Gloria Swanson: An Inventory of Her Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

Gloria Swanson:

An Inventory of Her Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Descriptive Summary
	Repository:	Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
	Creator:	Swanson, Gloria, 1899-1983
	Title:	Gloria Swanson Papers
	Dates:	[18--]-1988 (bulk 1920-1983)
	Extent:	620 boxes plus art, audio discs, bound volumes, film, galleys, microfilm, posters, and realia (292.5 linear feet)
	Abstract:	The papers of this well-known American actress encompass her long film and theater career, her extensive business interests, and her interest in health and nutrition, as well as personal and family matters.
	RLIN Record #:	TXRC93-A8
	Language	English.

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Joan Sibley, with assistance from Kerry Bohannon, David Sparks, Steve Mielke, Jimmy Rittenberry, Eve Grauer, 1990-1993

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Actress Gloria Swanson was born Gloria May Josephine Swanson on March 27, 1899, in Chicago, the only child of Joseph Theodore and Adelaide Klanowsky Swanson. Her father's position as a civilian supply officer with the army took the family to Key West, FL and San Juan, Puerto Rico, but the majority of Swanson's childhood was spent in Chicago.

It was in Chicago at Essanay Studios in 1914 that she began her lifelong association with the motion picture industry. She moved to California where she worked for Sennett/Keystone Studios before rising to stardom at Paramount in such Cecil B. DeMille features as Male and Female (1919) and The Affairs of Anatol (1921). At the height of her career in 1925 (already a veteran of some fifty films), she ended her long association with Paramount in order to become a partner with United Artists, independently producing her own films. Though producing artistically successful films such as Sadie Thompson (1928) and her first talkie, The Trespasser (1929), both of which earned her Academy Award nominations, the financial strains of her production companies all but ended her career. After her final United Artists feature release in 1933, she made only one other film (for Fox Films) during the 1930s.

In 1938, Swanson relocated to New York City, where she began an inventions and patents company which occupied her during the years of World War II. She made another film for RKO Radio Pictures in 1941, began appearing in theatre productions, and also had her own television show in 1948, but it was not until 1950 when Sunset Boulevard was released (earning her another Academy award nomination), that she achieved mass recognition again. The boost provided by this film resulted in a number of successes, such as appearances on Broadway in Twentieth Century, and commercial ventures, such as her line of clothing for Puritan Fashions.

Swanson made only three films after Sunset Boulevard, but starred in numerous stage and television productions during her remaining years. She was active in various business ventures, travelled extensively, wrote articles, columns, and an autobiography, painted and sculpted, and became a passionate advocate of various health and nutrition topics.

Married six times (to Wallace Beery, Herbert K. Somborn, Marquis Henri de la Falaise, Michael Farmer, William M. Davey, and William Dufty), Swanson had two daughters (Gloria Somborn and Michelle Farmer), an adoptive son (Joseph Patrick Swanson), and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren by the time of her death in New York, on April 4, 1983.

For further information on the life of Gloria Swanson, see:

Swanson, Gloria. Swanson on Swanson. New York: Random House, 1980.

Quirk, Lawrence J. The Films of Gloria Swanson. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1984.


Chronology
	1899	Born Mar. 27 at Chicago, IL to Adelaide Klanowsky and Joseph Theodore Swanson
	1907	Swanson family moved to Key West, FL
	1910	Swanson family moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico
	1914/15	Family returned to Chicago; Gloria graduated from Lincoln School and began working for Essanay Company, where she made the following films: His New Job; The Fable of Elvira; Farina and the Meal Ticket (rel. Spr.); Sweedie Goes to College (rel. Spr.); The Romance of an American Duchess (rel. Fall); The Broken Pledge (rel. Fall)
	1916	Moved to California after her father was transferred to Manila; began making films at Sennett/Keystone: A Dash of Courage (rel. Spr.); Hearts and Sparks (rel. Spr.); A Social Club (rel. Sum.); The Danger Girl (rel. Sum.); Love on Skates (rel. Sum.); Haystacks and Steeples (rel. Fall); The Nick-of-Time Baby (rel. Fall); Married Wallace Beery Mar. 27 at Pasadena City Hall
	1917	Features at Sennett/Keystone included: Teddy at the Throttle (rel. Wint.); Baseball Madness (on loan to Universal-Victor, rel. Spr.); The Dangers of a Bride (rel. Sum.); The Sultan's Wife (rel. Sum.); A Pullman Bride (rel. Fall)
	1918	After leaving Sennett/Keystone, began working for the Triangle Company, where her films included: Society for Sale (rel. Apr.); Her Decision (rel. May); You Can't Believe Everything (rel. Jul.); Every Woman's Husband (rel. Jul.); Shifting Sands (rel. Sep.); Station Content (rel. Sep.); Secret Code (rel. Oct.); Wife or Country (rel. Dec.). After divorcing Joseph Swanson, mother Adelaide married Matthew Burns; Swanson hired by Famous Players-Lasky in November
	1919	Features for Paramount/Famous Players-Lasky included: Don't Change Your Husband (rel. Jan.); For Better, For Worse (rel. May); Male and Female (Nov.); Gloria received a divorce from Wallace Beery, and on Dec. 20, married Herbert K. Somborn
	1920	Gloria's career at Paramount continued with these releases: Why Change Your Wife? (rel. May); Something to Think About (rel. Oct.); The Great Moment (rel. Dec.); Matthew Burns died in Aug.; first child, daughter Gloria Swanson Somborn was born Oct. 7;
	1921	Upon return to work, Swanson's next Paramount vehicles were: The Affairs of Anatol (rel. Sep.); Under the Lash (rel. Oct.); Don't Tell Everything (rel. Dec.)
	1922	Paramount films made included: Her Husband's Trademark (rel. Mar.); Beyond the Rocks (rel. May); Her Gilded Cage (rel. Sep.); The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (rel. Nov.); traveled to Europe during Apr. and May
	1923	Paramount releases for the year included: My American Wife (rel. Feb.); Prodigal Daughters (rel. Apr.); Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (rel. Sep.); Zaza (rel. Oct.); sued for divorce by Somborn; adopted Sonny Smith (born Oct. 31, 1922), whom she named Joseph Patrick Swanson; father Joseph died Oct. 2
	1924	Films released included: The Humming Bird (rel. Jan.); A Society Scandal (rel. Mar.); Manhandled (rel. Aug.); Her Love Story (rel. Oct.); Wages of Virtue (rel. Nov.)
	1925	Swanson releases for Paramount were as follows: Madame Sans-Gêne (rel. Apr.); The Coast of Folly (rel. Sep.); Stage Struck (rel. Nov.); while on location in France for Madame Sans-Gêne, Swanson met Marquis Henri de la Falaise, whom she married January 28 (after the Somborn divorce became final) in Passy; they returned to the United States in Apr.; Swanson signed with United Artists on Jul. 15
	1926	Swanson's contract obligations to Paramount were completed with the release of: Untamed Lady (rel. Mar.) and Fine Manners (rel. Aug.); began working at United Artists in Apr.; purchased rights to The Eyes of Youth in Jul., which began filming as The Love of Sunya in Sep. at Cosmopolitan Studios in New York and was completed in Dec.
	1927	The Love of Sunya, her first United Artists feature, was released in Mar.; purchased rights to "Miss Thompson" and "Rain" in May; began shooting Sadie Thompson on Jun. 29, finished Sep. 24; previewed in San Bernardino in Nov.; met Joseph Kennedy in Nov. when he was recommended to her as a financial advisor; began negotiations with Erich von Stroheim in Nov. or Dec. for her next feature
	1928	On the advice of Joseph Kennedy, restructured her finances and personnel, forming Gloria Productions, Inc. on Jan. 25; Sadie Thompson premiered in Jan. in San Francisco; received von Stroheim's scenario for The Swamp in Mar.; shooting on Queen Kelly began in Nov.; received Academy Award nomination for Sadie Thompson
	1929	von Stroheim fired Jan. 21; Queen Kelly production continued with Paul Stein during Mar. and Apr.; co-wrote (Apr. to May) and filmed (Jun. 4-29) The Trespasser, her first "talkie;" released in Oct.; production recommenced on Queen Kelly during Nov. and Dec. with Richard Boleslavsky; received Academy Award nomination for The Trespasser
	1930	What a Widow! began filming in Mar. or May; released in Sep.; Rock-a-Bye purchased in Jul.; work continued on Queen Kelly in Nov. with a new script by Harry Poppe
	1931	More work on Queen Kelly during Jan., Mar., Nov. and Dec.; Indiscreet released in May; Tonight or Never released in Dec.; married Michael Farmer on Aug. 16 at Elmsford, NY
	1932	Second daughter, Michelle Bridgit Farmer, born Apr. 5
	1933	Final United Artists film A Perfect Understanding released in Feb.
	1934	Herbert K. Somborn died Jan. 2; Swanson's first and only film for Fox, Music in the Air, released Dec.
	1937	Signed contract with Columbia Pictures in Apr.
	1938	Moved to New York City where Multiprises, Inc., a patents and invention firm, was organized on Jul. 6
	1939	Daughter Gloria married Robert W. Anderson Jun. 30; sold California home at 904 North Crescent Drive, Beverly Hills
	1941	Filmed Father Takes a Wife for RKO-Radio Pictures, released in Sep.; moved to 920 Fifth Avenue, New York City
	1942	First theatrical appearances in Reflected Glory and Three Curtains
	1943	Appeared in play Let Us Be Gay
	1944	Appeared in play A Goose for the Gander
	1945	Married William Davey on Jan. 29
	1947	Entered into an arrangement with the Haley Corporation as a travel representative
	1948	Theatrical appearance in There Goes the Bride; hosted series The Gloria Swanson Hour on WPIX-TV, New York
	1949	Son Joseph married Aug. 7; promoted The Heiress for Paramount on tour; filmed Sunset Boulevard
	1950	Sunset Boulevard released in Aug., Swanson went on promotional tour to support; received Neiman-Marcus Award; attended Royal Command Performance of Sunset Boulevard in Nov.; hosted her own radio show, The Gloria Swanson Show; entered into an agreement with Puritan Fashion Corp. for a line of Gloria Swanson dresses
	1951	Nominated for an Academy Award for Sunset Boulevard in Feb.; theatre appearances in Twentieth Century and Nina; daughter Michelle married Robert Amon Dec. 16
	1952	Made Three for Bedroom C for Warner Bros., released in Jun.
	1953	Hosted television series Crown Theatre; became a director of the Independent Cancer Research Foundation
	1954	Published newsletter, Gloria Swanson's Diary
	1955	Began work on a musical version of Sunset Boulevard, to be called Boulevard; trip to Europe on Puritan Fashions business; wrote a series of articles for United Press while traveling; began filming Nero's Mistress in Nov. for Titanus-Lux Films; named chairman of the Committee for Independent Cancer Research
	1956	Nero's Mistress released in Europe; covered the Grace Kelly/Prince Rainier III of Monaco wedding for United Press
	1957	Again traveled in Europe on Puritan Fashions business; appeared on This is Your Life; performed songs from Boulevard on The Steve Allen Show
	1958	Recognized by Congressman James J. Delaney for her advocacy of food additive legislation
	1959	Appeared in play Red Letter Day; incorporated Gloria Swanson Enterprises, Inc.; became a director of the Patients' Aid Society, Inc.
	1960	Sunset Boulevard re-released
	1961	Appeared in play Between Seasons; endorsed a line of Gloria Swanson Nylons for Sheffield Hosiery Mills
	1962	Nero's Mistress released in the United States; appeared in play The Inkwell
	1963	Appeared on television show Dr. Kildare and in play Just for Tonight
	1964	Appeared on Kraft Suspense Theater
	1965	Entered into new business venture, Gloria Swanson Essence of Nature Cosmetics; negotiations began on proposed projects The Duchess and the Smugs and Here Kitty, Kitty
	1966	George Eastman House held career retrospective, A Tribute to Gloria Swanson; appeared on The Beverly Hillbillies and in play The Women; Mother Adelaide died Oct. 24; work began on proposed project Blackpoint
	1967	Appearance for the New York Theater Organ Society, From Silents to Sound; appeared in play Reprise
	1968	Traveled to Russian and Sweden
	1969	Purchased residence in Colares, Portugal
	1970	Negotiations for appearance in Coco fell through; starred on stage in Butterflies are Free; began arrangements for Gloria Swanson Products Corp.; puchased residence in Palm Springs, CA
	1972	Henri de la Falaise died; appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee protesting tax rates for single persons
	1973	Appeared on The Carol Burnett Show; filmed television movie The Killer Bees
	1974	Film retrospective at the Cinèmathéque Française in Mar.; final feature film appearance, Airport 1975 for Universal, released in Oct.
	1975	Son Joseph died Jul. 9; performed one-woman show Look Back in Laughter
	1976	Married William Dufty on Feb. 2; publicity tour for Dufty's book Sugar Blues
	1977	Swanson-Dufty Enterprises, Inc. formed
	1978	Swanson's art exhibited in London gallery
	1979	Traveled to Japan
	1980	Autobiography Swanson on Swanson published; designed stamp cachet for the United Nations Postal Administration; chaired New York chapter of Seniors for Reagan-Bush
	1982	Sold her archive to the HRHRC in Dec.
	1983	Died Apr. 4, New York City; auctions of furniture and decorations, jewelry, fashion collection, career and personal memorabilia Aug.-Sep. at William Doyle Gallery, New York

Scope and Contents

The papers of actress Gloria Swanson (ca. [18--]-1988, bulk 1920-1983, 620 boxes) document her career accomplishments, her business ventures and her various interests, as well as her childhood, family, personal relationships, and private life. Included are correspondence, photographs, scripts, production records, financial and legal records, publicity materials, clippings, scrapbooks, published materials, film, audio recordings, music, writings, art work, and artifacts.

