| GLORIA SWANSON was born in Chicago, Illinois, and educated there. While
appearing in a picture at the Essanay studio, she decided that she did so
well that they did not appreciate her, and so she left Chicago and journeyed
to Hollywood. She immediately secured work with Mack Sennett as one of his
bathing beauties. She was graduated from these comedies to the silken dramas
of Cecil deMille-gaining, perhaps, her first real fame in "Male and
Female." Miss Swanson was soon elevated to Paramount stardom. Height,
five feet, three inches; weight, 105 pounds. Dark brown hair, blue eyes. |