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Biography (print)

Lawrence J. Quirk. The Films of Gloria Swanson. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1988. ISBN 0806510773

Harold J. Kennedy. No Pickle, No Performance: An Irreverent Theatrical Excursion from Tallulah to Travolta. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978. ISBN 0385132417

Axel Madsen. Gloria and Joe: The Star-Crossed Love Affair of Gloria Swanson and Joseph Kennedy. New York: Arbor House/Morrow, 1988.

Richard M. Hudson and Raymond Lee. Gloria Swanson. Cranbury, NJ: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1970. ISBN 498074943

Gloria Swanson. Swanson on Swanson. New York: Random House, 1980.

Portrayed in

"The Kennedys of Massachusetts" (1990)

The Cotton Club (1984)

Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies (1994) (TV)

Article

"Diário de Notícias" (Portugal)	23 March 1999, pg. 40, by: Elisabete França, "Gloria, Gloria, aleluia! dois dias na Cinemateca"
"Classic Images" (USA)	June 1983, Iss. 96, pg. 22-23, by: Stuart Oderman, "Swanson; That Fabulous Face"
"Classic Images" (USA)	June 1983, Iss. 96, pg. 34, by: John McGee, "Swanson; Big as a Minute, But Larger than Life"
"Classic Images" (USA)	May 1983, Iss. 95, pg. 19, 50, by: Herb Gordon, "Speaking of Silents"
"Variety" (USA)	6 April 1983, "Gloria Swanson, 84, Star of Motion Pictures, Dies in N.Y."
"New York Times" (USA)	5 April 1983, pg. D27:1, by: Peter B. Flint, "Gloria Swanson Dies; 20's Film Idol"
"Movie Classic" (USA)	November 1931, pg. 50, 76, by: Gladys Hall, "Will Gloria Swanson Marry Again? If she does, it will be the fourth time..."
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	24 December 1927, pg. 12, "Gloria Sells Seals"
"Paris and Hollywood Screen Secrets" (USA)	October 1927, pg. 58-59, by: Don Juan, "So This Is Hollywood"
"Motion Picture Classic" (USA)	September 1927, pg. 63, 91, by: Gordon R. Silver, "My Contract Won't Let Me"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	4 June 1927, pg. 332, "Gloria Swanson"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	5 March 1927, pg. 10, "Swanson Co. Renamed"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	29 January 1927, pg. 351, "Gloria Swanson"
"Motion Picture Classic" (USA)	January 1927, pg. 25-26, 74, by: Dunham Thorp, "Gloria Sings the Battle-Cry of Freedom; The Swanson Lady Becomes Philosopher and Argues for Realities and New Ideas"
"Pictures" (USA)	September 1926, pg. 49, 99-101, by: Nanette Kutner, "Knowing Gloria When... She Was Merely a Simple Little Extra Girl, Minus Fancy, Elaborate Clothes, and Who Always Seemed Just a Bit Slower than the Rest of the Girls"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	24 July 1926, pg. 4, "Gloria Swanson's First for United Artists"
"Motion Picture Classic" (USA)	July 1926, pg. 18-19, 85-87, by: Gloria Swanson, "What My Experiences Have Taught Me; The Star Talks Frankly of Her Marriages, Her Career and the Criticism of Newspapers"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	15 May 1926, pg. 3, "Gloria Now with United Artists"
"Motion Picture Classic" (USA)	February 1926, pg. 52-53, 70, by: Carol White, "Just the Victim of Publicity"
"Motion Picture Classic" (USA)	November 1925, pg. 25, 84-85, by: Mrs. F. Vance de Revere, "How Will Gloria's Marriage End"
"Movie Magazine" (USA)	October 1925, pg. 40-42, 84-86, by: Anne Jordan, "Gloria Plans Her Future"
"Movie Weekly" (USA)	6 June 1925, pg. 36, "On the Set and Off [adopted a son]"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	2 May 1925, pg. 32, "Brilliant Gathering at Dinner Given Gloria Swanson"
"Motion Picture Classic" (USA)	May 1925, pg. 49-52, 82, 94, by: Clement Douglas, "Gloria Swanson, America's Own Marquise"
"Movie Weekly" (USA)	25 April 1925, pg. 6-7, 34, by: Julanne Johnston (Who Was One of Them), "Gloria and the Marquis; As They Appeared to Fellow Voyagers on the S.S. Paris"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	11 April 1925, pg. 598, "Gloria Swanson"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	7 March 1925, pg. 38, "Gloria Swanson Recovering"
"Movie Weekly" (USA)	28 February 1925, pg. 8-9, 31, by: Lois Wilson, "The Gloria Swanson I Know"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	22 November 1924, pg. 310, "Belgians Honor Swanson"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	20 September 1924, pg. 212, "Gloria Off to France"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	2 August 1924, pg. 361, "Gloria Swanson Will Produce 'Madame Sans-Gene' in Paris"
"New York Times" (USA)	8 June 1924, pg. 23:4, "Gloria Swanson Buys; Will Occupy Forty-Acre Estate [colonial farmhouse] at Croton [-on-Hudson] as Summer Home"
"Movie Weekly" (USA)	31 May 1924, pg. 4-5, by: Howard Kelly, "Who Is Mysteriously Circulating the Report of Gloria Swanson's Death?"
"Movie Weekly" (USA)	17 May 1924, pg. 3-4, by: Carolyn Carter, "The Most Misunderstood Woman on the Screen"
"Movie Weekly" (USA)	11 May 1924, pg. 5, 30, by: J.M. Jerauld, "How Gloria Swanson Became a Salesgirl for a Day [for 'Manhandled']"
"Photoplay" (USA)	May 1924, pg. 113, "The Discovery of Gloria"
"Movie Weekly" (USA)	16 June 1923, pg. 7, by: Regina Cannon, "Why I Want My Daughter to Do as She Pleases"
"Motion Picture Classic" (USA)	June 1923, pg. 32-34, 75, by: Jeffery Carter, "At Lunch with Gloria"
"Motion Picture Classic" (USA)	October 1922, pg. 52, by: Maude Cheatham, "The Darkest Hour"
"Movie Weekly" (USA)	7 January 1922, pg. 3, 30, "Is Gloria Swanson the Victim of a Plot?"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	13 August 1921, pg. 712, "Gloria Swanson Coming to New York"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	6 August 1921, pg. 591, "Two Stars Ill"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	19 February 1921, pg. 960, "Gloria Swanson Made a Paramount Star; Exhibitors Highly Appreciate Her Work"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	23 October 1920, pg. 1129, "Gloria Swanson Somborn"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	12 June 1920, pg. 1442, "Gloria Swanson Continues with Famous; DeMille to Further Develop Her Gifts"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	10 January 1920, pg. 233, "Somborn--Swanson"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	13 December 1919, pg. 827, by: Edward Weitzel, "Gloria Swanson's Greatest Thrill Came to Her in 'Male and Female'"
"Motion Picture World" (USA)	2 February 1918, pg. 678, "Gloria Swanson Back on Keystone Lot"
"Photoplay" (USA)	July 1917, pg. 29, by: Harry C. Carr, "An Interview in Great Danish [Swanson photos: 'Teddy at the Throttle']"

