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
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)
Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometime actor, and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two lead
Gloria Swanson
…Love of Sunya and Sadie Thompson to Art Cinema Corporation. Kennedy then created the position of "European director of Pathé" to put her third husband Henry de La Falaise on the payroll. Sound films were already becoming popular with audiences, most notably the films of singer Al Jolson, who had success with The Jazz…