Known For: American actress (1899–1983)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: actor, film producer, autobiographer, stage actor, television actor, film actor, producer
Country: United States of America
City: Chicago
Date of Birth: Monday, 27 March 1899
Died: 1983-04-04 00:00:00 in Q7013596
Gloria Josephine Mae Swanson was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which also earned her a Golden Globe Award.
| BirthPlace | Chicago |
| Education | Q6478293 |
| Awards | Q17985761, Q463085, Q3101822 |
| Spouses | Wallace Beery, Herbert K. Somborn, Henry de La Falaise, Michael Farmer, William N. Davey, William Dufty |
| Children | Gloria Somborn, Michelle Bridget Farmer |
| Wikipedia | Gloria_Swanson |
Swanson was born in a small house in Chicago in 1899, the only child of Adelaide (née Klanowski) and Joseph Theodore Swanson (né Svensson), a soldier. She was raised in the Lutheran faith. Her father was a Swedish American and her mother was of German, French, and Polish ancestry. Because of her father's attachment to the U.S. Army, the family moved frequently. She spent some of her childhood in Key West, Florida, where she was enrolled in a Catholic convent school, and in Puerto Rico, where she saw her first motion pictures.
