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Gloria Swanson

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Gloria Swanson, née Gloria Josephine May Swanson1 le 27 mars 1899 à Chicago et morte le 4 avril 1983 à New York, est une actrice américaine. Grande star du cinéma muet, sa carrière décline à l'arrivée du parlant, mais elle renoue avec le succès dans Boulevard du crépuscule (1950) qui la met en scène en star déchue du cinéma muet.

Gloria Swanson 1920s

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Gloria Swanson by Karl Struss 1922

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Gloria May Josephine Swanson (1899-1983) was an American actress and producer best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a reclusive silent film star, in the critically acclaimed 1950 film Sunset Boulevard.

Karl Struss est un directeur de la photographie américain, né le 30 novembre 1886 à New York et mort le 16 décembre 1981 à Santa Monica.

Karl Struss (1886-1981) was an American photographer and a cinematographer of the 1900s through the 1950s. He was also one of the earliest pioneers of 3-D films. While he mostly worked on films, such as F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Charles Chaplin's The Great Dictator and Limelight, he was also one of the cinematographers for the television series Broken Arrow and photographed 19 episodes of My Friend Flicka.

Gloria Swanson by Marland Stone - Motion Picture 1926

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Gloria Swanson in The Great Moment

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Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson

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Rudolph Valentino, (version américanisée et raccourcie de son nom complet Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antoguolla), est un acteur italien naturalisé américain, né le 6 mai 1895 à Castellaneta, dans la province de Tarente (Pouilles, Italie), mort le 23 août 1926 à New York (États-Unis).

Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella, professionally known as Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926), was an Italian-born American actor who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik. An early pop icon, a sex symbol of the 1920s, he was known as the "Latin lover" or simply as "Valentino." He had applied for American citizenship shortly before his death, which occurred at age 31, causing mass hysteria among his female fans and further propelling him into iconic status.

Henry Clive, né Henry O'Hara en 1882 en Australie et mort en 1960, est un magicien, un peintre et un illustrateur des États-Unis.

Henry Clive (1882-1960) was an Australian-born American graphic artist and illustrator. Clive is known particularly for his illustrations in The American Weekly and cover series, which were posed for by screen celebrities.