janice joplin....she was so rude. ugly and dressed horrible. Swanson was elegant and classy and prettier than Joplin though 2x Joplin's age and still prettier. No surprise Jopin OD'd on drugs. what a mess.
Dick Cavett is now as old as Gloria was in this clip and he still looks wonderful and lives in NYC. Gloria had such an elegant face. Janis looks comfortable in this interview, in others that I have seen she looks nervous.
Am I the only one who sees Janis and Gloria hitting it off famously? Just because they are not all wide smiles and compliments doesn't mean they aren't in sync. They seem stimulated by each other, as they are both out of their own comfort zones.
@AdArmand I see the same thing you do. Anyone that is saying Gloria Swanson and Janis Joplin are not getting along fine is frankly creating drama. i love this interview & the input of all three people in it
First of all I love what Gloria is wearing, she looks lovely. How she describes this is how they dressed in the 30's, the time she was at the top of her career. I think she is elegant and articulate. I don't care for how Dick Cavett speaks to her, at times poking fun. She was in silent films and when films just began with sound, what a wealth of interesting stories she has. Sadly Janis Joplin would soon be dead from a drug overdose.
So this is Dick Cavett?? What a prick! I cannot imagine why this guy became famous as a host? It seems he makes fun about Gloria all the time and also what an amateur and the audience seem to be a bit high on things. Giggling about things when I cannot seem to find what should be funny.
Waow ! Janis and Gloria, two brillants stars, my favourites , both together in the same show ! I think I'm dreaming ! So unique ! Thank's to Dick Cavett ! Who can do that today ?
Grande Gloria sei la più grande stella che il cinema abbia mai conosciuto e quella capra che hai davanti dovrebbe non solo alzalsi in piedi, ma dovrebbe baciare la terra che calpesti. Addio Regina!
Janis you rock! Seriously people step off on dissing her there both great i personally love Janis and her music. Gloria seems great to. Cant hate a cool woman who speaks her mind.
@wonderfulwhippet123 you're an idiot. the 60s destroyed any ideas of heritage as something to be respected, and janis is acting like an ignorant fool here.
What an idiot Janis Joplin, there was so much disrespect from young people towards older people in the 60's and 70's and they were all idiots because they either ended up dead without having lived like Janis or ended up old like everybody else. Gloria is a legend, so classy and dignified.
Gloria is class all the way. I loved Janis' singing but obviously whacked and somewhat disrespectful to a legend. Sort of diminishes my respect for her. And Gloria remained calm. the audience is a bunch of losers.
@ksteiger I don't think Janis was being disrespectful. Rather, I think she perhaps spoke more than she should have given Gloria Swanson's celebrity; she kept talking when she should have been listening. I don't think Gloria was upset.
I thought it was really cool seeing Joplin and Swanson together. Two generations of art, and two very different women, but the same stance on censorship. Thanks for sharing.
A fascinating clip. I had never seen it before, but Janis Joplin is obviously higher than a kite and borders on being incoherant.
As far as Gloria Swanson, I have seen Queen Kelly or at least what was made of it along with some still photos. She was quite sophisticated and von Stoheim was directing a masterpiece, but one that wouldn't have seen by the public, as Ms. Swanson points out due to the Hays Code.
I also love how she refers to Joseph Kennedy, Teddy's dad, as "the bankers"
hm. gloria was never a flapper. anyways, arguing about who's the lady and who isn't, who's this and that, in this situation is pointless. completely pointless. janis ROCKED, she gave more freedom for us to do whatever we want to do, and gloria is a perfect actress, very reasonable lady, and a great woman. they are both AMAZING in everything they did. the 20s and the 70s are two completely different worlds.
when Gloria came in, she came with a very playful, nice, ironic and even self-mocking attitude, but people in the audience were disrespectful and stupid from the begining, they took her seriously the whole time and didn't even get her subtle jokes...about Janis, her comments were not wrong, but the way she behaved was ridiculous, she showed no respect towards Gloria, there were ways she could have made her point without being rude. this shock of culture though I have to say is very fascinating.
Oh God, Swanson was so beautiful. Ever the lady, even in the face of such a rude audience. And I think the way she was dressed was absolutely stunning - if I were able to lead a lifestyle in which I could wear such clothes practically, I really wouldn't hold back. The 30's really were fashion at it's best. She is my role model in life - I hope one day to be as elegant.
you people are horrible. referring to Joplin as the "drug user" or "ugly woman" i can understand if you aren't a fan. But many people are, and you're pulling yourself down to a level in which you deserve to be referred with such insults, have some respect for other people.
When Swanson was growing up, women were still wearing corsets and morality was tightly enforced. To her, risque films or clothing was something to be noticed and proud of. But to Joplin and the other people in the adience, sexual and personal freedom on Swanson's terms was taken for granted.
