Word: swansons
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...worst, brilliantly told by Hollywood at its best. A daring film by ordinary movie standards, it is the last collaborative fling by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder at a specialty they have made their own: playing hob with convention and getting away with it. It also brings Actress Gloria Swanson back to the screen, after a nine-year absence, in a performance that puts her right up in the running for the first Oscar of her 37-year career...
Second City, natural home of one-term Jane and Al Capone Donahue (Phil) and Banks (Ernie) Clarence Darrow, big attorney Mayor Daley, William Paley The Trib's McCormick, Ebony's Johnson Kup and Hef and Gloria Swanson City that works! No social strife! And at least one man who danced with his wife...
DIED. Gloria Swanson, 84, quintessential symbol of movie glamour for seven decades; of heart disease; in New York City. Early on, Swanson said, "I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody, from the studio gateman to the highest executive, will know it." Even when she was in eclipse, everybody did. She got her Hollywood start in Mack Sennett comedies, followed by a series of naughty sex farces. Ambitious for more varied roles, Swanson formed a production company in 1927, which numbered among its backers Joseph P. Kennedy (with whom she claimed to have had an affair...
HOSPITALIZED. Gloria Swanson, 84, legendary film star (Sunset Boulevard) who credits her longevity and ageless glamour to a diet of spring water and vegetables; for an undisclosed illness; in New York City...
...expect it to reap sales of $25 billion by the year 2000. One of the most encouraging signs is the quick action by the FDA, which licensed Humulin after just five months of testing, one of the quickest approvals in the agency's history. Genentech President Robert Swanson said last week that his company expects to market a number of other new products in the next few years, including an agent that dissolves blood clots and could be useful in treating heart patients, and a human growth hormone that has successfully been tested for more than a year...