In the foreword to her autobiography, Swanson explained her eighty year accumulation of "files and scrapbooks and photographs and films and letters and documents" with the statement "I never throw anything away." Also a diligent custodian, she shepherded records from California to New York, installed state-of-the-art mechanical filing cabinets in her office in the 1950s, and even hired an archivist to order her papers after they were "ransacked" during the writing of Swanson on Swanson. This process was begun in 1980 by Raymond W. Daum.

The collection is now arranged in seven Series: I. Correspondence (1907-1983, 85 boxes), II. Career (ca. 1914-1983, 118 boxes), III. Business Interests (1921-1982, 76 boxes), IV. Other Interests (1923-1983, 51 boxes), V. Biographical/Personal Papers (ca. [18--]-1983, 110 boxes), VI. After Death (1983-1988, 1 box), and VII. Formats (1889-1983, 147 boxes). Though these groupings represent a comprehensive structure never realized during Swanson's lifetime, they continue, to some extent, the arrangement process begun in 1980. Internal files document various surveys of the papers, 1980-1982 (see folders 16.4-17.8).

As many files as possible have been placed in the context of their original creation, left in their original order, and grouped together in the appropriate series. Materials which had apparently been separated for research or otherwise segregated (such as "VIP" correspondence) have been reintegrated into the collection. Other parts of the collection, which were so chaotic as to be virtually unuseable (i.e., United Artists, Health and Nutrition subseries, clippings, photographs, etc.), have had order imposed upon them.

The collection contains extensive records (including numerous film stills) of Swanson's career in motion pictures, encompassing sixty-six films, ca. 1914-1975. Her film career spanned the early days of slapstick two-reelers, the peak of the silent era, and the transition to sound and other technological developments. Her role as one of the first women to independently produce her own films at United Artists, 1925-1933, is traced by the records of her production companies. These companies produced six of her films, including the controversial Sadie Thompson, and the legendary Erich von Stroheim fiasco Queen Kelly, as well as her first "talkie," The Trespasser. Swanson's watershed role of later years, that of Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950), is also well documented.

Also represented is Swanson's involvement in other entertainment branches, which extended to radio (1927-1981, including The Gloria Swanson Show, 1951), television (1944-1981, including The Gloria Swanson Hour broadcast during the "stone age" of television in 1948), and theatre (1937-1977, including three Broadway productions, Twentieth Century, Nina, and Butterflies Are Free).

Numerous scripts, synopses, stories, and treatments, representing writers such as Zoë Akins, Jay Presson Allen, Lenore J. Coffee, James Ashmore Creelman, Lilyan Kemble Cooper, Laura Hope Crews, Delmer Daves, William Dufty, Laurence Eyre, Allan Jay Friedman, Leonard Gershe, Forrest Halsey, Ben Hecht, Harold J. Kennedy, Alan Jay Lerner, Josephine Lovett, Clare Boothe Luce, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Frances Marion, Richard Matheson, Preston Sturges, C. Gardner Sullivan, Erich von Stroheim, and Billy Wilder, are also present in the collection.

The film stills and other numerous photographs in this collection include the work of many photographers, among them Ernest A. Bachrach, Edward O. Bagley, Russell Ball, Cecil Beaton, Marcus Blechman, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Harold Carter, Irving Chidnoff, William Eglinton, Eliot Elisofon, G.L. Manuel Frères, Maurice Goldberg, Ellen Graham, Philippe Halsman, George Hoyningen-Huene, George Hurrell, G. Maillard Kesslere, Donald Biddle Keyes, Roddy McDowall, Jack Mitchell, Nickolas Muray, Alexander Phillips, Melbourne Spurr, Edward Steichen, Karl Struss, Stig Svedfelt, and others.

Swanson also kept extensive records of her efforts as a businesswoman, which included cosmetics, a fashion line, hosiery, an inventions and patents company, a travel agency, and writing assignments. Included are the records of Gloria Swanson Enterprises, Inc. (1959-1977) and Swanson-Dufty Enterprises, Inc. (1977-1981), as well as the papers of Multiprises, Inc. (1937-1951), which financed and exploited various inventions by a group of four World War II refugee inventors from Austria and Germany. Her fruitful and long lived association with Puritan Fashions Corp. (1951-1982) is captured in the archive, as are numerous writing projects, culminating in her popular autobiography, Swanson on Swanson (1980).

Additionally, the collection also contains evidence of Swanson's varied personal enthusiasms: art (original art and sculpture by Miss Swanson, including a design for a United Nations Postal Administration stamp issue commemorating the Decade for Women, 1980); fashion (in addition to costume designs and the records of her commercial clothing line, there are associations with designers such as Coco Chanel, Edith Head, René Hubert, Givenchy, Pauline Trigere, Adam Werlé, and Valentina); health and nutrition (an early enthusiast of organic foods, her papers document a tireless crusade against chemical additives, inorganic pesticides, and pollution, her efforts in the passage of the so-called Delaney Bill in 1958, and participation in the Independent Cancer Research Foundation, the Committee for Independent Cancer Research, and the Patients' Aid Society); music (she sang on film, television, and stage, and numbered George Gershwin, Rosa Ponselle, and Jascha Heifetz among her friends); psychic phenomena and religion (her proclivities as a spiritual seeker are indicated in materials concerning such organizations as ESP Research Associates Foundation, the United Church of Religious Science, and the University of Science and Philosophy); politics (her campaign activities for Wendell Willkie, Thomas E. Dewey, and Ronald Reagan are included); science and technology (including visits to Bell Helicopter and to NASA, from which she cherished an autographed picture and drawings by Werner von Braun); and travel (England, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Russia, and Sweden, represented chiefly through photographs).

Swanson's childhood, family life, and personal life are further documented through such personal papers as address books, appointment books, photographs, and various personal financial, legal, and property records.

There is a wide range of correspondence, located primarily in Series I., but also scattered through the other series due to the inevitable overlap of personal, career, business, and other relationships. Among Miss Swanson's correspondents are family, friends, business associates, acquaintances, and fans, spanning many notables from numerous fields of endeavor: Michelle Amon, Kenneth Anger, Robert Balzer, Vilma Banky, Beverly Bayne, Henry G. Bieler, Earl Blackwell, Virginia Bowker, Charles Brackett, Lewis L. Bredin, Harry A. Bruno, Carol Burnett, George Bush, Francis X. Bushman, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Walter Byron, James Cagney, Eddie Cantor, Carol Channing, Charlie Chaplin, Maurice Chevalier, Ronald Colman, Noel Coward, Fleur Cowles, Joan Crawford, George Cukor, Gloria Daly, Marion Davies, James J. Delaney, Cecil B. DeMille, Indra Devi, Thomas E. Dewey, Marlene Dietrich, William Dufty, Allan Dwan, Nelson Eddy, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Harlan Ellison, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Michael Farmer, José Ferrer, Allan Jay Friedman, George, Duke of Kent, George Gershwin, Margaret Ghika, Lillian Gish, Hubert de Givenchy, Elinor Glyn, Samuel Goldwyn, Ram Gopal, Edmund Goulding, D. W. Griffith, Gladys Griffith, Alec Guiness, Edmund Gwenn, Forrest Halsey, Oscar Hammerstein II, Helen Hayes, Will H. Hays, Edith Head, William Randolph Hearst, Ethel Helmsing, Katharine Hepburn, Conrad Hilton, Prince Franz Hohenlohe, Bob Hope, Hedda Hopper, Edward Everett Horton, L. Ron Hubbard, René Hubert, William Bradford Huie, George S. Kaufman, Buster Keaton, Edward Moore Kennedy, Harold J. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Rose Kennedy, Jean Kerr, Edward I. Koch, Henri de la Falaise, Beatrice LaPlante, Henri Langlois, Rod LaRocque, Jesse L. Lasky, Evelyn Laye, Vivien Leigh, Alan Jay Lerner, Mervyn LeRoy, Clare Boothe Luce, Joel McCrea, Roddy McDowell, Frances Norton Manning, Arlette Marchal, Stanley Marcus, Frances Marion, Gene Markey, Herbert Marshall, Somerset Maugham, Louis B. Mayer, James Michener, Condé Nast, Marshall Neilan, David Niven, Richard M. Nixon, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Albert Parker, Louella Parsons, Mary Pickford, Zasu Pitts, Harold Prince, Ronald Reagan, Charles Revson, Carroll Righter, Ginger Rogers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Joseph M. Schenck, Else Schiaparelli, David O. Selznick, Ted Shawn, Eunice Shriver, Herbert K. Somborn, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Steichen, Preston Sturges, Ed Sullivan, Joseph Patrick Swanson, Joseph Theodore Swanson, Constance Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, Bess Truman, Valentina, Erich von Stroheim, Raoul Walsh, Barbara Walters, LeRoy P. Ward, Jack Warner, Clifton Webb, Orson Welles, Dan Werlé, Billy Wilder, Lois Wilson, Sam Wood, Adelaide Woodruff, Florenz Ziegfeld, Adolph Zukor, and others.

An extensive index of correspondents (which also includes photographic subjects, prominent photographers, and some topics) has been created in order to locate materials which are dispersed through the collection. The index is selective and should by no means be considered exhaustive. Persons and subjects were selected for their own intrinsic importance, as well as their quantity and importance within the collection. Individual actors in the stills are not indexed. However, a Film Credits List is included in this inventory which lists the individual cast members for each of Swanson's films.

Though this collection is substantially complete, it is probably weakest in the area of personal materials for the 1920s through the mid-1940s. The permanent move to New York in the late 1930s, the arrival of long-time staffers such as Gladys Griffith in the 1940s, and the longevity of these arrangements seem to have contributed to a more stable and consistent climate in which the more comprehensive papers of the 1950s through the 1970s were created. Items not present in this archive include the bulk of Miss Swanson's film holdings, which were acquired by George Eastman House in 1967. For further information on those materials, see folders 201.1-201.8. For the disposition of certain other items after her death in 1983, see box 441.

Related Material

An Associated Materials List appended to this guide lists other Swanson materials available in the HRHRC. Other manuscript collections at the HRHRC which contain Swanson materials include those of Merle Armitage (Recipient), Harpers (Letters), and Mike Wallace (Miscellaneous).

