Gloria Swanson talks about QUEEN KELLY

Add "&fmt=18" for the high-resolution version. From THE DICK CAVETT SHOW. August 3, 1970.

[@gra-emed3617]

I can’t help but feel Gloria just isn’t getting the respect she deserves here. Perhaps before the time where we really appreciated these older legends than we do today. This was a time where they really saw the revolutions taking place as something enabling them to scoff at the past. Today I think Gloria would have received a roar of encouragement and respect when she stood up and showed her outfit. There was an element of “oh whatever old lady in her old fashioned outfit” instead of legend, looking amazing in her timeless classic outfit. Now she has gone and we can’t show her the respect she deserves

[@sergeantretro4427]

Are we watching the same clip?

[@lincolnpaul1814]

GRA-EME D young Americans never had respect for older people, actually today they can vanish and young Americans would be happy. This is not the case in Germany

[@irened.]

The worst part is the pubilc roaring for that crackhead b!cth whoever she is. She basically rolled out of bed, didn't shower or brush her hair or spray deodorant and showed up all smelly and looking like roadkill and the audiences cheers the clueless CU Next Tuesday! Barbara Walters did the same to Ms. Swanson, who remained pure class like here, in her interview. WTF was going on??

[@longbranch11207]

@@irened. i was like no shade but she had a lot of fucking nerves

[@dollyrawlins5470]

@@irened. Janis is a legend so is Gloria. Your disrespect and disgusting language here is menial.

[@bregieirofernandes]

I love how Gloria makes it clear that the crazy bohemian life of "modern times" is nothing compared to the madness of the roaring twenties

[@rakesfunnyfarm]

Those days women could not do what they wanted or they would be labeled!

[@rachybaby72]

@@rakesfunnyfarm Those days women did precisely what they wanted, "label" or not. Don't get it twisted. Oh, and women her labelled today too _(you all just pretend we don't _*_or_*_ that you "don't care" ), so..._

[@pen64]

She was right

[@cosmicman621]

...Janis is going off about flappers and what not...like a know it all kid..bla bla..and Gloria’s just thinking...I lived that life...lI already mentioned..I’ve seen it all.Didnt you hear me when I just told you.And ..Cavey..wasn’t any help at all.Worst interview I’ve seen by him (CAVETT)

[@MissKosmic]

​@@cosmicman621 he was a bit of a mess! I don't think Janis came off well - but I appreciate that she was trying to draw a parallel between the experiences of young people in different eras. Nice name BTW! We're like cousins! 😂❤

[@DDavis-mi2cg]

Swanson's skin is remarkably luminous and winkle free for her age.

[@ispy368]

D. Davis you ever heard of face lift? dah!

[@rachybaby72]

@@ispy368 To me, her face looks the same as it did when she was younger. There was no face lift. That's genetics and good living.

[@SwimmerPrince]

@@rachybaby72 She had numerous facelifts, she looked younger than wen she was in Sunset Boulevard, that being said, her healthy lifestyle played significant part as well.

[@rachybaby72]

@@SwimmerPrince Her face looks the same. She didn't have plastic surgery.

[@scotnick59]

No, I see no winkles whatsoever! - lol

[@65g4]

she was amazing in Sunset Boulevard she should have won the oscar

[@joshuataylor6087]

Who needs a silly statuette when you've won immortality. Time is the greatest judge, not the Oscars

[@ahf5471]

You don’t win an Oscar for playing yourself. Fast forward to Mickey Rourke’s performance in “The Wrestler”, same phenomena.

[@edglebennett6312]

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@randywhite3947]

Arthur H um Norma Desmond is nothing like Gloria Swanson

[@susanedrington427]

Amen! One of my favorite films. ❤️

[@marymary68ify]

OMG Gloria Swanson is extremely intelligent, witty and sharp for a woman at her age in this interview. I just love her. She is so absolutely fashionable and her skin is luminescent. A person can tell that Gloria Swanson took extreme care of her skin. She was a true Hollywood movie star in every sense of the word. She was such a classy lady. RIP

[@ria1636]

'For a person her age'! At 71 you're not automatically gaga!

[@deeprollingriver5820]

Gloria is so down to earth, graceful, funny, and just wonderful

[@catholicpriest1]

Gloria is 71 here!