I can't believe how disrespectful everyone one is to her! She wanted to show the style of the '20s and they all laugh at her.This is a Hollywood Legend people! When she's talking, Janis cuts her off and they all clap for the drug user! I would have been so annoyed if I was Ms. Swanson.......
This is a very intriguing interview reflecting the change in culture, generation, and artistic voice. And the film history and insight from Gloria Swanson is just delicious. Thank you for posting this. Is the full interview available to be watched?
I thought it was annoying that people in the crowd were laughing when nothing funny was being said. That usually indicates that there laughing at someone when that happens. I do not know what was going behind the scenes.
lies, lies, lies, yeah.. lol .janis was patronizering her dude.she just insulted her-- r u deaf? she said she didnt liked her dress and said it wasnt flattering. who is she? janis looks likes hell.
@hisluckienstar614 Good? What are you a sick jerkoff? Janis was not in anyway disrespectful to Miss Swanson. Gloria Swanson was an elegant, seemingly very kind and thoughtful Lady. What is this good crap? Did I misunderstand your meaning?
@monsterbob I do not get this anti Janis attitude. Oh I get it. You're probably a Thompson Twin fan or some other bad eighties music band? Janis was a very respected blues rock singer. Her work with Big Brother and subsequent work was wonderful. Gloria Swanson was great also. It's a big world pal. Many kinds of people and there was room for Janis and Gloria both!
I like both women very much, but what Janis doesn't seem to realize is that without the fashions of the 20's, there wouldn't be any fashions of the 60's.
watch the 3 clips of this entire episode and carefully watch the way thier knees and legs are crossed and recrossed...interesting the dynamics of such 3 different people
Holy Underwear, Batman! What an amazing clip from the 70's! Had NO idea Janis Joplin had ever shared the same the same stage with silent movie icon Gloria Swanson! Ms Swanson looks amazing for her age...I've read a lot about her (including her autobiography) & she was into health foods WAY before it was "the thing". Sad that she was never given a role as good as Norma Desmond after making "Sunset Blvd". THANKS for sharing this delightful "blast from the past" with us. You've made my day
Yes, there's a story that one day Ms Swanson was in a grocery store in LA and some woman was reaching for a bag of sugar. Gloria Swanson said to her, "Don't touch that stuff, sweetheart, it'll kill you." She was quite the health food nut.
I like that GS made the effort to dress up in a 1930's theme. Looks nice. the 70's style was so ugly, polyester pants and wide lapels that EVERYBODY wore.
You can just see how troubled JJ is by looking at her, feel sorry for her. she didn't outlast the year unfortunately.
@zaklamp24 It's really too bad. But by this time people weren't interested in old silent movie stars. A lot of the audience probably just saw her as an old woman telling stories about things that happened long ago that nobody cared about anymore; like the whole thing about "Queen Kelly." Few of them knew, probably, that this was one the greatest actresses of all time.
JFK's father had a torrid affair for years with Swanson. Rose Kennedy had to weather a lot of gossip during that time. She showed class during this sad time in her life.
I was watching a clip with GS and Dezi Arnez from about 1947 the other day and it had a scene where she and her husband in the picture are on a cruise liner gym. I was amazed at what she was doing. Tumbles, cartwheels, and that thing with the two bands from the ceiling that people in gymnastics do. I guess jane Fonda wsen't the first person to bring finess to Hollywood.
Janis was dead 2 months and one day later...I never realized how articulate Gloria Swanson was...look at her at 70! Janis 27/Gloria 70+, and Gloria looks amazing. She even has legs like a kid!
Janis had to put up with so many people like you, and so many remarks like yours, that it's no wonder she took drugs. Where is your heart. Please post your picture and life story here so that others like yourself can begin to shred you--- since you clearly haven't experienced it from the receiving end.
I like Janis Joplin very much. And I love Gloria Swanson too. Its clear they don't speak the identical lingo but it's alot of charisma in one space that's for sure. Gloria has huge eyes and is very pretty. Her legs are incredible. Janis makes perfect sense and it couldn't have been easy to be in her shoes and live her life with her sensitive nature.
Gloria Swanson was such a beautiful woman - when was made this show she had just 71 (!) years - and in this era still not was Botox and silicon and beauty-operations! What a glamour she had!
So sad about Janis Joplin - she looked just much destroyed by heroin - and I read this one comment here she died a few later this interview...
I miss the 60s and 70s..and even the 80s..when alot of these legends from the 19-teens and 20s and 30s were still around..and you could chance to bask in the glow of a REAL star!.and hear some stories..Gloria always amazed me when she'd turn up on TV,like the Carol Burnett show,still brimming with youth and vigor..still doing her Charlie Chaplin immitation :o)
Poor Janis would die of a heroin overdose and booze just a little over month after this Cavett interview!