Container List


Series I. Correspondence, 1907-1983 (bulk 1950s-1960s), 85 boxes
	Includes correspondence, with various enclosures (clippings, photographs, financial or legal documents, script proposals, etc.) from Miss Swanson's family, friends, business associates, acquaintances, and fans, 1907-1983 (bulk 1950s-1960s). This series is divided into General Correspondence, Unidentified Correspondence, Book Withdrawals, Fan Mail, and Fan Address Cards.
		Subseries A. General Correspondence, 1907-1983, 65 boxes
		Arrangement of this subseries is alphabetical by name or subject, with chronological groupings within each letter of the alphabet. This appears to be the manner in which Miss Swanson's staff (chiefly Gladys Griffith) kept her papers, from the mid-1940s through the 1970s. Carbons of outgoing correspondence were generally kept with the pertinent incoming correspondence. The relatively small (and mostly unorganized) amounts of general correspondence from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1980s have been regularized into this system. Most correspondence from the 1920s and 1930s is film related and located in Series II., Career, especially in the United Artists subseries. The 1940s are most prominently represented in the Multiprises, Inc. subseries of Series III., Business Interests.
		While a number of correspondence files dealing with specific topics such as film, television, theatre, business projects, etc. have been placed in more appropriate series dealing with Miss Swanson's career and business interests, this subseries should by no means be regarded as purely personal correspondence. Many relationships overlapped personal, career, business, and other interests to a great extent.
		Among Miss Swanson's myriad correspondents, reflecting the wide range of her career, her business associates, her interests, and her personal relationships, are:
		Actors and performers: Virginia Bowker, Carol Burnett, Francis X. Bushman, Walter Byron, James Cagney, Eddie Cantor, Carol Channing, Maurice Chevalier, Ronald Colman, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Nelson Eddy, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., José Ferrer, Lillian Gish, Alec Guiness, Edmund Gwenn, Helen Hayes, Katharine Hepburn, Bob Hope, Edward Everett Horton, Beatrice LaPlante, Rod LaRocque, Vivien Leigh, Arlette Marchal, Herbert Marshall, Joel McCrea, Roddy McDowell, David Niven, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Mary Pickford, Zasu Pitts, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, Ed Sullivan, Clifton Webb, Orson Welles, and Lois Wilson;
		Directors, producers, and film-makers: Kenneth Anger, George Cukor, Michael Curtiz, Cecil B. DeMille, Allan Dwan, Edmund Goulding, Harold J. Kennedy, Jesse L. Lasky, Marshall Neilan, Mervyn LeRoy, David O. Selznick, Erich von Stroheim, Raoul Walsh, Billy Wilder, Sam Wood, Florenz Ziegfeld, and Adolph Zukor;
		Fashion designers: Hubert de Givenchy, Edith Head, René Hubert, Else Schiaparelli, Valentina, and Dan Werlé;
		Journalists and publicists: Earl Blackwell, Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Barbara Walters, and Walter Winchell;
		Musicians, composers, and singers: George Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Rosa Ponselle, and Harold Prince;
		Political figures and their families: George Bush, Thomas E. Dewey, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Edward Moore Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Rose Kennedy, Edward I. Koch, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eunice Shriver, and Bess Truman;
		Writers, editors and publishers: Charles Brackett, Noel Coward, Fleur Cowles, Harlan Ellison, Elinor Glyn, Forrest Halsey, William Randolph Hearst, William Bradford Huie, George S. Kaufman, Jean Kerr, Clare Boothe Luce, Frances Norton Manning, Frances Marion, Gene Markey, James Michener, and Preston Sturges;
		Other notable correspondents include business magnates Conrad Hilton and Stanley Marcus, dancer Ram Gopal, explorer Richard E. Byrd, health and nutrition advocates Robert Balzer, Michio Kushi, and Indra Devi, inventor Henri A. Coanda, photographer Edward Steichen, religious proponents Kathryn Kuhlman and L. Ron Hubbard, and royalty, such as George, Duke of Kent, Margaret Ghika, and Prince Franz Hohenlohe.
		Family correspondence includes the earliest items in this subseries, that from Swanson's parents (Joseph Theodore Swanson and Adelaide Woodruff). Also present is correspondence from her children (Gloria Daly, Joseph Patrick Swanson, and Michelle Farmer Amon), and husbands (Herbert K. Somborn, Henri de la Falaise, Michael Farmer, William Davey, and William Dufty), as well as from various aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandchildren.
		Correspondence with the various professionals and personnel employed by Miss Swanson frequently offers deeper insights into the details of her life and career:
		Accountants: Ernest du Belier, Equitable Investment Corporation, Noah Gallop & Company, David R. Shelton;
		Agents: Helen Ainsworth, Avis Caminez, Famous Artists Corp., General Artists Corp., Hawks-Volck Corporation, Harold J. Kennedy, Wynn Rocamora, Myron Selznick and Company, Inc., William Morris Agency;
		Attorneys: Barry Brannen; Casey, Lane & Mittendorf; J. S. Rex Cole; Emery, Varney, Whittemore & Dix; Allan D. Emil; Gang, Kopp & Tyre; Hughes, Herndon, Yessner & Hughes; William B. Jaffe; James H. Kindell, Jr.; Paul D. O'Brien; Joseph Sharfshin; R. Lawrence Siegel; and Stanford Schewel;
		Personal Staff: Brandy Brent, Wally Cedar, Grace Crossman, Raymond Witham Daum, Gladys Griffith, Lance Heath, Ethel Helmsing, Thomas Allen Moore, Edith Simonson, and Irving Wakoff;
		The correspondence of personal intimates such as Robert Balzer, Virginia Bowker, Gladys Griffith, Ethel Helmsing, René Hubert, Beatrice LaPlante, Frances Marion, Marshall Neilan, LeRoy P. ("Sport") Ward, and Lois Wilson provide more lengthy and revealing glimpses of friendships. Correspondence from Lewis L. Bredin, Herbert Marshall, Joel McCrea, and Gustave Schirmer documents other close relationships. There is relatively little correspondence with Joseph P. Kennedy (most of it appearing in Series II., Career) and it is generally characterized by business dealings.
		Among some of the more intriguing pieces of correspondence are: a letter from a twelve year old John F. Kennedy, thanking Miss Swanson for a Christmas present; a signed, self-caricature note from George Gershwin; René Hubert's voluminous, illustrated correspondence; early papers of Herbert K. Somborn's company, Equity Pictures; and the series of "hate mail" from Kenneth Anger, which arose from a lawsuit involving his book Hollywood Babylon.
		Subseries B. Unidentified Correspondence, 1910s-1970s, 10 folders
		Correspondence is separated into outgoing (1 folder) and incoming (9 folders) correspondence, and then arranged chronologically insofar as possible. Most of these are signed only with first names, or are unsigned, or illegible.
		Subseries C. Book Withdrawals, 1924-1982, 1 folder
		Includes 14 items of correspondence which were withdrawn from books in Miss Swanson's personal library. Her library is cataloged in the University of Texas online catalog (UTCAT), and copies of the relevant catalog cards are sleeved with each piece of correspondence.
		Subseries D. Fan Mail, 1910s-1982, 9 boxes
		This correspondence remains organized in the two groups in which it was found: one chronological group, the other grouped by subject, name or other category. Some fans, such as Amber Rau and Sonya Rudzinski, became friends and more of their correspondence is found in the General Correspondence files. Others, such as Aario Marist, remained unknown to Miss Swanson, but continued to send large amounts of correspondence. Many fans included sketches, drawings or other art work depicting Miss Swanson with their correspondence. Occasionally, the letters are annotated with Miss Swanson's comments or reactions, or carbons of responses are included.
		Fan mail also frequently appears in files scattered through Series II. Career, in files dealing with particular film, radio, television or stage appearances.
		Subseries E. Fan Address Cards, nd, 11 boxes
		These boxes contain fans' addresses kept on index cards. These were removed from metal file card boxes, but kept in Swanson's order of United States (A-Z) and Foreign (A-Z). Occasionally there are notes that a photograph or letter was sent, or perhaps a phone call was made. These cards were possibly used in connection with mass mailings, such as Gloria Swanson's Diary, a publicity and merchandising publication from the 1950s.
		Subseries A. General Correspondence
box	folder
1	1-3		A, 1911-1912, 1920-1939
	4		Amon, Michelle Farmer (daughter), 1938-1983
	5		A, 1940-1949
	6		Allen, Winfred ("Win") C., 1945-1952
	7		Anderson family, 1949-1979
	8		Astrology, 1949-1950
	9		A, 1950
	10		Ainsworth, Helen, 1950
	11		Angel, Daniel, 1950
			Appearances, charitable
	12			Accepted, 1950
	13			Declined, 1950
	14		Applications, personnel, 1950-1952
	15		Armed forces, 1950-1951
	16		Armitage, Merle, 1950-1962
	17-18		Awards, 1950-1981
	19			Photographs

2	1		A, 1951
	2		Ainsworth, Helen, 1951
			Appearances, charitable
	3			Accepted, 1951
	4			Declined, 1951
	5		Appearances, personal, 1951
	6		A, 1952
	7		Ainsworth, Helen, 1952
	8		Altemus, James, 1952-1956
	9		A, 1953
	10		American Woman's Council, 1953-1958
	11		A, 1954
	12		Aicardi, Federico, 1954-1955
	13-14		A, 1955-1956
			American Express
	15			Bills, 1956
	16			Correspondence, 1956
	17-18		A, 1957-1958
	19		Alexander, Dale, 1958-1963
	20-21		A, 1959-1960

3	1-5		A, 1961-1965
	6		Anger, Kenneth, 1965-1966
	7		Art galleries, 1965-1967
	8-10		A, 1966-1968
	11		Arkansas, 1968
	12-15		A, 1969-1971
	15		Amon, Guy, 1971
	16-20		A, 1972-1976
	21		Alati, Vincent J., 1977
			Anger, Kenneth
	22-24			1977, nd
	25			Legal, 1977-1979
	26		A, 1978
	27		A, 1980
	28		Arons, L. Sherman, 1980
	29		A, 1982
	30		Annenberg, Walter H., 1982
	31		A, nd
	32		B, 1930-1939
	33		Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1931-1937
	34		Brannen, Barry, 1936-1940
	35		Brown Derby, 1936-1937

4	1		Bekins Van Lines, 1939-1973
	2		B, 1940-1949
	3		Berger, Paula, 1943-1949
	4		Berggren, John L., 1945-1958
	5		Brown, Beatrice L., 1946-1948
	6		Balzer, Robert, clippings, 1947-1950
	7		Bieler, Henry G., 1947-1968
	8		Brackett, Charles, 1948-1955
			Balzer, Robert, 1949-1982
	9			Balzer's Bulletins, 1949-1955
	10-11			Correspondence, 1949-1982
	12		Blechman, Marcus, 1949-1966

5	1		B, 1950
	2		Bartholomew, Frank, 1950-1980
	3		Brent, Brandy, 1950-1953
	4		Brunzell, Marie, 1950
	5		B, 1951
	6		Beach, George Edward, 1951-1957
	7		Boullen, Eugenie, 1951
	8		Bredin, Lewis L., 1951-1962
	9		B, 1952
	10		Bakers Research Bureau, 1952-1954
	11-12		B, 1953-1954
	13		Berry, J. E., 1954-1956

6	1		Brandel, Joseph, 1954-1957
	2		B, 1955
	3		Boyar, Burt, 1955
	4-15		B, 1956-1967
	16		Barcus-Berry, Inc., 1967
	17		Boston University, 1967-1982
	18-19		B, 1968-1969

7	1-3		B, 1970-1972
	4		Bower, Holly, 1971-1972
	5		Bantam Books, 1972
	6		Bagley, Ben, 1973-1974
	7		B, 1974
	8		Burnett, Carol, 1974-1978
	9		B, 1975
	10		Beautiful Bread, 1975
	11-15		B, 1976-1981
	16		Balanchine, George, 1981
	17		B, 1982
	18		B, nd
	19		C, 1912
	20-22		C, 1920-1949
	23		Cole, J. S. Rex, 1940
	24		Cuban cracker business, 1940-1941
	25		Cuban dress business, 1941
	26		Constitutional Educational League, 1944
	27		Curtiz, Michael, 1948

8	1		C, 1950
	2		Charitable, 1950-1951
	3		Critics, 1950-1951
	4		C, 1951
	5		Compagnons de Rabelais, 1951
	6		Cowles, Fleur and Gardner, 1951-1981
	7		Critical Digest, 1951-1952
	8-9		C, 1952-1953
	10		Chaplin, Charlie (GS as), 1953
	11		C, 1954
	12		Cook, Ruth Pratt, 1954-1957
	13		Califano, Albert, 1954-1956
	14		C, 1955

9	1		Conway, Lavinia M. ("Peggy"), 1955-1957
	2		C, 1956
	3-4		Cables, 1956
	5		Coanda, Henri, 1956-1972
	6-8		C, 1957-1959
	9		Casey, Lane & Mittendorf, 1959-1965
	10		C, 1960
	11		Cedar, Wally, 1960-1972
	12		Celebrity Service, Inc., 1960-1972
	13		Connor, Allen, 1960-1971

10	1		Curtis, Robert, 1960
	2		C, 1961
	3		Cahill, Grace, 1961-1963
	4		C, 1962
	5		Carson, Rachel, 1962
	6		C, 1963
	7		Caminez, Avis, 1963-1965
	8-18		C, 1964-1974
	19		Cherokee Indians, 1974-1977
	20-21		C, 1975-1976
	22		Chilton Book Company, 1976

11	1		C, 1977
	2		City-County Arts Council (Paducah, KY), 1977
	3-5		C, 1978-1980
	6		Children's Express, 1980-1982
	7		Circus Saints & Sinners Club, 1980-1981
	8		C, 1981
	9		Cousins, Norman, 1981
	10-11		C, 1982-1983
	12		C, nd
	13		D, 1920-1929
	14		Daly, Gloria (daughter), 1920-1959
	15-16		D, 1930-1949
	17		du Belier, Ernest, 1942
	18		Davey, William M., 1944-1950

12	1-2		Davey, William M. (cont.)
	3		Dwight School, 1945-1949
	4		Dramatists Guild, Inc., 1949-1982
	5		D, 1950
	6		Donations, 1950
	7		Doubleday & Company, 1950-1953
	8		D, 1951
	9		DeLisle, Gordon, 1951-1953
	10		Donations, 1951
	11		D, 1952
	12		Donations, 1952
	13		D, 1953
	14		Devi, Indra, 1953-1981
	15		Donations, 1953
	16		D, 1954
	17		Delaney, James J., 1954-1976

13	1-3		di Grandi, Gino, 1954-1982
	4		Donations, 1954-1955
	5		D, 1955
	6		de Belmont, Helene, 1955-1956
	7-9		D, 1956-1958
			Daum, Raymond Witham
	10			1958-1978
	11			Dissertation (Columbia Univ.), 1976, A Film Study of Some Aspects of Urban and Rural Communities of a Twentieth Century American Indian Group: The Mohawks of Caughnawaga and New York City [see also Film, Videotape FT30]
	12		D, 1959
	13		Deturge, 1959
	14		D, 1960

