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Hard Luck Woman: Gloria Grahame at 100. “Of all the American film stars, Gloria Grahame is the only one who is also a person.”—François Truffaut, 1952. Born in 1923 as Gloria Hallward in Pasadena to an American architect and a Scottish actress, she studied at Hollywood High before finishing her senior year on the road as part of a ...
Dec 11, 2015 · Gloria Grahame circa 1950. You Must Remember This, the podcast that tells the secret and forgotten history of 20th-century Hollywood, has joined Panoply. And when each episode airs, creator and ...
Gloria Grahame (November 28, 1923 – October 5, 1981) was an American actress. Grahame began her acting career in theatre, and in 1944 she made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), MGM did not believe she had the potential for major success, and sold her contract to RKO Studios. Often cast in film noir projects, Grahame received a nomination for an ...
In praise of the naughty mind. Not long before she died in 1981 at age 57, Gloria Grahame, who had acted in films signed by Frank Capra, Nicholas Ray, Josef von Sternberg, Vincente Minnelli, Elia Kazan, Fritz Lang, and Fred Zinnemann, demolished them all in one sweeping statement. “Those men never directed me,” she told an English stage ...
Nov 24, 2017 · With a curl of her lip and an arch of her eyebrow, Gloria Grahame was the actress who stood up to both Humphrey Bogart and Lee Marvin in their most violent r...
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Born Gloria Hallward in Los Angeles, California, she was the second and last child of Reginald Michael Bloxam Hallward, an architect, and Jeanne McDougall, a British actress who used the stage name Jean Grahame.
Gloria Grahame electrified moviegoers with her turns as femmes fatale in such films as "Crossfire" (1947), "In a Lonely Place" (1950) and "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952), which earned her a ...