I LOVE how she compares the '60s and '70s to the '20s. It bugs me whenever anyone gets all mushy over "the good old days" and then goes on to say that people have no morals anymore and everywhere you look something ribald is being thrown in your face...well, there was plenty that was considered ribald in the '60s and '70s, and before that the '20s, and even before that too, I'm sure. So, see, people? This is not a new thing!
Janis Joplin and Gloria Swanson displayed quite a bit of arrogance in this interview but one can't help loving them both - Swanson for her glamor and youthful folly and Joplin for her strength and devotion to what is real and kind. I dont encourage the atmosphere of competition the two women are creating, but who is the wiser one here?
Gloria Swanson is very seductive. It's a shame that she wouldn't work with Erich von Stroheim and create a movie that wouldn't be popular and would resist censorship. She went along with the racism of the time: "It was a dance hall with a mixture of a lot of different races.....and it was obviously, and uh.....people knew about it, naturally knew that this was wrong ." She was the producer of the film and the power was in her hands - an opportunity missed.
I gave 5 stars only for a fact that Gloria is worth a million stars. I have come to love her as an actress and as a person whom I respect a lot. I am just about to finish her autobiography. First Class actress, first class Lady.
nah, the conversation between janis and gloria would be far more interesting than between dick and gloria. i'd rather watch two outrageous strong willed creative women who both go beyond the bounds of their generations discuss the limitations set upon them than watch dick cavet ask gloria if her script changed when she got on the set
I don't think it would have mattered if she had shared the stage with Charles Manson. There were very few of her contemporaries that Gloria Swanson could not eclipse. I am only grateful for one thing, that she did not pass on before the age of the silents was over. Her voice, her method of speaking and her vocal acting were not something I would have wanted to miss. Every inch a lady and pure Hollywood glamour the way it was meant to be. There will never be anyone like her.
It should have been Dick Cavett and Miss Swanson alone. Too many didn't understand the presence of a Lady on the stage. Wow, I wish that I could have talked to that great lady....she is sorely missed. Grace and beauty.
I'm one of the youngsters who loves old pictures. I'm 24 and I just can't get enough of Gloria Swanson. Sunset Boulevard started it all for me. Thanks be also to Billy Wilder for that. I love seeing Hollywood from Gloria's point of view, as well as those time periods she lived in and saw firsthand. I wish she wasn't dead so I could at least write her a fan letter telling her all of this. Oh well, maybe if she's "up there on a cloud" she'll find out somehow. Heh.
hunni im 21! i fell in love with gloria when i saw sunset boulevarde on tv wen i was about 15! shes an absolute star!!! i would have LOVED to be alive in the 1920s when film stars were really glamorous!! 'they didnt need words they had faces!!!' xxxx
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Shame on Dick Cavett for not being more respectful when Gloria was trying to be serious. Its a disgrace that she had to even share the stage with a low life like Janis Joplin.......
I agree...this was the horrid transition from the gracious days of Americana Wholesomeness to the decadent 70's. Unfortunately, the pendulum has NOT turned back, but swung out even further to where half of my student's moms are NOT June Cleaver, but METH FIENDS. God help us! Thanks Jimmy for your comment! ~ Cata
What Janis said was absolutely right. I think Gloria agreed with her
mjtsmm2027 1 week ago
Janis Joplin looks like fat Crispin Glover.
keerkhor 2 weeks ago
Janis Joplin killed herself! Just too bad she didn't do it before this interview :-)
mrbrandon71 3 weeks ago
Why was Janis so famous? She doesn't seem to care about much at all. I don't understand her.
ladyrose837 1 month ago
janice joplin....she was so rude. ugly and dressed horrible. Swanson was elegant and classy and prettier than Joplin though 2x Joplin's age and still prettier. No surprise Jopin OD'd on drugs. what a mess.
Pisces31660 1 month ago
I love both Gloria and Janis, but not together in the same show, although this was priceless!
mattycat33 1 month ago
she looks good at 71
belle26ramirez 1 month ago
But Gloria wasn't a flapper lol
ChrissieBana 1 month ago
Miss Swanson's memory is faulty. Queen Kelly was shot well before the implementation of the Hays Code.
tigerboy1966 2 months ago
Dick Cavett is now as old as Gloria was in this clip and he still looks wonderful and lives in NYC. Gloria had such an elegant face. Janis looks comfortable in this interview, in others that I have seen she looks nervous.
darlinkula1 2 months ago
Class is class, and everyone know who represents it in this clip....
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Am I the only one who sees Janis and Gloria hitting it off famously? Just because they are not all wide smiles and compliments doesn't mean they aren't in sync. They seem stimulated by each other, as they are both out of their own comfort zones.
