Gloria Swanson, even as a senior citizen, was every bit a movie star, glamorous and engaging. One of the best.

I didn't think I'd like Gloria Swanson, but after hearing this interview, I do. Rest in peace.

@sbstanf16

3 ай бұрын

Same! I always heard that she was so dramatic and weird but after hearing this, I think she seemed lovely.

She had a very young voice for someone who was 72. It doesn’t surprise me that she didn’t smoke. Compare her voice to that of any actress of her generation when they smoked like chimneys. BTW, I LOVE that she said her age so nonchalant. She wasn’t asked. She just threw it out there as an incidental detail in the middle of relating an anecdote.

@CanadianMonarchist

Жыл бұрын

She smoked for many years, but she certainly has a lovely speaking voice.

@robertgarcia3031

18 күн бұрын

She used to smoke.

WoW! She was over 70 back then and she looked stunning!

@RONALD511

4 жыл бұрын

BONES CRACKING saggy skin...yuck

@alteredbeast7145

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I second that. Ew

@joniheisenberg6691

3 жыл бұрын

@@RONALD511 Let’s see how you hold up. Getting old is not for sissies.

@sabbracadabra8367

3 жыл бұрын

Her voice is nice too. Usually it gets croaky as you get older. I think the vocal fry generation are going to sound terrible XD

@Susieq26754

2 жыл бұрын

She ate healthy and got her beauty sleep.

She was true to herself . I respect that very much.

@hyacinthlynch843

3 жыл бұрын

A free spirit in every sense of the word.

@ScribblebytesWorldwide

Жыл бұрын

@@hyacinthlynch843 More than you'll ever know 😉

Cavett did his homework, read folks’ books and viewed their films, and showed a genuine interest in his guests.... These were some of the first and last times that the then-adult Baby Boomers were afforded the opportunities of enjoying deep-if all-too-brief-interviews of icons of early-Twentieth-Century Western popular cultural history.... He was a fan, and treated them with enlightened indulgence, and delightfully blended chattiness and gravitas....

@marytheresejacksonlutz2533

Жыл бұрын

Cavett was one of my dad’s favorite interviewers. He was the best.

@sheilamacdougal4874

Жыл бұрын

He is intolerably annoying. Stupid attempts at wit and never a good question.

@Warp75

4 ай бұрын

The art of a decent conversation left the building a long time ago.

Love watching this show while at home in quarantine.

@scotnick59

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly feel the same way!

@aAsShHtTo0nN

3 жыл бұрын

Love watching this show after work during the endless pandemic

@thomase13

24 күн бұрын

@@aAsShHtTo0nNSame!

She was also one of the first stars to challenge the Hays Code by producing the banned 'Sadie Thompson' in 1928. She was the first major Hollywood star to marry European royalty and, after her movie career appeared to have faded she made a remarkable comeback in an Oscar-nominated performance as Norma Desmond in the classic 'Sunset Boulevard' in 1950. For the latter part of her career Gloria remained in the public eye with successful appearances on Broadway and television. died of heart attack 1983. Net Worth 5 million.

@marlisamorgan2

2 жыл бұрын

She was DEFINITELY one of, if not, THE great one!! Highly respect her for everything she did and being true to herself the entire time!! 🙏🙌👏♥️💙

@hellbooks3024

Жыл бұрын

The Hays Code was instituted in 1934.

@randysills4418

Жыл бұрын

Hays was involved in a push for censorship shortly after the Fatty Arbuckle debacle in 1922 or 23. She discusses it in her autobiography...

@garymattscheck9066

11 ай бұрын

The Production Code was enforced in 1934.

@lynntownsend4457

4 ай бұрын

She was very interesting and invested in health foods made a small fortune and married a younger man...author of Sugar Blues

She was so incredibly honest. Still love her in Sunset Boulevard. Need to see more of her movie career. Dick gives great interviews

She didn't walk out on Lenny Bruce; she walked out on the play Lenny, based on the life and death of the comedian.

