The Sun Never Really Set on Gloria Swanson
‘I have decided that when I become a star, I will be every inch and every moment a star.’ Hers was an exhausting ambition, and yet Swanson never swerved from the demands of stardom.
‘Gloria Swanson: Hollywood’s First Glamour Queen’
By Stephen Michael Shearer
Lyons Press, 476 Pages
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 public and social life reflected all the glamour and mystique that so mesmerized and fascinated the average American moviegoer.”
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