AdArmand 3 months ago 4
@AdArmand I see the same thing you do. Anyone that is saying Gloria Swanson and Janis Joplin are not getting along fine is frankly creating drama. i love this interview & the input of all three people in it
kirbygene 2 months ago
First of all I love what Gloria is wearing, she looks lovely. How she describes this is how they dressed in the 30's, the time she was at the top of her career. I think she is elegant and articulate. I don't care for how Dick Cavett speaks to her, at times poking fun. She was in silent films and when films just began with sound, what a wealth of interesting stories she has. Sadly Janis Joplin would soon be dead from a drug overdose.
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@sanctuaryrain2010 months after, janet dies...ryt?because this was taken aug. 1970...janet died oct. 1970
belle26ramirez 1 month ago
Gloria my darling, I know I'm a straight girl and you're unfortunately dead, but will you marry me despite all this?
CRICKET999999999 3 months ago 3
So this is Dick Cavett?? What a prick! I cannot imagine why this guy became famous as a host? It seems he makes fun about Gloria all the time and also what an amateur and the audience seem to be a bit high on things. Giggling about things when I cannot seem to find what should be funny.
biosphere1000 4 months ago
She is 71 here...but looks very healthy for her age.
mooneepondskid 4 months ago
Waow ! Janis and Gloria, two brillants stars, my favourites , both together in the same show ! I think I'm dreaming ! So unique ! Thank's to Dick Cavett ! Who can do that today ?
markha1065 4 months ago
janis joplin was an ill mannered boor.
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Grande Gloria sei la più grande stella che il cinema abbia mai conosciuto e quella capra che hai davanti dovrebbe non solo alzalsi in piedi, ma dovrebbe baciare la terra che calpesti. Addio Regina!
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CECCARFR 5 months ago
Janis you rock! Seriously people step off on dissing her there both great i personally love Janis and her music. Gloria seems great to. Cant hate a cool woman who speaks her mind.
Heartloveforever 6 months ago
GOD LOVE JANICE! Loved that these ladies conversation.
BANKSYSKNAB 6 months ago
sloaches festival of cockhuman
clayboytm 6 months ago
Is Janis high ?
rickw1100 6 months ago
Class!
rickw1100 6 months ago
It was interesting to see how business savvy Gloria Swanson was. Fascinating woman.
tilog 7 months ago
glorias so classy and janis is adorable and sweet
MyGward 7 months ago
Gloria was so beautiful.
Mike6E 8 months ago 3
Gloria Swanson in this clip is the epitome of class in this video. Janis seemed very disrespectful in this video.
JloveLamar 8 months ago 9
GLORIA IS THE BEST
loggats 8 months ago
Gloria is so cool and classey. I love the one white glove.
GM98106 8 months ago
Janis... Janis... Janis... four decades later, and you are still embarrassing !
1961diaz1 8 months ago
@1961diaz1 embarrassingly awesome!!!!!!!!
Heartloveforever 7 months ago
a gem for all times
GLORIA WAS THE ORIGINAL LADY GAGA OF FASHION!
hornybodhisattva 9 months ago
I don't really get all this talke about "gernation gap". Just an older lady speaking about fashion trends to a younger lady.
Weird obsession talking about the sixties and generation gap.
wonderfulwhippet123 11 months ago
@wonderfulwhippet123 you're an idiot. the 60s destroyed any ideas of heritage as something to be respected, and janis is acting like an ignorant fool here.
loggats 8 months ago
Gloria was the element of professionalism, Joni was different for the time too, but she paled in comparrison to Gloria's beauty.
Brighteyes1ful 11 months ago
What an idiot Janis Joplin, there was so much disrespect from young people towards older people in the 60's and 70's and they were all idiots because they either ended up dead without having lived like Janis or ended up old like everybody else. Gloria is a legend, so classy and dignified.
LaSerpentaCanta 11 months ago
Two complete polar opposites,
Borat 1 year ago
Gloria is class all the way. I loved Janis' singing but obviously whacked and somewhat disrespectful to a legend. Sort of diminishes my respect for her. And Gloria remained calm. the audience is a bunch of losers.
ksteiger 1 year ago
@ksteiger I don't think Janis was being disrespectful. Rather, I think she perhaps spoke more than she should have given Gloria Swanson's celebrity; she kept talking when she should have been listening. I don't think Gloria was upset.
beeroosterm 10 months ago
I thought it was really cool seeing Joplin and Swanson together. Two generations of art, and two very different women, but the same stance on censorship. Thanks for sharing.
dylnvcufilm 1 year ago
Gloria is beautiful, wonderful, one-of-a-kind. Joplin could sing, but she looks awful in my opinion.
susannebass 1 year ago 3
@susannebass She died soon after. Swanson outlived her by 13 years.
beeroosterm 10 months ago 2
"get a lift from the people at Pepsi" bahahaaha!!!
