Multiple signatories. Not only is this signed by the author, it is also signed on the front free endpaper by Barbara Cartland (in pink), Peter O'Toole, Wendy Craig, Diana Dors and her husband Alan Lake,; additionally inscribed by Elaine Stritch on the second upper endpaper, followed by Sheridan Morley on the half-title and finally on the title-page by Gloria Swanson herself, dated 1981.

Gloria Swanson (1899 -1983), was an American motion-picture, stage, and television actress who was known primarily as a glamorous Hollywood star during the 1920s and as the fading movie queen Norma Desmond in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard.

After establishing herself as both a bathing beauty and a comedienne, Swanson was hired by Cecil B. DeMille and achieved stardom in a series of feature films. She was nominated for the first-ever Academy Award for best actress for Sadie Thompson and received another nomination for The Trespasser. After several lighter vehicles, she tired of the poor scripts available, stopped making films, and started several business ventures outside the motion-picture industry. In 1950 Swanson made a historic comeback in the highly acclaimed Sunset Boulevard, for which she received her third Oscar nomination. Although she appeared in a few later films, she devoted most of the remainder of her career to television and the theatre.

First edition. signed by the author on the title-page; 8vo (245 x 170 mm); two suites of photographic illustrations; publisher's blue cloth boards, illustrated dust-jacket, toned, rubbed and a little creased around edge, short, closed tear to upper edge of back panel, otherwise very good and internally fine; with two loosely inserted enclosures, a flier for; Foyles Literary Luncheons/Four hundred and eighty seventh luncheon in honour of Miss Gloria Swanson to celebrate the publication of 'Swanson on Swanson', at The Dorchester, Park Lane, W1 Wednesday, 11th March, 1981, listing the guests of honour and advertising tickets and the other, listing attendees with table numbers, including a seating plan for the top table; both with light wear and a few markings A unique first edition in being signed by so many luminaries of stage and screen.