Edmund Goulding hanging out with Gloria Swanson & friends

Edmund Goulding, Noel Coward, Laura Hope Crews, and Gloria Swanson hanging out,  circa 1930. 
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Buster Keaton on set of Sunset Blvd.

Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nillson, William Holden, Cecil B. DeMille, Gloria Swanson and H.B. Warner on the set of Sunset Blvd (1950)

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Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nillson, William Holden, Cecil B. DeMille, Gloria Swanson and H.B. Warner on the set

You’ve never seen Gloria Swanson like this, by Allan Warren!

Gloria Swanson like you’ve never seen her, in her New York apartment, in 1972 by Allan Warren.
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The pictorialist master; Edward Steichen’s portrait of Gloria Swanson

Edward Steichen (1879-1973), a famed Pictorialist photographer and painter in the United States and abroad worked for Vogue and Vanity Fair.
His portrait of Gloria Swanson has taken on iconic masterpiece status overtime. Created in 1924, just as sound films were emerging & Swanson’s career was in decline. She looks haunting and inscrutable, forever veiled in the whisper of a distant era. Steichen’s photograph has elements of turn-of-the-century pictorialism (moody and delicate, the subject seeming to peer from the darkness, as if from jungle foliage), yet it also projects modernist boldness, with its pin-sharp precision and graphic severity.
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