Famed actress Gloria Swanson and famed film director Henry de La Falaise on a boat in New York Harbor, New York City, New York, U.S.A., 1925

Famed actress Gloria Swanson is shown with her new husband, famed film director Henry de La Falaise, on a boat in New York Harbor. The Statue of Liberty is seen in the background, New York City, New York, U.S.A., 1925. Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometime actor, and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two leading Hollywood actresses. Gloria Josephine Mae Swanson was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which also earned her a Golden Globe Award.