Yet Norma Talmadge is barely remembered today ... Enthusiastically interpreted by Gloria Swanson, Talmadge’s rival in the 1920s, the Desmond character draws on Talmadge’s reclusiveness ...

In a 1957 interview with reporter Mike Wallace, Hollywood legend Gloria Swanson, 58 ... after her best-known role as fading actress Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, Gloria smiles calmly.

In those days of the twenties, when Gloria Swanson was swinging high, the Talmadge sisters, Norma and Constance, were important too. Constance developed into a deft and fluttering comedienne ...

In her iconic comeback role as has-been Norma Desmond in 1950’s Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson raves, “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.” Throughout Swanson on Swanson ...

After nearly two decades away from the silver screen, Gloria Swanson agreed to play a Hollywood ... It’s rumored that Greta Garbo declined the role of Norma Desmond in 1950’s Sunset Boulevard ...

So says Norma Desmond, the forgotten silent-movie queen at the center of “Sunset Boulevard.” Desmond is written as an inconceivably ancient fifty—the age of Gloria Swanson, the actress who ...

Screen icon Gloria Swanson ... faded movie legend Norma Desmond in 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard, who insists she is still "big" but it was "the pictures that got small", Swanson - all 4ft ...

But few people then, or even now, are aware of a much earlier attempt to bring the classic film to the stage—by Gloria ... how Swanson, five years after her star turn as Norma Desmond in the ...

BIG NIGHT On March 29, 1951, Oscar nominees Gloria Swanson (“Sunset Boulevard ... the crazed former silent movie star and murderess Norma Desmond emoting Gothically as she says, “All ...