Gloria Swanson's Suitors

[Bruce Long]

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"Where the Jazz God Plays: or, The Feverish Life of a Movie Star" was written by "Olive Paige" and serialized in Movie Weekly (Aug. 12, 19, 26) in 1922. It is the account of a nanny who lived with the family of a silent film director for a few months in late 1921. They lived in an upscale apartment building in Hollywood, and a famous film star lived in the same building. Names in the story were changed, but some are clearly recognizable:
Floria Olsen Bernstien = Gloria Swanson Somborn
John Crookes = Frank Urson
Rhoda Crookes = Peggy Urson
Dana Allen = Dana Todd
"Mickey" Marshall = Marshall Neilan
Sarah Stiles Sinter = Mary Miles Minter.

Among the men who were (according to the article) wooing Gloria Swanson at that time in 1921 were:
Ted Bowman - "owner of a prominent Los Angeles theater"
Pierre Le Blanc - "a rather good-looking young Frenchman, he had starred in one of the most widely discussed photodramas of the day."

Assuming these are real people, and the descriptions reasonably accurate, does anyone have any idea what the real names of these two suitors are?

[JFK]

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[sepiatone]

hmmm Pierre Le Blanc, perhaps just a guess, Sacha Guitry, 36 yrs old in 1921. Then there is Ivan Moskujine(sp), 32 yrs old in 1921, who is actually Russian but had appeared in some French films so I would guess one could take him for French at the time. There are famous French men of notability at the time but their names don't rhyme with Pierre Le Blanc, for example Georges Carpentier (boxer) and Charles Nungesser(aviator)

[sepiatone]

The closest of anybody with a name rhyming "Pierre Le Blanc" and concerning Gloria Swanson is Henry de la Falaise.

[entredeuxguerres]

Without having yet read Jazz God Plays, I'd like to guess----could Ted Bowman be Sid Grauman?

I'd say, IMPOSSIBLE...if she hadn't already DONE the "impossible" by giving it up to Beastly Beery!

[Bruce Long]

Sid Grauman had occurred to me as a strong possibility for "Ted Bowman", based solely on the name-syllable alignment, but I never encountered anything written about anything between them personally.

Of course, at that time she was still married to Herbert Somborn, and press gossip was mostly controlled by the studios, so there was very little written about extra-marital courtship unless something broke into court. But perhaps someone had seen something written long after the fact. (I've already checked Swanson's autobiography.)

Likewise for

Pierre Le Blanc - "a rather good-looking young Frenchman, he had starred in one of the most widely discussed photodramas of the day."

I was trying to think of any highly-popular films of the past year or so which starred a Frenchman, and the only one I could think of was Gaston Glass from Humoresque.