Gloria Swanson on Walking Out On Lenny Bruce | The Dick Cavett Show
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- Gloria Swanson reveals all about why she walked out of the broadway show 'Lenny Bruce'!
Date aired - 10/29/1971 - George Bush, Gloria Swanson
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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Gloria Swanson, even as a senior citizen, was every bit a movie star, glamorous and engaging. One of the best.
Sadly movie stars no longer have the glamour or sophistication
Why even as a senior citizen?? Age is only a number. 30 year olds can be dowdy. Age has nothing to do with it.
That’s REAL Hollywood. When stars dressed like stars all the time.
@@QueenChristine1865ok boomer
❤ You are obviously a discerning and knowledgeable person, judging by your wonderful comments. YOU are absolutely right,
I met her when I moved to NYC. Same building floor above. We became friends. My Days, she oozed talent, chemistry, radiant in an almost ethereal quality and one of the most intelligent woman I've been blessed to meet.
I didn't think I'd like Gloria Swanson, but after hearing this interview, I do. Rest in peace.
Same! I always heard that she was so dramatic and weird but after hearing this, I think she seemed lovely.
She's been resting since 1983 :)
Me to wasn't she lovely
I had exactly the same reaction.
She was a movie star. This is the first interview, of Gloria Swanson, I have ever watched. She impresses.
Beautiful woman, beautiful eyes! So much class! Something we don't see in Hollywood today!
She had such a melodious voice. Absolutely perfect.
Perfect for sound movies. Too bad she didn't do more.
Her skin is amazing, looks better then some half her age. And no botox or inflated lips.
People had facelifts in those days. I’m not saying she had one maybe she just looked after herself!
Well it wasn’t available to her but those old Hollywood stars were the first ones to have plastic surgery
She was big advocate for colon health
She had a very young voice for someone who was 72. It doesn’t surprise me that she didn’t smoke. Compare her voice to that of any actress of her generation when they smoked like chimneys. BTW, I LOVE that she said her age so nonchalant. She wasn’t asked. She just threw it out there as an incidental detail in the middle of relating an anecdote.
She smoked for many years, but she certainly has a lovely speaking voice.
She used to smoke.
@@robertgarcia3031 Only when she has that contraption on her finger. 😂
@@CanadianMonarchist I believe she had a trained voice. She was a soprano. She sang "Love Your Magic Spell is Everywhere". (1929)
My mom is 73 ans sounds like a young girl. I really love her voice....
She was over 70 here and sharp as a tack. I love smart women.
Me too
She was true to herself
. I respect that very much.
A free spirit in every sense of the word.
@@hyacinthlynch843 More than you'll ever know 😉
Swanson’s much more charming than I envisioned she would be and I’ve never seen Dick speak less in an interview.
WoW! She was over 70 back then and she looked stunning!
BONES CRACKING saggy skin...yuck
Yeah I second that. Ew
@@RONALD511 Let’s see how you hold up. Getting old is not for sissies.
She ate healthy and got her beauty sleep.
Symbolsysteme .... aside from eating really healthy she did not eat any sugar at all ... and I think she ate pretty much no salt .
But they have proven that sugar is bad for you except she knew this decades ago .
What a FACE and those EYES !!!! She had a brightning Aura and Charisma. A real STAR from the old Hollywood.
Genuinely compelling, and a really fetching voice.
"We had faces then. And we could say anything we wanted with our eyes."
Gloria Swanson is one of a kind. A terrific actress and someone with the morals of her day which is nice to hear.
and she was sleeping with a man who had a wife and 7-8 kids at home
@@hillbillyclassof1961 Well, that's depressing to hear
Yes,Joe Kennedy,
It came out in 1980 in either the New York Daily News or The New York Post@@jimkreider9997
@@hillbillyclassof1961 She wasn’t doing that when this interview was filmed.
Morals? Wasn't she a trick for Kennedy?
