After almost two decades in front of the cameras, her film success waned during the 1930s. Queen Kelly (1928–29) was a box office disaster, but is remembered as a silent classic. Her sound film debut performance in 1929's The Trespasser, earned her a second Academy Award nomination. She produced and starred in the 1928 film Sadie Thompson, earning her a nomination for Best Actress at the first annual Academy Awards.
In 1925, Swanson joined United Artists as one of the film industry's pioneering women filmmakers. She also starred in critically acclaimed performances such as Zaza (1923) and Madame Sans-Gêne (1925). She continued as a successful movie star in The Affairs of Anatol (1921) and Beyond the Rocks (1922).
DeMille, including Male and Female (1919). She starred in a series of films about society, directed by Cecil B. She was eventually recruited by Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount Pictures, where she was put under contract for seven years and became a global superstar. Swanson was soon hired to work in California for Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios comedy shorts opposite Bobby Vernon. The 15-year-old Swanson was offered a brief walk-on for one film, beginning her life's career in front of the cameras. Bushman led to her aunt taking her to tour the actor's Chicago studio.
Her infatuation with Essanay Studios actor Francis X. Swanson was born in Chicago and raised in a military family that moved from base to base. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 return in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which also earned her a Golden Globe Award. Gloria May Josephine Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress and producer.
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