Gloria Swanson Movies

A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.

Lance Bellew ignores his wife, Betty, for his mistress, Naomi Templeton, but becomes so enraged when he finds Betty in the company of Jerry Woodruff...

Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915. He finally released a...

Silent film drama...

A farm boy falls for a glamorous society girl who is engaged to another man.

Two men in love with the same woman are further complicated by the arrival of a second woman.

A young woman whose domineering mother almost ruins her marriage eventually learns that mother does not always know best when her father commits...

Madcap Gloria disguises herself as a man, in order to lure a "dangerous" vamp away from her beau, Bobbie.

A wayward wife abandons her husband but finds redemption by preventing a railway accident and finding her way back to him.

In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories.

A spoiled rich girl is brought down to earth by the man who loves her.

John Brandon, an American millionaire, has been married seven times but never found love. Then, when he is in Paris, Mona de Briac comes into his...

The Nick of Time Baby is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.

Baseball Madness is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Billy Mason and starring Gloria Swanson.

Sweedie, the cook, reads an ad in the newspaper for a maid to give her services in exchange for college tuition. She applies and is accepted.

This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.

A television documentary about the Twenties told through the use of Hollywood movies, audio recordings and newsreels of the period. Narrated by...

Bobby Vernon is fooled into a mock bigamist gag and chaos assures.

Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her...