Gloria Swanson-I'm Ready For Love

This Is A Tribute To A Beautiful Woman Ms, Gloria Swanson She Was Destined To Be Perhaps One Of The Biggest Stars Of The Silent Era Her Personality & Antics In Private Definitely Made Her A Favorite With America's Moviegoing Public Gloria Certainly Didn't Intent On Going Into Show Business After Her Formal Education In The Chicago School System & Elsewhere She Began Work In A Department Store As A Salesclerk In 1915 At Age 18 She Decided To Go To A Chicago Movie Studio With An Aunt To See How Motion Pictures Were Made She Was Plucked Out Of The Crowd Because Of Her Beauty To Be Included As A Bit Player In The Film The Fable Of Elvira And Farina And The Meal Ticket (1915) In Her Next Film She Was An Extra Also When She Appeared In At The End Of A Perfect Day (1915) After Another Uncredited Role Gloria Got A More Substantial Role In Sweedie Goes To College (1915) In 1916 She First Appeared With Future Husband Wallace Beery Once Married The Two Pulled Up Stakes In Chicago & Moved To Los Angeles To The Film Colony Of Hollywood Once Out West Gloria Continued Her Torrid Pace In Films She Seemed To Be Hit After Hit In Such Films As The Pullman Bride (1917) & Shifting Hands (1918) & Don't Change Your Husband (1919) By The Time Of The Latter Gloria Had Divorced Beery & Was Remarried But It Was Not To Be Her Last Marriage As She Collected A Total Of Seven Husbands By The Middle 1920s She Was The Highest-Paid Actresses In Hollywood It Has Been Said That Gloria Made & $8 Million In The 20s Alone That Along With The Seven Marriages She Had Kept The Fans Spellbound With Her Escapades For Over 60 Years They Just Couldn't Get Enough Of Her Gloria Was 30 When The Sound Revolution Hit & There Was Speculation As To Whether She Could Not Adapt She Did & In 1928 She Received An Oscar Nomination For Best Actress For Her Role Of Sadie Thomson In The Film Of The Same Name But Lost To Mary Pickford In Coquette (1929) This Following Year She Again Was Nominated For The Same Award In The Trespasser (1929) This Time She Lost Out To Norma Shearer In The Divorcee (1930) By The 1930s Gloria Pared Back Her Work With Only Four Films During That Time She Had Taken A Hiatus From Film Work After 1934's Music In The Air (1934) & Would Not Be Seen Again Until Farther Takes A Wife (1941) That Was To Be It Until 1950 When She Starred In Sunset Blvd. (1950) As Norma Desmond Opposite William Holden She Played A Movie Actress Who Was All But Washed Up The Movie Was A Box Office Smash & Earned Her A Third Academy Award Nomination As Best Actress But She Lost To Judy Holliday In Born Yesterday The Film Considered One Of The Best In The History Of Film & On June 16,1998 Was Named One Of The Top 100 Films Of All Time By The American Film Institute Placing 12th After A Few More Films In The 1950s Gloria More Or Less Retired Throughout The 1960s She Appeared Mostly On Television Her Last Fling With The Silver Screen Was Airport 1975 (1974) Wherein She Played Herself Gloria Died On 4/4/1983 At The Age Of 86 There Was Never Anyone Like Her Before Or Since

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@4262009AP Thank You Josh

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[DavidMcCann995]

Great stuff

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Very nice!