Gloria Swanson swoons over Lyle · An elevator operator in Carol and Roger's new apartment building has a crush on her in another "Carol & Sis" sketch · Gloria Swanson sings · Molly and Burt (Carol and Harvey) talk about the effects of age · Vikki and Carol have a musical number · A sketch about the difficulty of having an affair · The Charwoman meets Charlie Chaplin (guest Gloria Swanson)
Gloria Swanson's appearance on The Carol Burnett Show was due to a fan letter. The fan letter was written by Gloria Swanson- to Carol Burnett. The silent-screen legend had been Carol in a sketch as Nora Desmond, the CBS star's takeoff on faded film star Norma Desmond, Swanson's memorable character in director Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950). "And so we got Miss Swanson to come on the show because she wrote me a letter and said she'd gotten a kick out of it," Carol says. Swanson, 76, when she appeared on this show, sings and dances her way through "I've Been Around" and "A New Fangled Tango." She returns for the touching "Silents is Golden" number, in which Carol's Charwoman character imagines herself in a silent movie with Charlie Chaplin (Played by Swanson)
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