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Gloria Swanson: New Job
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Gloria Swanson signed a contract with Mach Sennett's "Triangle-Keystone" and became a leading actress at comedian Bobby Vernon's side. In those years she shot among others the movies "His New Job" (15), "The Broken Pledge" (15), "The Danger Girl" (16) and "Teddy at the Throttle" (17). When Mack Sennett went to Paramount, Gloria Swanson used the chance to impersonat dramatic roles at Triangle-Keystone and convinced with "Shifting Sands" (18).
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Swanson's contract obligations to Paramount were completed with the release of: Untamed Lady (rel. Mar.) and Fine Manners (rel. Aug.); began working at United Artists in Apr.; purchased rights to The Eyes of Youth in Jul., which began filming as The Love of Sunya in Sep. at Cosmopolitan Studios in New York and was completed in Dec.
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In 1922 Gloria starred opposite the famed Rudolph Valentino in Beyond The Rocks, of which publicity shouted that Swanson wears "...fifty luxurious new gowns." The movie became lost for 73 years until a print was discovered in Holland. Now restored, the silent film will be shown again in the United States in October, 2005.
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Aging butler Max (director Eric von Stroheim) lets him into the cavernous, decaying mansion, where he is mistaken for a pet mortician, called to attend to the deceased pet monkey of Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), aging film goddess. He recognizes her as star of silent film, reveals himself as a script writer, not a mortician, and promptly becomes the new pet monkey.
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Swanson auditioned for the leading female role in His New Job, a Charlie Chaplin short, but Chaplin did not see her as leading lady material and cast her in the brief role of a stenographer. She later admitted that she hated slapstick comedy and had been deliberately uncooperative.
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