Gloria Swanson

She appeared in at least one episode as herself. Her suicide has gathered a cruel but grimly amusing story, made into a film by Andy Warhol in 1965 as Lupe. Gloria Swanson was the favorite actor of the character Granny, from The Beverly Hillbillies. The drug did not work, instead upsetting her stomach; she actually was found dead in her bathroom, having drowned in the toilet. and one for television at 6301 Hollywood Blvd. Lupe Vélez committed suicide with Seconal in Beverly Hills, California after the end of her relationship with Harold Raymond, whose child she was carrying. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - one for motion pictures at 6748 Hollywood Blvd. In 1943 she returned to Mexico and starred in Nana (1944), well received she returned to Hollywood.

Gloria Swanson died on Easter Monday 1983, was cremated, and her ashes buried at the Church of Heavenly Rest in New York City. She went on to have another emotionally draining affair, this with Gary Cooper. Her last acting role was in the television horror film Killer Bees in 1974, though she also appeared as herself in the movie Airport 1975 which was also released in 1974. The fraught marriage lasted five years, they repeatedly split and finally divorced in 1938. Her last Hollywood movie was Three for Bedroom C in 1952, although she did appear in the Italian movie Mio figlio Nerone. Emotionally generous, she had a number of highly publicized affairs before marrying Johnny Weissmuller in 1933. Swanson made it into the talkies, even singing in Music in the Air, and she hosted a television anthology series, Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson, in which she occasionally acted. Vélez was one of few Hollywood actors to make a successful transition from silent film to 'talkies'.

When Swanson starred in the 1950 Sunset Blvd., it is scenes of Queen Kelly that her character, Norma Desmond, is watching (with von Stroheim playing her butler). She largely stuck to lighter roles from then, notably in the Mexcan Spitfire series of seven films (1939-1943). She was romantically linked to the elder Kennedy at the time. She did a further eighteen films before finding her niche in comedy with Hot Pepper (1933). Kennedy. Her first feature-length film was Douglas Fairbanks' The Gaucho (1927); the next year, she was one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. Kennedy, Sr., the father of President John F. She moved to California that year and was first cast in movies by Hal Roach.

Swanson's 1929 film Queen Kelly, was directed by Erich von Stroheim and produced by Joseph P. She took dancing lessons and in 1924 made her performing debut at the Teatro Principal. She starred in the 1922 silent film Beyond the Rocks with Rudolph Valentino. She was lightly educated at a convent school in Texas before finding work as a sales assistant. DeMille, and he turned her into a romantic lead. She was born in San Luis Potosí as María Guadalupe Vélez de Villalobos. She played many Mack Sennett slapstick comedies, but in 1919 she signed with Cecil B. Lupe Vélez (July 18, 1908 - December 13, 1944) was a Mexican actress.

Her film debut was in 1915, as an extra in The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket, but she was a star by the next year, in A Dash of Courage. Born Gloria May Josephine Svensson in a military base in San Juan, Puerto Rico to a Swedish-American father, she grew up in Puerto Rico, Chicago, and Key West, Florida. Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1897 - April 4, 1983) was an American actress. 1929 - Best Actress in a Leading Role - Sadie Thompson.

1930 - Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Trespasser. 1951 - Best Actress in a Leading Role - Sunset Blvd.. Swanson's final marriage was to William Dufty (author of Lady Sings the Blues) in 1976. Davy: they divorced in 1946.

In 1945 Swanson married William N. Their marriage produced a daughter Michelle Bridget Farmer, and ended in divorce in 1934. In 1931, Swanson married Michael Farmer; although frequently described as a "sportsman," the only evidence of his prowess was his frequent betrothals. This marriage ended in divorce in 1930.

She conceived a child with him, and had an abortion, which she says, in her autobiography, Swanson on Swanson, she regretted. He became a film executive. Her third husband was a French aristocrat, Henry de la Falaise, Marquis de la Falaise, in 1925. Their daughter Gloria was born in 1920; they divorced in 1923.

She married Herbert K. Somborn, owner of the Brown Derby restaurant, in 1919. She married actor Wallace Beery in 1916; they divorced in 1919.