Donnie2020 1 year ago
umm? why did he have to stand up?
Donnie2020 1 year ago
Janis looks at her feet LOL!
Donnie2020 1 year ago
Janis was a great singer but always looked unwashed.
NFitalianGuy 1 year ago
Goodness Janis is so hammered. Shut up! Obvious lack of knowledge or sobriety on her part.
Jamesisaairplane 1 year ago
great interview, very rare moment in the life of a silent goddess ! and Janis talking about smoking grass is very funny !
tousamis 1 year ago
shut up Janis, Gloria knows what's goin' down and is a lot more interesting to listen to that that greasy inarticulate woman.
TheDietrich22 1 year ago 5
Could janis joplin have took anymore downer's before she walked on set!! and MS. Swanson is such a real respectful person. I love her
officialpickle 1 year ago 2
A fascinating clip. I had never seen it before, but Janis Joplin is obviously higher than a kite and borders on being incoherant.
As far as Gloria Swanson, I have seen Queen Kelly or at least what was made of it along with some still photos. She was quite sophisticated and von Stoheim was directing a masterpiece, but one that wouldn't have seen by the public, as Ms. Swanson points out due to the Hays Code.
I also love how she refers to Joseph Kennedy, Teddy's dad, as "the bankers"
bxktd 1 year ago
Ms. Swanson has a starpower that has yet to be surpassed.
ccipollini1984 1 year ago 2
@ccipollini1984 She's pretty amazing, isn't she!
theblazingangel 1 year ago 2
I can't believe Gloria was 73!
Mike6E 1 year ago 3
hm. gloria was never a flapper. anyways, arguing about who's the lady and who isn't, who's this and that, in this situation is pointless. completely pointless. janis ROCKED, she gave more freedom for us to do whatever we want to do, and gloria is a perfect actress, very reasonable lady, and a great woman. they are both AMAZING in everything they did. the 20s and the 70s are two completely different worlds.
ChrissieBana 1 year ago
Back when stars were really stars and had something interesting to say.
FunWithStuttering 1 year ago 3
@FunWithStuttering Well said. I won't listen to any of them today.
celtickimba 1 year ago
very good insighht from janis about young people and authority
arlichar11 1 year ago
when Gloria came in, she came with a very playful, nice, ironic and even self-mocking attitude, but people in the audience were disrespectful and stupid from the begining, they took her seriously the whole time and didn't even get her subtle jokes...about Janis, her comments were not wrong, but the way she behaved was ridiculous, she showed no respect towards Gloria, there were ways she could have made her point without being rude. this shock of culture though I have to say is very fascinating.
drivingonthevine 1 year ago 5
Oh God, Swanson was so beautiful. Ever the lady, even in the face of such a rude audience. And I think the way she was dressed was absolutely stunning - if I were able to lead a lifestyle in which I could wear such clothes practically, I really wouldn't hold back. The 30's really were fashion at it's best. She is my role model in life - I hope one day to be as elegant.
Tangetastic 1 year ago 2
I had no idea Janis Joplin was so incredibly ridiculous.
80slvr87 1 year ago
Haha! Gloria Swanson is 71 and Janis Joplin is 27 in this clip, but Gloria looks 10 times sexier!
leafyutube 1 year ago 13
Miss Swanson was gracious and kind in the midst of ridiculous rudeness. That's the Lady that she was............I really miss such icons.
bartolemeo 1 year ago 5
I never liked Janis Joplin's music and now I don't like her as a person
I was never a fan of Gloria Swanson, but I think I'll look at her work again because i like her in this interview
Countrygirltori24 1 year ago
you people are horrible. referring to Joplin as the "drug user" or "ugly woman" i can understand if you aren't a fan. But many people are, and you're pulling yourself down to a level in which you deserve to be referred with such insults, have some respect for other people.
3daysofpeacenmusic 1 year ago 2
Gloria Swanson looks and sounds like a young girl who is rather unconvincingly made up to look like an older lady in this...
LucaEisenstein 1 year ago 5
@LucaEisenstein She looks stunning for someone in her 70s doesnt she. Pre plastic fantastic quick fixes. Incredible woman.
artichokemilk 1 year ago
I used to like Janis Joplin until now...
scabeche 1 year ago
Janis Joplin and Gloria Swanson on same stage that cool
Kellyannk308 1 year ago
Mrs Swanson lived 84 years.
