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Writing in This Week, Michelle Farmer, 18, daughter of Silent Cinesiren Gloria Swanson (see CINEMA), explained that she had learned a lot about the opposite sex from her multimarried mama, but was up against some fierce competition: "I must admit that I had better luck with the older gentlemen who came to call on Mother than with the younger ones who came to pick me up. The younger men stood glued to the floor staring at Mother until it was time...
...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...
...creditors, ducks his car up a Sunset Boulevard driveway and blunders into an eerie survival of an extinct world. In the moldering, overgrown grounds he finds a mausoleum-like Hollywood mansion, circa 1921, intact to the last monstrous detail. It is inhabited by two living relics: Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), a great star of the silent movies, still wealthy, with an arrogant grandeur once rooted in fame and now propped by delusion; Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim), once a great director (which Von Stroheim was), now her devoted servant and the dedicated guardian of her self-centered daydream...
...Gloria Swanson, in a role which, at first blush, seems to hew ticklishly close to her own lifeline, gets a chance to mimic a parasol-twirling Mack Sennett bathing beauty, to impersonate Charlie Chaplin (as she did in 1924's Manhandled) and to burst into dazzling emotional pyrotechnics. It is as juicy a part as any actress could hope for, and Actress Swanson squeezes the last drop from...
...year-old grandmother, Gloria Swanson has made 63 movies, five marriages (all ended in divorce) and even two or three comebacks. She has also made-and lost, through wild extravagance and woolly business deals-several million dollars; she says she has lost track of just how many. She looks younger than her years, is still energetic enough to have taken on a three-month tour of 30 cities as advance agent for Sunset Boulevard. She insists, with justice (but probably in vain): "It is not the story of my life...