[@JenniferBrigitteOpticalVortex]

It's crazy how sexy and young she looks here in this gorgeous ensemble

[@prototheatre72]

swanson is a very serious and extremely interesting artist. they had no idea how blessed they were to be seated alongside her. if only we could have her back now.

[@gra-emed3617]

Agreed! 👌

[@jayzrat]

Gloria Swanson and Janis Joplin on the same stage. Cavett’s shows were never boring to say the least!

[@daviddd99]

Indeed, but he appears less than sure-footed here - a bad combination and Joplin was ungracious and almost surly.

[@maydom04]

That’s what went thru my mind….and Janis smoking on TV is cool.

[@sanctuaryrain2010]

First of all I love what Gloria is wearing, she looks lovely. How she describes this is how they dressed in the 30's, the time she was at the top of her career. I think she is elegant and articulate. I don't care for how Dick Cavett speaks to her, at times poking fun. She was in silent films and when films just began with sound, what a wealth of interesting stories she has.

[@counterstriving]

To my eyes what Swanson was wearing looked a bit oversimplified and more cheaply made than the clothes from the 20's - 30's.one sees in old photos. But whatever she said is fine with me.

[@jeaniecoudriet1887]

Gloria Swanson is absolutely gorgeous! She is a class act! Everytime u see her she is so classy!

[@julieblount5674]

She creeped me out. I never knew what Joe Kennedy saw in her, but then again, what did she see in him

[@AllenMQuinn]

Swanson looked so young even in the '70s!

[@nagpurser8260]

Both wonderful women and very talented. I love them both for different reasons. Janis was insecure and had no inner confidence and her life was tragically short, while Gloria had poise and a steely inner core that supported her through her long life.

[@skyavalanche]

Well said!

[@Raughwe]

But I wish she would have picked on Janis as a girlie. Like "come and spend time with me baby" and the girlie things they do. Believe me, Swanson had dealt with the junk way back. It meant nothing to her. But, she didn't pick up on it, which is for shame. Janis dug her.

[@Janine11155]

I think Janis has a kind of sweetness and openness here, in addition to her intelligence, and it seems to me that Gloria reacts positively to that. It's nice to see

[@bobbymkd457]

Swanson is a goddes!

[@sshowgirl933]

yes a star

[@xander7ful]

Yes, there's a story that one day Ms Swanson was in a grocery store in LA and some woman was reaching for a bag of sugar. Gloria Swanson said to her, "Don't touch that stuff, sweetheart, it'll kill you." She was quite the health food nut.

[@douca1]

Love Gloria's outfit. Classy woman.

[@sferrell1000]

What Ms Swanson is wearing is timeless, she can wear that today and turn heads. Joplin looked like a freak. Ms Swanson has a wonderful command of the English language, Joplin is completely stoned.

[@marjoriemargel1567]

Scott Ferrell Poor Janis Joplin.

[@johnclarke5459]

Totally agree! Joplin looks like she needs a bath plus ++++

[@johnfd0210]

No doubt Gloria Swanson was bored by Janis Joplin's need for attention..."My dear, I have seen this all 40 years ago..."

[@karenhill3970]

Yes...Gloria lived a long full life love herJanis passed away at 27...

[@SL-ze6su]

What a lovely group of people who compliment a person at the expenses of downgrading another. Both of them were talented and great women

[@leafyutube]

Haha! Gloria Swanson is 71 and Janis Joplin is 27 in this clip, but Gloria looks 10 times sexier!

[@joanna5430]

And younger and just no comparison!

[@carolinagbb]

Class is class, and everyone know who represents it in this clip....

[@hijodelaisla275]

They does.

