“It was Gloria Swanson, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner. Then for the guys, Gary Cooper and Fred Astaire,” Bebe says. She embraced the theme in a gold Jenny Packham gown, while Wei wore a custom ...

I love it when you're out in public and people start quoting movies. It shows the indelible impact of what we do in entertainment and how much we can connect with the general public. But what's even ...

Sunset Boulevard is directed by Billy Wilder and stars William Holden as Joe Gillis and Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a silent film star struggling to reclaim her past fame as Hollywood moves on.

If you’ve seen the black-and-white film and Gloria Swanson’s hyper-dramatic performance as Norma Desmond, you’ll feel a sense of déjà vu watching Anna Sandor’s “Knock Loudly,” a play ...

“You know, on a summer’s night, maybe more like a spring night, you could drive to certain places and if you smell that night-blooming jasmine, you can almost see Clark Gable or Gloria Swanson.

The House G.O.P.’s Trump-backed “One Big Beautiful Bill” makes a reckless three-trillion-dollar gamble with America’s creditworthiness. Andrew DeYoung, the writer-director of the cringe ...

This sumptuous illustrated biography, weighing in at more than four pounds, begins: “Gloria Swanson was a great motion picture star. Her pictures for Paramount in the 1920s made millions, and her ...

Holliday’s performance as the sharp-witted Billie Dawn earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1951, beating Hollywood legends Bette Davis and Gloria Swanson in one of the most ...

soon this beloved playground will have a series of drinking and dining experiences that hark back to the days when Gloria Swanson held court in the bungalows following one of her divorces and Will ...

More surprising, however, was that Gloria Swanson did not win best actress for playing Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, a towering portrayal of a silent film star who Hollywood has passed by and ...

When it comes to classic movie quotes, 1937's Gone with the Wind ... those who have not seen the 1950 drama may not realize that Gloria Swanson's Norma Desmond says this at the peak of her deluded ...

Gloria Swanson might have been a pioneer within the film industry, as the star of the film Sunset Boulevard (which inspired the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical) among many other credits, but it wasn ...