Name
Swanson, Gloria, 1897-1983 (Interviewee)
Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
Title
Oral history interview with Gloria Swanson, 1958
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Gloria Swanson, 1958
Abstract
Start in motion pictures at Essanay, Chicago, 1913; Mack Sennett and the Keystone Comedies; Cecil B. De Mille; the transition to sound; views on raising children; comments on films; Edmund Goulding. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"
Collection Name
Popular arts project
Subjects
Actresses; Motion pictures--Production and direction; Acting; Swanson, Gloria, 1897-1983
Format
oral histories; sound recordings
Genre
Interviews
Date
1958
Physical Description
sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
Note (Biographical)
Actress
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
Interviewed by Joan and Robert Franklin
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record
7144961
Also In
Oral History Archives at Columbia
Time-Based Media
Time-Based Media
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-9v5v-y539
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.