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Like Marion Davies and Bebe Daniels. Gloria Swanson is one of those seasoned cinema wheel-horses who, though they pass through periods of taking themselves seriously, still do their best work in comedies. Gloria Swanson got her start in a striped, form fitting bathing suit in the old Mack Sennett pie & water works. Once Chaplin refused to allow her a bit in His New Job because she was too solemn. Her sense of humor has now developed to the point of sending bundles of old newspapers to the staterooms of friends sailing for Europe with the greeting: "Just something...
Marie Dressier, 59, has been on the stage and in pictures for 44 years. She was a famed comedian 25 years ago. Mack Sennett took her to Hollywood in 1914 to play in Chaplin comedies. She was a hit in Tittle's Punctured Romance, but for several years after that played in weak parts and slowly lost her reputation. Used to earning $2,500 a week, she was glad to take $150 for bit parts. Last spring her acting as a gin-soaked derelict in Anna Christie with Greta Garbo brought her international fame in a few weeks. Abroad...
...exhausting two directors (Von Stroheim and Goulding) and millions of dollars, still unfinished. Because in childhood an astrologer warned against sea voyages, Composer Lehar, 60, will not travel to California for the recording. No novice at singing, Gloria Swanson has studied intermittently since her Chicago schooldays. Only when Mack Sennett offered her a cinema contract and a wardrobe of bathing suits did she definitely abandon the idea of a concert career...
There is a Mack Sennett comedy of the soil, whose continuity appears to have been written by Rabelais, with gags by the author of the travelling salesman joke. It is thoroughly bedridden. It's a talkie...
...with no waistline, used an invention for making boxes as the mechanism for laughing at inventions, manufacturers, the Soviet government, country life. And U. S. audiences laughed at humor in the style of Gogol as heartily as in the past they have laughed at humor in the style of Sennett...