[@thommysides4616]

This interview has the Woodstock Legend Janis Joplin in it, and was filmed on August 3, 1970. Sadly....Janis had just two more months to live. She died on Oct 4, 1970 from a heroin overdose. At the beginning of this clip Swanson says, her dress she's wearing is from 1938, and she tells Janis she was not even born yet....still sitting on a cloud...lol. Indeed, Gloria was 44 years old when Janis was born in 1943, and Miss Swanson lived until 1983. She died at age 84. Swanson was world famous by the early 1920's....a full twenty year's before Janis was even born. Swanson lived on the world stage for 6 full decades....while Janis only began her rise to stardom a mere 3 year's before this interview. She streaked across the sky like a meteor.....rising to fame in 67, she was died by 1970! Two very famous women with two totally different journey's. Gloria may have thought to herself in this interview....this young girl has her whole life ahead of her.....they tell me she's only 27. But Gloria would still be alive for another 13 year's after this interview. Like I said....what a contrast! My only question is....what good is fame, if you never live long enough to enjoy it? Swanson did...and Joplin didn't!!! There are lessons to be learned in this. Janis reminds me of the doomed Titanic that never made it to New York. It sank on it's maiden voyage across the cold Atlantic. Janis was hit by an iceberg of her own making. For just like the Titanic, she was sailing too fast for her own good. While Gloria, on the other hand; like an old steamship, just kept on keep'in on. She really was.... a true work of art, both inside, and out!!!

[@daviddd99]

Nevertheless, Joplin was charmless and graceless here - wholly inappropriate pairing.

[@lilianacedron7341]

No puedes comparar personas con cosas . Janis fue Janis Gloria fue Gloria Son mis dos Preferidas junto a Ava Gardner y Sineád O" Connor Mis cuatro pilares . Doy gracias a Dios por sus existencias

[@hectormanuel9793]

​@@lilianacedron7341 Tienes buen gusto en tus preferencias y el trabajo de ellas habla bastante por si mismo!

[@TheEnglish1966]

Gloria Swanson has always been confident. She's looks amazing in this clip, and it's nice to see her immaculately dressed. She's a true star

[@bobtaylor170]

TheEnglish1966 , they had faces in those days.

[@TheMarkanthony5]

Perosnally i feel their both a little dissrespectfull to Gloria you can not compare a lady of gloria's time to janice whom i note make comments on gloris skirt length and janice looks like a floor mop!! vileada brand.I dont know of any mature lady even though gloria has gorgous legs would want to wear a mini skirt! they tend to be more lady like, gloria was a goddess a diva and star and beauty of her time and still looks fab here aged 71

[@lincolnpaul1814]

mark farley baloney

[@karenhill3970]

I agree i felt that too in frsfew min they both could not hold candle to Gloria...janis making that remark..Janis looked awful..probably a little jealous of Glori..no disrespect to those passed away)........

[@gulmerton2758]

@Mark Farley You’re absolutely right! I love the comparison with the floor mop! 😂 so true! Look at her hair! What was Cavett thinking asking her to be in the same show with such a legend? Swanson is not only (still) great looking but interesting to listen to. I can see in the way she looks at Janis that she wonders:”so, that’s what today’s girls look like 🤮?”.

[@TheMarkanthony5]

@@gulmerton2758 I couldn't agree with you more. You certainly hit the nail on the head

[@DrCarr-nb1tf]

Why would someone dressed so ugly criticize a grand Dame about her very stylish yet elegant clothing

[@jenniferswenyargallagher3763]

Gloria looked beautiful in this interview. What a beautiful person she was, inside and out.

[@georgestrum3478]

Gloria had such class. Putting her with Janis Joplin was a big mistake. She should have been alone on this program.

[@lucygirl4926]

@George Strum You're right. Janis just keeps putting her foot in her mouth. (I'm a big fan of both women; just not on the same stage lol...)

[@1943ofour]

Janis was a bit rude.

[@rakesfunnyfarm]

I am glad they are both there. IT was nice hearing what those days they talked about was like.

[@jackanthony976]

I think putting Gloria against Janis was perfect. In shows the differences between the generations.

[@marjoriemargel1567]

MD D Janis Joplin was probably high.i don’t care for the term “wasteland”, but that is probably a good description as any...

[@bartolemeo]

Miss Swanson was gracious and kind in the midst of ridiculous rudeness. That's the Lady that she was............I really miss such icons.

[@marjoriemargel1567]

bartolemeo Gloria Swanson knew a lot. She had been a Actress, a Director, a Producer, a trained singer, a Author , a spokeswoman, and a clothing designer.

[@panloum]

Dear God she looks amazing for her age!!!

[@MrImiller07]

Swanson looks as good or better than she did in Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard" made twenty years earlier. She was always extremely careful about her eating habits and her appearance. She aged more gracefully than her co-star William Holden, who became dissipated looking in the 70s and early 80s because of excessive alcohol use.

