Word: gloria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gloria Vanderbilt, of the up-again-down-again hairdo, did a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't turn as a magician's volunteer helper in a Manhattan nightclub before she left for California...
Into Manhattan's plushy La Rue restaurant went the ex-Countess Margot de la Falaise (exwife of Count Alain, brother of Marquis Henri, ex of Gloria Swanson. Constance Bennett), together with Dukie, her bulldog, Paul O. Buckley, her husband of three days, and four friends. Because Dukie was charged $3 for a dinner which she thought he didn't get, she slapped the proprietor's face and everybody ended up in Night Court. ∙∙Tobacco Road's longtime Jeeter Lester, James Barton, was arrested by the S.P.C.A. charged with letting nine of his dogs live...
...Father Takes a Wife" is certainly the lesser half of the double bill qualitatively and qualitatively. For some strange reason. Gloria Swanson has been restored to the screen, but she should stood where...
Father Takes a Wife (RKO Radio) is tailored to measure for almond-eyed Gloria Swanson, making her reappearance on the screen after seven years. A sophisticated comedy with enough snap in its dialogue and situations to earn a passing grade, it demands only a minimum performance from the hard-eyed, prognathous beauty who was once queen of the silent movies...
...enter London and Paris society, which found her "less like an actress and more like a lady than you could imagine." Legend has it that Miss Swanson prefaced her triumphal return to Hollywood with the Marquis by telegraphing Paramount: "Am arriving with the Marquis tomorrow. Please arrange ovation." Gloria Swanson, single once again after her four marriages, has a busy and original mind, a reserved and dignified manner, and a vast store of kinetic energy. She has one eye on the potentialities of her younger daughter, Michelle-Bridgit, 9. Of her Gloria Swanson has said...