Gloria Swanson's daughter no longer STP
Dennis Lewis
Gloria Somborn Daly, the daughter of legendary actress Gloria Swanson
and restaurateur Herbert Somborn, who inherited and ran her father's
historic hat-shaped Brown Derby on Wilshire Boulevard, has died. She
was 80.
Daly [...] died December 11 of brain cancer in Carmel.
A celebrity from birth, Gloria Swanson Somborn was born Oct. 7, 1920,
to the glamorous actress and the second of her six husbands. The
pretty blond child, often compared with her mother, was sought by
Hollywood as an actress, but chose a different life.
Her father, an early motion picture producer and distributor, and a
millionaire businessman, married Swanson Dec. 20, 1919, and divorced
her Aug. 9, 1922, charging, like first husband Wallace Beery and
others who followed, that the actress had deserted him.
Somborn became famous on his own four years later when he created the
Brown Derby at 3377 Wilshire Blvd. on a bet with screenwriter and
longtime friend Wilson Mizner, who dared him: "If you know anything
about food, you can sell it out of a hat." [...]
elizab...@my-deja.com
d...@sprynet.com (Dennis Lewis) wrote:
> http://www.latimes.com/print/metro/20001220/t000121149.html
>
> Gloria Somborn Daly, the daughter of legendary actress Gloria Swanson
> and restaurateur Herbert Somborn, who inherited and ran her father's
> historic hat-shaped Brown Derby on Wilshire Boulevard, has died. She
> was 80.
>
> Daly [...] died December 11 of brain cancer in Carmel.
>
> A celebrity from birth, Gloria Swanson Somborn was born Oct. 7, 1920,
> to the glamorous actress and the second of her six husbands. The
> pretty blond child, often compared with her mother, was sought by
> Hollywood as an actress, but chose a different life.
>
> Her father, an early motion picture producer and distributor, and a
> millionaire businessman, married Swanson Dec. 20, 1919,
Does anyone know if this is the child that was rumored to have been
fathered by Joseph P. Kennedy. Sr.? How many children did Gloria Swanson
have?
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C. Dana Jackson
Actually, I was just wondering this....
danaBoy
Linda F. Cauthen
Her affair with Kennedy was several years later, in the late 20s.
How many children did Gloria Swanson
> have?
>
She adopted a boy named Joseph in 1923 and had a daughter named Michelle
Bridget by fourth husband Michael Farmer.
Linda C.
elizab...@my-deja.com
> >
> She adopted a boy named Joseph in 1923 and had a daughter named
Michelle
> Bridget by fourth husband Michael Farmer.
>
> Linda C.
Thanks, Linda, for this info...the adopted son Joseph is the child I am
thinking of...I think it was rumored that he was not adopted at all (a
la Judy Lewis) but instead GS's natural child w/ Joe Kennedy.
Sometimes I think vintage Hollywood gossip is more interesting than the
current stuff.
Does anyone out there know if these other children of GS are still
alive???