Swanson’s much more charming than I envisioned she would be and I’ve never seen Dick speak less in an interview.

Loved Cavett and never missed his. Interviews.

Old school class! I love her

Love Gloria...so sharp, friendly and classy!!!

I can only imagine what she’d think of today’s society and celebrities. They had so much class back then

@pouriaschunder3373

3 жыл бұрын

I couldn’t agree with you more. Today’s Celebrities are in decline of class big time!

@sharksport01

2 жыл бұрын

She would adjust and fit right in.

@JulioLeonFandinho

2 жыл бұрын

watch Sunset Boulevard and stop that cheap stereotypical crap

@ScribblebytesWorldwide

Жыл бұрын

I'm not impressed but I'm learning to understand them.

@ScribblebytesWorldwide

Жыл бұрын

@@sharksport01 I am who I am. I would never do anything to "fit in"; but there's a time and place for everything so I do adjust when necessary.

What a lovely woman... I LOVE these interviews of actors & actresses from the silver screen!

@piamadison5539

4 жыл бұрын

She is a man. Wise up.

@nickynghp

3 жыл бұрын

@@piamadison5539 doesn’t look remotely manly 😂

@sharksport01

2 жыл бұрын

I love her. She isnt lovely though.

@Community56sunshine

2 жыл бұрын

@@sharksport01 😂

What beautiful eyes she had!❤️

@jadezee6316

2 жыл бұрын

you obviously have never seen her in a movie....

@analauratorrespaz3345

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, you're right. I saw her in many movies😉

Fabulous. This is what TV once was. This is what the world once was.

Even for a woman of her age, she had the most beautiful alluring eyes.

she has a heart of gold

@ImnotassweetasIusedtobe

2 ай бұрын

She used to bang JFK Sr while his young son (former prez) watched.

Class all the way. And so dignified. The definition of "star"

Read Gloria's "Swanson on Swanson" - absolutely fascinating! She was the biggest star of her day.

@adriennerobinson1180

4 жыл бұрын

TRUTH INDEED AMEN

Those cuffs! OMFG! Fabulous!

@hyacinthlynch843

3 жыл бұрын

They're Bracelets. And the heart pendent is really choice as well.

@piustwelfth

2 жыл бұрын

@@hyacinthlynch843 Yes, they're called cuff bracelets. He is correct.

Amazing Lady her biography is a must - if you can purchase a copy -

At 72, Gloria Swanson shines on ... A lady with a "voice" ... Silent no more ...

Her movie w Valentino is one of my all time fav silent movies. Beyond The Rocks

There is a scene in Norman Mailer's Harlot's Ghost where a character called Kittredge, a posh intellectual, walks out on a Lenny Bruce show ~ I wonder if this is where Mailer got the idea : /

Classic golden Hollywood star

I remember she played herself in an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies. Anyway, I loved her with William Holden in Sunset Boulevard.

great actress, wonderful to hear her talk about so many subjects. Sunset

She was a vegetarian & macrobiotic diet advocate...She looks fantastic for her age,i only wish...

She didn’t eat any sugar or simple carbs and said they were poison. It certainly paid off for her.

@justynjonn

2 жыл бұрын

How did she learn about that back then or perhaps I'm naive to think that people weren't health conscious as they are today.

@pamcornelius9122

2 жыл бұрын

@@justynjonn I’m not sure how she knew so much about it, but she was such an inspiration and dietary guru that her then boyfriend, William Dufty, wrote one of the first big bestselling books on the evils of sugar in 1975 called ‘Sugar Blues’. He said following her diet advice for one year made him look and feel ten years younger.