Pictorial

"Votre Beauté" (France)	February 1998, Iss. 714, pg. 73, by: Marie-Paule Vandunthun and Eve Zheim, "Comment on embrasse en 1998"
"Playboy" (USA)	February 1979, Vol. 26, Iss. 2, pg. 216, by: Ellen Graham, "Grapevine: The Last Battalion"
"Cine-Revue" (Belgium)	14 June 1973, Vol. 53, Iss. 24, pg. 20-23, by: J.V. Cotton, "Gloria Swanson: D'une espece en voie d'extinction"
"Playboy" (USA)	September 1965, Vol. 12, Iss. 9, pg. 171, by: Arthur Knight & Hollis Alpert, "The History of Sex in Cinema - Part Five: Sex Stars of the Twenties"
"Playboy" (USA)	June 1965, Vol. 12, Iss. 6, pg. 156, by: Arthur Knight & Hollis Alpert, "The History of Sex in Cinema - Part Three: The Twenties - Hollywood's Flaming Youth"
"Playboy" (USA)	May 1965, Vol. 12, Iss. 5, pg. 134-135, by: Arthur Knight & Hollis Alpert, "The History of Sex in Cinema - Part Two: Compounding the Sin"
"Fotogramas" (Spain)	22 September 1961, Vol. XVI, Iss. 669, pg. 4, "Extra"

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"IFK-Wien" (Austria)	1934, Vol. ?, Iss. 1080
"Picture Play" (USA)	December 1929
"Picture Show" (USA)	29 September 1928
"Picture" (UK)	13 August 1921

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