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Gloria Swanson
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Gloria Swanson was born in Chicago on March 27, 1899, as Gloria May Josephine Svensson. As a teenager, she visited Chicago's Essanay Film Co. (yes, there were movie studios in Chicago then). A very pretty girl with some amateur performing experience and a love for beautiful clothes (inspired by her mother), she was picked from the crowd for a small part in a film with the unlikely title, The Fable Of Elvira And Farina And The Meal Ticket. More parts soon followed.
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We’ve been researching its provenance, and it remains ambiguous, but Gloria Swanson's name is definitely inscribed inside the piano. It’s a Cable-Nelson parlor piano (ID 182789) made in 1923—the height of Swanson's career.
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In 1945 Swanson married William N. Davey and they divorced in 1946. Little is known of Davey except that single mother Gloria married this rich man because young Michelle had been nagging her about wanting a father. According to Swanson, she and Davey actually cohabited forty-five days.
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A very short story - Swanson met Davey while touring with a play in 1945. She had told herself that she would never remarry and claimed that she only accepted his proposal because he was rich and because her daughter Michelle was constantly nagging her to marry. A few weeks after the wedding, Gloria discovered William in a drunken stupor when she left the stage one night. She and Michelle attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and obtained literature and preceded to spread the pamphlets all over the apartment. Davey apparently did not like the message and he packed all his things and left. The marriage lasted 45 days.
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Swanson's 1929 film Queen Kelly, was directed by Erich von Stroheim and produced by Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., the father of President John F. Kennedy. She was romantically linked to the elder Kennedy at the time.
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Swanson ultimately made talkies, even singing in The Trespasser (1929) directed by Edmund Goulding, Indiscreet (1931), and Music in the Air (1934). Even though she managed to make the transition into talkies, her career began to decline.
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