Gloria Swanson & Joe Kennedy

[quote] Has the affair between Gloria Swanson and Joe Kennedy ever been discussed?

No. Never. Not in any medium including DL.

There was a miniseries in 1990 about Rose Joe’s marriage, I don’t recall it being salacious. The story is ripe to be remade in all its tacky glory. Joe brought Gloria into the Hyannis Port house and fucked her under Roae’s nose!

He was a filthy pig. I remember reading in one of the trashy Jackie books that he spent an evening eating dinner at some New York restaurant in the fifties with two college aged models. He was fingering one of them while eating his dinner at the same time.

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OP Jesus you queens are prelapsarian. Awaiting your David & Bathsheba thread.

"Joe brought Gloria into the Hyannis Port house and fucked her under Roae’s nose!"

And Gloria said afterwards that Rose (by pretending that nothing was going on) was a better actor than she was.

[quote]He was fingering one of them while eating his dinner at the same time.

He practiced on the retarded daughter.

R2 At least Rose wasn’t suspicious when he came home smelling like fish.

Rose was too involved in the Catholic Church to care. All her kids turned out rotten: oversexed, rebellious, misogynist.

He would climb into bed with his daughters’ friends when they slept over. Wouldn’t be surprised if he gave Rosemary a lobotomy to keep her from squealing that he molested her. He was a pig. That said….Rose was worse.

Was Gloria a pig as well? Why would she fuck such a pig? Money is enough? Didn't Gloria have her own money?

[quote] Was Gloria a pig as well?

She just liked pumping, pumping, pumping.

[quote] It seems like it would make a great miniseries.

I've always thought a mini-series about Kick, the Kennedy sister who became a marchioness and was eventually killed in a plane crash, would be fantastic.

They dealt with Kick also in The Kennedy's of Massachusetts. It was well done.

Joe was making progress after his stroke at a rehabilitation center. Rose was originally by his side, and it was probably the most time they had spent together alone since they were newlyweds.

She yanked him out of there, claiming their niece Ann Gargan could take care of him at home, and he spent the rest of his life unable to speak in a wheelchair, completely neutralized . She also wanted to get to Paris for the fashion shows.

#1 Kennedy gay Lem Billings claimed she really did that as payback for all the bullshit she endured over the years with him-the affairs; Rosemary’s lobotomy; the loss of his ambassadorship during WWII.

She ended up the same way, R14 and lasted longer: she was 104 when she died. Alone, fed through a tube, semi-conscious but not as the docs used to say, "oriented to time and place."

I remember reading that Glo found out after they broke up that Joe was buying her gifts with her own money.

God she was so unattractive. The pointed nose and chin made her look like the Witched Witch of the West. Never got her appeal even in Sunset Boulevard. She was a charicuture.

Rose Kennedy was sent to Benedictine convent school in France by Daddy Fitzgerald where she was taught that sex was only for procreation. When she was in a suitable condition to breed, she signaled it to her husband by draping a nightgown over a chair. According to what I've read, she only consented to sex if a child was to result.

She quickly shat the kids out and handed them to nurse maids as she went on European recovery trips for months (i.e. shopping expeditions) and her children, many sickly, were left in the care of others expected to provide maternal succor or love.

I think Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of the unsung evil characters of the 20th Century. No wonder Bobby married Ethel and passed on an such defective genetic material resulting in RFK, Jr.