14	1		D, 1961
	2		Diebold, Inc., 1961-1981
	3		D, 1962
	4		Denninger, John P., 1962
	5-10		D, 1963-1968
	11		Dayton Stores, 1968
	12		Dubbs, Gustave, 1968
	13		D, 1969
	14		Dufty, William, You Are All Sanpaku, 1969
	15		D, 1970
	16		Daniels, Mary, 1970
	17		D, 1971
	18-19		Dufty, William, 1971-1978
	20-21		D, 1972-1973

15	1		Dietrich, Marlene, 1973
	2		D, 1974
	3		Dotto, Gianni, 1974-1978
			Dufty, William, 1974-1976
	4			Financial, 1974
	5			Miscellaneous writings, 1974-1976
	6			Lady Sings the Blues, 1975-1976
	7		D, 1976
			Desmarais, Marie, 1976-1977
	8			Correspondence
	9-10			Film catalogs
			Dufty, William
	11			Sugar Blues, 1976-1980
	12			Promotion, 1976
	13		D, 1977
	14		de Toledo, Lucy A., 1977
	15		D, 1978

16	1		Degas, Brian, 1978-1982
	2-3		D, 1979-1980
			Daum, Raymond Witham (archivist, Gloria Swanson Archives, 1980-1982)
	4-5			Correspondence, 1980-1982
	6				Notes from Swanson
	7				Regarding Swanson memorabilia
	8			File codes
	9			Film loans
	10			Film search
				Lists
	11				Audio recordings (Jul., 1982)
	12				Books and scripts
	13				Correspondents
	14				Films
	15				Memorabilia
	16				Personal
	17			Miscellaneous
	18			Photographs of archives
	19			Stationery for archives
	20			Survey notes
				Surveys
	21-23				nd, 1956, 1969

17	1				1980, Oct.
	2				1981, Jan.
	3				1981, Apr.
	4				1981, Jul.
	5				1982, Apr.
	6				1982, Jun.
	7				nd
	8				Unidentified
	9		D, 1981
	10		Tribute to Cecil B. DeMille, 1981
	11		D, 1982
	12		Dance, nd
	13		D, nd
	14		E, 1930-1939

18	1-4		Equitable Investment Corp., 1934-1942
	5		E, 1940-1949
	6		Emery, Varney, Whittemore & Dix, 1940-1948
	7		Engel, Iphigenia ("Iffi"), 1943-1950
	8		Elliott, L. Lloyd, 1944-1952
	9-11		E, 1950-1952
	12		Emil, Allan D., 1952-1955
	13-18		E, 1953-1959
	19		Emerson, Alfred A., 1958-1959

19	1		E, 1960-1969
	2		Esquire, 1966
	3		The Eternal Tramp, 1967-1968
	4		Ernst, Michael, 1968
	5		E, 1970-1979
	6		Expeditions Unlimited Aquatic Enterprises, Inc., 1973
	7		Eden Ranch Account, 1975-1976
	8		Earth Day, 1980
	9		E, nd
	10-11		F, 1920-1939
	12		Farmer, Michael, 1934-1961
	13		F, 1940-1949
	14		Famous Artists Corp., 1949-1950
	15-16		F, 1950-1951

20	1		Flint, Mary Alice and Maurice, 1951-1955
	2		Freedom Under God, 1951-1952
	3-5		F, 1952-1954
	6		Florida property, 1954
	7		Folk, Dorothy E., 1954-1955
	8		Freedom Clubs, Inc., 1954-1955
	9		F, 1955
	10		Fiolet, Winnie, 1955-1956
	11		F, 1956-1958
	12		Fairleigh-Dickinson University, 1957-1968
	13		Falcucci, Robert, 1957-1966
	14		Full O' Life Foods, 1957-1976
	15-16		F, 1959-1969

21	1		F, 1960-1969 (cont.)
	2		F, 1970-1979
	3		Fischer, Charles F., 1970-1971
	4		F, 1980-1983
	5		Forever Young Seminar, 1981
	6		F, nd
	7-8		G, 1919-1929
	9		Godwin, Sylvia, 1928-1961
	10		G, 1930-1939
	11		Gosliner, Dora, 1936-1953
	12		G, 1940-1949
	13		Griffith, Gladys, 1944
	14		Gallop, Noah N. (Noah Gallop & Co.), 1945-1950
	15		Garter, 1947-1948
	16		Griffith, Gladys, 1949
	17		G, 1950

22	1		Gabriel, Jack (NEA Service, Inc.), 1950-1975
	2		Griffith, Gladys, 1950
	3		General Artists Corporation, 1950
	4		G, 1951
	5		Gish, Lillian, 1951-1980
	6		Griffith, Gladys, 1951
	7-8		G, 1952-1953
	9		Gang, Kopp & Tyre, 1953-1956
	10		Griffith, Gladys, 1953
	11		Grubb, Judy, 1953-1967
	12		G, 1954
	13		Griffith, Gladys, 1954
	14		G, 1955
	15		Glasses, 1955
	16		Griffith, Gladys, 1955

23	1		Griffith, Gladys (cont.)
	2		G, 1956
	3-5		Griffith, Gladys, 1956
	6		G, 1957
	7-8		Griffith, Gladys, 1957
	9		G, 1958
	10		Griffith, Gladys, 1958
	11		G, 1959

24	1		The Golden Door, 1959
	2		Griffith, Gladys, 1959
	3-4		G, 1960-1969
	5		Garbetan, 1960
	6		Green, Bill, 1960-1961
	7		Griffith, Gladys, 1960
	8		Guyot, Françoise, 1960
	9-10		Griffith, Gladys, 1961-1962
	11		Ginoglori, 1962
	12-13		Griffith, Gladys, 1963-1964
	14		General Features Corporation, 1964-1965
	15		Goetze-Claren, Wolfgang, 1964-1971

25	1		Goldwater, Barry, 1964-1975
	2		Griffith, Gladys
	3-4			Steno pads, 1965-1966
	5		Gaisseau, Pierre Dominique, 1966
	6		Gannaway Productions, 1966
	7		Graa, Sigmund, 1966
	8		Griffith, Gladys, 1967-1968
	9			Steno pad, 1967-1968
	10-11		Griffith, Gladys, 1969
	12		G, 1970-1979
	13		Griffith, Gladys, 1970-1971
	14		Graham, Ian, 1974-1975
	15		G, 1980-1983
	16		G, nd
	17		Griffith, Gladys, nd

26	1		H, 1920-1929
	2-3		Helmsing, Ethel, 1928-1980
	4		H, 1930-1939
	5-6		Hawks-Volck Corp., 1934-1939
			Hubert, René
	7			Clippings, nd
	8-12			Correspondence, 1935-1961

27	1-8			Correspondence, 1961-1976, nd

28	1			Fashion sketches
	2			Photographs
	3-4		Hollywood in Miniature, 1936-1946
	5		Havemeyer, Lillie, 1938-1953
	6		H, 1940-1949
	7		Hall, Lovan, 1947-1948
	8		Haras Company, 1947-1949
	9-10		Harrison, Anna Jean, 1948-1955

29	1-4		Harrison, Anna Jean (cont.)
	5		Hat business, 1948
	6		H, 1950
	7		Horoscope, 1950
	8		Hughes, Herndon, Yessner & Hughes, 1950
	9-12		H, 1951-1954

30	1		Heritage Productions Corp., 1954-1955
	2-4		H, 1955-1957
	5		Health Guild, 1957-1961
	6-7		H, 1958-1959
	8		Hotels, 1959-1968
	9-10		H, 1960-1969
	11		Haggott Enterprises, 1960
	12		Hammer, Jon, 1968-1969
	13-14		H, 1970-1983
	15		H, nd

31	1-3		I, 1930-1959
	4-7		Insurance, 1950-1982
	8		Invitations accepted, 1950-1952
	9		Interviews, 1951-1972
	10		Iron Gate Products Co., Inc., 1952
	11		IBM, 1954-1957
	12		Italy, 1954
	13		Italian fashion, 1955-1956
	14		Italy, 1956
	15		I, 1960-1969
	16		Italian business ventures, 1962-1963
			Invitations, 1963-1978
	17-19			Accepted, 1963-1976
	20			Declined, 1966-1978

32	1-2			Declined (cont.)
	3		I, 1970-1979
	4		International Organization of Women Executives, 1978
	5		I, nd
	6		Inner-View, nd
	7-8		J, 1920-1939
	9		Jaffe, William B., 1936-1939
	10-11		J, 1940-1950
	12		Jarvis, Aileen, 1950-1951
	13		Jones, Martin, 1950-1965
	14		J, 1951
	15		Johns, Robert Powell, 1951-1954
	16		J, 1952-1959
	17		Johnston, J. Lynn, 1952
	18		Jones, Paul, 1958-1969
	19		J, 1960-1969

33	1		Jones, Homer and Helen, 1963-1973
	2		Junior Achievement, 1964-1967
	3		J, 1970-1979
	4		Jurasunas, Serge, 1973-1974
	5		Jury duty, 1973
	6		J, 1980-1983
	7		J, nd
	8-9		Kennedy, Joseph P., 1928-1981
	10			Speeches, 1950-1951
	11		Kennedy, John F., ca. 1929-1961
	12		K, 1930-1939
	13		Kobler, Richard, 1939-1980
	14		K, 1940-1949

34	1		Karniol, Leopold, 1941-1955
	2		Kellogg, Frederick D., 1943-1968
	3		Kennedy, Harold J., 1947-1982
	4		Kreuger, Kurt, 1947-1950
	5		Kennedy, Rose, 1948-1956
	6		K, 1950
	7		Kindel, James H. Jr., 1950-1962
	8		K, 1951
	9		K, 1952
	10		Kentucky Colonels, 1952-1964
	11		K, 1953

35	1		Koch, Lou, 1953-1965
	2-7		K, 1954-1959
	8		Killiam, Paul, 1959-1960
	9			Television brochures
	10		K, 1960-1969
	11		Knights of Malta, 1963-1966
	12		Kennedy, Edward M., 1964

36	1		Kushi, Michio, 1966-1982
	2-3		K, 1970-1983
	4		K, nd
	5-6		L, 1919, 1920-1929
			la Falaise, Henri de, ca. 1925-1980
	7			Correspondence
	8			Miscellaneous
	9		L, 1930-1939
	10		Larson, Clifford M., 1934-1970
	11		L, 1940-1949
	12		Lobo, Julio, 1940-1981
	13		Lecture tours, 1942-1952
	14		Lowenstein, Leo, 1942-1943
	15		A. and S. Lyons, Inc., 1947-1948
	16		Look Magazine, 1949-1959
	17		L, 1950

37	1-3		L, 1951-1953
	4		Lingerie, 1953
	5		L, 1954
	6		Leveille, John B., 1954-1958
	7		Library of Congress, 1954-1969
	8		L, 1955
	9		Lerner, Kaufman and Mann, 1955-1956
	10		L, 1956
	11-12		Literature mailed, 1957-1962
	13-14		L, 1957-1958
	15		Longevity Club, 1958
	16		L, 1959

38	1-3		L, 1960-1969
	4		Levine, Arthur J., 1961-1962
	5		L, 1970-1979
	6		Lecture Consultants of Long Island, 1977
	7		L, 1980-1983
	8		L, nd
	9		M, 1920-1929
	10		Marchal, Arlette, 1923-1968
	11		M, 1930-1939
	12		McCrea, Joel, 1930
	13		Markey, Gene, ca. 1930-1931
			Marshall, Herbert,
	14-17			1934, Apr. and May, 1935

39	1-7			1936, Jan. - Feb., Sept.-Nov., nd
	8-9		Marion, Frances, ca. 1935-1963
	10		Miller, Patsy Ruth, 1936-1950
	11		Meyer Synchronizing, Inc., 1938
	12		Myron Selznick and Co., Inc., 1939
	13		M, 1940-1949
	14		Miscellaneous, 1941-1950
	15		MacRobert, Frederick H., 1943-1945
	16		Macomber, Olive, 1945

40	1		McDavitt, George V., 1946-1959
	2		Montero, Ricardo, 1946-1947
	3		McNulty, William F., 1947-1950
	4		Moore, Thomas Allen and Marie, 1947-1966
	5		Mahony, Patrick, 1949-1978
	6		M, 1950
	7		Magazine subscriptions, 1950
	8		Magin, F. W. ("Fritz") and Gertrude, 1950-1970
	9		Merchandise Licensing Corp., 1950
	10		Miller, Albert R., 1950-1951
	11		William Morris Agency, 1950-1974
	12		M, 1951
	13		Miller, Charles, 1951
	14		Miller, Libbie, 1951-1953
	15		M, 1952
	16		MacRobert, Frederick H.--Estate (1952)
	17-19		M, 1953-1955
	20		Mann, Christopher, 1955-1956
	21		Monte Carlo (GS Europe file), 1955-1956

