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:::::::::::::::::*{{u|Yoninah}} Well, specifically to this DYK, if the hook cannot be about her Multiprises venture, I would just as soon as close this as a failed nomination.  I don't think this is the place to argue about what you personally thought was left out of the article, which achieved GA without that ever coming up.  [[User:Maile66|— Maile ]] ([[User talk:Maile66|talk]]) 19:58, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 
:::::::::::::::::*{{u|Yoninah}} Well, specifically to this DYK, if the hook cannot be about her Multiprises venture, I would just as soon as close this as a failed nomination.  I don't think this is the place to argue about what you personally thought was left out of the article, which achieved GA without that ever coming up.  [[User:Maile66|— Maile ]] ([[User talk:Maile66|talk]]) 19:58, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 
::::::::::::::::::*Fine. [[User:Yoninah|Yoninah]] ([[User talk:Yoninah|talk]]) 20:06, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 
::::::::::::::::::*Fine. [[User:Yoninah|Yoninah]] ([[User talk:Yoninah|talk]]) 20:06, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
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:::::::::::::::::*Small comment here, as I just re-read the sources.  It was not Swanson who objected to playing a has-been.  That was Mae West. Swanson objected to a screen test, but she did it anyway.  She was convinced by the money, and so admitted in her autobiography.  She was being offered a great deal more than she was then making otherwise.  I've add a couple of small corrections to that section of the article. [[User:Maile66|— Maile ]] ([[User talk:Maile66|talk]]) 13:36, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
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Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson in 1972
Gloria Swanson in 1972

Source: She kept hearing about the scientists stuck in Nazi Germany and began to hatch a plan: what if she could create a company that would employ both refugee inventors and herself? In no time Swanson convened a board of directors, all men with industry experience, and Multiprises,her least likely entrepreneurial adventure, was born. She sent an envoy to Berlin in search of scientists who needed employment—and a way out. (former husband [Marquis de La Coudraye]) Henri de la Falaise ...living in France, came to Gloria’s aid, graciously providing a Paris office for the new company’s “headquarters.” He wrote letter after letter assuring the authorities that Multiprises guaranteed jobs for the four Viennese inventors Swanson’s envoy located. By the time their temporary US visas expired, the inventors were in New York, Multiprises was up and running, and the US was at war with Germany. Multiprises provided financing and marketing for the group’s inventions, eventually patenting parts used in manufacturing, recording, appliances, automobiles, and musical instruments ... with military applications as well.Welsch, Tricia (2013). Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 299–301.Template:Subscription required

Improved to Good Article status on September 20, 2020, by Maile66 (talk). Self-nominated at 15:15, 20 September 2020 (UTC).

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