although at that time she hadn not appear in a film for several year and wasn not to make one for several for several more and gloria swanson remain a presence in the hollywood of the thirty and the only legendary silent star to sustain an image and continue to interest the film studio and which put her under contract and announce her to star in a series of projectsnone of which be realize while she wasn not to regain her former eminence until her celebrated comeback a norma desmond in billy wild sunset boulevard and a scathing satire on hollywood and the self delusion of it former hero and she maintain her silent screen image a the personification of glamor and and a such wasn not the initial choice for the role of the faded silent star like many small people who achieve greatness and swanson be a powerhouse of energy and vitality and ambition and shrewdness and untroubled by insight humor to slow down her pace the key to her success and the charm of her personality and the glamor of her career and the secret of her survival be superbly capture by herself in one of the best autobiography and swanson on swanson .