41	1-4		M, 1956-1959
	5		Magazines, 1959-1971
	6		Motion picture producers, 1959
	7		M, 1960
	8		MacNamara, Paul, 1960
	9		Meiklejohn, William, 1960-1961
	10		M, 1961
	11		Muccia and Muccia, 1961-1962
	12-13		M, 1962-1963
	14		Montgomery Ward, 1963
	15-16		M, 1964-1965
	17		Maree, A. Morgan Jr., 1965
	18		M, 1966

42	1		M, 1967
	2		Mokot, Maxwell, 1967-1968
	3-6		M, 1968-1983
	7		McDowall, Roddy, 1982
	8		M, nd
	9		McKinley, Barry, nd
	10		Mailing lists, nd
	11		Memo notes received, nd
	12		Municipal Art Society of New York, nd
	13-14		N, 1919, 1920-1929
	15-17		Neilan, Marshall, 1922-1962

43	1		N, 1930-1939
	2		Nyiregyhazi, Ervin, 1936-1938
	3		N, 1940-1949
	4		Niku Company, Inc., 1947
	5		N, 1950
	6		Neiman-Marcus, 1950-1982
			Neiman-Marcus Award, 1950
	7			Correspondence
	8			Photographs
	9			Publicity releases
	10		Nylund, Ingrid, 1950-1951
	11		N, 1951
	12		Neilan & Kindel, 1951
	13		N, 1952
	14		Newspapers and magazines, 1952-1954
	15		N, 1953
	16		Nelkin, Frances and Walter, 1953-1954
	17-18		N, 1954-1955
	19		New York Academy of Osteopathy, Inc., 1955-1958
			Niehans, Paul, 1955-1963
	20			Correspondence, 1958-1963

44	1			Therapie Cellulaire, 1955
	2-3		N, 1956-1957
	4		Nigra, LeRoy and Roan, 1957-1974
	5		N, 1958
	6		New Princess Company, 1958-1960
	7-9		Newspapers, 1958-1968
	10		N, 1959

45	1-2		N, 1960-1969
	3		Nemes, Pierre, 1960-1967
	4		New York is a Summer Festival!, 1972, [see also Audio Recordings, Reel 86]
	5-6		N, 1970-1983
	7-8		National Council of Women, 1980-1982
	9		Napoleon re-release, 1981, [see also Poster, P16]
	10		N, nd
	11-13		O, 1920-1949
	14		Office, 501 Madison Ave., 1948-1949
	15		O, 1950-1959
	16		Office equipment, 1951-1955
	17		Office postal meter, 1955-1975
	18		O'Regan, John, 1955

46	1		Order of Lafayette, 1958-1962
	2		O, 1950-1969
	3		Oakland Consolidated Corp., 1962-1965
	4		O'Brien, Paul D., 1962-1967
	5-6		O, 1970-1983
	7		O, nd
	8		P, 1920-1929
	9		Pickford, Mary, 1929-1961
	10-11		P, 1930-1949
	12		Polan, Barron, 1949
	13-14		P, 1950-1951
	15-17		Personnel, 1951
			Publicity, 1951
	18			Endorsements
	19			Magazines and newspapers
	20		P, 1952

47	1		Pearl Syndicate, 1952
	2		Publicity declined, 1952-1953
	3		P, 1953
	4-5		Pyle, Denver, 1953-1956
	6		P, 1954
	7		Parapsychology Foundation, Inc., 1954-1959
	8		Pigeon Hole Parking, 1954-1957
	9		P, 1955
	10		Piolenc, Dorothy de, 1955-1960
	11-12		P, 1956-1957
	13		Paintings, 1957-1965
	14		P, 1958
	15		Pool, Edward A., 1958-1961
	16		P, 1959
	17		Public relations, 1959

48	1-2		P, 1960-1969
	3		Perma-Guard, 1963-1965
	4		Padula, Edward, 1965-1966
	5		Pines, Kevin, 1965-1969
	6		Parks, Wayne, 1967-1982
	7		P, 1970-1979
	8		Ponselle, Rosa, 1971-1982
	9		Potter, Steve, 1973-1980
	10		P, 1980-1983
	11		Preventive Health Care and Educational Center, 1980
	12		P, nd
	13		Q, 1950-1982
	14		Quotations, nd
	15-16		R, 1920-1939
	17		Rachow, Frieda, 1937-1941
	18-19			Receipts

49	1		R, 1940-1949
	2		Rice, Ray, 1940-1942
	3		Raney, William, 1942-1964
	4		Ratoff, Gregory, 1942-1951
	5		R, 1950
	6		Regal Millinery, 1950-1952
	7			Legal
	8-10		Rau, Amber, 1950-1982
	11		Requests, 1951-1953
	12		R, 1951

50	1		Rex, Inc., 1951-1958
	2		Rudzinsky, Sonya, 1951-1957
	3		Ruthrauff & Ryan, 1951
	4		R, 1952
	5		Robinson, Angus, 1952-1970
	6		R, 1953
	7		Returned, 1953
	8-9		R, 1954-1955
	10		Readers Digest, 1955-1975
	11		Rocamora, Wynn, 1955-1959
	12-14		R, 1956-1958
	15-16		Russell, Walter and Lao, 1958-1963

51	1-3		R, 1959-1969
	4		Roberts, Milton, 1960-1961
	5		Rozan, Micheline, 1961-1962
	6		Reichenbach, Franz, 1963
	7		Ryan, James, 1964
	8		Rohauer, Raymond, 1966
	9		Rosenberg, Joyce, 1967-1968
	10		Raffles, 1968-1970
	11-12		R, 1970-1983
	13		R, nd
	14		Roche, Paul, nd
	15		Swanson, Joseph Theodore (father), 1907-1923
	16		S, 1919
			Somborn, Herbert K.
	17			1919-1920

52	1			(cont.) 1919-1920
	2			(Swanson to Somborn) 1919-1925
	3-4			Equity Pictures Corp., 1919-1920
	5				Legal, 1919-1920
	6			Estate, 1936-1940
	7		S, 1920-1929
	8		Steichen, Edward, ca. 1924-1961
	9		Stubbs, Virginia Bowker, 1929-1959
	10		S, 1930-1939
	11		Saylor, W. Jay, 1931-1932
			Swanson, Joseph Patrick (son)
	12			1931-1939

53	1			1940-1974
	2		Schirmer, Gustave, ca. 1937-1959
	3		Social Security, 1937-1945
	4-5		S, 1940-1949
	6		Sabin, Thomas G., 1945-1955
			Sharfshin, Joseph
	7-12			1946-1957, nd

54	1			1960-1977
	2		Streuber, K., 1948-1949
	3		Sprackling, W. E. ("Sprack"), 1948-1961
	4		Swedish Pioneer Centennial Assoc., 1948
	5		S, 1950
	6		St. Johns, Adela Rogers, 1950-1951
	7		Sandler, Ted, 1950-1952
	8		Selznick, David O., 1950
	9		Siegel, Norman, 1950-1955
	10-11		Stapp, Joe, 1950-1951
	12		Stevenson, Jack, 1950-1967
	13		Subscriptions, 1950-1954
	14		S, 1951
	15		Sartorious, Herman, 1951-1952

55	1		Sewing Room, 1951-1953
	2			Expenses, 1951-1955
	3		Stalag 17, 1951-1952
	4		Stern, Harold H., 1951-1952
	5-6		S, 1952-1953
			Siegel, R. Lawrence
	7-10			1953-1956

56	1-2			1957-1979, nd
	3			Puritan expenses, 1954
	4			GS Europe file, 1953-1956
	5		S, 1954
	6		School of Living, 1954-1955
	7		School of the Ozarks, 1954-1955
	8		Seven Seas Import Guild, 1954
	9		S, 1955
	10		Swanson, Fred W., 1955
	11-13		S, 1956-1958
	14		Stoloff, Victor, 1958-1966
	15		S, 1959

57	1		Salvation Army, 1959-1982
	2		S, 1960
	3-5		Sarbacher, Robert I., 1960-1968
	6		Shank, Bradford, 1960-1964
	7		Smog, 1960
	8		S, 1961
	9		Salmona, Riccardo, 1961-1964
	10		S, 1962
	11		Schewel, Stanford, 1962
	12		S, 1963
	13		Silver Creek Precision Corp., 1963-1969
	14		S, 1964

58	1		S, 1965
	2		Stream, Arnold C., 1965-1966
	3		Summers, Dirk W., 1965-1967
	4		S, 1966
	5		Solomon, Jack, 1966-1978
	6-7		S, 1967-1968
	8		Soong, M. S., 1968-1969
	9-10		S, 1969-1979
	11		Shurr-Hartig, 1970-1971
	12		Shelton, David R., 1972-1981
	13		Scribner Book Stores, 1976
	14		Svedfelt, Stig, 1978-1982
	15		S, 1980-1983
	16		Smith, Duncan, 1980-1981
	17		S, nd

59	1		T, 1930-1939
	2-5		Tiers, Alex, 1937-1980, nd
	6		T, 1940-1949
	7		Truman, Bess, 1945-1952
	8-10		T, 1950-1959
	11-13		Thoma, Paul R., 1950-1960
	14			Clippings, 1952-1953
	15			Notes
	16		Tizeau, Marcelle, 1954

60	1		Tea, 1958-1959
	2		T, 1960-1969
	3		Triwar, Anja, 1962-1963
	4-5		T, 1970-1983
	6		T, nd
	7		Urson, Violet R., 1924-1925
	8-10		U, 1940-1969
	11		Universities and colleges, 1963-1981
	12-14		U, 1970-1983, nd
	15		Vanneman, Helen, 1925-1930
	16		V, 1930-1939
	17		Valentina, 1939-1950
	18		V, 1940-1949
	19		Volck, A. George, 1941
	20		V, 1950-1959
	21		Vanderbie, H. S. ("Ted"), 1950-1954

61	1		von Stroheim, Erich, 1950-1956
	2		Vanderbilt, Neil, 1951-1963
	3		Volkswagen, 1955
	4		V, 1960-1969
	5		Venditti, Claudio, 1965-1967
	6		Von Hagen, Victor, 1965-1970
	7-8		V, 1970-1983
	9		V, nd
	10-11		W, 1919-1929
			Woodruff, Adelaide, 1927-1969
	12-15			Correspondence, 1927-1969, nd
	16-17			Income tax returns, 1932-1964
	18-19			Letters of condolence, 1966

62	1-2			Letters of condolence, (cont.) 1966
	3		Wilson, Lois, ca.-1927-1981
	4		Ward, LeRoy P. ("Sport"), 1929-1961
	5		W, 1930-1939
	6		Wright, Loyd, 1934-1946
	7		Woon, Basil, 1935-1937
	8		W, 1940-1949
	9		Williams, Herschel, 1946-1981
	10-11		W, 1950-1951
	12		Walters, Charles ("Chuck"), 1951-1971
	13		Walton, Jane, 1951-1965
	14		Webb, Clifton, 1951-1953

63	1		Wiatrak, Edward T., 1951-1982
	2		Wilder, Billy, 1951-1982
	3-4		W, 1952-1953
	5		Walters Academy, 1953-1954
	6		Warter, Bert, 1953
	7		Weber, Evelyn, 1953-1958
	8		W, 1954
	9		Weber, Ruth, 1954
	10-11		W, 1955-1956
	12		Williams, Stephanie, 1956-1961
	13-14		W, 1957-1958
	15		Winchell, Walter, 1958
	16		W, 1959
	17		Wade, Warren, 1959
	18		W, 1960
	19		Peter Witt Associates, Inc., 1960
	20		Williams, Edward Bennett, 1960-1961
	21		Wolper Productions, 1960-1961

64	1-2		W, 1961-1969
	3		Wadler, S. Leonard, 1963
	4		Werlé, Dan, 1964-1971
			Wick, Ted
	5-6			Correspondence, 1964-1980
	7			Photographs
	8		World's Fair, 1964-1965
	9		Walker, Patric, 1968-1971
	10		W, 1970-1979
	11		Wilson, Ben, 1971-1975
	12		Walsh, Raoul, 1974
	13		Wasserman, Herb, 1974
	14		Wagner, Walter, 1975
	15		W, 1980-1983
	16		Walters, Barbara, 1980
	17		Wood, Dennis ("Woodie"), 1980
	18		W, nd

65	1		Young, Lawrence ("Larry"), 1949
	2		Youngstein, Max E., 1950
	3		Y, 1951-1976
	4		Yacht, 1958
	5		Ziegfeld, Florenz, 1931-1932
	6		Z, 1950-1982
	7		Zugsmith, Albert, 1952
	8		Zukor, Adolph, 1952-1973
	9		Zanders vs. Swanson, 1959-1961
		Subseries B. Unidentified Correspondence
	10		Outgoing, [192-]-[19??]
			Incoming, 1910s-1970s, nd
	11			1910s
	12			1920s
	13			1930s
	14			1950s
	15			1960s
	16			1970s
	17			nd
	18			Greeting cards
	19			Envelopes only
		Subseries C. Book Withdrawals
	20		14 items withdrawn from books cataloged from Miss Swanson's library; also references to three items which remain tipped into books
		Subseries D. Fan Mail
			Organized by date, 1910s-1980s
box	folder
66	1-3			nd
	4			1910s
	5			1920s
	6			1930s
	7			1940s
	8-10			1950s

67	1-2			(cont.) 1950s
	3			1960s
	4-9			1970s

68	1-8			(cont.) 1970s

69	1-7			(cont.) 1970s

70	1-3			(cont.) 1970s
	4-8			1980s

71	1-2			(cont.) 1980s
	3-4			Names and addresses
	5			Index cards with names and addresses
			Organized by name or topic, 1929-1982
	6			Thank you letters for Christmas dinner, 1929-1930
	7-8			Sunset Boulevard, ca. 1950-1981
				Aario Marist, 1950-1979
	folder
72	1-7				Correspondence, 1950-1979, nd

73	1-9				Manuscript, of "Le bonheur au bout du soleil," nd, 2 copies

74	1			Twentieth Century, 1951-1953
	2			Ghana, West Africa, ca. 1960-1965
	3			"Fan Gems," 1966
	4-5			Butterflies Are Free, 1970-1971
	6-7			Swanson on Swanson, 1979-1982
	8			Miscellaneous
		Subseries E., Fan Address Cards
			United States
box
75				Alabama - Georgia

76				Georgia - Maryland

77				Massachusetts - New Hampshire

78				New Jersey - New York

79				New York - Ohio

80				Ohio - Tennessee

81				Tennessee - Texas

82				Texas- Wisconsin

83				Wisconsin - Wyoming
			Foreign
box
84				Algeria - Germany

85				Ghana- Yugoslavia

Series II. Career, ca. 1914-1983,
118 boxes

Included in this Series are materials documenting all aspects of Miss Swanson's career accomplishments, 1914-1983. This series is divided into the following subseries: Film, Film Festivals, Radio, Sound Recording, Television, Theatre, Proposed Projects, and Miscellaneous Career Related.

