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...there is any department for which this motion picture may take honors, it is the acting of Gloria Swanson. She plays the part of a forgotten silent screen star whose desire to regain her former glory drives her insane. Although the script requires Miss Swanson to overdo a part which by its very nature demands overacting, her portrayal is excellent...
Sunset Boulevard. How a faded movie star (Gloria Swanson) attempts a comeback with the help of her kept man (William Holden); a sardonic commentary on Hollywood manners & morals (TIME...
Sunset Boulevard. How a faded movie star (Gloria Swanson) attempts a comeback with the help of her kept man (William Holden); a sardonic commentary on Hollywood manners & morals (TIME...
When mild-mannered Gregory Swanson, a 24-year-old Negro attorney from Martinsville, Va., tried to register as a graduate student in the University of Virginia's law school, the university said no. Officials explained that the Virginia constitution forbids it, ignored the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that Negroes must be admitted to white colleges when there are no equal facilities for Negroes. Attorney Swanson went to court...
...Charlottesville last week, a three-judge federal court decided that since Swanson could not find law courses in the State's Negro college, Virginia must admit him. University officials planned no appeal. Attorney Gregory Swanson will be the first Negro to enter the University of Virginia since Thomas Jefferson founded it 125 years...