How tall was Gloria Swanson?

Gloria Swanson is commonly listed at 4 ft 11 in (150 cm).

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Gloria Swanson’s 4 ft 11 in (150 cm) is short for a US woman: about 6 in 100 US women are shorter.

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Gloria Swanson beside others

Gloria Swanson is one of the shorter actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 2 ft 10 in (86 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 2 ft 3 in (68.7 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.

Also listed at 4 ft 11 in: Kelly Stables, Nell Carter and Kristin Chenoweth.

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4 ft 11 in (150 cm)

A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.

Photo: RKO Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Gloria Swanson, 4 ft 11 in (150 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)