[@PungiFungi]

Swanson avoided sugar and ate a macrobiotic diet long before it was fashionable.

[@farfisa]

+MrImiller07 pointless comment about Holden, disrespectful too.

[@marjoriemargel1567]

FREEDOM LIGHTRIDER painfully true statement about Holden

[@lincolnpaul1814]

MrImiller07 Holden drank heavily, Swanson lived healthy

[@karenhill3970]

Because she was a lady...

[@ShakepearesDaughter]

Based on reading the comments below, is it possible that people are unable to appreciate the individual genius of both of these women at the same time? Swanson in her time, and Joplin in hers? Must Janis come out the loser because she is not as elegant as Swanson? Old Hollywood and Janis Joplin. Why even compare them? They are most utterly marvelous in their way. Both bohemian women who wanted their own definition, not society's. Janis had a terrible sadness to her, but she was brilliant when she was ready to perform. Gloria was a long-term businesswoman and professional, but she too made her own way and made over her life to suit her own design, wherever she could. We have room to appreciate both brilliant performers. Can you imagine comparing Cary Grant and Jimi Hendrix? It's pointless.

[@bobtaylor170]

ShakespearesDaughter , it's interesting that when Robert Young and Jimi Hendrix were on Cavett's show together, Hendrix behaved like a total gentleman.

[@dahliafully]

thank you, ShakespearesDaughter...3 years after your comment. Best not to look for reason or thoughtful appreciation in youtube comments, so thanks for stepping in. Lots of sanctimony out there in the audience. Swanson really reveals her business savvy here. Would have been wonderful if Joplin had given herself the chance to mature into a producer or go into film. She probably would have been marvelous. Here's a comparison of Grant & Hendrix: both from poor backgrounds taking their compulsive performative gifts to great artistic heights and articulation where they became the image they put out there and both were chief promoters of the benefits LSD with a tie or without.

[@lincolnpaul1814]

ShakespearesDaughter you don’t get it. Joplin died two weeks later from drugs etc. Swanson eats healthy lives healthy. Both had talent, Joplin threw hers away

[@shadesofgray5476]

I think if Janis Joplin had lived longer, she might have appreciated people like Miss Swanson eventually. She doesn't seem to know anything about her here and is making the wrong assumptions about what the older lady had to say. If she had been really listening, she might have found a somewhat kindred spirit who understood more about her struggles than she realized.

[@nazzme6181]

EXACTLY!!!! VERY WELL SAID!!!👏👏👏👏 💝

[@anonuser7157]

Gloria Swanson. A woman of the world. Famous men loved her, a man of royalty married her and a Kennedy was at her feet. She was in front of the camera and behind it. She was friends with some of the most talented and greatest minds. Valentino her leading man. Also, she was am excellent writer and very much a pioneer in so many ways. A fighter and a truly amazing glamorous women who remained beautiful throughout her life span through exercise and diet (vegetarian). One of the few who not only survived the silent era... She owned it.

[@jacktwist5907]

There was nothing pedestrian about either of these woman. Each was a separate personality, a powerhouse of talent. Each remarkable for their times.

[@jeancocteau100]

I was in Germany in 1922 when boys were dressing like girls...they were so pretty...Everything being done today is a poor imitation of what is being done today..

[@doright9681]

Janis is clearly high here

[@troynov1965]

She was hammered no matter where she was.

[@lloydmoore5638]

@@troynov1965 ain't it sad that the thing she was doing cost her her life?So many ppl throwing away their lives doing things that put them in the ground at an early age ..'Leave the kids alone '? Maybe if she had had more ppl steering her away from drugs she might have been around a little longer instead of being dead...You play with fire long enough and you eventually get burned

[@steve2474]

Joplin rudely interrupts Ms. Swanson, is incoherent in whatever point she is trying to make, and the audience applauds her. Gloria was an incredible actress and an amazing woman. She looked absolutely lovely in this clip.

[@lexistenceestailleurs]

What a disrespect behaviour to put Gloria next to Janis 😲

[@salvador130]

😡 l know

[@magnacz]

Janis was a very talented artist, singer, songwriter, musician.