The ugly,stupid, hippie killed himself with drug
only two moth after this show,at 27.
lounge60 1 year ago
2 cultures collide in this interview!!! an amazing meeting caught on television before the guests were only selling records or appearing in movies!!!
sickkat44 1 year ago 3
When Swanson was growing up, women were still wearing corsets and morality was tightly enforced. To her, risque films or clothing was something to be noticed and proud of. But to Joplin and the other people in the adience, sexual and personal freedom on Swanson's terms was taken for granted.
bobbobato 1 year ago
I can't believe how disrespectful everyone one is to her! She wanted to show the style of the '20s and they all laugh at her.This is a Hollywood Legend people! When she's talking, Janis cuts her off and they all clap for the drug user! I would have been so annoyed if I was Ms. Swanson.......
MissColorMeClassic 1 year ago 13
@MissColorMeClassic i agree.
84ccipollini 1 year ago
This is a very intriguing interview reflecting the change in culture, generation, and artistic voice. And the film history and insight from Gloria Swanson is just delicious. Thank you for posting this. Is the full interview available to be watched?
laughhaha326 1 year ago 2
I thought it was annoying that people in the crowd were laughing when nothing funny was being said. That usually indicates that there laughing at someone when that happens. I do not know what was going behind the scenes.
starVol 1 year ago 4
lies, lies, lies, yeah.. lol .janis was patronizering her dude.she just insulted her-- r u deaf? she said she didnt liked her dress and said it wasnt flattering. who is she? janis looks likes hell.
hisluckienstar614 1 year ago 3
and dick cavett should hung by his ears for putting these two celebrities together. totally distasteful
hisluckienstar614 1 year ago
janis joplin died right soon after right? good.
hisluckienstar614 1 year ago
@hisluckienstar614 Good? What are you a sick jerkoff? Janis was not in anyway disrespectful to Miss Swanson. Gloria Swanson was an elegant, seemingly very kind and thoughtful Lady. What is this good crap? Did I misunderstand your meaning?
starVol 1 year ago
Right Janis. You're so cool. Defend doing drugs. And who ended up dead of a heroin dose? OOPS!
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monsterbob 1 year ago
Gloria was class all the way. Janis Joplin was a stoned idiot.
monsterbob 1 year ago
@monsterbob I do not get this anti Janis attitude. Oh I get it. You're probably a Thompson Twin fan or some other bad eighties music band? Janis was a very respected blues rock singer. Her work with Big Brother and subsequent work was wonderful. Gloria Swanson was great also. It's a big world pal. Many kinds of people and there was room for Janis and Gloria both!
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monsterbob 1 year ago
The microphone... oops!
miguelucho20008 1 year ago
I like both women very much, but what Janis doesn't seem to realize is that without the fashions of the 20's, there wouldn't be any fashions of the 60's.
ladymelde 1 year ago 2
watch the 3 clips of this entire episode and carefully watch the way thier knees and legs are crossed and recrossed...interesting the dynamics of such 3 different people
bestvaluemaui 1 year ago
Holy Underwear, Batman! What an amazing clip from the 70's! Had NO idea Janis Joplin had ever shared the same the same stage with silent movie icon Gloria Swanson! Ms Swanson looks amazing for her age...I've read a lot about her (including her autobiography) & she was into health foods WAY before it was "the thing". Sad that she was never given a role as good as Norma Desmond after making "Sunset Blvd". THANKS for sharing this delightful "blast from the past" with us. You've made my day
JubalCalif 2 years ago
Yes, there's a story that one day Ms Swanson was in a grocery store in LA and some woman was reaching for a bag of sugar. Gloria Swanson said to her, "Don't touch that stuff, sweetheart, it'll kill you." She was quite the health food nut.
xander7ful 2 years ago
I like that GS made the effort to dress up in a 1930's theme. Looks nice. the 70's style was so ugly, polyester pants and wide lapels that EVERYBODY wore.
You can just see how troubled JJ is by looking at her, feel sorry for her. she didn't outlast the year unfortunately.
WintersWar 2 years ago
Gloria was Beautiful.
captainkarma212 2 years ago 6
you are so right! ))
irinagarbo 2 years ago
God, I hope I look that good in my 70's
ladymelde 2 years ago 5
"I certainly DID!" 6.43- LOVE the way she says that. Great character...
bjnevin 2 years ago
Gloria was nuts and I loved her!
ifusuckilltellu 2 years ago
Oh what i would give to have been able to meet this lady and listen to all her stories
meandmymakeup 2 years ago
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Does anyone care at all about the length of a fraggin' skirt?
hennpaul 2 years ago
WTF is going on with the audience. They keep laughing. Very disrespectfull.
zaklamp24 2 years ago 29
THe crowd is the untruth.
Now you're gonna have to re-read whatever you wrote 3 months ago...
sclogse1 1 year ago
@zaklamp24 I don't think they were laughing at her.
