Princess Marthe Bibesco was the quintessential Napoleonic cosmopolite—worldly, literary, political, and modern
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Here lies Gloria
One of the most unusual items in the Ransom Center’s collections resides within the Gloria Swanson archive, and it’s as challenging as it is amusing. The “sugar coffin,” as it has become known, was given to Swanson by avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, in response to a lawsuit filed by Swanson… read more