@anti-ethniccleansing465

Жыл бұрын

@@justynjonn It was called the macrobiotic diet, which you’ll find that wikipedia predictably talks negatively about, because god forbid people eat healthy. The diet does have an odd reasoning behind it though - it comes from Japan and is based off of Buddhism and the idea of eating a balanced diet according to yin-yang. I believe it was her last husband that introduced it to her. I will say though that I’m surprised she didn’t live longer.

@marytheresejacksonlutz2533

Жыл бұрын

My mother and her sisters were all health conscious. Mom lived to be 90, one sister 88, two aunts are still living-96 and 94. Always cared about their weight and appearance

@jiovanna4136

Жыл бұрын

It didn't give her long life longevity...she died at age 84....she thought she was gonna live past 100.

I should have enjoyed seeing his show in the UK. Felt very like our Parkinson show and enjoying that lost art of conversation where one asks a reasonable question clearly and has the good grace to let the guest take the wheel and respond free of interruption. Particularly telling is Ms Swanson mesmerising him to the extent he couldn't quite focus on the sponsors break cue. 💖

@sametoyoutoo8509

2 жыл бұрын

Parkinson was dreadful

Gloria had been a guest on Cavett, along with Janis Joplin in1970, a show show shortly before Janis overdosed at age 27,

@jamessandy5873

4 жыл бұрын

Themanwhocameback2: That Joplin interview is priceless.

@masterofsparkshwy6974

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't Janis and Dick have some sort of love affair? Or was that all just rumor? I know they're really flirty whenever they were on air together, but that happens alot with talk shoe hosts.. edit : " talk shoe" haha, Ed Sullivan is apparently my spell checker....

I love her voice 😍

The swimming pool scene shot when William had been shot show great camera shot love that film

"I'm ready for my close-up Mr. DeMille."

@oilyshoes9969

4 жыл бұрын

idiot

@francisdrake6622

4 жыл бұрын

@@oilyshoes9969 We're watching you.

@indoorgangster

4 жыл бұрын

classic

Love her and William Holden in "Sunset Boulevard"! I'd love to see the interviews Dick conducted with Bill here on the channel.

@talmadge1926

9 ай бұрын

It is "Love, your magic spell is everywhere" which Gloria sang in her first talking picture "The Trespasser" in 1929.

I wish I could have seen the rest of that interview!

One thing I will never forget about her was the way she dealt with Erich von Stroheim . She called Joe Kennedy and asked him to fire Stroheim. She had her reasons but Stroheim was a genius.

What a FABULOUS dress and jewelry on this classy lady. LOVE IT!!!!

Miss Swanson was a very talented actress. Her performance in "Sunset Boulevard" was incredible. However, I find her quite hypocritical here. She had a long-term affair with the very-married Joe Kennedy Sr, (that became quite public), yet her abhorrence of the profanity in a Broadway play is quite interesting. I'm not coming from a place of judgement, it's just interesting to me how she's expressing moral outrage about "Lenny Bruce's" profanity. I suppose all I can say is "All the world's a stage..."

@vintagebrew1057

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the "Holier than thou" routine. "Saint" Loretta Young was the same (the affair with Gable resulting in a child) But I still love to hear these icons of the silver screen talk.....

Her face shines ...healthy skin ...love the golden 💛 heart ❤

@PatriciaMarie100

Жыл бұрын

Vaseline

@MapleSyrupPoet

Жыл бұрын

@@PatriciaMarie100 I see 👀 thanks ✌

She was stunningly beautiful

😂😂SHE SAID “FULL BACK “..poor thing meant WIDE BACK . She’s very classy

@piustwelfth

2 жыл бұрын

No, she was correct. In football, a "fullback" is a large running back. He's the guy who gets the ball near the goal line -- who bulldozes into the end zone.

Was that the Sunset Boulevard theme they played when she came out?

@catlover34fl

3 жыл бұрын

No, that was "Love Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere" a 1929 song from the film "The Trespasser" made the same year of 1929. It was a talkie and she sang this song in the film.

