Gloria Swanson, 1934
‘Why are Thirties icons Crawford, Garbo, Hepburn, Harlow, and Davis nonetheless worthy of debate a long time after they stopped working? What made them “fabulous faces” whose reputations endure to this present day? Every technology chooses the faces they need to view on the display screen. Would Twenties headliners Mary Pickford, recognized for her innocence and curly hair, and Gloria Swanson, the primary glamorous display screen siren, grow to be legendary stars if every started her profession as we speak? Most likely not. Stars, like books and trend, mirror a second in time. Each period considers itself trendy and trendy’
{Photograph}: Clarence Sinclair Bull/MGM
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