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Gloria Swanson didn’t appear to have much reason to embellish the truth when she claimed in “Swanson on Swanson,” an autobiography published by Random House in 1980, that she’d had a three-year love affair with Joseph P.
Feb. 14, 1988
All the Rage
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April 18, 2011
Movies
The Vagabond Theater on Wilshire Boulevard is presenting through Saturday Gloria Swanson’s 1928 silent version of “Sadie Thompson” along with “Sunset Boulevard.”
April 12, 1989
Obituaries
Gloria Swanson, the shy little girl from Chicago who began learning about the movies when the movies were still learning about themselves and went on to become a one-woman constellation in the Hollywood skies of the 1920s, died early Monday in her sleep in New York Hospital.
April 5, 1983
Costly excess and a rarely shown gem mark Joseph Kennedy’s tryst with Gloria Swanson.
Oct. 28, 2007
Entertainment & Arts
Clara Bow, Mae Murray and Gloria Swanson were screen sirens
July 16, 2012
Business
Gloria Somborn Daly, the daughter of legendary actress Gloria Swanson and restaurateur Herbert Somborn, who inherited and ran her father’s historic hat-shaped Brown Derby on Wilshire Boulevard, has died.
Dec. 20, 2000
California
County Supervisor Gloria Molina has demanded that her colleague Deane Dana stop using her name in his campaign literature, saying that he is misleading voters.
Oct. 29, 1992
The Kennedy patriarch in his Hollywood years: Maneuvering for studios, chorus girls, Gloria Swanson and laying the foundations of his family’s empire.
March 12, 2009
Last year, women and minorities cracked open the door of the all-white, all-male club known as the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
June 4, 1992