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Gloria Swanson

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I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.


— Gloria Swanson


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I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.


— Gloria Swanson


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


— Gloria Swanson


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I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.


— Gloria Swanson


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I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.


— Gloria Swanson


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I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.


— Gloria Swanson


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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.


— Gloria Swanson


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


— Gloria Swanson


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In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.


— Gloria Swanson


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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.


— Gloria Swanson


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DeMille made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the Best Actress category. Though the European scenes were full of innuendo and featured a philandering prince and a sex-crazed queen the scenes set in Africa were grim and Swanson felt distasteful. After the marriage to Henri and her affair with Kennedy were over Gloria Swanson married Michael Farmer (1902–1975) in August 1931.

Gloria Swanson (March 27 1899 – April 4 1983) was an American actress singer and producer who is best known for her role as Norma Desmond a faded silent film star in the critically acclaimed film Sunset Boulevard (1950). She had also produced her own films such as Sadie Thompson and The Love of Sunya. DeMille made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the Best Actress category.

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