{"id":4740,"date":"2006-04-17T16:31:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T20:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2022-10-10T00:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T04:03:12","slug":"gloria-swanson-one-of-hollywoods-first-superstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4740","title":{"rendered":"Gloria Swanson: One of Hollywood\u2019s First Superstars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An essay of appreciation for Gloria Swanson&#8217;s power in the silents, and a<a href=\"http:\/\/eddieonfilm.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/when-both-she-and-pictures-were-big.html\"> review of 1928&#8217;s <i>Sadie Thompson<\/i> starring Gloria Swanson:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Watching Swanson in silence though really emphasizes the power she had in the silent era. You can see some of the flamboyant gestures she let Norma use 22 years later, but she has true power, spark and humor playing the good time girl who becomes the object of a preaching moralist out to save her soul and protect society from the likes of her. (Are we sure who the Beatles wrote &#8220;Sexy Sadie&#8221; about?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essay of appreciation for Gloria Swanson&#8217;s power in the silents, and a review of 1928&#8217;s Sadie Thompson starring Gloria Swanson: Watching Swanson in silence though really emphasizes the power she had in the silent era. You can see some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4740\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179082,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/179082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}