Swanson on Swanson, Signed
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[Signed] Swanson, Gloria. Swanson on Swanson. First English Edition. Book is in very good minus condition; dust jacket is in very good condition. Dust jacket illustration by René Bouché. Book is signed on the title page, “Gloria Swanson.”
Near the end of her career, Swanson played herself in Airport 75, one of those disaster films that were all the rage in the mid-1970s. In it, she frantically attempts to finish her life story before the jet she is on crashes. Unfortunately, for the Kennedys, there was no midair mishap to derail Swanson’s actual memoir. This book was a sensation when it was published. She met just about everyone and had been everywhere. She tells all and names names. Her story takes hold in Hollywood, lands in England for a marriage into the minor nobility, makes a stopover in Boston for a scandalous affair with Joe Kennedy returns to Hollywood for a memorable drive down Sunset Boulevard.
“I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book.”
--Gloria Swanson
Near the end of her career, Swanson played herself in Airport 75, one of those disaster films that were all the rage in the mid-1970s. In it, she frantically attempts to finish her life story before the jet she is on crashes. Unfortunately, for the Kennedys, there was no midair mishap to derail Swanson’s actual memoir. This book was a sensation when it was published. She met just about everyone and had been everywhere. She tells all and names names. Her story takes hold in Hollywood, lands in England for a marriage into the minor nobility, makes a stopover in Boston for a scandalous affair with Joe Kennedy returns to Hollywood for a memorable drive down Sunset Boulevard.
“I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book.”
--Gloria Swanson
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