"Queen Kelly" presented in person by Gloria Swanson Part 2

[@84ccipollini]

What a voice. I could listen to her talk all day...

[@italianbutterfly217]

A music....

[@nocount1]

This is an amazing piece of history. Her presentation wasmore like a class lecture instead of the expected scripted introduction. What a wonderful record. Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@sugarlove]

My God what a wonderful interview, i loved to see Miss Swanson looks like a Queen! Love her!!

[@bobbyantonelli7978]

Love love Gloria Swanson!!

[@rglezhr]

A one-of-a-kind lady. Beautiful, talented, smart and kind. Times have changed. You don't find actors with this type of class in Hollywood anymore.

[@Czechbound]

Still a looker in her 60's. A beautiful voice too. I'd say she was fun to be around.

[@nightstalkerck]

Actually, I would say she's very sexy here.

[@sclogse1]

When you see this charming real woman, unaffected by fame, and then watch her performance in Sunset Boulevard, it's a revelation.

[@hypercomms2001]

Later on she does seem to have become a Norma Desmond type of character...

[@ShogunHull]

@@hypercomms2001 nay... No she didn't. How silly to think that.

[@irinagarbo]

You are so right, Jess! She was so intelligent and also a great narrator. I always enjoy listening to her voice, it's so pleasant! And she also was going ahead with the time and never dwelling on her glorious past, and that was wonderful!

[@irened.]

They had faces then! She sure did. And how! Gorgeous lady with a beautiful voice and well-spoken.

[@Khloe_dancer_model]

WOW…a complete different era she was from.So much elegance….

[@cac123ish]

What a great and wonderful and classy and elegant and beautiful lady she was, a fantastic actress. She will always be my favorite actress and movie star of ALL time.

[@peterlynch2193]

A big star, talented and professional. Candour, dignity, sincerity and intelligence. Warmth, I have always liked her level of cordiality, also respect! She was always interesting in an interview. Thanks so much for posting.

[@ALKAHESTBOY]

Broadcast in August 1966 on WNET New York.

[@8angst8]

Thank you! Even the DVD did not provide this info!

[@JloveLamar]

​@@8angst8 What DVD?

[@jpblack2148]

Listening to her talk about preservation, I bet she could never have imagine that some 50 years later this would be watched all over the world, on a phone with a screen and no wires at all.

[@zazuzazz5419]

A legend of an artist commenting on her art. In such a candid, uncomplicated manner. She speaks to the audience with an aire of confidence that she considers them up to the task. She doesn’t humor or snark at her audience. She doesn’t talk down to the viewer. Marvelous.

[@GeoStrum3]

I met her in person . It was at the Lincoln Center Library back in 1978 were she was honoring dancer Ted Shawn. As I approached her in line I told her she still looked beautiful. She fluttered her eyes and touched the carnation she held to her lips and said thank you.

[@ld3507]

I LOVE this! I can just see her responding as such...so lovely and feminine in her strength.💞💃💜

[@kevinwilson3609]

Love when she says, "Max!"

[@lisamcdonald1014]

Yep

[@williamneumyer7147]

I have time for you, Miss Swanson. - I remember watching worthwhile programs, including art films from around the world, on WGBH in Boston, in those days, long, long ago.

[@HAPPYTHELEAF]

Command performance in Sunset Boulevard

[@rowbyrowby]

What a fantastic woman. ...Rowby.

[@timgalway9960]

A complete gem

[@JerseySurvivor]

This is great. Where did you find it? Sadly there were many things like this locally in the 50s & 60s. I'm sure most if not all are lost (I remember Francis X Bushman introducing Ben-Hur). This is great. Brings back many memories of long conversations with her & Bill.

[@ClarasBeau]

Wow... Thanks so much for postingt this... What a revelation!

[@63LAURIE]

Love this lady.

[@SymphonyBrahms]

One of the legendary film stars.

[@DMfilmfan]

Very interesting self-conducted interview. No specific mention made of financier / paramour Joseph Kennedy of course, lol, who was at the time very much involved in Gloria's personal life as well as her film career.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

now THAT'S a star!!!

[@ShogunHull]

Madame Swanson... You are so lovely. I miss you. I think you must have known or met many times..my Father and Mother. Your era. My Mom was 40 when I was born...my Dad was 60. So he was born in 1894. Mother in 1914. I think maybe you can see this from beyond on the other side. And Everyone went to my Dad's Hotels..all of Hollywood back in that day. 3 of them were in close proximity to where you lived on the NE corner of Sunset & Beverly. My parents and I lived a block up the street from you.. on Bev Drive...NW corner of Beverly & Lex. (Lexington) The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, The Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica and The Arrowhead Springs Hotel, Lake Arrowhead, where all the A-Listers Rendezvoused. You had to have met Thomas E. Hull.. of Hull Hotels...probably many times over 50 years and no doubt at the Hotel El Rancho Vegas, the first hotel on the Strip on Dad's land, his idea and the El Cortez Hotel downtown...The Thunderbird & the Last Frontiere,.. no doubt you stayed at the El Rancho.

