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Showing posts with label Gloria Swanson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gloria Swanson. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 8, 2026

CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG : REDUCED TO SELLING HER JEWELRY : LEWIS SZELNICK WASN'T HAPPY WHEN FELL FOR HARRY GARSON and MARRIED HIM

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Excerpt from the book : In this book author Axel Madsen writes that actress Gloria Swanson , married to Herbert Somborn of Equity Pictures,...
Saturday, September 5, 2026

CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG TALKED MOVIE BUSINESS - IMPRESSED AND INSPIRED GLORIA SWANSON : THEY BOTH ESTABLISHED THEIR OWN MOVIE PRODUCTION COMPANIES

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We continue with the entwinned story of Gloria Swanson and Clara Kimball Young. Excerpt page 70 : (Gloria Swanson had begun her relationshi...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

PAT POWERS ATTEMPTED TO LAUNCH PROTOGEE PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE'S MOVIE CAREER

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Excerpt page 131:  Joe (Joseph P. Kennedy) could not have picked a better time to make his debut as a movie mogul. The years 1926-1927 were ...
Monday, August 17, 2026

THE SKYROCKET : PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE IN 1926

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This was Peggy Hopkins Joyce's first full length movie, as she had done "shorts" before  and it was intended to launch her mo...
Monday, August 10, 2026

EMMA MARGUERITE "PEGGY" UPTON BECAME PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE THROUGH MARRIAGES : MICKEY NEILAN WENT FROM PEGGY TO GLORIA

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In this passage, the way movie stars, directors, producers, and financiers intertwined in Golden Era Hollywood reminds me that it was once a...
Monday, August 3, 2026

MISTRESSES DISCOVERED IN THE GLORIA SWANSON STORY : PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE and CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG

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As you know, MISTRESS MANIFESTO depends most often on books - biographies and memoirs especially - that have been published in the past  a...
Sunday, August 2, 2026

GLORIA SWANSON SAID "IF YOU'RE 40 YEARS OLD AND YOU'VE NEVER HAD A FAILURE ...

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You've been deprived! Gloria Swanson by A. L. Whitey Schafer August's Posts Will Begin Tomorrow!  MISSY ASKS YOU! Are you a person w...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

GLORIA SWANSON : A WOMAN OF SCIENCE and INVENTION

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ANOTHER SIDE OF GLORIA SWANSON : While researching around Gloria and Joe, I found that the Library of Congress Blog included Gloria in it...
Monday, July 27, 2026

MISTRESS GLORIA SWANSON & WIFE ROSE KENNEDY : A LOVE TRIANGLE

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 Joe Kennedy told his wife that Gloria Swanson  was his most important business partner. Excerpt page 212 : ... The two women in his life pl...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

GLORIA SWANSON : SINKING MONEY AND TIME INTO THE MOVIE 'QUEEN KELLY' WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE END

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Excerpt page 201 :  Gloria and Joe were having dinner on Rodeo Drive when Joe handed her a leather--bound copy of Stroheim's massive scr...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

GLORIA SWANSON and JOE KENNEDY : THE WAY THEY WERE

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  He was married with many children, she was married with two. Excerpt page 194 : Gloria was very much one of Hollywood's own, and honor...
Monday, July 20, 2026

GLORIA SWANSON AND THE "BANKER" JOE KENNEDY : HE DID HIS RESEARCH AND WAS INTENT ON SEDUCING HER ... SHE LET HIM ...

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Not only because he desired Gloria Swanson as a woman, but because he wanted this actress, perhaps the most famous and successful in the si...
Saturday, July 18, 2026

JOSEPH P. KENNEDY - THE PATRIARCH : MISTRESS MANIFESTO BOOK REVIEW

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  JOSEPH P. KENNEDY - THE PATRIARCH :  The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw.  MISTRESS MANIFESTO BOOK...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

GLORA SWANSON IN JAZZ AGE PARIS : YOUNG and RICH - READY TO REMARRY - PREGNANCY and THE NIGHTMARE ABORTION

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Gloria Swanson in Jazz Age Paris : She wrapped a movie called Madame Sans Gen e, which was being touted as another success and galas for th...
Monday, July 13, 2026

JOSEPH P. KENNEDY PRESENTS by CARI BEAUCHAMP ! MISTRESS MANIFESTO BOOK REVIEW

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JOSEPH P. KENNEDY PRESENTS by CARI BEAUCHAMP !  MISTRESS MANIFESTO BOOK REVIEW First posted May 14, 2009 Long wait for this new book from t...
Friday, July 10, 2026

GLORIA SWANSON AT THE HEIGHT OF HER CAREER : SHE FELT BLACKMAILED INTO AN EXPENSIVE DIVORCE BY HER HUSBAND AND THE HAYS OFFICE

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Excerpt page 5 : In 1924, Hollywood movies were made on sets built on stages and back lots. Newfangled rear projection and process-screen ph...
Wednesday, July 8, 2026

GLORIA SWANSON IN THE 1923 SILENT FILM "ZAZA"

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Gloria Swanson was one of those few actors who was able to go from the acting - later considered exaggerated expressions to convey the emot...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

GLORIA SWANSON and HER RED CARNATIONS

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Gloria Swanson was known to carry a red carnation when she was out in public or appeared on a television talk show, so that flower became a...
Saturday, July 4, 2026

GLORIA SWANSON - THE PATRIOT and HUMANITARIAN

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In the late 1930's and early 1940's, the World War II era, Gloria Swanson put at least $25,000 into establishing a company called ...