Gloria Swanson interview when she was 81

Remarkable woman. Thanks OP. Barbara was a bit of a bitch in this interview.

Here's one from the Merv Griffin Show when she was almost 80.

Wasn't she into some kinds of alternative health therapies or something and attributed her vitality to this or am I confusing her with someone else ?

I think Gloria claimed she cured herself of cancer or some bull-shit.

Gloria in her younger years .Quite beautiful although I think Garbo has the edge over her beauty wise aesthetically .

She helped Dirk Benedict beat early prostate cancer with instruction on a macrobiotic diet.

Lovely lady and she took great care of herself, I read her book. I've seen pictures of her old and her skin was very firm with a lovely glow. No weird disfiguring plastic surgery like now.

The classic Steichen photograph.......

Another even more fabulous Steichen........

[quote]Gloria in her younger years .Quite beautiful although I think Garbo has the edge over her beauty wise aesthetically

But she had that something something that all great stars do. Such a talent, too.

I wonder what she would have said if someone told her she’d still be talked about in 2018?

Aesthetics are subjective and subject to change r4. This was a wonderful coffee table book.

[quote] Wasn't she into some kinds of alternative health therapies or something and attributed her vitality to this or am I confusing her with someone else ?

Yes, that's Gloria. She was a vegan although I don't believe she applied the term to herself as it was health reasons, not animal rights. She also touted a book calles Sugar Blues (I forget the author) and credits it with influencing her to cut all refined sugar out of her diet. In the interview I beleive she says she eats only "whole natural foods," which is similar to what people today call the "whole food plant based" diet (which is a vegan diet that ALSO eliminates oil and processed/refined foods). Gloria was definitely ahead of her time.

Sugar Blues was written by her husband at the time, William Dufty.

C'mon girls, we're goin' to Saks!!!

Look for the Swanson label......

Right after we shave R13.

Oh, let's do make sure to stop by the cosmetics counter while we're there.

Gloria on "America's Gayest Game"

At the 15:56 mark

Gloria recommends adding carnations to your diet!

I always thought she was hideous with the pointy chin and nose. She could have been the witch in Oz with minimal makeup. Yeah, I liked Sunset Boulevard.

The author of [italic]Sugar Blues[/italic] was her husband, William Dufty, who credits her with telling him sugar is a poison. Dufty wrote to her after he went from 205 lbs to 135 lbs, detoxing from sugar.

I have a copy of [italic]Sugar Blues[/italic] in front of me (scanned, unfortunately, so I can't do a word search), but as I skim I see an emphasis on Asian vegetables, Japanese sea vegetables, sprouting, and fermenting with a crock. Interesting about the book: there's a chapter on cigarettes, and although the Japanese, Chinese, and French love to smoke, they have lower rates of lung cancer because their tobacco doesn't have as much sugar (maybe not as much cyanide and arsenic too).

Tasteful friends...what are our thoughts on the estate given to Miss Swanson by Joe Kennedy at the height of their very public affair?

Isn't anyone going to post the famous photo of her in front of the rubble of the old Roxy Theater that was the inspiration for Follies??

I saw her in the national tour of Butterflies Are Free when I was in college back in the early 1970s. She was unforgettably glamorous and wonderful and, of course, completely eclipsed the 2 younger actors who were actually the leads.

For R23

Gloria trods the Broadway boards with Dirk Benedict.

Glo must have been a hell of a lay R22

There needs to be a biopic of ol' Joe Kennedy. His obsessions influenced so much of the 20th century.

I remember Gloria as a kid in the 70s from seeing her popping up on the Carol Burnett Show and other things on TV. I wonder who ended up with her Le Creuset as she is seen cooking in in the Baba Wawa video. That shit lasts forever.

I don't remember where I read, or heard, someone commenting on her ageless appearance in her later years (may have been Carol Burnett). Gloria had laugh lines, but no wrinkles.

She definitely was a star for the ages, and got so much better with the years!

I want that table book!

R18, I have always been puzzled by the What's My Line episode in which Gloria Swanson appears. At the 20:38 mark (after the unmasking), a model walks out from backstage wearing a Scaparelli suit that is being given to Swanson. I have never seen such a "presentation" in any other episode of What's My Line. What was this all about? Did Swanson demand this in exchange for her appearance on the show?

Miss Swanson sings to Mr. Olivier......

Did you hear that excerpt Barbara read from a letter Eunice Shriver wrote to 20/20? I don't think it's possible to be any more vile.

William Dufty was also the ghost writer of Billie Holiday's autobiography Lady Sings the Blues.

Hey Eunice, I'd rather read Gloria Swanson's autobiography than your rat-faced mother's. You know, the one who allowed your crooked, Nazi-sympathizer father to have your sister lobotomized? I hope you, Joe, and Rose are all roasting in hell.

She was one of the great silent film stars. And she was robbed of an Oscar for "Sunset Boulevard."

Her or Davis should've won for sure.

[quote] Did you hear that excerpt Barbara read from a letter Eunice Shriver wrote to 20/20? I don't think it's possible to be any more vile.

What did it say?

Barbara Walters reads it at the end of the 20/20 interview.