husband’s Trademark
(1922)
Lois Miller
A Trip to Paramountown
(1922)
Self
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
(1922)
Betty Bellew
My American Wife
(1922)
Natalie Chester
Her Gilded Cage
(1922)
Suzanne Ornoff
Beyond the Rocks
(1922)
Theodora Fitzgerald
Zaza
(1923)
Zaza
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
(1923)
Mona deBriac
Hollywood
(1923)
Gloria Swanson
Prodigal Daughters
(1923)
Swifty Forbes
The Humming Bird
(1924)
Toinette
Her Love Story
(1924)
Princess Marie
Manhandled
(1924)
Tessie McGuire
A Society Scandal
(1924)
Marjorie Colbert
Wages of Virtue
(1924)
Carmelita
The Coast of Folly
(1925)
Joyce Gathway / Nadine Gathway
Madame Sans-Gêne
(1925)
Catherina Hubscher
Stage Struck
(1925)
Jennie Hagen
Fine Manners
(1926)
Orchid Murphy
The Untamed Lady
(1926)
St. Clair Van Tassel
The Love of Sunya
(1927)
Sunya Ashling
Sadie Thompson
(1928)
Sadie Thompson
The Trespasser
(1929)
Marion Donnell
What a Widow!
(1930)
Tamarind Brook
The House That Shadows Built
(1931)
(archive footage)
Round About Hollywood
(1931)
Self
Tonight or Never
(1931)
Nella Vago
Indiscreet
(1931)
Geraldine 'Gerry' Trent
Queen Kelly
(1932)
Kitty Kelly / Queen Kelly
The Film Parade
(1933)
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Perfect Understanding
(1933)
Judy Rogers
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
(1933)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Camera Speaks
(1934)
Self (archive footage)
Music in the Air
(1934)
Frieda Hotzfelt
Father Takes a Wife
(1941)
Leslie Collier Osborne
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
(1943)
(archive footage)
Dear Miss Gloria
(1946)
Miss Gloria
Down Memory Lane
(1949)
(archive footage)
The Golden Twenties
(1950)
Self (archive footage)
Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
Norma Desmond
Three for Bedroom C
(1952)
Ann Haven
Nero's Mistress
(1956)
Agrippina
When Comedy Was King
(1960)
edited from 'Teddy at the Throttle' (archive footage)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
(1960)
Self
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
(1961)
Self (archive footage)
The Love Goddesses
(1965)
(archive footage)
The Age of Ballyhoo
(1973)
Narrator
Killer Bees
(1974)
Madame Maria von Bohlen
Airport 1975
(1974)
Gloria Swanson
The Casting Couch
(1995)
(archive footage)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
(2004)
Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
(2007)
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Cinéastes de notre temps: Erich von Stroheim
(2012)
Self
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
(2021)
Self (archive footage)
Production