LaSerpentaCanta 11 months ago
@zaklamp24 It's really too bad. But by this time people weren't interested in old silent movie stars. A lot of the audience probably just saw her as an old woman telling stories about things that happened long ago that nobody cared about anymore; like the whole thing about "Queen Kelly." Few of them knew, probably, that this was one the greatest actresses of all time.
counterstriving 6 months ago 2
His name is spelled Desi Arnaz.
DungaroosRFun2 2 years ago
Gloria had Classic Features!
NFitalianGuy 2 years ago 5
she certainly did :)
irinagarbo 2 years ago
JFK's father had a torrid affair for years with Swanson. Rose Kennedy had to weather a lot of gossip during that time. She showed class during this sad time in her life.
bigdancd 2 years ago
I think Janis and Gloria actually have a nice little rapport. There's like a playfulness between them. Gloria's sense of humour is subtle.
AdArmand 2 years ago 3
......gloria very charming in every way...!
yedon68 2 years ago 25
The audience doesn't seem to be respectful towards Gloria Swanson, Janis either. They seem to make fun of her...
GASNERO 2 years ago 4
DUH! They didn't get it!
ifusuckilltellu 2 years ago
I love Gloria. They don't make em like this anymore...
MMCMediaJunkie 2 years ago 7
I was watching a clip with GS and Dezi Arnez from about 1947 the other day and it had a scene where she and her husband in the picture are on a cruise liner gym. I was amazed at what she was doing. Tumbles, cartwheels, and that thing with the two bands from the ceiling that people in gymnastics do. I guess jane Fonda wsen't the first person to bring finess to Hollywood.
foofwolf22 2 years ago
Janis was dead 2 months and one day later...I never realized how articulate Gloria Swanson was...look at her at 70! Janis 27/Gloria 70+, and Gloria looks amazing. She even has legs like a kid!
jonibaloney2003 2 years ago 4
Oh dear, Gloria has power. The audience hates her and she does not flinch for a moment. But I like her!
diddeliduddi 2 years ago 8
I don't think the audience hates her at all.
foofwolf22 2 years ago
@diddeliduddi-- youre right. shse didnt care what anyone thought. she was gloria swanson!
hisluckienstar614 1 year ago
Man was Swanson hitting the tanning salon? Look at her. Bronzed out! Nice.
foofwolf22 2 years ago 2
The male version would be Jimi Hendrix and Buster Keaton.
foofwolf22 2 years ago
..or maybe Hendrix and Harold Lloyd (Keaton wrecked himself with booze)
edisone1 2 years ago
Christ why put that filthy ugly turd Joplin on the same stage as this gorgeous woman??
cuttock 2 years ago
Janis had to put up with so many people like you, and so many remarks like yours, that it's no wonder she took drugs. Where is your heart. Please post your picture and life story here so that others like yourself can begin to shred you--- since you clearly haven't experienced it from the receiving end.
sisalrug 2 years ago 2
I'm gonna knock your teeth out.
cuttock 2 years ago
I like Janis Joplin very much. And I love Gloria Swanson too. Its clear they don't speak the identical lingo but it's alot of charisma in one space that's for sure. Gloria has huge eyes and is very pretty. Her legs are incredible. Janis makes perfect sense and it couldn't have been easy to be in her shoes and live her life with her sensitive nature.
sisalrug 2 years ago 2
I know. It shouldn't be one vs. the other. They're both special in they're own way..
foofwolf22 2 years ago
Gloria Swanson was such a beautiful woman - when was made this show she had just 71 (!) years - and in this era still not was Botox and silicon and beauty-operations! What a glamour she had!
So sad about Janis Joplin - she looked just much destroyed by heroin - and I read this one comment here she died a few later this interview...
GraefinVonSalamanca 2 years ago 2
That's elegant! So sweet and sexy. I like that style.
OS253 2 years ago
the styles in the 20`s and 30`s were so elegant
edthewise 2 years ago
What's the problem could anybody translate me?
ooolka652 2 years ago
Gloria won this battle. Janis came off really bad in this.
ringspun01 2 years ago
I miss the 60s and 70s..and even the 80s..when alot of these legends from the 19-teens and 20s and 30s were still around..and you could chance to bask in the glow of a REAL star!.and hear some stories..Gloria always amazed me when she'd turn up on TV,like the Carol Burnett show,still brimming with youth and vigor..still doing her Charlie Chaplin immitation :o)
Poor Janis would die of a heroin overdose and booze just a little over month after this Cavett interview!
malondo7 2 years ago
I LOVE how she compares the '60s and '70s to the '20s. It bugs me whenever anyone gets all mushy over "the good old days" and then goes on to say that people have no morals anymore and everywhere you look something ribald is being thrown in your face...well, there was plenty that was considered ribald in the '60s and '70s, and before that the '20s, and even before that too, I'm sure. So, see, people? This is not a new thing!
disneyclint 2 years ago
always great to see Gloria Swanson, and in color, makes it even better!
swdanielson 2 years ago
Gloria Swanson and Janis Joplin on the same stage!! Wow.
