Gloria Swanson Ranked
by rmailander | created - 24 Nov 2019 | updated - 24 Nov 2019 | PublicA ranking of Gloria Swanson's film performances.
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1. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Votes: 236,533
2. Sadie Thompson (1928)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama
A prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Friderici, Charles Lane, Florence Midgley
Votes: 2,821 | Gross: $2.18M
3. Queen Kelly (1932)
Passed | 101 min | Drama
A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.
Directors: Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Sylvia Ashton
Votes: 3,365
4. The Trespasser (1929)
90 min | Drama, Romance
The trial and tribulations of a strong-willed woman who elopes and gives birth out of wedlock without telling her ex-husband.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 1,442
5. The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
Unrated | 117 min | Comedy, Drama
Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation than he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment and she two-times him; he comforts near-suicidal Annie and she robs him.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Bebe Daniels
Votes: 1,358
6. Father Takes a Wife (1941)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Romance
Frederick Osborne Junior is slightly agitated because his father, Senior, is acting more like a college student than the president of a huge mercantile fleet. Senior reveals that he is ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Swanson, John Howard, Desi Arnaz
Votes: 617
7. Male and Female (1919)
Not Rated | 116 min | Adventure, Drama
Lady Mary Lasenby is a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Robert Cain
Votes: 1,976
8. The Love of Sunya (1927)
Passed | 78 min | Drama
A young woman at life's crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.
Director: Albert Parker | Stars: Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Pauline Garon, Ian Keith
Votes: 832 | Gross: $0.50M
9. Beyond the Rocks (1922)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 2,403 | Gross: $0.27M
10. Zaza (1923)
84 min | Drama, Romance
Zaza is the favorite actress at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But when Zaza is badly injured, he has no choice.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Gloria Swanson, H.B. Warner, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Lucille La Verne
Votes: 915 | Gross: $0.43M
11. Indiscreet (1931)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Monroe Owsley, Barbara Kent
Votes: 1,552
12. Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
Not Rated | 71 min | Comedy
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson, Lew Cody, Sylvia Ashton
Votes: 1,272
13. Manhandled (1924)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Drama
Gloria Swanson plays Tessie McGuire, a shopgirl who, when her boyfriend breaks their date one evening, goes to a party with a louche crowd of artists and hangers-on. She wows them with some... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Tom Moore, Lilyan Tashman, Ian Keith
Votes: 1,146
14. Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Robert and Beth Gordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels, Theodore Kosloff
Votes: 1,496
15. You Can't Believe Everything (1918)
50 min | Drama
Patricia Reynolds, the belle of the summer resort she is visiting with her friend, Amy Powellson, attracts the attention of Arthur Kirby, whom Amy loves. On an evening drive, Arthur tries ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Darrell Foss, Jack Richardson, Edward Peil Sr.
Votes: 17
16. The Humming Bird (1924)
80 min | Drama, War
A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war, she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.
Director: Sidney Olcott | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Edmund Burns, William Ricciardi, Cesare Gravina
Votes: 29 | Gross: $0.34M
17. Wages of Virtue (1924)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Luigi, a traveling-show strongman, saves Carmelita from drowning and persuades her to join him. When Luigi kills his assistant, Giuseppe, in a jealous rage, they flee to Algiers, where ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Norman Trevor, Ivan Linow
Votes: 22 | Gross: $0.24M
18. Stage Struck (1925)
70 min | Comedy
A young woman dreams of becoming a great actress. When her boyfriend starts to flirt with an actual actress, she becomes jealous and decides to fight with her rival.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Gertrude Astor, Oliver Sandys
Votes: 1,066 | Gross: $0.24M
19. Her Husband's Trademark (1922)
50 min | Drama
Socialite New Yorker James Berkeley and college chum Allan Franklin are rivals for the hand of beautiful Lois Miller. Berkeley marries her, and fifteen years later, he keeps his wife ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Richard Wayne, Stuart Holmes, Lucien Littlefield
Votes: 21
20. Madame Sans-Gêne (1925)
100 min | Comedy
A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Émile Drain, Charles de Rochefort, Madeleine Guitty
Votes: 55 | Gross: $0.41M
21. The Untamed Lady (1926)
70 min | Drama
A spoiled rich girl is brought down to earth by the man who loves her.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Joseph W. Smiley, Charles E. Graham
Votes: 23
22. Her Love Story (1924)
70 min | Drama, Romance
When Princess Marie of the Balkan kingdom of Viatavia falls in love with Captain Rudi of the King's Guards, her father quickly arranges her marriage with the king of a neighboring country. ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Ian Keith, George Fawcett, Echlin Gayer
Votes: 27 | Gross: $0.22M
23. Fine Manners (1926)
70 min | Comedy
In a run down New York Tenament, a chorine named Orchid lives with her overprotective brother Buddy, who sees to it that no uptown Casanovas get a chance at seducing his sister. At a New ... See full summary »
Directors: Richard Rosson, Lewis Milestone | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Eugene O'Brien, Helen Dunbar, Roland Drew
Votes: 835 | Gross: $0.26M
24. Something to Think About (1920)
78 min | Drama
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson, Monte Blue, Theodore Roberts
Votes: 658 | Gross: $9.16M
25. Don't Tell Everything (1921)
50 min | Comedy, Romance
Marian Westover is loved by wealthy young Cullen Dale and his best friend Harvey Gilroy, whose loyalty to Dale keeps him silent. After they both sustain injuries in a polo game, Cullen ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Dorothy Cumming
