“Gloria Swanson and Her Circle in the Twenties” was originally published in the July 1950 issue of Vogue.
For more of the best from Vogue’s archive, sign up for our Nostalgia newsletter here. In her sixty-third movie, Gloria Swanson has become for the first time in her thirty-seven-year-old career, a magnificent actress, playing the part of a handsome, ageing, rich star of the silent movies who wants above all to taste again the winy exhilaration of acting under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, of hearing again the magic of 'lights, camera, action, close-up.
To point a scene, he introduced close-ups. He brought in cut-backs and later fade-outs. He invented hazy movie photography by throwing layers of chiffon over the lens to make more angelic the innocent hair of Lillian Gish. He spilled forth the corked talents of Mary Pickford, the Gishes, and the Talmadges, when he made his films of hokum, honey and horror, The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, and Way Down East.
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