Gloria Grahame
Birthday: 28 November 1923

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Biography

Gloria Hallward, an acting pupil of her mother (stage actress and teacher Jean Grahame), acted professionally while still in high school. In 1944, 'Louis B. Mayer' (qv) saw her on Broadway and gave her an MGM contract under the name Gloria Grahame. Her debut in the title role of _Blonde Fever (1944)_ (qv) was auspicious, but her first public recognition came on loan-out in _It's a Wonderful Life (1946)_ (qv). Though her talent and sex appeal were of star quality, she did not fit the star pattern at MGM, which sold her contract to RKO in 1947. Here the same problem resurfaced; her best film in these years was on loanout, _In a Lonely Place (1950)_ (qv), and soon afterward she left RKO. The fifties, her best period, brought Gloria a supporting actress Oscar and type-cast her as shady, inimitably sultry ladies in 7 well-known film-noir; but marital and child-custody troubles combined with a "difficult" reputation from the set of _Oklahoma! (1955)_ (qv) to sideline her film career from 1956 onward. In 1960 she resumed stage acting, combined with TV work and, from 1970, some mostly inferior films. Gloria was described as a serious, skillful actress; spontaneous, honest, and strong- willed; imaginative and curious; incredibly sexy but insecure about her looks (prompting plastic surgery on her famous lips); loving appreciative male company; "a bit loony." Her busiest period of British and American stage work ended abruptly in 1981 when she collapsed from cancer symptoms during a rehearsal.

Biography courtesy of the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com).

Movie Credits
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Nesting, The (1981)

Melvin and Howard (1980)

[ Melissa Prophet ] [ Martine Beswick ] [ Mary Steenburgen ]

Head Over Heels (1979)

[ Sarah O'Hare ] [ Shamira ] [ Brenda Schad ] [ Shalom Harlow ]

Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A (1979)

[ Elke Sommer ]

Mansion of the Doomed (1977)

Mama's Dirty Girls (1974)

[ Candice Rialson ]

Girl on the Late, Late Show, The (Made for TV) (1974)

[ Sherry Jackson ] [ Candice Rialson ]

Tarots (1973)

[ Sue Lyon ]

Loners, The (1972)

Chandler (1972)

[ Leslie Caron ]

Escape (Made for TV) (1971)

[ Kay Lenz ]

Blood and Lace (1971)

Black Noon (Made for TV) (1971)

Todd Killings, The (1971)

[ Meg Foster ]

Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966)

[ Joan Blondell ]

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

[ Shelley Winters ]

Ride Out for Revenge (1957)

Man Who Never Was, The (1956)

Oklahoma! (1955)

Not as a Stranger (1955)

Cobweb, The (1955)

[ Fay Wray ] [ Lauren Bacall ] [ Susan Strasberg ]

Naked Alibi (1954)

Good Die Young, The (1954)

[ Joan Collins ]

Human Desire (1954)

Big Heat, The (1953)

Prisoners of the Casbah (1953)

Glass Wall, The (1953)

Man on a Tightrope (1953)

Greatest Show on Earth, The (1952)

[ Dorothy Lamour ]

Sudden Fear (1952)

[ Joan Crawford ]

Macao (1952)

[ Jane Russell ]

Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)

[ Elaine Stewart ]

In a Lonely Place (1950)

Roughshod (1949)

Woman's Secret, A (1949)

Crossfire (1947)

Song of the Thin Man (1947)

[ Myrna Loy ]

Merton of the Movies (1947)

It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

[ Donna Reed ]

Without Love (1945)

[ Lucille Ball ]

Blonde Fever (1944)

[ Jessica Tandy ]

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Male Co-Stars
Who have been seen in movies with Gloria Grahame

• William Bendix
  
• Jack Palance
  
• Don Murray
  
• Lee Marvin
  
• Charlton Heston
  
• Harry Belafonte
  
• Claude Akins
  
• Griffin Dunne
  
• Dabney Coleman
  
• John Heard
  
• Eddie Albert
  
• Vince Edwards