Cavett did his homework, read folks’ books and viewed their films, and showed a genuine interest in his guests.... These were some of the first and last times that the then-adult Baby Boomers were afforded the opportunities of enjoying deep-if all-too-brief-interviews of icons of early-Twentieth-Century Western popular cultural history.... He was a fan, and treated them with enlightened indulgence, and delightfully blended chattiness and gravitas....
Cavett was one of my dad’s favorite interviewers. He was the best.
He is intolerably annoying. Stupid attempts at wit and never a good question.
The art of a decent conversation left the building a long time ago.
Cavett is a true intellectual, and his show’s guests and interviews reflected that.
What a FABULOUS dress and jewelry on this classy lady. LOVE IT!!!!
I know right - it's out of this world
She was so incredibly honest. Still love her in Sunset Boulevard. Need to see more of her movie career. Dick gives great interviews
Watch her early Cecil B. Demille silent movies. I have a DVD collection of all his silents and she appears in two or three.
Working with glorious Gloria, at the launch of her January 26, 1983 nationwide publicity tour announcing her autumn return to Broadway, was an immense pleasure. Her luminous, stellar presence loomed larger than her diminutive physical stature. Her complexion indeed glowed -- one of her benefits from abstaining from consuming sugar. Her public comportment was regal yet relaxed and warm, appreciative, gracious, affirming, and calm amidst the enthusiastic, sweltering swirl and supportively festive buzz surrounding her. Gloria passed on April 4 that year and I dearly miss her, as I'm forever grateful for a memorable time with her.
She was also one of the first stars to challenge the Hays Code by producing the banned 'Sadie Thompson' in 1928. She was the first major Hollywood star to marry European royalty and, after her movie career appeared to have faded she made a remarkable comeback in an Oscar-nominated performance as Norma Desmond in the classic 'Sunset Boulevard' in 1950. For the latter part of her career Gloria remained in the public eye with successful appearances on Broadway and television. died of heart attack 1983. Net Worth 5 million.
She was DEFINITELY one of, if not, THE great one!! Highly respect her for everything she did and being true to herself the entire time!! 🙏🙌👏♥️💙
The Hays Code was instituted in 1934.
Hays was involved in a push for censorship shortly after the Fatty Arbuckle debacle in 1922 or 23. She discusses it in her autobiography...
The Production Code was enforced in 1934.
She was very interesting and invested in health foods made a small fortune and married a younger man...author of Sugar Blues
Fabulous. This is what TV once was. This is what the world once was.
If my fantasy world Dick Cavett would have Gloria, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn & Greta Garbo on to interview them as a group. I would have loved to see them interact.
@@kalevala29 Sorry I forgot to add Marlene Dietrich too. I mean it is a dream sequence.
Good for her for sharing her opinions and views. I admire her!
Love watching this show while at home in quarantine.
Exactly feel the same way!
Love watching this show after work during the endless pandemic
@@aAsShHtTo0nNSame!
Can you believe she was born in 1899, so in late 1971, she was 72, there. She looked amazing, and was so funny and pretty...
Love Gloria...so sharp, friendly and classy!!!
I thought the same thing as some here: smooth, melodious voice and what graceful quick walk - at 72! And I liked that she didn’t think Lenny should be banned, just that she didn’t like it (but didn’t like that she had been seen doing so). Classy woman!
I can only imagine what she’d think of today’s society and celebrities. They had so much class back then
I couldn’t agree with you more. Today’s Celebrities are in decline of class big time!
She would adjust and fit right in.
watch Sunset Boulevard and stop that cheap stereotypical crap
I'm not impressed but I'm learning to understand them.
@@sharksport01 I am who I am. I would never do anything to "fit in"; but there's a time and place for everything so I do adjust when necessary.
Even for a woman of her age, she had the most beautiful alluring eyes.
Loved Cavett and never missed his. Interviews.
Cavett was very sexy. He had a great voice and great charm.
What a lovely woman... I LOVE these interviews of actors & actresses from the silver screen!
She is a man. Wise up.
@@piamadison5539 doesn’t look remotely manly 😂
I love her. She isnt lovely though.