@catlover34fl

3 жыл бұрын

@AMT Growing up close to my grandmother and mother and wanting to hear about the movies, music, clothing etc from their generations. (The early 1900s and the 1920s) I remember vividly most of what they told me. It was fascinating to me! They were both beautiful especially in their youth. I have preserved gorgeous photos of them framed on my walls. Most young people don't want to know about the past, but I was very different from most of my generation. I adored my grandmother and my mother.

@catlover34fl

3 жыл бұрын

@AMT Thank you very much for your kind words of encouragement. I wish I had known someone like you when I was younger to share my interests in music, film, and theater. I will, as you say, "keep on keeping on" with writing stories, not for publication, but remembrances of growing up in the mid 20th Century. I wish you well and hope you are staying clear of the horrible pandemic going on now.

@catlover34fl

3 жыл бұрын

@AMT AUSTRALIA? We are oceans apart. Great to be sharing comments with someone from your continent. I was deeply saddened when I read of all the beautiful wildlife killed in that terrible fire you had in Australia. Koalas and Kangaroos! My love of animals goes way back. I've rescued many cats in my lifetime. They have always been grateful and loyal. Never turned on me as human beings often do. When I die, the books and essays I've written may be of interest to someone. Then again, maybe not. I have no living relatives that I know of. Some of what I've written is, shall we say, "controversial." Enjoying KZread the way I do, I've researched several countries and their customs including Australia. There is a very entertaining piano player who includes most of the great standards on his site. Michael Wollet (please correct me if I've misspelled his last name) Maybe you've heard of him. He knows how to play those keys.

@catlover34fl

3 жыл бұрын

@AMT I'm happy to read you found Mike Woollett. Thanks for letting me know. He lives near you too. WOW! How I would love to be near enough to visit him and watch him tickle those piano keys. Yes, he plays the songs from my mother's generation and they are my favorite kind of popular music, always have been. My mother and grandmother would have absolutely loved hearing him play the songs they loved and danced to in their youth. I hope you and your daughter will have a chance to see him play at least on KZread. He brings so much happiness to many people. It was good to hear from you and I wish you and your daughter happiness and peace in the coming days.

Lady ahead of time as usual

Swanson has class.

Those eyes!!

What says "welcome 2020!" better than a visit with the ageless Gloria Swanson?

A real, genuine Babe! Reminds me of my mother in law!

Beautiful woman, beautiful eyes! So much class! Something we don't see in Hollywood today!

I love her I love her movies

Now I see how attractive she is, and can imagine how she must have definitely turned heads in her time

Marquise Swanson, doncha know? Despite Dick's efforts to wheedle out why she objected to the movie " Lenny, " she remained adamant, God bless her. One person's vulgarity is another person's dinner, so to speak. She is correct in saying there's a time and place for everything.

@wellesradio

3 жыл бұрын

It wasn’t the movie. It was the Broadway play which was later adapted into the movie.

Butterflies are Free is more my cup of tea than Lenny would be for me, too.

What a woman so smart, brilliant fascinating as well

Ms. Swanson: class

"There's a time and a place for everything" says Queen Gloria.

Sunset Boulevard. My Favorite Swanson Movie…

FULL INTERVIEW PLEASE

Fascinating and stylish, classy Lady

I really wish the producers would provide the FULL INTERVIEWS. The short ones just seem disjointed, as wonderful as it is to see the guests. is it just to force in more ads. Please consider switching to full I terviews or at least I clouding a playlist of them. Thank you.

71 , she looks amazing. Gloria is absolutely b.

She seems like a fantastic lady, She is certainly channeling the Wonder Woman, Black Widow vibe...

Wonderful!

The loss of Stroheim was a tragedy for film history no matter how one feels about Gloria Swanson.

She reall was such a diminutive person. And yet such a huge star and such a great influencer. Back before the lame social media "influencers" today....