[@irinagarbo]

@JerseySurvivor Thank you! Comments like this always make my day, because it is great to know eople are happy to discover such rare gems still exist. I seriously canot remember where I found it though...

[@SprightlyValentino]

Thanks for uploading this. :) I loved Queen Kelly when I rented it from Netflix, and I especially loved this extra, which was in the special features. I was sorry I had to send it back! (I also wonder why I don't just buy Queen Kelly on DVD!)

[@irinagarbo]

@disneyclint Thank you for your kind comment!

[@yass224]

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[@irinagarbo]

@84ccipollini Just like me, dear friend, just like me! Her voice is one of the most amazing things about her!

[@irinagarbo]

@nocount1 You're welcome, so happy you enjoyed it!

[@ciaomariobello]

wonderful Lady Love and Respect xo m.

[@ShogunHull]

What happened to the pieces of Queen Kelly..she was showing? Why is it not there?

[@bullwinkle1989]

I love Gloria Swanson! Any chance you can get the footage of Queen Kelly from this show? Maybe it can be found in archive.org?

[@gustavoarguello5979]

You can get the movie from here: hawkmenblues.blogspot.com/2013/02/queen-kelly-erich-von-stroheim-1929.html

[@AL-kh7pz]

@@gustavoarguello5979 Your link above no longer works! 😞

[@JerseySurvivor]

@irinagarbo It amazes me that it still exists. Let me ask you this. About 2 or 3 years ago when I first discovered YT, there was a 10 minute excerpt of Gloria performing her own musical version of Sunset Blvd. from the 1950's. I think it may have been from a Steve Allen show. It was amazing. But eventually yanked from YT. Have you seen it?

[@mehmetokay7073]

It sounds like every road led into that "dance hall" on Queen Kelly. No wonder it was censored. "It was out my hands because of censorship."

[@hellomontana2318]

those jewels!

[@8angst8]

Dear Irina: Provide more info with your posting: What is the date, and what show did this appear on?

[@irinagarbo]

@ClarasBeau You're welcome!

[@irinagarbo]

@JerseySurvivor No I haven't seen it :( I would have loved to see that!! I only heard some short audio of one of the songs she performed in "Boulevard", the musical version of SB, but I have never watched the video you mentioned.

[@irinagarbo]

@konstanths The "missing parts" are when the movie is showed.

[@HC-cb4yp]

"I'm sure Mr. Von Stroheim and Mr. Hayes are in the same place..." Uh... heh, heh, heh...

[@brkitdwn]

Who did this appearance? Where did it play?

[@XX-gy7ue]

I wonder what actually happened ? but a lot of extremely talented people were involved !

[@WellnessGreece]

who edited the video ? where are the parts missing ?

[@irinagarbo]

@JubalCalif Thank you!

[@talmadge1926]

She herself made this version of events irrelevant in her memoir Swanson on Swanson. She was actually persuaded to do this by Joseph Kennedy whose influence she had fallen under. She was apprehensive about Von Stroheim as he had a reputation for not respecting budgets or scripts. The first intimation of what was to come was revealed when she saw the rushes of the first meeting of the prince and Kelly. The comedy consisted of the fact that Kelly lost her knickers. The prince laughed at her which enraged her and in her embarrassment she threw them at him. What she didnt see until seeing the rushes was that he caught them and subtly but unmistakeably passed them under his nose. Sniffing! He went way over budget. Shooting the same scene 20 or 30 times without as far as she could see any noticeable difference. Things went from bad to worse and the tobacco/saliva dripping episode was so disgusting that she walked off the set. The nail in the coffin was the "dancehall" which was obvious as a sleazy brothel. Over half a million dollars lost.

[@judyshoaf448]

What I like is what a clever sequence of events she constructed. No mention of Kennedy. Focus on the money aspect, with the censorable portions being reduced to a waste of footage and time. The tobacco juice substituted for the panty-sniffing (a version of which Von S. apparently tried to persuade Wilder to include in Sunset Boulevard). Very unlikely anyone would want to remake it, since my understanding is that the plot involved basically a virginal woman (her loathsome husband having croaked on their wedding night, as in Von S's version of the Merry Widow) who is a powerful and wealthy madam of a chain of brothels in African ports, but who has kept her heart and body pure for the prince who first seduced her (or would have, if his main mistress, the queen herself, had not appeared with a bullwhip and evicted her from the palace; or did he?). I am sure scarlet Queen Kelly and the Prince would have reunited under the apple blossoms. Talk about fairy tales!

[@victoriapappakostas9377]

the film was removed!!!!

[@WellnessGreece]

@irinagarbo where can i see them ?

[@NiCocaineable]

can someone do a translation into Italian of what she says? can someone give a brief summary of what she says in English? Please do not understand English very well

[@WhiteCamry]

When did she tape this?

[@hcombs0104]

Around 1966, I think.

[@Ebelg-v7h]

Tully Marshall

[@bobbyantonelli7978]

Where’s the picture? No fair- rotten trick. I was dying to see what I could from that movie!

[@irinagarbo]

@bullwinkle1989 I wish I had it :(