@@sharksport01 😂
Read Gloria's "Swanson on Swanson" - absolutely fascinating! She was the biggest star of her day.
TRUTH INDEED AMEN
Old school class! I love her
Class all the way. And so dignified. The definition of "star"
At 72, Gloria Swanson shines on ... A lady with a "voice" ... Silent no more ...
She was a vegetarian & macrobiotic diet advocate...She looks fantastic for her age,i only wish...
and yet she still died at 84 which is a good age but hardly a record breaker so it's not really a stunning endorsement of either trendy diet fad.
@@nonyabusiness2510 Her mother died at the age of 87.
One of the risk factors for heart ailments is age.
Now I see how attractive she is, and can imagine how she must have definitely turned heads in her time
she has a heart of gold
She used to bang JFK Sr while his young son (former prez) watched.
great actress, wonderful to hear her talk about so many subjects. Sunset
Gloria was still beautiful and glamourous here. She understood what it meant to be a star and how to deliver.
I remember she played herself in an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies. Anyway, I loved her with William Holden in Sunset Boulevard.
She didn't walk out on Lenny Bruce; she walked out on the play Lenny, based on the life and death of the comedian.
Why did nobody else point this out!!!!!!!!!!!
Ah, that's what I thought but I wasn't too sure. I never liked Lenny Bruce anyway.
Thank you.
I should have enjoyed seeing his show in the UK. Felt very like our Parkinson show and enjoying that lost art of conversation where one asks a reasonable question clearly and has the good grace to let the guest take the wheel and respond free of interruption. Particularly telling is Ms Swanson mesmerising him to the extent he couldn't quite focus on the sponsors break cue. 💖
Parkinson was dreadful
Her movie w Valentino is one of my all time fav silent movies. Beyond The Rocks
Mine too.
The ending was absolutely beautiful.
There is a scene in Norman Mailer's Harlot's Ghost where a character called Kittredge, a posh intellectual, walks out on a Lenny Bruce show ~ I wonder if this is where Mailer got the idea : /
"I'm ready for my close-up Mr. DeMille."
idiot
@@oilyshoes9969 We're watching you.
classic
Classic golden Hollywood star
The swimming pool scene shot when William had been shot show great camera shot love that film
Those cuffs! OMFG! Fabulous!
They're Bracelets. And the heart pendent is really choice as well.
@@hyacinthlynch843 Yes, they're called cuff bracelets. He is correct.
@@piustwelfthcuffs or cuff bracelets it’s the same thing. We get it. She was actually very ahead of her time always. So modern. It’s what a starlet might wear now in 2024. It rather minimalist and very haute couture now.
@@lapislazuli7876zara has those
71 , she looks amazing. Gloria is absolutely b.
I love her voice 😍
The fact that some people assume that Gloria Swanson was simply playing a facsimile of herself in “Sunset Boulevard” attests to the brilliance of her performance in the film.
Oh, no. She was far from that. She would not have taken the role otherwise. But she knew how to play it perfectly. No other actress could have pulled that off. And Billy Wilder knew that better than anyone.
@@junehanzawa5165 She was about his 6th choice -- Mae Clark, Pola Negri, Mary Pickford -- they were horrified and wouldn't do it. George Cukor suggested Swanson -- it wasn't even Wilder's idea. Wilder later said there was quite a bit of Norma in Gloria Swanson.
Butterflies are Free is more my cup of tea than Lenny would be for me, too.
She didn’t eat any sugar or simple carbs and said they were poison. It certainly paid off for her.
How did she learn about that back then or perhaps I'm naive to think that people weren't health conscious as they are today.
@@justynjonn I’m not sure how she knew so much about it, but she was such an inspiration and dietary guru that her then boyfriend, William Dufty, wrote one of the first big bestselling books on the evils of sugar in 1975 called ‘Sugar Blues’. He said following her diet advice for one year made him look and feel ten years younger.
@@justynjonn
It was called the macrobiotic diet, which you’ll find that wikipedia predictably talks negatively about, because god forbid people eat healthy. The diet does have an odd reasoning behind it though - it comes from Japan and is based off of Buddhism and the idea of eating a balanced diet according to yin-yang. I believe it was her last husband that introduced it to her.
