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.
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 :)
She was a movie star. This is the first interview, of Gloria Swanson, I have ever watched. She impresses.
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.
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 .
She didn't walk out on Lenny Bruce; she walked out on the play Lenny, based on the life and death of the comedian.
Swanson’s much more charming than I envisioned she would be and I’ve never seen Dick speak less in an interview.
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 😉
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.
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
She was so incredibly honest. Still love her in Sunset Boulevard. Need to see more of her movie career. Dick gives great interviews
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!
Fabulous. This is what TV once was. This is what the world once was.
Old school class! I love her
Even for a woman of her age, she had the most beautiful alluring eyes.
Love Gloria...so sharp, friendly and classy!!!
Loved Cavett and never missed his. Interviews.
She was a vegetarian & macrobiotic diet advocate...She looks fantastic for her age,i only wish...
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 😂
What a FABULOUS dress and jewelry on this classy lady. LOVE IT!!!!
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.
Good for her for sharing her opinions and views. I admire her!
What beautiful eyes she had!❤️
you obviously have never seen her in a movie....
Yes, you're right. I saw her in many movies😉
Yes
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 ...
Read Gloria's "Swanson on Swanson" - absolutely fascinating! She was the biggest star of her day.
TRUTH INDEED AMEN
she has a heart of gold
She used to bang JFK Sr while his young son (former prez) watched.
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.
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.
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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.
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....
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
Classic golden Hollywood star
Beautiful woman, beautiful eyes! So much class! Something we don't see in Hollywood today!
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.
That would be interesting. For one thing, I don't think Garbo would show up. Katherine Hepburn might try to take over, rearranging the furniture and putting her bare feet wherever she wanted to. Davis would be chain smoking and wisecracking. Joan would be trying her best to out glamor them all.
@@kalevala29 Sorry I forgot to add Marlene Dietrich too. I mean it is a dream sequence.
71 , she looks amazing. Gloria is absolutely b.
She was over 70 here and sharp as a tack. I love smart women.
Me too
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 remember she played herself in an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies. Anyway, I loved her with William Holden in Sunset Boulevard.
I love her voice 😍
Now I see how attractive she is, and can imagine how she must have definitely turned heads in her time
great actress, wonderful to hear her talk about so many subjects. Sunset
Her movie w Valentino is one of my all time fav silent movies. Beyond The Rocks
Mine too.
The ending was absolutely beautiful.
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.
The swimming pool scene shot when William had been shot show great camera shot love that film
Her skin is amazing, looks better then some half her age. And no botox or inflated lips.
"I'm ready for my close-up Mr. DeMille."
idiot
@@oilyshoes9969 We're watching you.
classic
Swanson has class.
She was stunningly beautiful
What says "welcome 2020!" better than a visit with the ageless Gloria Swanson?
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
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.
Butterflies are Free is more my cup of tea than Lenny would be for me, too.
A real, genuine Babe! Reminds me of my mother in law!
Swanson reminds me of Helen Gurley Brown the founder of Cosmopolitan
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.
"There's a time and a place for everything" says Queen Gloria.
Lady ahead of time as usual
😂😂SHE SAID “FULL BACK “..poor thing meant WIDE BACK . She’s very classy
No, she was correct. In football, a "fullback" is a large running back. He's the guy who gets the ball near the goal line -- who bulldozes into the end zone.
Her healthy living meant she actually looked better as she got older and always had those beautiful eyes
Those eyes!!
She looks younger than she did as Norma Desmond in the early 50s!
She was making some great points.
Her face shines ...healthy skin ...love the golden 💛 heart ❤
Vaseline
@@PatriciaMarie100 I see 👀 thanks ✌
@@MapleSyrupPoet Marilyn Monroe also used Vaseline.
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.
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
Her gigantic copper heart is driving me crazy. I want it...
I wish I could have seen the rest of that interview!
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.
The loss of Stroheim was a tragedy for film history no matter how one feels about Gloria Swanson.
Ms. Swanson: class
I love her I love her movies
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.