Subseries A. Film, ca. 1914-1983,
63 boxes

The film subseries is arranged chronologically by studio, and within each studio phase, chronologically by the release date of the film. For each film, materials are usually grouped alphabetically by the format of the items.

Documentation varies widely from film to film, through most are represented by stills. The stills have been put in key-number order, i.e., the numbers assigned to each shot by the studio. Those lacking key-numbers were put as nearly as possible in the order of the plot. Any candid set shots are usually filed at the end of the stills. Due to the variable condition of the photographs, especially for the earlier films, multiple stills have been left together unless they were so numerous as to hamper efficient viewing of the folders. In those cases ( Father Takes a Wife, and several of the United Artists productions), multiples have been housed separately.

Individual actors in the stills are not indexed. Refer to the Film Credits List in the appendix in order to identify particular actors and which of Swanson's films they appeared in, and then look at the files on that particular film or films. The index does include references to persons with non-acting credits who may appear in the photographs, however.

Nearly all of Swanson's sixty-six films, 1914-1975, are included in this subseries, with coverage for the earliest years at Essanay Studios, Sennett-Keystone Studios, and Triangle Company being the sparsest. The Famous Players-Lasky Corp./Paramount Pictures period, 1919-1926, is more comprehensively documented with groups of stills and scrapbooks, clippings, correspondence, contracts, and publicity items. The substantial correspondence, legal, financial, and production records of the United Artists period, 1925-1933, occupy forty boxes, while only meagre files remain for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Fox Films, and Columbia Pictures Corp. to elucidate Swanson's career during the rest of the 1930s. The scattered later films with RKO Radio Pictures, Paramount Pictures Corp., Warner Brothers, Titanus-Lux Films, and Universal City Studios, Inc. complete this subseries. Of these, the fullest records exist for Swanson's famous appearance in Paramount's Sunset Boulevard in 1950. A small group of unidentified stills and photographs completes this subseries.

Actual film footage of Swanson contained in the collection has been stored separately, and now forms a part of Series VII.

Subseries A1. Essanay Studios, ca. 1914-192-,
3 folders

Consists of a still from one film ( His New Job, starring Charlie Chaplin, with Swanson in a bit part), a group of publicity photographs (including Swanson among the players), and another larger group of company photographs, which probably predate Swanson's tenure at Essanay.

Accompanying this larger group of photographs is correspondence from Ruth Cahill, who sent the photographs to Swanson after reading Swanson on Swanson. She had worked in the Chicago building formerly occupied by Essanay, where she found some old negatives. The photographs printed from these negatives yielded Essanay group portraits, stills, and shots of sets, as well as pictures of company stars such as Beverly Bayne, Wallace Beery, and Rod LaRocque.

Subseries A2. Sennett-Keystone Studios, ca. 1916-1930,
16 folders

Includes stills, publicity and other photographs, a poster reproduction, a program, scrapbooks, and a title card, which represent ten of Swanson's Sennett-Keystone features, the best represented of which is Teddy at the Throttle.

Subseries A3. Triangle Company, ca. 1918,
2 folders

This is the least well represented period of Swanson's career in this collection, with only two publicity photographs and one keyplate (showing 19 stills) from the feature Shifting Sands. A few scrapbooks also contain clippings concerning her Triangle features.

Subseries A4. Famous Players-Lasky Corp./Paramount Pictures, ca. 1918-192,
11 boxes

Though predominately comprised of stills and other photographs, this subseries also contains clippings, contracts, correspondence, financial information, lobby cards, music, play and story booklets, post cards, programs, scrapbooks, and title cards. All twenty-seven of Swanson's silent Paramount films, during what is obviously the most productive period of her career, are represented to varying degrees. These include films with several distinguished directors: Cecil B. DeMille (6 films), Sam Wood (10 films), and Allan Dwan (8 films). The most fully documented film is Madame Sans-Gêne, the 1925 production made on location in France.

Correspondents include Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse L. Lasky, and Adolph Zukor.

Subseries A5. United Artists, 1925-1943,
40 boxes

In 1925, Swanson accepted a proposal from United Artists to become a partner and produce her own pictures. Due to Paramount contract obligations, however, she was not able to pursue her role as producer until 1926. This subseries consists of the records of her various production companies, 1925-1943:

Due to the overlap of operations of these corporate entities and the various films in different stages of production, Correspondence, Financial Records, and Legal Documents have been arranged chronologically. Production records are filed chronologically by production title, i.e. The Love of Sunya (1927), Sadie Thompson (1928), Queen Kelly (unreleased), The Trespasser (1929), What a Widow! (1930) Rock-a-Bye (abandoned), Indiscreet (1931), Tonight or Never (1931), and A Perfect Understanding (1933). Internal cross references have been made from financial records and legal documents to the individual productions to which they refer.

Correspondence in this subseries, spanning 1925-1942 (bulk 1925-1933), occupies four boxes and all authors and recipients have been included in the Index to this collection. Prominent correspondents include Pierre A. Bedard, Virginia Bowker, Walter Byron, Charlie Chaplin, Lenore Coffee, Grace Crossman, Andre Daven, Cecil B. DeMille, E. B. Derr, Laurence Eyre, Douglas Fairbanks, Blanche Frederici, Elinor Glyn, Samuel Goldwyn, Edmund Goulding, D. W. Griffith, Texas Guinan, Will H. Hays, Lance Heath, Buster Keaton, Arthur W. Kelly, Joseph P. Kennedy, Henri de la Falaise, Josephine Lovett, Clare Marafioti, Louis B. Mayer, Thomas A. Moore, Conrad Nagel, Condé Nast, Bertram S. Nayfack, Dennis F. O'Brien, Albert Parker, Mary Pickford, Harry Poppe, Joseph M. Schenck, C. J. Scollard, Charles E. Sullivan, Constance Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, Erich von Stroheim, Irving R. Wakoff, Raoul Walsh, Jack Warner, and Lois Wilson. Most later correspondence (1938-1942) comes from United Artists and concerns the destruction of various prints of films.

Eighteen boxes contain financial records, 1926-1943. Present, in varying degrees over the years, are accounts payable, accounts receivable, audit reports, balance sheets, bills, budgets, checks (cancelled, carbons), certified accounts, disbursement vouchers, insurance, notes, production costs, production payrolls, purchase orders, reconciliations, taxes, trial balances, unfinished picture costs, and voucher registers. Though Swanson's association with United Artists ended in 1933, financial records, chiefly due to foreign receipts records, continue through 1943. Also present are United Artists financial statements, 1931-1932. Since there was apparently also some degree of overlap between Swanson's corporate and personal finances, the personal financial records in Series V. may provide further elucidation.

Legal documents encompass two boxes of corporate records and contracts for the period 1925-1934. The records within these folders have been described at the item level. Most items concern Swanson's companies and the various productions, though some concern other owned, but unproduced properties. A protracted financial dispute with director Albert Parker is also documented.

The films themselves are represented by a wide range of production records, 1926-1943: art, call sheets, cameraman's daily reports, cost sheets, clippings, costume plots, cutting scripts, daily developing reports, daily print reports, daily production reports, daily script notes, delivery reports, dialogue notes, director's projecting reports, editors notebooks, equipment inventories, extra talent plots, film shipments, location notes, music, negative orders, permits, photographs, post cards, preview cards, production reports, promotional items, props, posters, publications, publicity, research, schedules, scene plots, scripts, set notes, sound reports, stage logs, stills, title cards, titles, wardrobe notes, and worksheets.

A glance at the folder list of surviving production records for the films will show that documentation of the films varies considerably. Swanson's controversial Sadie Thompson, the first film version of Somerset Maugham's short story "Rain," and the legendary Erich von Stroheim fiasco Queen Kelly are the best documented of the productions. Indeed, the extensive Queen Kelly files occupy eight boxes and have been subdivided into seven different production phases--Erich von Stroheim, Paul Stein, Richard Boleslavksy, Harry Poppe, and Gloria Swanson, as well as two "interim" phases. Only minimal information is included on the abandoned Rock-a-Bye and the Swanson features produced by other United Artists producers, Indiscreet (Joseph Schenck) and Tonight Or Never (Samuel Goldwyn).

The following works were written using the United Artists subseries as primary source material and may provide a convenient introduction to these records:

Swanson Producing Corp. (incorporated in New York, June 8, 1926)

Gloria Swanson Productions, Inc. (formerly Swanson Producing Corp., name changed Feb. 3, 1927; Thomas A. Moore V.P./Treasurer, Pierre A. Bedard Asst. Treas./Prod. Mgr., Lance Heath Publ. Rep., Irving R. Wakoff, Auditor)

Gloria Productions, Inc. (incorporated in Delaware, Jan. 25, 1928, E. B. Derr President & Director, C. J. Scollard, V.P.)

Gloria Swanson Pictures Corp., Ltd. (incorporated in California, Feb. 26, 1931)

Gloria Swanson British Productions, Ltd. (British corporation, incorporated May 11, 1932)

Koszarski, Richard. The Man You Loved To Hate: Erich von Stroheim and Hollywood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pages 196-238 deal exclusively with Queen Kelly, and the appendix (pages 319-322) provides a Daily Record of Shooting, Nov. 1, 1928-Jan. 21, 1929.

Mashon, Kenneth Michael. Gloria Swanson at United Artists, 1925-1933. Thesis. University of Texas at Austin, 1989.

Subseries A6. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, ca. 1930-1934,
2 folders

Includes contracts and publicity photographs (some with Irving Thalberg), ca. 1930-1934. Swanson never actually made any pictures with MGM, though The Merry Widow, Mazie Kenyon, Riff Raff, and Three Weeks were all mentioned as possible projects.

Subseries A7. Fox Films, 1934,
6 folders

Music and photographs, ca. 1934, represent Music in the Air, Swanson's only film for Fox.

Subseries A8. Columbia Pictures Corp., ca. 1937-1940,
1 folder

Correspondence (primarily with Harry Cohn, ca. 1937-1940) and contracts evidence Swanson's efforts to continue her film career. Folders 26.5-26.6 (Hawks-Volck Corp., 1934-1939) provides additional information concerning this association.

Subseries A9. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 1941,
ca. 2 boxes

Includes clippings, a contract, correspondence, photographs, and publicity releases for Swanson's 1941 comeback film, Father Takes a Wife. A large number of the photographs are publicity wardrobe shots which feature the designs of René Hubert.

Subseries A10. Paramount Pictures, 1949-1983,
ca. 5 boxes

Includes files kept while Miss Swanson made public appearances as a Paramount spokesperson for The Heiress (1949), as well as her papers concerning her memorable 1950 film, Sunset Boulevard.

Files for The Heiress publicity tour were kept by city, and include clippings, correspondence, interviews, invitations, photographs, publicity, reviews, schedules, and scripts.

The substantial documentation for Sunset Boulevard includes clippings, contracts, correspondence, costumes, music, photographs, preview cards, post cards, programs, promotional tour files, publicity materials, realia, scrapbooks, and scripts. Included among the photographs are a large number of stills, candid snapshots on the set, a number of publicity photographs, and photographs concerning the 1950 Academy Awards. The extensive publicity tour files, also arranged by city, contain correspondence, expenses, interviews, itineraries, photographs, question cards, schedules, and speeches. Other highlights of this subseries include the sunglasses and leopard chiffon overskirt worn by "Norma Desmond" in the film, as well as Miss Swanson's copy of the script with her annotations.