I will say though that I’m surprised she didn’t live longer.
My mother and her sisters were all health conscious. Mom lived to be 90, one sister 88, two aunts are still living-96 and 94. Always cared about their weight and appearance
It didn't give her long life longevity...she died at age 84....she thought she was gonna live past 100.
Her healthy living meant she actually looked better as she got older and always had those beautiful eyes
"There's a time and a place for everything" says Queen Gloria.
She was an honest person.
She was making some great points.
She was actually one of the pioneers in leading wellness and eating healthy with natural foods since the beginning of her career in the 20's before it was even thought about. I'm sure that has a great deal to do with her looking this amazing and being this mobile and agile at 72 (which she was at that time). Unfortunately one of her most iconic roles really cast a somewhat negative shadow over her persona giving the perception that she was that character when in reality she couldn't have been further from that character in practically every way.
And for all of that she still died at 84. Hardly a testament to "wellness" and "natural foods".
She looked like a million dollars, that outfit is stunning
What a brilliant lady
She was stunningly beautiful
I absolutely LOVE the fact that when she left the Lenny Bruce show, she wound up in a theater and watched the wonderful film, Butterflies are Free, with Goldie Hawn, which is a great film that I've always loved.
I had the impression that she was discussing seeing the play.
Love her and William Holden in "Sunset Boulevard"! I'd love to see the interviews Dick conducted with Bill here on the channel.
It is "Love, your magic spell is everywhere" which Gloria sang in her first talking picture "The Trespasser" in 1929.
Me too
Gloria had been a guest on Cavett, along with Janis Joplin in1970, a show show shortly before Janis overdosed at age 27,
Themanwhocameback2: That Joplin interview is priceless.
Didn't Janis and Dick have some sort of love affair? Or was that all just rumor? I know they're really flirty whenever they were on air together, but that happens alot with talk shoe hosts.. edit : " talk shoe" haha, Ed Sullivan is apparently my spell checker....
Swanson has class.
One thing I will never forget about her was the way she dealt with Erich von Stroheim . She called Joe Kennedy and asked him to fire Stroheim. She had her reasons but Stroheim was a genius.
And he still came back to her for Sunset Blvd, just like his character did, life imitating art.
Marquise Swanson, doncha know? Despite Dick's efforts to wheedle out why she objected to the movie " Lenny, " she remained adamant, God bless her. One person's vulgarity is another person's dinner, so to speak. She is correct in saying there's a time and place for everything.
It wasn’t the movie. It was the Broadway play which was later adapted into the movie.
She reall was such a diminutive person. And yet such a huge star and such a great influencer. Back before the lame social media "influencers" today....
I wish I could have seen the rest of that interview!
Dick Cavett, one of the best interviewers, lets the guests be themselves. The book _Sugar Blues_ was inspired by Gloria Swanson, she knew early on that "sugar" was the biggest threat to our health. I think she called it "satan" or the "devil". She wasn't wrong. Classy lady.
Swanson reminds me of Helen Gurley Brown the founder of Cosmopolitan
My new favorite actress!
Watched Sunset Blvd last night again. Loved it more!
Her eyes… waw! She looked amazing in her 70’ No botox in those days.
She is so interesting. I could talk to her and listen to her for hours....
She looks younger than she did as Norma Desmond in the early 50s!
"I am Big!!! It's the Pictures that got Small". Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Her best Movie in my humble opinion.
Her face shines ...healthy skin ...love the golden 💛 heart ❤
Vaseline
@@PatriciaMarie100 I see 👀 thanks ✌
@@MapleSyrupPoet Marilyn Monroe also used Vaseline.
@@akrenwinkleit doesn’t matter. She’s 70 and her skin looks amazing, that’s not the Vaseline. She had a macrobiotic diet. The Vaseline gives a glow and sheen yes, but her skin is fantastic and her hairstyle is so modern for her age and for the 1970s. Most actresses at that age and period wore wigs and had very fussy updo’s or bouffanted looks, Gloria just had a really refreshing sleep look. Fabulous.