[@gloriahanes6490]

Ageless and timeless ... my namesake.

[@Sarmatae1]

Oh yes, and my God is she beautiful. This is the very definition of stunning.

[@sharonotoole5203]

Gloria's outfit looks Glorious!

[@bopechanga1129]

hippies destroyed class in the 60's ms Swanson was a class act

[@alexcarrillo3598]

True.

[@adlozi]

it's her music that makes her outstanding, she doesn't have to be a lady to make good music.

[@Darrigrande]

She was a classy lady, elegant, young looking amd smart!

[@t4texastomjohnnycat978]

adlozi Her band was ok, and Janis was ok until the screaming started.

[@rakesfunnyfarm]

Janis was a head of her time. She had no one in her life. I find that sad. I really think if she had not went to her reunion, she would be here today.

[@jonibaloney2003]

Janis was dead 2 months and one day later...I never realized how articulate Gloria Swanson was...look at her at 70! Janis 27/Gloria 70+, and Gloria looks amazing. She even has legs like a kid!

[@SprightlyValentino]

I'm one of the youngsters who loves old pictures. I'm 24 and I just can't get enough of Gloria Swanson. Sunset Boulevard started it all for me. Thanks be also to Billy Wilder for that. I love seeing Hollywood from Gloria's point of view, as well as those time periods she lived in and saw firsthand. I wish she wasn't dead so I could at least write her a fan letter telling her all of this. Oh well, maybe if she's "up there on a cloud" she'll find out somehow. Heh.

[@bartolemeo]

It should have been Dick Cavett and Miss Swanson alone. Too many didn't understand the presence of a Lady on the stage. Wow, I wish that I could have talked to that great lady....she is sorely missed. Grace and beauty.

[@brihmendiola4347]

people didn't appreciate her so much. It's only now that she's being immortalized. Which means she was ahead of her time.

[@kelb6073]

Swanson is way ahead of her time. The GOAT. I would have LOVED to sit with her and hear all the stories.

[@Countrygirltori24]

I never liked Janis Joplin's music and now I don't like her as a person I was never a fan of Gloria Swanson, but I think I'll look at her work again because i like her in this interview

[@thommysides4616]

Watch her movie called, Sunset Blvd. Awesome!!!

[@pur4567]

classy lady Gloria swanson we lost that during the hippie drug era

[@taraniso]

+pur4567 .bruce v No, we lost that somewhere around World War II. Swanson looks a bit campy with the rose and the silver wig. Don't get me wrong, I love her and she looks great, but she looks as if  someone from Western Costume dressed her. Joplin looks a total mess. It was a miscalculation for Cavett to book them together.

[@pur4567]

ess today I think she looks pretty good

[@pur4567]

compare to the people today she looks pretty good

[@counterstriving]

and especially in the 70's and 80's

[@karenhill3970]

Yes & we want it back....we were raised ladies...by beautiful ladies. Inside & out...fr FTWORTH TEXAS🌹🌹🌹🌹🙏🙏🙏

[@Tangetastic]

Oh God, Swanson was so beautiful. Ever the lady, even in the face of such a rude audience. And I think the way she was dressed was absolutely stunning - if I were able to lead a lifestyle in which I could wear such clothes practically, I really wouldn't hold back. The 30's really were fashion at it's best. She is my role model in life - I hope one day to be as elegant.

[@daviddd99]

Indeed, 'grace under fire' as they say.... unappreciative, almost baying audience at a couple of points and a surly, graceless Joplin. What an incompetent decision by the booking team at Cavett.

[@giovanniserafino1731]

As Max said in "Sunset Boulevard, " Madame is the greatest of all the stars !"

[@longbranch11207]

Gloria Swanson is gorgeous

[@MnMS1904]

That dress is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

Back when stars were really stars and had something interesting to say.

[@mikeluna2555]

Totally agree with you, bad match up with Joplin.

[@margyrowland]

Gloria Swanson looks magnificent. Her skin is amazing. Love from Australia 🇦🇺

[@tinklvsme]

Look at those microphones! Hahaha Miss. Swanson is so beautiful! So stunning, no Botox and smooth smooth skin.

[@MsUa125]

She is so beautiful and glamorous even at her age.

