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Gloria Swanson: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: PBS - Saturday Night at the Movies - Sunset Boulevard. May 14, 2026
Anniversary information added. Mar 31, 2026
Anniversary information added. Mar 23, 2026
Add new Web site: University of Texas at Austin - Harry Ransom Center - Gloria Swanson: An Inventory of Her Papers at the Harry Ransom Center. May 09, 2025
Swanson's date of birth corrected: she was born on March 27, 1899, not March 17. Feb 28, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Desert Island Discs - Gloria Swanson. Feb 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Los Angeles Times - From the Archives: Gloria Swanson, Queen of Movies' Golden Years, Dies. Sep 28, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Stage Struck: Gloria Swanson before the pictures got small. Jul 05, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 10, 2024
Add new Web site: BFI - �I am NOT going to write my memoirs!�: Gloria Swanson talks pictures. Dec 08, 2023
Add new Web site: Golden Globe - Forgotten Hollywood: Gloria Swanson. Aug 30, 2023
Noted her three Academy Award nominations. Oct 07, 2019
Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Biography of Gloria Swanson. Jun 27, 2019
Add new Web site: All Movie - Gloria Swanson. Apr 18, 2017
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Gloria Swanson. Apr 18, 2017
Add new Web site: Women Film Pioneers Project - Biography of Gloria Swanson. Apr 18, 2017
Added photograph. Jun 17, 2011
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Gloria Swanson. Feb 21, 2011
Media added. Sep 25, 2008
Article revised. Dec 07, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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