@@lapislazuli7876 She's 72 here and looks lovely. But especially at 06:35 if one is objective, it's clear that she overdid it with the Vaseline to the point where the studio lights are reflected in her face. We're not really able to see what's under this coating. I'm all for what I call cautious dietary habits, which many Americans call in fractured English, "eating healthy." I'm a septuagenarian myself, so I know it's important. But I don't believe a lot of folklore about Gloria making her own flour and sugar, and similar stories that are accepted as fact. Many who claim to subscribe to macrobiotics or veganism are, shall we say, exaggerating a bit.
Sunset Blvd is my favorite film. Eminently re-watchable.
What says "welcome 2020!" better than a visit with the ageless Gloria Swanson?
The loss of Stroheim was a tragedy for film history no matter how one feels about Gloria Swanson.
A real, genuine Babe! Reminds me of my mother in law!
I really wish the producers would provide the FULL INTERVIEWS. The short ones just seem disjointed, as wonderful as it is to see the guests. is it just to force in more ads. Please consider switching to full I terviews or at least I clouding a playlist of them. Thank you.
Lady ahead of time as usual
she BROUGHT it wow
the necklace!
Was that the Sunset Boulevard theme they played when she came out?
No, that was "Love Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere" a 1929 song from the film "The Trespasser" made the same year of 1929. It was a talkie and she sang this song in the film.
@AMT Growing up close to my grandmother and mother and wanting to hear about the movies, music, clothing etc from their generations. (The early 1900s and the 1920s) I remember vividly most of what they told me. It was fascinating to me! They were both beautiful especially in their youth. I have preserved gorgeous photos of them framed on my walls. Most young people don't want to know about the past, but I was very different from most of my generation. I adored my grandmother and my mother.
@AMT Thank you very much for your kind words of encouragement. I wish I had known someone like you when I was younger to share my interests in music, film, and theater. I will, as you say, "keep on keeping on" with writing stories, not for publication, but remembrances of growing up in the mid 20th Century. I wish you well and hope you are staying clear of the horrible pandemic going on now.
@AMT AUSTRALIA? We are oceans apart. Great to be sharing comments with someone from your continent. I was deeply saddened when I read of all the beautiful wildlife killed in that terrible fire you had in Australia. Koalas and Kangaroos! My love of animals goes way back. I've rescued many cats in my lifetime. They have always been grateful and loyal. Never turned on me as human beings often do. When I die, the books and essays I've written may be of interest to someone. Then again, maybe not. I have no living relatives that I know of. Some of what I've written is, shall we say, "controversial." Enjoying TH-cam the way I do, I've researched several countries and their customs including Australia. There is a very entertaining piano player who includes most of the great standards on his site. Michael Wollet (please correct me if I've misspelled his last name) Maybe you've heard of him. He knows how to play those keys.
@AMT I'm happy to read you found Mike Woollett. Thanks for letting me know. He lives near you too. WOW! How I would love to be near enough to visit him and watch him tickle those piano keys. Yes, he plays the songs from my mother's generation and they are my favorite kind of popular music, always have been. My mother and grandmother would have absolutely loved hearing him play the songs they loved and danced to in their youth. I hope you and your daughter will have a chance to see him play at least on TH-cam. He brings so much happiness to many people. It was good to hear from you and I wish you and your daughter happiness and peace in the coming days.
She seems like a fantastic lady, She is certainly channeling the Wonder Woman, Black Widow vibe...
Its evident gloria is comfortable with Cavett.
It’s not just Gloria. All the stars lived him. He was so charming, relaxed and insouciant. A really handsome man. Watch the interview he did with the elusive Mae West. Even Mae seemed charmed and comfortable with him.
Mr Calvert is my favorite celebrity interviewer of all time.However he also unfortunately has endured Clinical depression.
Her gigantic copper heart is driving me crazy. I want it...
