Several decades later, in the 1950s, Gloria Swanson pitched Puritan's Forever Young cocktail dresses.

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In another amusing passage, Gloria Swanson rebels against Cecil B.

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But Gloria Swanson never did, though he stayed at her Park Avenue apartment, carefully not drinking and not smoking, and suffered her to tease him with rack after rack of costumes from her films.

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Steichen's images--many of which you've likely seen in photography books (a young Gloria Swanson, mysterious and smoldering behind a black lace veil, or Charlie Chaplin goofing around with a cane and bowler hat)--don't appear particularly controversial.

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Those seeking movie star provenance will be interested in the jewels formerly owned by Lana Turner , Lauren Bacall and Gloria Swanson , and the set of three wedding bands from Brigitte Bardot 's first marriage, to director Roger Vadim .

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