Editing Gloria Swanson (section)

== Early life ==
Swanson was born in a small house in Chicago in 1899, the only child of Adelaide (née Klanowski) and Joseph Theodore Swanson (né Svensson), a soldier.{{sfn|Quirk|1984|pp=15, 17}} She was raised in the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] faith. Her father was a Swedish American and her mother was of German, French, and Polish ancestry.{{sfn|Quirk|1984|p=17}}{{sfn|Harzig|Matovic|2018|p=283}} Because of her father's attachment to the U.S. Army, the family moved frequently. She spent some of her childhood in [[Key West]], Florida, where she was enrolled in a Catholic convent school,{{sfn|Welsch|2013|pp=6–8}} and in [[Puerto Rico]], where she saw her first motion pictures.{{sfn|Welsch|2013|pp=9–11}}