Gloria Swanson Movies

A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.

A young woman is used as a pawn to entice Count Jean de Lugnan into a game of ruritanian political intrigue.

Daydreaming waitress Jennie Hagen fantasizes about becoming a famous actress, while in reality she and her cook boyfriend, Orme Wilson, hope to one...

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo...

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.

An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and...

A carnival strongman and his girlfriend flee to Algiers to escape a murder charge but there they are caught again in a web of jealousy, deceit and...

On seaside holiday, Nero, Poppea, Seneca and their friends and family prepare a great show where Nero will star. When his mother Agrippina arrives...

When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.

A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.

The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.

After beginning their train trip to California, a famous film actress and her daughter discover their compartment has also been assigned to a...

Bobby Vernon is fooled into a mock bigamist gag and chaos assures.

Produced as either an internal studio record or for promotional purposes, this raw footage shows Cecil B. DeMille on the set of The Affairs of Anatol...

Dangers of a Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence Badger and Bobby Vernon starring Gloria Swanson.

Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed...

Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with...

Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at...

A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives...