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Gloria May Josephine Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress and producer. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 return in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which also earned her a Golden Globe Award.

husband is Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye (born James Henri Le Bailly de la Falaise, February 11, 1898 – April 10, 1972), was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometime actor, and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two leading Hollywood actresses.

According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_La_Falaise His first wife was "Gloria Swanson (1899–1983), American movie actress. They married in Paris, France, on January 28, 1925, after meeting on the set of the Swanson film Madame Sans-Gêne, on which La Falaise was working as a translator." So this photo was taken after January 28, 1925, probably in their arrival in New York. She was ill while in Paris, and their return was not until late March 1925. According to the New York Times, March 25, 1925, timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/03/25/98819674... the couple arrived on the French liner "Paris" the day before.

See the New Britain Herald. March 26, 1925, image 14, photo at top left chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014519/1925-03-26/ed-... for a photo taken on the same occasion, with caption, "While the Marquis de la Falaise made funny face, his bride, Gloria Swanson, highest paid woman movie star, smiled gloriously for cameraman when the liner Paris docked in New York. Gloria seemed fully recovered from illness in Paris.

Thanks Luc Brocard and swanq, we'll update the catalog record.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Swanson

A picture of Swanson with her mother at bottom left of the Evening star. September 04, 1924, Page 17 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1924-09-04/ed-... looks to have her in the same hat and trim round the neck with white buttons and a rose. The caption reads: "TOOK THE PRINCE OF WALES’ SUITE. Gloria Swanson, movie star, and her mother, who sailed for Europe yesterday. They occupied the royal suite, which was used by the Prince of Wales when he came to this country aboard the steamship Berengaria a few days ago."

Senator Claude Augustus Swanson, probably in 1910 when appointed to the Senate, but could be anytime until 1933, but the picture is clearly from his first years. Quoting from the Biographical Dictionary of Congress bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001094: SWANSON, Claude Augustus, a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born in Swansonville, Va., March 31, 1862; attended the public schools; taught school; attended the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now the Virginia Polytechnic Institute) at Blacksburg; graduated from Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va., in 1885 and from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1886; admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice in Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Va.; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1893, until his resignation, effective January 30, 1906; unsuccessful candidate for nomination as governor in 1901; Governor of Virginia 1906-1910; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate in August 1910, to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1911, caused by the death of John W. Daniel; again appointed, on February 28, 1911, and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John W. Daniel, who had been reelected for the term commencing March 4, 1911; reelected in 1916, 1922 and 1928 and served from August 1, 1910, until March 3, 1933, when he resigned to accept a Cabinet portfolio; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Naval Affairs (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Sixty-sixth Congress); Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 until his death at Rapidan Camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Criglersville, Madison County, Va., July 7, 1939; funeral services were held in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. "

Thanks for the catch, LucyGraceBarber. We'll adjust our data.