Who doesn't adore Gloria Swanson? From her earliest days in silents, to later years on TV, she was always larger than life...dripping with jewels and furs...oozing with glamour! Did you know she possesses not one, but two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? I snapped the television one, as well as her hand and footprints in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
According to Annette Tapert's book, The Power of Glamour, at the top of her career, Gloria lived a lavish lifestyle in a twenty-two room mansion where...She performed her daily toilette in a black marble bathroom with a golden tub...she was chauffered about in a leopard-upholstered Lancia.
Apparently, once silent pictures made way for talkies, everyone was surprised to find that Gloria also had a lovely singing voice! In this extremely cute clip from the 1933 film, A Perfect Understanding, she's making her move on a dashing young Laurence Olivier, and although she's lip-sync-ing here, Gloria actually did make the recording of this tune, "I Love You So Much I Hate You". Enjoy! xo
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