Gloria Swanson, Health Food Crusader
“I was in a business of make believe to entertain people but I’ll be darned if I want to eat make believe food! ” — Gloria Swanson
Norma Desmond. No movie character strikes dread in the heart of the celebrated and aging quite like this delusional, Champagne swilling, caviar nibbling has-been in Billy Wilder’s 1950 masterpiece, Sunset Boulevard. But Gloria Swanson, who played Desmond after other less self-deprecating silent stars turned down the role, was the complete opposite of the character most people now identify her with. An early proponent of macrobiotic diets, she did not drink, smoke, eat meat or much sugar, and she certainly did not live in the past.
See her story and her recipes - they’re quite something - here.
What a batty old broad. New role model!
3 months ago