On September 4, 1924 this brief piece of information appeared in the French magazine Mon Ciné: "Gloria Swanson, who has just been vacationing in France, will soon come back to shoot a magnificent film here".The play Madame Sans-Gêne, about a real life lady whose life was considerably romanticized, had already been adapted twice on the silver screen before Gloria Swanson decided to star in Léonce Perret's version in 1924. The superstar wanted to...