LenaIsGlad 2 years ago
This is a STAR
verman2222 2 years ago
Janis Joplin and Gloria Swanson displayed quite a bit of arrogance in this interview but one can't help loving them both - Swanson for her glamor and youthful folly and Joplin for her strength and devotion to what is real and kind. I dont encourage the atmosphere of competition the two women are creating, but who is the wiser one here?
elizabethfaraone 2 years ago 2
Gloria Swanson is very seductive. It's a shame that she wouldn't work with Erich von Stroheim and create a movie that wouldn't be popular and would resist censorship. She went along with the racism of the time: "It was a dance hall with a mixture of a lot of different races.....and it was obviously, and uh.....people knew about it, naturally knew that this was wrong ." She was the producer of the film and the power was in her hands - an opportunity missed.
elizabethfaraone 2 years ago
who the hell is janis joplin? ...
All hail Gloria Swanson!
babooshky 2 years ago 2
Joplin was blessed with genius.
AdArmand 2 years ago
GGILF!
farleyfarouk 2 years ago
I gave 5 stars only for a fact that Gloria is worth a million stars. I have come to love her as an actress and as a person whom I respect a lot. I am just about to finish her autobiography. First Class actress, first class Lady.
WelshGal05 2 years ago 2
Janis Joplin was so rude to Gloria, patronising and poking fund at her. Gloria dealt with her quite brilliantly. What a star!
myrnaloysboy 2 years ago
nah, the conversation between janis and gloria would be far more interesting than between dick and gloria. i'd rather watch two outrageous strong willed creative women who both go beyond the bounds of their generations discuss the limitations set upon them than watch dick cavet ask gloria if her script changed when she got on the set
AnotherCompartment 2 years ago 3
Janis Joplin needs to shut the hell up and let Gloria Swanson share her wonderful stories. It irks me.
lamllemaussade 2 years ago 2
Oh yes, and my God is she beautiful. This is the very definition of stunning.
Sarmatae1 2 years ago
I don't think it would have mattered if she had shared the stage with Charles Manson. There were very few of her contemporaries that Gloria Swanson could not eclipse. I am only grateful for one thing, that she did not pass on before the age of the silents was over. Her voice, her method of speaking and her vocal acting were not something I would have wanted to miss. Every inch a lady and pure Hollywood glamour the way it was meant to be. There will never be anyone like her.
Sarmatae1 2 years ago 4
It should have been Dick Cavett and Miss Swanson alone. Too many didn't understand the presence of a Lady on the stage. Wow, I wish that I could have talked to that great lady....she is sorely missed. Grace and beauty.
bartolemeo 3 years ago
retarded audience
shealways 3 years ago 2
Its sad most the old films are lost.
56BUICKRiviera 3 years ago 2
I'm one of the youngsters who loves old pictures. I'm 24 and I just can't get enough of Gloria Swanson. Sunset Boulevard started it all for me. Thanks be also to Billy Wilder for that. I love seeing Hollywood from Gloria's point of view, as well as those time periods she lived in and saw firsthand. I wish she wasn't dead so I could at least write her a fan letter telling her all of this. Oh well, maybe if she's "up there on a cloud" she'll find out somehow. Heh.
disneyclint 3 years ago 5
I am too. I'm 26 and have been a devotee of old stars since I was 16....
Patrick3183 2 years ago
hunni im 21! i fell in love with gloria when i saw sunset boulevarde on tv wen i was about 15! shes an absolute star!!! i would have LOVED to be alive in the 1920s when film stars were really glamorous!! 'they didnt need words they had faces!!!' xxxx
christinedaae87 2 years ago 4
Two legends, wow! Dick Cavett is the only talk show host that doesn't annoy me. Thanks for the up...
kaugirl 3 years ago 4
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Shame on Dick Cavett for not being more respectful when Gloria was trying to be serious. Its a disgrace that she had to even share the stage with a low life like Janis Joplin.......
JimmyCFO 3 years ago
I agree...this was the horrid transition from the gracious days of Americana Wholesomeness to the decadent 70's. Unfortunately, the pendulum has NOT turned back, but swung out even further to where half of my student's moms are NOT June Cleaver, but METH FIENDS. God help us! Thanks Jimmy for your comment! ~ Cata
Catalina1956 3 years ago 6
Agree
georgehr3 2 years ago
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I think Winona Ryder could play her, strangely....
AdArmand 3 years ago
that gives me the shudders as well...what a loss.
carolineorchange21 3 years ago
i love Swanson Thank you for this video
naverow 3 years ago 2
i like her too. i wonder why she wanted joe kennedy tho
bette1908 3 years ago