Sunset Boulevard is considered by many to be one of the greatest films of all time, and the 1950 Billy Wilder drama has been ...

These days, Gloria Swanson is most famous for her star turn in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, where she played Norma Desmond, a delusional, champagne-swilling movie star whose best days have long ...

Gloria Swanson and Michael Farmer in 1933 During a fitting for the 1931 film Tonight or Never, Swanson met Michael Farmer, a young, rich, unemployed man who was rumored to be a gigolo.

“Gloria Swanson and Her Circle in the Twenties” was originally published in the July 1950 issue of Vogue. For more of the best from Vogue’s archive, sign up for our Nostalgia newsletter her ...

This sumptuous illustrated biography, weighing in at more than four pounds, begins: “Gloria Swanson was a great motion picture star. Her pictures for Paramount in the 1920s made millions, and her ...

Cinemagoers who saw Gloria Swanson in The Trespasser (TIME, Nov. 11) were surprised when she sang the tawdry theme song in a voice exceedingly pleasant. Hungarian Franz Lehar, venerable comic ...