Votes: 28
26. My American Wife (1922)
60 min | Drama
A horse-race brings together Kentuckian Natalie Chester and Argentinean Manuel La Tassa. At a party, Pedro De Grossa insults Natalie and Manuel challenges him to a duel. To assure his son's... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Antonio Moreno, Josef Swickard, Eric Mayne
Votes: 19 | Gross: $0.20M
27. The Coast of Folly (1925)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
Unable to abide her self-righteous husband, Nadine Gathway leaves home and drops out of sight for 20 years. When Mr. Gathway dies, he leaves his huge fortune to his daughter, Joyce, on the ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Anthony Jowitt, Alec B. Francis, Dorothy Cumming
Gross: $0.26M
28. For Better, for Worse (1919)
70 min | Drama
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Elliott Dexter, Tom Forman, Gloria Swanson, Sylvia Ashton
Votes: 754
29. Her Gilded Cage (1922)
60 min | Drama, Romance
A romance about a dancer seeking love and fame from Paris cabarets to New York society.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, David Powell, Harrison Ford, Anne Cornwall
Votes: 23 | Gross: $0.16M
30. Under the Lash (1921)
60 min | Drama
Deborah Krillet is the young wife of Simeon Krillet, a Boer farmer and religious fanatic. She falls in love with young Englishman Robert Waring, who comes to the farm as overseer. Krillet ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Mahlon Hamilton, Russell Simpson, Lillian Leighton
Votes: 18
31. Society for Sale (1918)
60 min | Drama
Successful model, Phyllis Clyne, convinces a down-and-out nobleman, Billy, to pass her off in society as titled gentry. They fall in love and when it turns out that her late father actually was a lord, they decide they now can marry.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: William Desmond, Gloria Swanson, Herbert Prior, Charles Dorian
Votes: 27
32. The Secret Code (1918)
50 min | Drama, War
Sally Carter Rand, married to an elderly senator, is accused of espionage, but she is able to clear herself by proving that her mysterious knitting is actually a baby sweater.
Director: Albert Parker | Stars: Gloria Swanson, J. Barney Sherry, Rhy Alexander, Leslie Stuart
Votes: 18
33. Prodigal Daughters (1923)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her daughters, so they live among the flapper ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Ralph Graves, Vera Reynolds, Theodore Roberts
Votes: 27 | Gross: $0.20M
34. What a Widow! (1930)
88 min | Romance, Comedy
A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a rich playboy and a lawyer who works for her.
Directors: Allan Dwan, Dudley Murphy, James Seymour | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Owen Moore, Lew Cody, Margaret Livingston
Votes: 67
35. Everywoman's Husband (1918)
50 min | Drama
A young woman whose domineering mother almost ruins her marriage eventually learns that mother does not always know best when her father commits suicide.
Director: Gilbert P. Hamilton | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Joe King, Lillian Langdon, George C. Pearce
36. Shifting Sands (I) (1918)
Not Rated | 60 min | Drama
Marcia Grey is wrongly convicted on trumped-up evidence of a German. After serving her term, she rebuilds her life and marries well. The German then attempts to blackmail her into helping the German cause during WWI.
Director: Albert Parker | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Joe King, Harvey Clark, Leone Carton
Votes: 750
37. Three for Bedroom C (1952)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy
A film star and her young daughter stow away on a cross-country train to California. The compartment they invade belongs to a celebrated biology professor; romance blossoms. The star's manager turns up; complications ensue.
Director: Milton H. Bren | Stars: Gloria Swanson, James Warren, Fred Clark, Hans Conried
Votes: 190
38. Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923)
60 min | Comedy, Romance
Mona deBriac, the beautiful daughter of a French nobleman, is induced to marry wealthy American John Brandon because her family needs his money. When she learns that her husband has ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Huntley Gordon, Charles Greene, Lianne Salvor
Votes: 34 | Gross: $0.22M
39. Perfect Understanding (1933)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
Director: Cyril Gardner | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Laurence Olivier, John Halliday, Nigel Playfair
Votes: 753
40. The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922)
80 min | Drama
Lance Bellew ignores his wife, Betty, for his mistress, Naomi Templeton, but becomes so enraged when he finds Betty in the company of Jerry Woodruff that he shoots this family friend. For ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Robert Cain, Conrad Nagel, Richard Wayne
Votes: 20 | Gross: $0.14M
41. The Great Moment (1921)
70 min | Drama
Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Russian Gypsy, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin, whom she does not love. During a trip ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Alec B. Francis, Milton Sills, Frank Butler
Votes: 25
42. Her Decision (1918)
50 min | Drama
A secretary (Gloria Swanson) uses her boss to get money for her unfortunate sister (Ann Kroman) but eventually falls in love with him.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Gloria Swanson, J. Barney Sherry, Darrell Foss, Ann Forrest
43. Music in the Air (1934)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Constantly quarreling couple decide to try the jealousy angle when a naive young couple comes along.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Douglass Montgomery, June Lang
Votes: 1,027
44. Station Content (1918)
50 min | Drama
Songstesss, Kitty Manning leaves her husband and takes up with his boss, a railroad president. She has second thoughts and redeems herself by preventing a train wreck and is able to save her marriage.
Director: Arthur Hoyt | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Lee Hill, Arthur Millett, Nellie Allen
Votes: 45
45. Nero's Mistress (1956)
104 min | Comedy, History
Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her ... See full summary »
Director: Steno | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Gloria Swanson, Brigitte Bardot
Votes: 562
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