[@geo-george2639]

Who knew Gloria Swanson had such beautiful eyes.

[@Vejur9000]

As the fIrst, and the best, Gloria is the queen here. Beyond fabulous. Janis was high and adversarial... but Gloria was great. She did her best to get so much history in... and it was remarkable.

[@Karen-dk1ec]

So nice to see Swanson. She always had beautiful eyes that was emphasized in her silent films. Swanson looks so elegant and stylish in her 30s style outfit. The headband started in the 1910s. A time when women had real style.

[@Themanwhocameback2]

When worlds collide ........

[@likearainbow7501]

Dick turns his back to janice, Gloria makes a point of including Janice by looking at her while she's talking. Gloria ,class and manners. RIP ladies

[@GLC2013]

Had this been filmed in 1988 or beyond, Gloria would have received a standing ovation when she walked in and peels of applause & cheers when showing her lovely dress. I lived through the Hippie Apocalypse of 1967-72 and it was awful. Nothing on this earth is nastier than a leftist, and this was the first time radical leftists had taken center stage in our country. If you drove a car with tailfins, used Brylcreem in your hair (the wet look) or wore high heels, you were THE ENEMY and received the full wrath of the drug addicts & anarchists. You can feel the hostility in the audience towards Gloria in this clip.

[@maple1212]

The more I revisit this the more I’m upset about this interview. It’s class and trash on the same stage. Have either one or the other. Don’t throw pearls in front of swine

[@celladora31]

Janis' part of the interview was quite vivacious. She was witty and genuine. This part of the interview was Ms. Swanson's so Janis was being polite and interested ans showed good manners. It wasn't that she was stoned or lacked personality. The entire episode is quite enjyable because they do exchange various ideas. I miss intellectual entertainment.

[@1943ofour]

I thought Janis was a bit rude

[@dahliafully]

swanson was not an intellectual any more than joplin was. both were brilliant in their own time and should be appreciated by all, intellectually or not. I'm friends with a recruitment director at Harvard. He's a bonafide intellectual who was a scholar in pre-classical music. He was friends with Janis Joplin in the Haight and held that she was quite bright and insightful and could hold an interesting conversation with anyone.

[@PAn-su3wy]

I agree, the entire episode is very entertaining.

[@lincolnpaul1814]

Monica Murphy nothing is intellectual with a stoned slob. Joplin was talented, but a bad example for her contemporaries

[@joshuataylor6087]

I don't think they are as different as they first appear. They were both bohemians and Swanson had been around too, she was married six times.

[@kennedygirl3698]

Swanson was married six times? So what?

[@joshuataylor6087]

Ginger Creager The point was that she also led a wild, unconventional life as did Janis Joplin so they are not as different or juxtaposed as people first presume.

[@kennedygirl3698]

Ok.I get it.I see your point.

[@farfisa]

+Kennedy Girl hmm.

[@marjoriemargel1567]

Kennedy Girl Well, how many times have you been married?

[@sugarlove]

What a wonderful interview!!!

[@Mike6E]

I can't believe Gloria was 73!

[@christinedaae87]

hunni im 21! i fell in love with gloria when i saw sunset boulevarde on tv wen i was about 15! shes an absolute star!!! i would have LOVED to be alive in the 1920s when film stars were really glamorous!! 'they didnt need words they had faces!!!' xxxx

[@MPresheva]

Jannis high, Gloria sharp.

[@MikeSings82]

I couldn't disagree more that Janis and Gloria together here was a mistake. I found their juxtaposition here fascinating and they complimented each other well. Janis, representing the youth and ideology of the 70s, and Gloria with her wisdom and gilded experience of the past 5 decades. Both seemed to share similar liberal ideas of that time.

[@ceejay1794]

MikeSings82 Exactly. Two legends, prime in their own specific decades. Today’s TV programming can’t hold a candle to Cavitt, Douglas, Griffin, Carson, etc.

[@lincolnpaul1814]

MikeSings82 you’re full of it. Joplin died from bad hard living, not a good representation of that era of youth. Swanson still at that time set a good example of healthy living

[@daviddd99]

Didn't complEment each other at all.....one was dignified and graceful in front of a vulgar audience and Joplin was graceless and churlish.

[@SaxonC]

Gloria had Classic Features!

