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Gloria Swanson Biography

Gloria May Josephine Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress and producer best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a reclusive silent film star, in the critically acclaimed 1950 film Sunset Boulevard.

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At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

Felt, Pictures, Realm, Realms, Victim

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

Actors, Foolish, Shifting, Sound

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

Film, Films, Mille, Six, Successful

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

Fame, Fun, Grueling, Money, Ran, Thrilling

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Artist, Director, Directors, Nothing, Real

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

Experience, Hunting, Remembered, Time

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

Columnists, Concerned, Gossip, Sinners

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

Actors, Fool, Good, Past, Row, Screen

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

Fun, Next, Person, Persons, Pictures, Sennett

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Know, Know How, Knows, Life And Death, Mixed, Sweetly

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

Failure, Ifs, Old, Years

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Inspirational, Life, Time, Undependable, Possibilities

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

Formula, Hollywood, Movie, Old, Successful

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

Abide, Able, Enough Chances, Injunctions, Long, Simplest

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

Life, Like, Stories, Story, Teeth, Writing

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

Art, Brain, Classic, Example, Taste

I am a very pragmatic person.

Person, Persons, Pragmatic

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.

Care, Depressed, Medium, Tvs, Watch, Watches

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

Anticipated, Avoid, Difficulty, Order, Scene, Scenes

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.

Debt, Stories, Story, Today, Yesterday, Yesterday And Today

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