Cast: Gloria Swanson
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Gloria Swanson. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 42
Sunset Boulevard
1950 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Billy Wilder
Cast William Holden · Gloria Swanson · Erich von Stroheim · Nancy Olson
Synopsis Sunset Boulevard (1950) follows struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis, who stumbles into the decaying mansion of faded silent film star Norma Desmond. Desperate for work, Joe agrees to help Norma revise her script for a comeback, becoming entangled in her delusions...
8.5
45K votes
8.5
45K votes
Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film (TV Miniseries)
1980 · Documentary · 636 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Kevin Brownlow · David Gill
Cast James Mason · Viola Dana · Byron Haskin · Colleen Moore
Synopsis The definitive documentary about the American silent film industry.
7.7
41 votes
7.7
41 votes
Queen Kelly
1929 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Erich von Stroheim
Cast Gloria Swanson · Walter Byron · Seena Owen · Wilhelm von Brincken
Synopsis Prince Wolfram is the betrothed of mad Queen Regina V of Kronberg. Supreme ruler, her word is law and he is a playboy. On maneuvers as punishment for partying with other women, he sees Kelly walking the the other students...
7.5
841 votes
7.5
841 votes
Billy Wilder Speaks
2006 · Documentary · 71 min. · United States
Direction Volker Schlöndorff · Gisela Grischow
Cast Billy Wilder · Jean Arthur · Humphrey Bogart · James Cagney
Synopsis Billy Wilder discusses his life and films in interviews filmed by Volker Schlondorff over two weeks in 1988.
6.9
615 votes
6.9
615 votes
Sadie Thompson
1928 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Gloria Swanson · Lionel Barrymore · Raoul Walsh · Blanche Friderici
Synopsis Sadie Thompson arrives in Pago-Pago to start a new life, but when extremist missionary Davidson lashes out against her lifestyle and tries to force her back to San Francisco, she may lose her second chance.
6.8
162 votes
6.8
162 votes
Manhandled
1924 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Gloria Swanson · Tom Moore · Lilyan Tashman · Ian Keith
Synopsis When her boyfriend, Jimmy, forgets a date, Tessie McGuire, a department store clerk, attends a party at the studio of Robert Brandt where she makes a hit with impersonations...
6.5
25 votes
6.5
25 votes
The Affairs of Anatol
1921 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Wallace Reid · Gloria Swanson · Wanda Hawley · Theodore Roberts
6.5
27 votes
6.5
27 votes
Stage Struck
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Gloria Swanson · Lawrence Gray · Gertrude Astor · Oliver Sandys
Synopsis Gloria Swanson comedy about a hapless waitress (Swanson) who'll do anything to catch the eye of handsome wheat-cake flipper (Lawrence Gray), who calls her "Mouse."
6.4
34 votes
6.4
34 votes
Male and Female
1919 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Gloria Swanson · Lila Lee · Theodore Roberts · Raymond Hatton
Synopsis Gloria Swanson plays a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.
6.3
87 votes
6.3
87 votes
Beyond the Rocks
1922 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Rudolph Valentino · Gloria Swanson · Edythe Chapman · Raymond Blathwayt
Synopsis Love, duty, and the scent of narcissus. Theodora, a young and penniless aristocrat, marries a much older man, self-made millionaire grocer Josiah Brown, so that her father and spinster sisters can live comfortably. Soon after the wedding, she finds herself...
6.3
61 votes
6.3
61 votes
Don't Change Your Husband
1919 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Elliott Dexter · Gloria Swanson · Lew Cody · Sylvia Ashton
Synopsis Leila porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.
6.2
44 votes
6.2
44 votes
Tonight or Never
1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Gloria Swanson · Melvyn Douglas · Robert Greig · Ferdinand Gottschalk
Synopsis Sexy Gloria Swanson (adorned in an array of stunning Coco Chanel gowns) stars in this romantic comedy as Nella Vago, a Hungarian opera diva whose singing coach insists that her performances lack passion, a situation that can be rectified only...
6.1
191 votes
6.1
191 votes
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (TV)
1995 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Workman
Cast Peter Coyote · Robert Altman · Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Fred Astaire
Synopsis Documentary based on the first anniversary of the most important exporter of films in the world as it is Hollywood, this story is told by actors and actresses as well as writers and other people who made life in this...
6.0
26 votes
6.0
26 votes
Why Change Your Wife?
1920 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Gloria Swanson · Thomas Meighan · Bebe Daniels · Theodore Kosloff
6.0
44 votes
6.0
44 votes
His New Job
1915 · Movie · 32 min. · United States
Direction Charles Chaplin
Cast Charles Chaplin · Ben Turpin · Charlotte Mineau · Leo White
Synopsis Charlie is trying to get a job in a movie. After causing difficulty on the set he is told to help the carpenter. When one of the actors doesn't show, Charlie is given a chance to act but instead enters...
5.8
343 votes
5.8
343 votes
Indiscreet
1931 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Leo McCarey
Cast Gloria Swanson · Ben Lyon · Monroe Owsley · Barbara Kent
Synopsis On New Year's Eve, Geraldine ('Jerry') Trent decides to break up with her boyfriend Jim Woodward, having finally grown tired of his dishonesty and his infidelities. Soon afterward, Geraldine meets and falls in love with novelist Anthony Blake. Blake knows...
5.6
59 votes
5.6
59 votes
Nero's Big Weekend
1956 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy
Direction Steno
Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio De Sica · Gloria Swanson · Brigitte Bardot
Synopsis Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero...
5.3
79 votes
5.3
79 votes
Airport '75
1974 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Jack Smight
Cast Charlton Heston · Karen Black · George Kennedy · Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
5.1
2K votes
5.1
2K votes
Killer Bees (TV)
1974 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Curtis Harrington
Cast Edward Albert · Kate Jackson · Gloria Swanson · Roger Davis
Synopsis A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard.
4.6
35 votes
4.6
35 votes
A Social Cub (S)
1916 · Movie · 20 min. · United States
Direction Clarence G. Badger
Cast Bobby Vernon · Gloria Swanson · Elizabeth De Witt · Reggie Morris
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