[@Mike6E]

Gloria was so beautiful.

[@Patrick3183]

I am too. I'm 26 and have been a devotee of old stars since I was 16....

[@xaz190]

Janis looks like she needs a shower

[@johnprovince5304]

Robert Crumb knew her and said she never bathed, smelled bad,had bad skin and wasnt very appealing.

[@sherlockhemlock1246]

She still isn't.

[@TheUnleashingfaith85]

A REAL movie STAR

[@counterstriving]

@zaklamp24 It's really too bad. But by this time people weren't interested in old silent movie stars. A lot of the audience probably just saw her as an old woman telling stories about things that happened long ago that nobody cared about anymore; like the whole thing about "Queen Kelly." Few of them knew, probably, that this was one the greatest actresses of all time.

[@bosshogg1915]

Man, Gloria Swanson is gorgeous in this clip.

[@danieljalomojr5856]

Gloria Swanson looks beautiful and so elegant.

[@karenkaren3189]

I love what Swanson had to say about having seen it all when she was young. I feel the same way.....I was coming of age 40-45 years ago, and nothing is new under the sun!

[@yedon68]

......gloria very charming in every way...!

[@renan.csmaia]

Gloria Swanson was gorgeous her whole life!!

[@gwenwachsman3739]

Captivating eyes, wonderful wit. Gloria Swanson was a treasure.

[@jamesdrynan]

The glorious Swanson! She started her career in 1919 with DeMille. By the time of this show, she had spanned the 1920's through the 1960's. Little known fact: She testified as character witness for John Lennon at his immigration hearing.

[@jackf-w5440]

It's too funny. There is another Cavett interview with Miss Joplin aquel Welch which is just as amusing, considering that Welch was also her generation but clearly has no idea how to react to Joplin. Miss Swanson does it well, because it doesn't occur to her that she is not the focal point, which of course she is. LOL

[@Sarmatae1]

I don't think it would have mattered if she had shared the stage with Charles Manson. There were very few of her contemporaries that Gloria Swanson could not eclipse. I am only grateful for one thing, that she did not pass on before the age of the silents was over. Her voice, her method of speaking and her vocal acting were not something I would have wanted to miss. Every inch a lady and pure Hollywood glamour the way it was meant to be. There will never be anyone like her.

[@tomdulle1707]

Some criticize Janis in this interview, but Cavett was known for mixing diverse people on his show. Janis was notoriously shy with a massive inferiority complex. I'm sure she was "on" something during this, but the shy, insecure "pearl" had to have felt intimidated by the screen legend, Swanson, who couldn't have been nicer or more beautiful.

[@tilog6839]

It was interesting to see how business savvy Gloria Swanson was. Fascinating woman.

[@rechita]

swanson is lovely

[@ringbolt9]

gloria was hot here for 71 damn she was on a crusade against sugar her whole like and says it was posion and aged ppl maybe she was right!

[@mkptrsn]

11th grade humanities class we watched a film history doc and her story amazed me, I read her autobiography and saw some movies. She had an amazing life

[@TheFourOfNine44]

I have seen Queen Kelly.

[@linchen008]

And? Is it worth wathing?

[@solarsoltice9075]

This was the first You Tube video I ever watched, years ago Swanson was class. Joplin had talent. Her vocal on Summertime is amazing.

[@80slvr87]

I had no idea Janis Joplin was so incredibly ridiculous.

[@imsocuteimsorich4952]

she was such a lady with Janis ,love the woman,rest in peace to Gloria and Janis,God bless you both,love Gloria she was a true legend ,love her in Sunset Boulevard👍🙏🌈💓🌸✌❤🌼💏

[@grahammckay6067]

Gloria , l love you

[@sahej6939]

Gloria 🦢 Swanson is an amazing woman! Ppl just didn’t recognize the early stars back then. I love Janis too.

[@maryvelneelemantenaya1966]

Gorgeous Gloria !!!

[@captainkarma212]

Gloria was Beautiful.

[@belle26ramirez]

she looks good at 71

[@retrocausality6159]

Gloria Swanson was born in 1988 and was 71 years old here. She could pass for 40.

[@johnwellings3225]

What a stylish Beautiful lady , G Swanson. Intelligent and articulate