Correspondents in this subseries include Virginia Bowker, Edith Head, Billy Wilder, and Adolph Zukor.

Subseries A11. Warner Brothers, 1951-1959,
ca. 1 box

Includes contract, correspondence, photographs, promotional tour files, and scripts for the 1952 feature Three for Bedroom C.

Subseries A12. Titanus-Lux Films, 1955-1963,
ca. 1 box

Miss Swanson's files concerning Nero's Mistress, a 1956 Italian film, include clippings, a contract, correspondence, an interview, photographs, and scripts. A fair amount of correspondence concerns disagreements over bills and legal disputes over distribution. Italian language materials are prevalent in this subseries.

Subseries A13. Universal City Studios, Inc., 1974-1975,
ca. 1 box

Documenting Miss Swanson's final feature film appearance in Airport 1975 are call sheets, clippings, correspondence, expenses, photographs, publicity, scripts, and shooting schedules.

Subseries A14. Unidentified,
4 folders

Contains a small group of photographs, both stills and publicity, which have not yet been identified with a particular film.

Subseries B. Film Festivals, 1954-1982,
2 boxes

Swanson's attendance at various film festivals, several of which honored her work, is documented through booklets, brochures, clippings, correspondence, invitations, photographs, posters, press releases, programs, receipts, schedules, and speeches. The files are arranged chronologically (1954-1982) and include A Tribute to Gloria Swanson at George Eastman House in 1966, a Cinémathèque Française Retrospective in 1974, and the Festival Canadien des Films du Monde, 1977.

Subseries C. Radio, 1927-1981 (bulk 1934-1958),
2 boxes

Includes correspondence, scripts (also synopses and story outlines), photographs, music, clippings, and legal and financial records which document Swanson's radio appearances, 1927-1981. The types of programs include interviews, radio plays, serials, patriotic appeals during World War II, commercials, and talk shows.

Most of the material is arranged chronologically by program, 1934-1977. These files typically contain a script, synopsis, or story outline, plus any related correspondence or other items. The correspondence files, 1927-1981, generally represent programs for which no material other than correspondence exists.

It was not always possible to distinguish proposed shows from actual performances using surviving documentation, thus no attempt has been made to differentiate the status of the programs.

Of particular interest in this subseries are The Gloria Swanson Show (1950-1951), and the Lux Radio Theatre version of Sunset Boulevard (1951).

Subseries D. Sound Recording, 1933-1974,
1 folder

Only a small amount of material, consisting of a catalog, correspondence, notes, and royalty statements, represents Swanson's activities in the field of sound recording, 1933-1974.

Several commercial recordings by Swanson are among the Audio Discs included in Series VII.

Subseries E. Television, 1944-1981,
11 boxes

Includes correspondence, scripts (many annotated), call sheets, shooting schedules, contracts and other legal documents, financial information, photographs, music, publicity, clippings, and notes relating to Miss Swanson's appearances or proposed appearances on television, 1944-1981.

The papers have been kept in their original categories of Appearances (1944-1981), Mexican Television (1950-1954), and Proposed Television (1949-1979). Files for appearances and proposed television are arranged chronologically while the Mexican Television files are arranged topically.

The files concerning individual shows, almost 8 boxes, make up the largest part of this subseries. Included are documentation of the The Gloria Swanson Hour, broadcast over WPIX in New York during 1948, her activities as host of the 1953 Crown Theatre series, as well as appearances on a number of interview shows, game shows, series, and specials. Miss Swanson starred in episodes of such popular series as Dr. Kildare, The Ben Casey Show, My Three Sons, The Beverly Hillbillies, and The Carol Burnett Show. Of particular interest is her 1957 appearance on The Steve Allen Show, which included a performance from the proposed musical Boulevard.

Other files in this subseries concern television shorts shot in Mexico and proposed ideas or appearances.

Correspondents include Steve Allen, Richard Chamberlain, Dick Clark, Ralph Edwards, Eva Gabor, Hedda Hopper, Gypsy Rose Lee, Edward R. Murrow, Marshall Neilan, Zasu Pitts, and Aaron Spelling.

Subseries F. Theatre, 1937-1977,
21 boxes

Includes correspondence, scripts (many annotated), contracts, financial information, photographs, music (both manuscripts and sheet music), playbills, programs, publicity, reviews, schedules, designs (costume, production, and set), and notes which document Miss Swanson's theatrical appearances, 1937-1977.

Files on the seventeen shows, which are arranged chronologically, occupy about eighteen boxes of this subseries. The remaining two boxes contain correspondence and scripts for proposed theatrical performances, 1937-1976, and a small group of unidentified theatre photographs.

Notable are files on three Broadway productions, Twentieth Century (1950-1951), Nina (1951-1952), and Butterflies Are Free (1971-1972), a proposal to replace Katharine Hepburn in Coco (1970), national company and stock tours of Butterflies Are Free (1970-1972), and a number of summer stock tours, most frequently with actor/writer/director Harold J. Kennedy. Prominent performers involved in these productions include José Ferrer, David Niven, Buddy Rogers, and Lois Wilson.

Of special interest are files concerning Miss Swanson's proposed musical version of Sunset Boulevard, called Boulevard (ca. 1955-1970), which is represented by correspondence, scripts, original music, and production outlines in this subseries.

Correspondents include Eve Arden, Richard Banks, Vilma Banky, Beverly Bayne, Marcus Blechman, Virginia Bowker, Walter Byron, Ruth Chatterton, Indra Devi, William Dufty, Michelle Farmer, José Ferrer, Ram Gopal, Helen Hayes, Dick Hughes, Danny Kaye, Harold J. Kennedy, Henri de la Falaise, Rod LaRocque, Alan Jay Lerner, Frances Marion, Elsa Maxwell, Marshall Neilan, Mary Pickford, Ted Shawn, Richard Stapley, and Lois Wilson.

Subseries G. Proposed Projects, ca. 1920s-1982,
15 boxes

Chiefly correspondence and scripts, synopses, and treatments, related to proposed film, radio, television, and theatre projects under consideration by Swanson, ca. [192-]-1982.

These papers have been left as they were found, generally separated into correspondence (arranged chronologically) and scripts (arranged alphabetically by title). Some scripts also included associated correspondence, financial information, and clippings, which have been kept with the appropriate script. Where available, authors and dates have been transcribed in the folder list.

Several scripts date from Swanson's early United Artists days ( The Battalion of Death, Desert Love, The Stenog), including some which were either written and/or owned by Henri de la Falaise ( Antiques, Paris Luck, The Star of the Opera). Another large group of scripts were written by William Dufty ( Blackpoint, Keystone '67, Opus 13, Patriotic Gore, Sex After Sixty, Superstud, Go Home!). Also of interest are the more substantial files representing Blackpoint and Here Kitty, Kitty.

Prominent screenwriters whose work is represented in this subseries include Zoë Akins, Jay Presson Allen, Lenore J. Coffee, Delmer Daves, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Frances Marion, Richard Matheson, Preston Sturges, and C. Gardner Sullivan.

Correspondents include Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Behanna, Francesa Bertina, George Cukor, Evelyn Laye, Jean Dalrymple, Dorothy Farnum, and Don DeFore.

Subseries H. Miscellaneous Career Related, 1929-1982,
4 boxes

Includes brochures, clippings, copyright information, correspondence, legal documents, membership cards, photographs, and printed and promotional materials from organizations relating to Miss Swanson's career, 1929-1982. These include actors' groups, film and television organizations, libraries, museums, and universities.

Material is arranged alphabetically by the name of the organization, or in a few cases, by film title.

The largest group of files included here center around the later records of Queen Kelly, ca. 1956-1985, documenting ownership, copyright, domestic and foreign showings, television rights, use in documentary films, etc. Some French language materials are included in the Queen Kelly files.

Also included are files containing repository agreements and correspondence concerning Miss Swansons's personal film collection at The Museum of Modern Art (ca. 1944-1967) and George Eastman House (1967-1982).

The actors' organization files, especially the Screen Actor's Guild, contain some limited financial information, i.e. income, residuals, etc.

Correspondents included in this segment of the collection include Michelle Farmer Amon, Walter Byron, James Card, Richard Griffith, Edith Head, René Hubert, Jacob K. Javits, Joseph P. Kennedy, Edward I. Koch, Henri Langlois, Viola Lawrence, Mervyn LeRoy, Ed Sullivan, Jack Valenti, and Erich von Stroheim.

Subseries A. Film, ca. 1914-1983

Subseries A1. Essanay Studios

Photographs

box

folder

11 items (4 duplicates), ca. 1915-[192-]; 49 items (3 duplicates), nd

Group shots of the company, actors, stills, shots on the set. A number of these are unidentified.

His New Job, 1915,
photographs, 1 item

Subseries A2. Sennett/Keystone Studios

Photographs, Sennett/Keystone Studios,
4 items

Posters [see poster, P10-P12]

Scrapbook [see scrapbook 35, box 553]

A Dash of Courage, 1916,
photographs, 2 items

Hearts and Sparks, 1916,
photograph, 1 item

A Social Club, 1916,
photographs, 6 items

The Danger Girl, 1916,
photographs, 5 items

Haystacks and Steeples, 1916,
photograph, 1 item

The Nick-of-Time Baby, 1916

box

folder

Photographs
4 items

Poster, photograph of (color)

Scrapbook [see scrapbook 61, box 577]

Teddy at the Throttle, 1917

Photographs
10 items

Program, 1930

Title card

Dangers of a Bride, 1917,
photograph, 1 item

The Sultan's Wife, 1917,
photographs, 5 items

A Pullman Bride, 1917

Photographs,
34 items

Publicity photographs,
7 items

Unidentified stills,
4 items

Subseries A3. Triangle Company

Photographs, 2 items, unidentified stills, publicity shots ca. 1918,

Scrapbook [see scrapbook 35, box 553]

Every Woman's Husband, scrapbook [see scrapbook 61, box 577] 1918,

Shifting Sands, 1918

Photographs, 1 item, keyplate 2 with 19 stills

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 61 (box 577), 79 (box 582a)]

Station Content, 1918,
scrapbook [see scrapbook 61, box 577]

You Can't Believe Everything, 1918,
scrapbook [see scrapbook 79, box 582a]

Subseries A4. Famous Players-Lasky Corp./Paramount Pictures

folder

Clippings, nd

Correspondence, contracts, financial, 1918-1927

Fellowship Club, Second Annual Ball program 1921,

Photographs, unidentified stills, publicity, etc.

Scrapbooks, Paramount Pictures Publicity Campaign [see scrapbooks 64-78, boxes 580-582a]

Don't Change Your Husband, 1919

Clippings, nd

Photographs
8 items

Scrapbook [see scrapbook 79, box 582a]

For Better, For Worse, 1919

Clipping, nd

8-9

Photographs
22 items

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 16 (boxes 573-573a), 61 (box 577)]

Male and Female, 1919

Clippings, nd

Music, sheet music cover for "Gloria" "dedicated to GS and C.B. DeMille production of Male and Female" with words by Tot Seymour and music by M. K. Jerome

12-15

Photographs,
35 items

Postcard

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 31 (box 550), 61 (box 577)]

Story, El Admirable Crichton in La Novela Semanal Cinematografica No. 215, nd

Title card

Why Change Your Wife, 1920

Clippings, nd

Photographs,
11 items

Story, Por Que Cambiar De Esposa? in La Novela Semanal Cinematografica No. 74

Something to Think About, 1920

Clipping

23-25

Photographs,
26 items

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 64-66, 68, 70-73, 76, boxes 580-582]

The Great Moment, 1921

26-27

Photographs,
23 items

Publicity

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 16 (boxes 573-573a), 64-78 (boxes 580-582a]

The Affairs of Anatol, 1921

Lobby card

Photographs,
13 items

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 68-73, 76-78, boxes 581-582a]

Under the Lash, 1921

box

folder

Lobby card

2-5

Photographs
38 items

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 1 (box 539), 64-66, 68, 70, 76-77, (boxes 580-582a)]

Don't Tell Everything, 1921,
photographs, 12 items

Her Husband's Trademark, 1922

Clippings

8-10

Photographs
33 items

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 1 (box 539), 16 (boxes 573-573a)]

Beyond the Rocks, 1922

11-21

Photographs,
144 items

Postcards

Poster ([Poster, P1]

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 1 (box 539), 16 (boxes 573-573a), 32 (box 550a), 57 (575a), 64 (box 580)]

Her Gilded Cage, 1922

Lobby card, article with photograph of
(removed to oversize, box 589.8)

box

folder

1-9

Photographs,
106 items

Posters [see poster, P2]

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 1 (box 539), 16 (box 573-573a), 31 (box 550), 57 (box 575a), 62 (box 578)]

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew, 1922

10-14

Photographs,
62 items

Postcard

Poster, photograph of (color)

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 1 (box 539), 31 (box 550), 32 (box 550a), 57 (box 575a), 62 (box 578), 79 (box 582a)]

My American Wife, 1923

Photographs,
3 items

Publicity

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 1 (box 539), 62 (box 578), 79 (box 582a)]

Prodigal Daughters, 1923

box

folder

1-7

Photographs,
66 items

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 31 (box 550), 62 (box 578)]

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, 1923

Photographs,
7 items

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 31 (box 550), 62 (box 578)]

Zaza, 1923

9-19

Photographs,
116 items

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 31 (box 550), 61 (box 577), 79 (box 582a)]

Title card

The Humming Bird, 1924

Clippings

22-25

Photographs,
166 items

1-13

Photographs (cont.)

