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1927--A SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH "MRS." FALAISE---GLORIA SWANSON AND HER FRENCH HUSBAND AT THE CROTON-ON-HUDSON HOUSE
Although not mentioned in the article, this is the Mt. Airy house. where she lived with her third husband...a French aristocrat named Henri, Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye. She married Falaise on January 28, 1925, after her divorce from second husband Herbert Somborn was finalized. Though Henri was a Marquis and the grandson of Richard and Martha Lucy Hennessy from the famous Hennessy Cognac family, he was not rich and had to work for a living. He was originally hired to be her assistant and interpreter in France while she was filming Madame Sans-Gêne (1925) with Warwick Ward. Swanson was the first film star to marry European nobility, and the marriage became a global sensation, ending in divorce in 1930.
Click on the images below from the 1927 Motion picture Magazine (with apologies for the wonky lay-out but the article had to be sliced and diced to make it visually readable.) There's also a few misprints and sentences that appear to be missing from the original.
Click for more of Swanson and her Croton connection archived at the old blog about her house here.
A re-post about MADAME SANS-GENE will soon follow.
This is so cool.
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