Editing Gloria Swanson (section)

==== Television and theatre ====
[[File:Fred MacMurray Gloria Swanson My Three Sons 1965.JPG|thumb|left|Swanson with [[Fred MacMurray]] in the promo of ''[[My Three Sons]]'' (1965)|alt=Black and white photo of a man and woman looking at each other]]
Swanson hosted ''The Gloria Swanson Hour'', one of the first live television series in 1948 in which she invited friends and others to be guests.{{sfn|Welsch|2013|p=316}} Swanson later hosted ''Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson'', a television anthology series in which she occasionally acted.{{sfn|Welsch|2013|pp=347–348}}

Through the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, Swanson appeared on many different talk and variety shows such as ''[[The Carol Burnett Show]]'' and ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' to recollect her movies and to lampoon them as well.{{sfn|Welsch|2013|pp=355, 377}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Gloria Digs TV |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59519311/victoria-advocate/ |access-date=September 19, 2020 |work=Victoria Advocate |date=September 16, 1973}}</ref> On ''The Carol Burnett Show'' in 1973, Swanson reprised her impersonation of Charlie Chaplin from both ''Sunset Boulevard'' and ''Manhandled''.{{sfn|Welsch|2013|pp=377–378}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Clipped From The Montgomery Advertiser |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59526255/the-montgomery-advertiser/ |work=The Montgomery Advertiser |date=September 20, 1973}}</ref> She was the "mystery guest" on ''[[What's My Line]]''.{{sfn|Welsch|2013|p=355}} She acted in "Behind the Locked Door" on ''[[The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]'' in 1964 and, in the same year, she was nominated for a [[Golden Globe]] award for her performance in ''[[Burke's Law (1963 TV series)|Burke's Law]]''.{{sfn|Welsch|2013|p=358}}{{sfn|Shearer|2013|p=368}} She made a guest appearance on ''[[The Dick Cavett Show]]'' in the summer of 1970; a guest on the same show as [[Janis Joplin]].{{sfn|Welsch|2013|pp=346, 354–355, 381}} She made a notable appearance in a 1966 episode of ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]'', in which she plays herself.{{sfn|Welsch|2013|p=358}} In the episode, the Clampetts mistakenly believe Swanson is destitute and decide to finance a comeback movie for her – in a silent film.{{sfn|Desjardins|2015|p=11}}

After near-retirement from movies, Swanson appeared in many plays throughout her later life, beginning in the 1940s.{{sfn|Welsch|2013|p=307}} Actor and playwright Harold J. Kennedy, who had learned the ropes at Yale and with Orson Welles' [[Mercury Theatre]], suggested Swanson do a road tour of "Reflected Glory", a comedy that had run on the Broadway stage with [[Tallulah Bankhead]] as its star.{{sfn|Welsch|2013|p=305}} Kennedy wrote the script for the play ''A Goose for the Gander'', which began its road tour in Chicago in August 1944.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gerard |first1=Jeremy |title=Harold Kennedy, Producer, Dies |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/15/obituaries/harold-kennedy-producer-dies.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525084712/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/15/obituaries/harold-kennedy-producer-dies.html |archive-date=May 25, 2015 |access-date=May 27, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=January 15, 1988}}</ref>{{sfn|Welsch|2013|p=308}}<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fitz Henry |first1=Charlotte |title=La Swanson Likes the Stage |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1944-08-20/ed-1/seq-41/ |access-date=May 27, 2020 |work=The Evening Star |date=August 20, 1944 |page=41, col. 6}}</ref>

Swanson also toured with ''Let Us Be Gay''.{{sfn|Welsch|2013|p=314}} After her success with ''Sunset Boulevard'', she starred on Broadway in a revival of ''[[Twentieth Century (play)|Twentieth Century]]'' with [[José Ferrer]], and in ''Nina'' with [[David Niven]].{{sfn|Welsch|2013|pp=339, 341}} Her last major stage role was in the 1971 Broadway production of ''[[Butterflies Are Free (play)|Butterflies Are Free]]'' at the [[Booth Theatre]].{{sfn|Welsch|2013|pp=374–375}} [[Kevin Brownlow]] and [[David Gill (film historian)|David Gill]] interviewed her for ''[[Hollywood (British TV series)|Hollywood]]'', a television history of the silent era.{{sfn|Welsch|2013|p=396}}