Goodness, she looked wonderful!!!
of coarse making sure that she sat in the seat which showed her best side.
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.
What a woman so smart, brilliant fascinating as well
she BROUGHT it wow
the necklace!
Miss Swanson was a very talented actress. Her performance in "Sunset Boulevard" was incredible. However, I find her quite hypocritical here. She had a long-term affair with the very-married Joe Kennedy Sr, (that became quite public), yet her abhorrence of the profanity in a Broadway play is quite interesting. I'm not coming from a place of judgement, it's just interesting to me how she's expressing moral outrage about "Lenny Bruce's" profanity. I suppose all I can say is "All the world's a stage..."
Yes, the "Holier than thou" routine. "Saint" Loretta Young was the same (the affair with Gable resulting in a child)
But I still love to hear these icons of the silver screen talk.....
You have just said the same I was thinking about. A "little bit hypocrite", being nice. All the same she was a godess.
She seems like a fantastic lady, She is certainly channeling the Wonder Woman, Black Widow vibe...
Fascinating and stylish, classy Lady
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....
She clearly was not a big fan of Fosse’s later work. Such an icon of both the silent and early sound ages of sound ❤
Gloria Swanson is right in her assessment of Dick Cavett of being "Wicked" is a very correct assessment of his overall personality.
She's so lovely.
Gorgeous
She's gotta be in her 70's here at least. Amazing, wonder how she stayed so youthful looking way back then
@@joshlewis575 Way before her time, Gloria was a big advocate of whole foods and totally against sugar. She even healed herself of uterine cancer and lived another three decades. A remarkable lady who was refreshingly honest about her faults.
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She said in this interview that she was 72 here.
@@RiaKnight
I wonder if her uterine cancer was caused from her multiple abortions. Did she treat herself with _ANYTHING_ besides diet with her cancer?
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Gloria did *not* have "multiple abortions".
As for *the* cause of her brief illness, one can only speculate.
According to her auto-bio, she unknowingly drank something her first husband
made for her that deliberately caused her to lose her first baby,
but rumor had it that he pushed Gloria down the stairs.
Maybe it was both: Gloria was only 17 and newly married to an abuser,
something she wanted to keep private since it would affect her image
as a Movie Star.
She had only one abortion that she deeply regretted the rest of her life,
a fact she made clear in her book, and made all the more poignant when
she became a grandmother.
As for curing herself, she did it mainly through a strict macrobiotic diet.
She also kept physically active all her life and neither smoked nor drank.
I would add that she must have had good genes to live a long and healthy life.
Active in mind and body, Gloria Swanson survived it all with a smile.
Now that's a Star. 🌠🌠🌠
FULL INTERVIEW PLEASE
Sunset Boulevard. My Favorite Swanson Movie…
She looks good for 2020.
83706Rachel Was saying she looks really good as old as she is now. She must be > 100 yrs old.
83706Rachel Oops. Well she still was good in Sunset St.
striking to look at, great speaking voice ironically.
What an endearing beguiling interesting woman - and yes she does have a young voice and great skin.
She was an honest person.
great star
She ate healthy back then and that's why she probably looked so good in her 70s.
What an amazing outfit!
Jesus Christ, her style is impeccable!
I bet she wear Schiapiarelli head to toe!
I am gaaaaginnnng
She is great:)
Its evident gloria is comfortable with Cavett.
"There is a time and place for everything"
Uhh, like the dude's show?!
04-17-1972 - Gloria was 73 at the time.
Wow,Gloria Swanson looks great there
Adrienne Robinson she had a very strict macrobiotic diet.....it worked!
The description said that it aired on October 29, 1971. Gloria said herself in this interview that she was 72. It’s fascinating how many people didn’t pay attention to this video at all, as so many people misstated her age here.
What a life she had!
a real movie star.....who had fallen to doing a radio show in NY .....when the call came for Sunset Blvd........her pay was 50,000 dollars.....she quit her radio gig..divorced her husband....flew to California....and the rest is history