Cast: Gloria Swanson

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Gloria Swanson. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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

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

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...

Max

6.1

191 votes

6.1

191 votes

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

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

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