Gloria Swanson and Michael Farmer in 1933 During a fitting for the 1931 film Tonight or Never, Swanson met Michael Farmer, a young, rich, unemployed man who was rumored to be a gigolo.

This sumptuous illustrated biography, weighing in at more than four pounds, begins: “Gloria Swanson was a great motion picture ... as in a delightful photograph of her applying makeup to Babe Ruth as ...

Gloria Swanson, flamboyant screen actress of the ... In her speech, Miss Swanson, a former Mack Sennett bathing beauty, will trace the development of Hollywood, and its changeover to talkies.