Well, to be honest -- she's talking about athletes' "morals"? The athletes of her day weren't any more moral than they are today (Babe Ruth?! Ty Cobb?! ) -- it's just that their personal lives were shielded from the public. Same thing goes for movie stars, by the way.

@anti-ethniccleansing465

Жыл бұрын

What I find interesting is when I read the backgrounds of these old golden era cinema stars, I am constantly flabbergasted at how many partners they poured through (including Gloria here)... It’s amazing how times they got divorced and remarried/had affairs/etc. This was during the days that divorces were extremely taboo/frowned upon; they were hard to get, you had to have a serious reason for requesting one, and so on. But it seems like stars were given special treatment. No joke, it’s like witnessing a miracle to find one of these stars staying married to one person for life, much less have anything less than 3 marriages lol. Mickey Rooney, for example, had eight wives. 😂 Gloria had 6 husbands (most only lasting 1-3 years or so, until her last husband that she kept for decades, all the way until her death). She had an absurd amount of hook-ups, affairs, etc.. She was with a married man for years lol. She finally realized he wasn’t going to leave his wife for her, yet said about him: _"I was never so convincingly and thoroughly loved as I was by Herbert Marshall."_ 🤪 She was so scandalous in fact that when it was exposed she had cheated on a husband with at least 13 men, her studio inserted a morality clause into her contract! She had multiple abortions (the first of which she claimed to have been tricked into by her husband). Lastly, while she was married, Gloria had a lengthy affair with the married Joseph P. Kennedy, father of future President John F. Kennedy! He became her business partner and their relationship was an open secret in Hollywood. He bizarrely took over all of her personal and business affairs and was supposed to make her millions. Kennedy left her after the disastrous _Queen Kelly._ In short, she really has no business talking about morals imo. Lol.

She was making some great points.

She is great:)

great star

She looks younger than she did as Norma Desmond in the early 50s!

Love her!!

Her gigantic copper heart is driving me crazy. I want it...

She clearly was not a big fan of Fosse’s later work. Such an icon of both the silent and early sound ages of sound ❤

Her healthy living meant she actually looked better as she got older and always had those beautiful eyes

She was over 70 here and sharp as a tack. I love smart women.

Does anyone know what he did specifically to make her walk out?

@chadlewis2293

3 жыл бұрын

I'd like to know.

@wellesradio

3 жыл бұрын

It was the Broadway play. It wasn’t actually Lenny Bruce. Lenny died five years before this. So it probably wasn’t anything anyone “did”, but rather the jokes being told. The play was later turn led into a movie directed by Bob Fosse. The movie… it’s ok. Some will love it. Some will hate it. Kinda like Lenny himself, which is ironic because Dustin Hoffman doesn’t accurately portray Lenny Bruce at all.

@anti-ethniccleansing465

Жыл бұрын

@@wellesradio He was a subversive BageI who got his just desserts by dying at age 40 from shooting up so much dope he OD’d. It wasn’t soon enough though. Good riddance to him!

I am ready for my close up Mr Cavett..

Gorgeous

@joshlewis575

4 жыл бұрын

She's gotta be in her 70's here at least. Amazing, wonder how she stayed so youthful looking way back then

@RiaKnight

4 жыл бұрын

@@joshlewis575 Way before her time, Gloria was a big advocate of whole foods and totally against sugar. She even healed herself of uterine cancer and lived another three decades. A remarkable lady who was refreshingly honest about her faults.

@anti-ethniccleansing465

Жыл бұрын

@@joshlewis575 She said in this interview that she was 72 here.

@anti-ethniccleansing465

Жыл бұрын

@@RiaKnight I wonder if her uterine cancer was caused from her multiple abortions. Did she treat herself with _ANYTHING_ besides diet with her cancer?

