Oral history interview with Gloria Swanson, 1958

Biographical Note

Actress

Scope and Contents

Start in motion pictures at Essanay, Chicago, 1913; Mack Sennett and the Keystone Comedies; Cecil B. De Mille; the transition to sound; views on raising children; comments on films; Edmund Goulding. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Acting.
• Actresses--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Swanson, Gloria, 1897-1983--Interviews.