This little mystery makes one wish some producer had entered Swanson into the Bette Davis/Joan Crawford chiller market that was so popular on the big screen at the time, intimidating and chic, Swanson could have more than held her own in that genre. Swanson that is unforgettable as the haughty, stylish matron with a touch of Gothic chill about her. Basically a three person drama, MacArthur and Loring are fine but it's the ever glorious Ms. Alfred Eisenstaedt, Portrait of Gloria Hixon, zoology professor at Howard University, Washington, DC, USA, January 1946. The newlyweds are uncaring as they bask in their new love but eventually the bills pile up and a desperate MacArthur concocts a scheme in which Loring writes her mom a suicide note and makes a deliberately unsuccessful try in an attempt to shock Swanson into coming around and reinstating Loring's inheritance which includes the erstwhile family mansion with a mysterious room locked for decades. When he photographed her for the Novemissue of LIFE Magazine, Alfred Eisenstaedt cemented Marjorie Merriweather Post’s place among the most notable people of the twentieth century. Alfred Eisenstaedt, Portrait of Gloria Hixon, zoology professor at Howard University, Washington, DC, USA, January 1946. When Loring secretly weds James MacArthur, an enraged Swanson cuts her off financially. Lynn continues to cling to her glamorous intimidating mother who can on occasion be belittling about her daughter's "plainness", leading Loring to a major inferiority complex and an occasionally melodramatic personality with irregular suicide threats. Loring, a once sickly child, is still pampered and controlled by mother even as she longs to break away. Swanson plays the possessive mother of young heiress Lynn Loring who keeps her daughter on A tight rein. Silent movie legend Gloria Swanson may run third in screen time in "BEHIND THE LOCKED DOOR", an excellent episode of THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR but she dominates it with her undiminished star power and well deserves her top billing. Ziegfeld Follies girls taken by Alfred Cheney Johnston Johnston was born into an affluent New York banking family, which subsequently moved to Mount Vernon, New York.
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