Postcard

Scrapbook [see scrapbook 79, box 582a]

Title card

A Society Scandal, 1924

16-23

Photographs,
74 items

Title cards

Manhandled, 1924

Audio recordings [see audio recordings, reel 2]

Clippings

Film [see film, reel FE21, videotapes FT12-FT13]

Photographs,
101 items

1-9

Photographs (cont.)

Postcards

Publicity

Title card

Titles, transcripts

Her Love Story, 1924

14-27

Photographs,
139 items

Title card

Wages of Virtue, 1924

box

folder

1-11

Photographs,
105 items

Program and publicity photographs

Scrapbook [see scrapbook 79, box 582a]

Script, p. 126-131

Title card

Madame Sans-Gêne, 1925

Clippings

Music, thematic music cue sheet, signed by GS, 1975

17-20

Photographs,
246 items

1-14

Photographs (cont.)

1-2

Photographs (cont.)

Play booklet, Samuel French publication No. 49 of the play Madame Sans ("Madame Devil-May-Care") by Victorien Sardou and Adrien Moreau

Postcard

Premieres, invitations, and programs for Paris, New York, and London premieres

Publicity

The Close Up, May 2, 1925

Photographs

Swanson's return to America, 1925,
24 items

Oklahoma Paramount Rustlers, Needles, AZ, Apr. 1925,
25 items

Realia, Commemorative silver spoons
2 items [see realia, box 531]

Scrapbooks [see scrapbooks 10-11 (box 584), 13 (box 585), 23 (box 586), 24 (box 587), 31 (box 550), 79 (box 582a)]

box

The Coast of Folly, 1925

Clippings

10-22

Photographs,
124 items

Postcards

Stage Struck, 1925

box

folder

Clippings

2-12

Photographs,
110 items

Postcard

Poster, photographs of

Publication, Stage-Struck: A Story of Love, Comedy and Pathos by Frank R. Adams. New York: Jacobsen-Hodgkinson Corp., ca. 1925

Untamed Lady, 1926

16-19

Photographs,
108 items

1-7

Photographs (cont.)

Fine Manners, 1926

box

folder

8-19

Photographs,
117 items

Posters [see poster, P3]

Scrapbook [see scrapbook 79, box 582a]

Subseries A5. United Artists

Correspondence

box

folder

1-2

1925-1926

3-11

1927, Jan.-aug.

1-7

miscellaneous Aug.-Dec.,

8-11

1928, Jan.-March

100

1-10

April-Dec., miscellaneous

11-16

1929, Jan.-June

101

1-7

July-Dec., miscellaneous

8-11

1930-1933

1938-1942, United Artists Corporation memos regarding destruction of prints of Queen Kelly, The Trespasser, What a Widow! and A Perfect Understanding

Financial Records

1926

Checks (carbon copies), SPC

box

folder

102

1-10

#1-1000, Sept.-Dec.

Insurance, Aug. 25-Sept. 9

Note, Bowery and East River National Bank, July 13

Production cost, Love of Sunya, nd

103

Production cost/voucher register, Love of Sunya, Sep. 1926-Mar. 1927

Receipts/disbursements

Ledger, SPC, [see bound volumes, B36] Sep. 25, 1926-Mar. 19, 1927

United Artists, reports and accounts, Berlin, Oct. 2

1927

Accounts payable, Sadie Thompson, Aug. 27-Dec. 31, GSP

Checks (cancelled), GSP

4-7

#1-400, May-July

104

1-7

#401-1035, July-Nov.

Checks (carbon copies), GSP

folder

105

1-7

#1-700, 939 May-Sept.

Checking account reconciliation, May-Nov., GSP

Disbursement vouchers, GSP

#1-7, journal

10-11

#1-39

106

1-6

#40-100

107

1-4

#101-149

108

1-6

#150-205

109

1-6

#206-250

110

1-6

#251-300

111

1-6

#301-392

112

1-4

#393-503, 517

Disbursements, May 21-Oct. 29, GSP

Insurance, Aug. 8, nd

Note, GS to Albert Parker, July 11

Production cost, Sadie Thompson, miscellaneous items, GSP

Production payroll, Sadie Thompson, May 28-Nov. 19, GSP

Receipts, Love of Sunya, Dec. 30, 1927-Jan. 12, 1928; Sadie Thompson, Jan. 14-22, 1928

Receipts/disbursements, ledger, GSP, May 28-Nov. 30,
[see bound volumes, B37]

Receivables, May-Dec.

Voucher register, Sadie Thompson, June 1927-Jan. 1928

113

Taxes, Mar. 1928-Jun. 1930, GSP

Unfinished picture cost, Sadie Thompson, May 21-Dec. 10, GSP

Miscellaneous receipts

1928

Accounts payable, Jan. 24-31, GSP

Advances/receipts/disbursements, July 25-Dec. 31

Advances/receipts/vouchers payable, GPI, Oct. 13-Dec. 29

Bills, Apr. 16-Dec. 8, F.B.O. Studios

Budget, Feb. 11

Checks (carbon copies), GPI

9-16

#101-817, Sept.-Dec.

Checks (cancelled) and deposit slips, C.E. Sullivan special account, GPI, Apr. 24-Dec. 31

Disbursements

June 26, C.E. Sullivan special account

Sept. 22-Dec. 29, GPI

114

Insurance, life, cast, negative film floater, Jan. 26-Dec. 18

Miscellaneous, Kennedy staff files? [Jan. 1928?]

Production cost

Queen Kelly, Oct. 13-Dec. 29

Love of Sunya [Jan. 1928?]

Sadie Thompson [Jan. 1928?]

Production payroll, Queen Kelly, Sept. 22-Dec. 29, GPI

Purchase orders, #251-325, Mar. 2-Sept. 17, GPI

Receipts and disbursements

GS, GS special account, GS trustee account, C.E. Sullivan special account Jan.-Dec.,

Nov. 24-Dec. 31, GPI

Reconciliation, C.E. Sullivan special account Apr. 1-Jan. 1 1929,

Statements, SPC, Dec. 31

United Artists Theatre Circuit, Inc., balance sheet, Oct. 31

1929

Advances/receipts/vouchers payable, GPI

Jan. 5-Dec. 28

Aug. 31-Dec. 28

Cash disbursements and receipts, GPI May 24,

Checks (carbon copies), GPI

#818-900, Jan. 2-12

115

1-11

#901-2000, Jan.-July

116

1-5

#2001-2525, July-Dec

Disbursements, Jan. 5-Dec. 28, GPI

Insurance negative film floater, Jan. 4, GPI

Lay off costs, Queen Kelly, Jan. 26-Feb. 10

Payroll, Jan. 5-Dec. 28, GPI

Production cost, GPI

Queen Kelly, Jan. 5-Dec. 28

The Trespasser

Mar. 30-Dec. 28

Aug. 31-Dec. 28

Receipts and disbursements, Jan. 5-Dec. 31, GPI

Taxes, Mar. 4-8, GSP

Trial Balance, Mar. 1-Dec. 31, C.E. Sullivan special account

Miscellaneous receipts

1930

Advances/vouchers payable, GPI

folder

117

Jan. 4-Nov. 22

Sept. 27-Nov. 22

Checks (carbon copies), GPI

3-14

#2526-3700, Jan-June 14

118

1-7

#3701-4340, June 14-Dec.

Deposit slips, Jan. 28-Aug. 6, C.E. Sullivan special account

Disbursements, Jan. 4-Dec. 13, GPI

Payroll, Jan. 4-Dec. 6, GPI

Production cost, GPI

Queen Kelly, Jan. 4-Mar. 22

Rock-a-Bye, Sept. 6-Nov. 22

What a Widow!

Jan. 4-Nov. 22

Sept. 27-Nov. 22

Receipts and disbursements

folder

119

GPI Jan. 31-Sept. 30,

Jan. 1-Dec. 31, C.E. Sullivan special account, I. R. Wakoff trustee account

Reconciliation

Jan.-Dec., C.E. Sullivan special account

I. R. Wakoff trustee account June-July,

Summary of billings, What a Widow!, GPI Feb. 1-Mar. 15,

Taxes

GPI

GSP

United Artists Corp., Receipts/statements, What a Widow!, Dec. 6, 1930-May 21, 1943

1931

Audit report, Gloria Swanson Farmer, 1931-1932, Gloria Swanson Pictures Corp., Oct. 5, 1931-Dec. 31, 1932

United Artists Corp.

Certified accounts, Jan. 3

Consolidated balance sheets and consolidated income statements, Jan. 3, Feb. 28, Apr. 4, May 2, May 30, July 4, Aug. 1, Aug. 31, Oct. 3, Oct. 31, Nov. 28
(removed to oversize, folder 592.1)

Receipts/statements

Love of Sunya, Sadie Thompson, The Trespasser, What a Widow!, Jan. 1931-Sept. 1932

The Trespasser, Jan. 31, 1931-May 2, 1941

1932

United Artists Corp.

Consolidated balance sheets and consolidated income statements, Jan. 2, Feb. 27, Apr. 2, Apr. 30, May 28, July 2, July 30, Aug. 27, Oct. 1, Oct. 29, Nov. 26
(removed to oversize, folder 593.1)

Receipts/statements, Queen Kelly, Aug. 10, 1932-Feb. 5, 1933

1933

United Artists Corp., receipts/statements

Perfect Understanding, Sept. 1933-Oct. 30, 1943

Tonight or Never, Apr. 2-Oct. 1, 1938

Legal Documents, 1925-1934

1925

box

folder

120

Nov. 21--Agreement, James Ashmore Creelman and GS ("Coral Blaze")

Nov. 27--Summons and complaint, S. Alexander Cohen vs. GS

1926

June--Agreement, United Artists and United Artists Theatre Circuit

June 8--Articles of incorporation, SPC

[July]--Memorandum of agreement, GS and Albert Parker ( Love of Sunya/Eyes of Youth)

July 21--Certificate of changes of powers and provisions, SPC

July 22--Assignment to SPC, contract GS and United Artists

Aug. 18--Affidavits by Adeline L. Burns, Bertha Leu attesting to GS date of birth

Aug. 18--Agreement, GS and SPC. ( Love of Sunya)

Aug. 25--Agreement, SPC and GS with Joseph M. Schenck (Art Cinema Corp.) ( Love of Sunya)

Aug. 31--Agreement, SPC and John Boles ( Love of Sunya)

Sept. 1--Contract, Thomas A. Moore and SPC

Oct. 2--Assignment and assumption, Swanson finance contract of Aug. 18, Art Finance Corp. to Art Cinema Corp.

Oct. 4--Memorandum of agreement, SPC with Art Cinema Corp.

Nov. 4--Assignment of contract, GS to SPC

Dec. 14--Memorandum of agreement, Thomas A. Moore, Pierre A. Bedard, McGrath and Bertram S. Nayfack ( Love of Sunya)

Dec. 18--Agreement, GS and Maurice Cleary

Dec. 22--Royalty agreement, Harold Flammer Inc. and SPC ("Love Waltz" for Love of Sunya)

1927

Jan. 29--Corporate Minutes, SPC

Feb. 3--Certificate of Change of Name, SPC to Gloria Swanson Productions, Inc.

Feb. 28--Letter of Agreement, Mar. 1 Contract GSP and Ouida Bergere ("Desert Love" or "Goddess of the Sahara")

Mar. 17--Letter Agreement, SPC and Art Cinema ( Love of Sunya)

Mar. 18--Proposed Schedule of Charge for Space and Studio Facilities of the United Artists Studio Corporation

Mar. 30--Memorandum of Agreement, GSP and Henry Waxman

Apr. 15--Corporate Minutes, GSP

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Research

Gloria Swanson:

An Inventory of Her Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

Descriptive Summary

Administrative Information

Acquisition

Processed by

Restrictions

Access

Biographical Sketch

Chronology

Scope and Contents

Related Material

Container List

Series I. Correspondence, 1907-1983 (bulk 1950s-1960s),
85 boxes

Series II. Career, ca. 1914-1983,
118 boxes

Research

Gloria Swanson:

An Inventory of Her Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Chronology

Container List

Series I. Correspondence, 1907-1983 (bulk 1950s-1960s), 85 boxes

Series II. Career, ca. 1914-1983, 118 boxes

Series I. Correspondence, 1907-1983 (bulk 1950s-1960s),
85 boxes

Series II. Career, ca. 1914-1983,
118 boxes