Kenneth Turan’s DVD Pick of the Week – Gloria Swanson
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Channel: Los Angeles Times · 2018 · Entertainment
Gloria Swanson is perhaps best know today for her starring role in Billy Wilder’s superb “Sunset Boulevard,” but she was a force to be reckoned with as a comic actress in the silent era, and Kino Lorber has just released two of her best films.
Both 1924’s “Manhandled” and 1925’s “Stage Struck” were directed by Allan Dwan and featuring Swanson as an ordinary woman who plays a part. In the first, she pretends to be a Russian countess, in the second an actress. Fun all around. – Kenneth Turan
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