@RiaKnight

Жыл бұрын

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Gloria did *not* have "multiple abortions". As for *the* cause of her brief illness, one can only speculate. According to her auto-bio, she unknowingly drank something her first husband made for her that deliberately caused her to lose her first baby, but rumor had it that he pushed Gloria down the stairs. Maybe it was both: Gloria was only 17 and newly married to an abuser, something she wanted to keep private since it would affect her image as a Movie Star. She had only one abortion that she deeply regretted the rest of her life, a fact she made clear in her book, and made all the more poignant when she became a grandmother. As for curing herself, she did it mainly through a strict macrobiotic diet. She also kept physically active all her life and neither smoked nor drank. I would add that she must have had good genes to live a long and healthy life. Active in mind and body, Gloria Swanson survived it all with a smile. Now that's a Star. 🌠🌠🌠

Pure class . This won't happen . For a thousand yrs . .stay tuned pet's .

Gloria Swanson is right in her assessment of Dick Cavett of being "Wicked" is a very correct assessment of his overall personality.

Swanson reminds me of Helen Gurley Brown the founder of Cosmopolitan

For those who asked, She was 72 Years Old in this interview...

What was the distress signal.. left me in suspense

@thejerseyj5479

2 ай бұрын

A commercial break that apparently Dick was ignoring. Good for him for letting her keep talking.

Birds of a feather, flock together.

I have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like the other videos on YT.

@QuadMochaMatti

2 жыл бұрын

You know, it would help to shake up your comment a little bit with some different phrasing every so often, because this is really tiresome.

@Gannooch

2 жыл бұрын

@@QuadMochaMatti I have stopped commenting on Dick Cavett videos and I apologized. I said sorry I’m at least a couple. All the other ones were made a long time ago. I’m no longer asking if this channel is going to show those interviews.

FABULOUS

she BROUGHT it wow

@babasovka

24 күн бұрын

the necklace!

Its evident gloria is comfortable with Cavett.

Do you Newton-John did you play tennis

Man, was G Swan cool. Makes you appreciate that Norma Desmond really was her own creation, as if she were recreating some ancient historical figure (which most former silent stars actually were by that point but she wasn't).

This is familiar.. the youngsters are bringing the end of all things good, if not the end of the world.. none of us raised them, and we certainly love the systems in place too much to consider any other than those bad, bad children growing up now.

This episode was aired in 1973, btw.

@vicalieg

4 жыл бұрын

Ah - was confused, since LB died in '66 - so I googled - they are not talking about a Lenny Bruce performance, but the play 'Lenny' by Julian Barry, starring Cliff Gorman.

@IvoPoblete

4 жыл бұрын

@@vicalieg In 8:39 she says she is 72. And Swanson was born in 1899.

@vicalieg

4 жыл бұрын

@@IvoPoblete Yep.

@Danimal77

4 жыл бұрын

No it wasn't. It aired 04-17-1972.

@Danimal77

4 жыл бұрын

@@IvoPoblete She was turning 73. This aired in April of 1972, but most likely filmed a little earlier in 1972, just prior to her birthday.

04-17-1972 - Gloria was 73 at the time.

@adriennerobinson1180

4 жыл бұрын

Wow,Gloria Swanson looks great there

@swanlake4483

4 жыл бұрын

Adrienne Robinson she had a very strict macrobiotic diet.....it worked!

@anti-ethniccleansing465

Жыл бұрын

The description said that it aired on October 29, 1971. Gloria said herself in this interview that she was 72. It’s fascinating how many people didn’t pay attention to this video at all, as so many people misstated her age here.

She looks good for 2020.

@userjeffe

4 жыл бұрын

83706Rachel Was saying she looks really good as old as she is now. She must be > 100 yrs old.

@userjeffe

4 жыл бұрын

83706Rachel Oops. Well she still was good in Sunset St.

She was an honest person.

What an amazing outfit! Jesus Christ, her style is impeccable! I bet she wear Schiapiarelli head to toe! I am gaaaaginnnng

of coarse making sure that she sat in the seat which showed her best side.