Well, to be honest -- she's talking about athletes' "morals"? The athletes of her day weren't any more moral than they are today (Babe Ruth?! Ty Cobb?! ) -- it's just that their personal lives were shielded from the public. Same thing goes for movie stars, by the way.
What I find interesting is when I read the backgrounds of these old golden era cinema stars, I am constantly flabbergasted at how many partners they poured through (including Gloria here)... It’s amazing how times they got divorced and remarried/had affairs/etc. This was during the days that divorces were extremely taboo/frowned upon; they were hard to get, you had to have a serious reason for requesting one, and so on. But it seems like stars were given special treatment.
No joke, it’s like witnessing a miracle to find one of these stars staying married to one person for life, much less have anything less than 3 marriages lol. Mickey Rooney, for example, had eight wives. 😂
Gloria had 6 husbands (most only lasting 1-3 years or so, until her last husband that she kept for decades, all the way until her death). She had an absurd amount of hook-ups, affairs, etc.. She was with a married man for years lol. She finally realized he wasn’t going to leave his wife for her, yet said about him: _"I was never so convincingly and thoroughly loved as I was by Herbert Marshall."_ 🤪
She was so scandalous in fact that when it was exposed she had cheated on a husband with at least 13 men, her studio inserted a morality clause into her contract! She had multiple abortions (the first of which she claimed to have been tricked into by her husband).
Lastly, while she was married, Gloria had a lengthy affair with the married Joseph P. Kennedy, father of future President John F. Kennedy! He became her business partner and their relationship was an open secret in Hollywood. He bizarrely took over all of her personal and business affairs and was supposed to make her millions. Kennedy left her after the disastrous _Queen Kelly._
In short, she really has no business talking about morals imo. Lol.
Gloria was an early proponent of healthy eating. No sugar, no soda, fruits, veggies. It paid off. She looks great at 72.
and she still died at 84. Not a real testatment.
@@nonyabusiness2510 Gee. Sorry she didn't live forever. We all die sometime. It's the quality of life she lived.
@@nonyabusiness2510Bro eating healthy doesn’t guarantee a long life it improves the QUALITY of life. She is quick witted, great skin, moves freely without any sign of struggling. God controls when it’s our time, not us. Get real
@@nonyabusiness2510 Adelle Davis was a nutritionist who criticized the american diet, she died at the age of 70 from Multiple myeloma
You may wonder why some folks can smoke and drank everyday and live into their 80s and 90s with good health?
I heard a 100 years old woman in 2013 that atributted longetivity to whiskey and cigarettes
Clearly sometimes genetics determine the lifespan of a person.
Definitely an old Hollywood Icon..
She has great skin. I love her hair. It’s so natural for a star of that time where usually older actresses at that time wore a lot of wigs and had very bouffanted hair. Gloria was cool. She had a really modern style, even the way she spoke was modern and more how people speak now. Compare her to actresses like Joan Crawford or Bette Davis who tended to be very mannerist. Gloria was always modern.
What a woman so smart, brilliant fascinating as well
of coarse making sure that she sat in the seat which showed her best side.
I cant say I blame her. A lot of things on tv would never have been herad or seen back when she was on film. There were much stricter decency guidelines in place.
If she was so critical of 1970's society I wonder what her views on today's society would be.
Those eyes!!
Sunset Boulevard. My Favorite Swanson Movie…
0:16 I understood what she was explaining to him from her hand gestures . I’m single sided deaf and I do the same thing. I swap seats to hear the person with my good ear! Edit: ohhhh , I watched it again and I actually heard her say “I can’t hear from my left ear”
She is a real woman and lady .I share her morals .
Interesting
@@mikestevens7018 that’s good! But I’m saying I think she’s got hearing loss on one side, from her hand gestures. Even Dick Cavett understood but made it seem as though she loves sitting on that side without embarrassing her.
Gloria Swanson one of a kind glamorous and tidy a real lady
Ms. Swanson: class
Now that's a STAR capital S. Like Bette Davis. AND they are both GREAT actresses.