Jan Smithers

She is not to be confused with Welcome Back, Kotter actress Marcia Strassman, with whom she shares a close resemblance. She appeared in at least one episode as herself. Now retired from show business, Jan currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Gloria Swanson was the favorite actor of the character Granny, from The Beverly Hillbillies. From 1987 through 1995 she was married to actor James Brolin. and one for television at 6301 Hollywood Blvd. This scar cost her some roles, and according to Jan, made her feel insecure about her looks. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - one for motion pictures at 6748 Hollywood Blvd.

The impact smashed her face into the steering wheel, causing the injury. Gloria Swanson died on Easter Monday 1983, was cremated, and her ashes buried at the Church of Heavenly Rest in New York City. To avoid another car that ran a stop sign, Jan swerved and hit a telephone pole. 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. Smithers was involved in a car accident which left a permanent scar on her chin. Her last Hollywood movie was Three for Bedroom C in 1952, although she did appear in the Italian movie Mio figlio Nerone. As a teen, Ms. 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.

As a result of that exposure, she landed some commercial modeling work while pursuing her studies at the California Institute of the Arts. 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 first reached the public eye as a teenager, when she was featured on the cover of a 1966 issue of Newsweek, seated on a motorcycle. She was romantically linked to the elder Kennedy at the time. She played the character "Bailey Quarters" on the popular television series WKRP in Cincinnati. Kennedy. Smithers grew up in Woodland Hills, California. Kennedy, Sr., the father of President John F.

Jan Smithers (born Karin Jan Smithers on 3 July 1949) is an American television and film actress. Swanson's 1929 film Queen Kelly, was directed by Erich von Stroheim and produced by Joseph P. She starred in the 1922 silent film Beyond the Rocks with Rudolph Valentino. DeMille, and he turned her into a romantic lead. She played many Mack Sennett slapstick comedies, but in 1919 she signed with Cecil B.

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.