Acting
Gloria Swanson
- Titles
- 93movies23TV shows
- Career
Active from 1914 to 1974, with a break from 1957 to 1969, busiest in 1915 and 1918 with 8 main titles each.
- Leading roles
- 64top three billing
- Average score
62/100
- Highest rated
Sunset Boulevard83/100
What stands out
Compared with the average well-known movie, over 19 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.
- Historical8.0average 2.6
- Nostalgia7.3average 3.6
- Romance6.2average 3.8
- Class & Capitalism4.5average 3.3
- Wit & Wordplay4.4average 3.7
- Situational Comedy3.3average 2.7
- Pathos5.9average 5.2
- Wholesome3.9average 3.3
Rarely in their work
- Contemporary Realism2.5, average 5.2
- Violence1.8, average 4.3
- Adrenaline2.8, average 5.1
- Scare1.0, average 2.6
Main genres
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Recurring tags
- Social Commentary 4
- Silent Film Era 3
- Classic Cinema 3
- Romantic Drama 3
- Silent Film 2
- Historical Drama 2
- Early Cinema 2
- Character Study 2
- Marital Drama 2
- Social Satire 2
- Silent Era Drama 2
- Showbiz Aspirations 2
Works often with
People in at least two of their main titles.
Sam WoodDirectorBluebeard's 8th Wife, Her Husband’s Trademark, Beyond the Rocks, The Impossible Mrs. Bellew, My American Wife, +5 more
Bobby VernonActorWhose Baby?, Teddy at the Throttle, A Dash of Courage, The Danger Girl, The Sultan's Wife, +4 more
Allan DwanDirectorManhandled, Zaza, The Coast of Folly, What a Widow!, A Society Scandal, +3 more- CClarence G. BadgerDirectorWhose Baby?, Teddy at the Throttle, The Danger Girl, The Sultan's Wife, Haystacks and Steeples, +3 more
Theodore RobertsActorThe Affairs of Anatol, For Better, for Worse, Something to Think About, Male and Female, Don't Change Your Husband, +1 more
Cecil B. DeMilleDirectorThe Affairs of Anatol, For Better, for Worse, Why Change Your Wife?, Something to Think About, Male and Female, +1 more- FForrest HalseyWriterThe Coast of Folly, A Society Scandal, The Humming Bird, Madame Sans-Gêne, Wages of Virtue, +1 more
Elliott DexterActorThe Affairs of Anatol, For Better, for Worse, Something to Think About, Don't Change Your Husband, Don't Tell Everything
Sylvia AshtonActorFor Better, for Worse, Queen Kelly, Why Change Your Wife?, Don't Change Your Husband, The Nick of Time Baby
Wallace BeeryActorTeddy at the Throttle, A Dash of Courage, Hearts and Sparks, Sweedie Goes to College, The Broken Pledge
Julia FayeActorSomething to Think About, Male and Female, Don't Change Your Husband, The Great Moment
Helen DunbarActorBeyond the Rocks, Fine Manners, The Misjudged Mr. Hartley, The Great Moment
Movies and TV shows
882020s
1 title
as Norma Desmond (archive footage)
2000s
1 title · average score 77
77
as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd (archive footage)
1970s
4 titles · average score 51
45
as Madame Maria von Bohlen
57
as Gloria Swanson
as Narrator
as Sef (archive footage)
1960s
7 titles · average score 67
67
TV show · as Miss Lily Boles / Venus Hekate Walsh
65
TV show · as Mrs. Charlotte Heaton
81
TV show · as Mrs. Daniels
62
TV show · as Julia Colton
63
TV show · as Victoria Hoffman
TV show · as Lorraine Carrington
as edited from 'Teddy at the Throttle' (archive footage)
1950s
3 titles · average score 69
55
as Agrippina
as Ann Haven
83
as Norma Desmond
1940s
4 titles · average score 61
as (archive footage)
as Miss Gloria
as (archive footage)
61
as Leslie Collier Osborne
1930s
8 titles · average score 60
54
as Frieda Hotzfelt
58
as Judy Rogers
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
67
as Kitty Kelly / Queen Kelly
63
as Nella Vago
61
as Geraldine 'Gerry' Trent
as (archive footage)
as Tamarind Brook
1920s
28 titles · average score 65
69
as Sadie Thompson
67
as Sunya Ashling
68
as Orchid Murphy
as Catherina Hubscher
66
as Tessie McGuire
as Marjorie Colbert
64
as Zaza
as Mona deBriac
64
as Theodora Fitzgerald
61
as Vivian Spencer (Anatol's wife)
63
as Beth Gordon
61
as Ruth Anderson
1910s
32 titles · average score 61
66
as Lady Mary Lasenby
66
as Leila Porter
61
as Sylvia Norcross
57
as Marcia Grey
as Kitty Manning
as Patricia Reynolds
as Edith Emerson
as Phylis Clyne
64
as Gloria Dawn
as Gloria
55
as The Danger Girl - Reggie's Madcap Sister
as The Prominent Citizen