Church of the Heavenly Rest
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The Church of the Heavenly Rest is an Episcopal church located on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 90th Street, opposite Central Park and the Carnegie Mansion, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New
Church of the Heavenly Rest
45th Street in the 1890s
Gloria Swanson
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Gloria Mae Josephine Swanson was an American actress. 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 f
Church of the Heavenly Rest
…commonly sung. The funeral of Chester A. Arthur, former President of the United States, was held at the church in 1886, and the ashes of the actress Gloria Swanson were interred there in 1983. The following have served as Rectors of the Church of the Heavenly Rest…
Gloria Swanson in a publicity photo for Male and Female (1919) by Karl Struss
Bobby Vernon with Swanson and Teddy the Dog in Teddy at the Throttle (1917)
Swanson photographed by Alfred Cheney Johnston (1919)
Swanson in a production still for Why Change Your Wife? (1920)