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Gloria Grahame
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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 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire (1947), and she won this award for her work in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). She achieved her highest profile with Sudden Fear (1952), Human Desire (1953),The Big Heat (1953), and Oklahoma! (1955), but her film career began to wane soon afterwar…
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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 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire (1947), and she won this award for her work in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). She achieved her highest profile with Sudden Fear (1952), Human Desire (1953),The Big Heat (1953), and Oklahoma! (1955), but her film career began to wane soon afterwards. She returned to work on the stage, but continued to appear in films and television productions, usually in supporting roles. Diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1980, Grahame refused to accept the diagnosis and travelled to England to work in a play. Her health rapidly failed and she returned to New York City, where she died in 1981.
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Akai Ito
'In a Lonely Place' Revisited
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Nesting
as Florinda Costello
Mr. Griffin and Me
as Mara Emerson
Melvin and Howard
as Mrs. Sisk
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
as Ma
The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Mistress Page
Chilly Scenes of Winter
as Clara
The Dancing Princesses
as The Witch
Mansion of the Doomed
as Katherine
Mama's Dirty Girls
as Mama Love
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
as Carolyn Porter
Tarot
as Natalie
The Loners
as Annabelle
Chandler
as Selma
Black Noon
as Bethia
The Todd Killings
as Mrs. Roy
Escape
as Evelyn Harrison
Blood and Lace
as Mrs. Deere
Ride Beyond Vengeance
as Bonnie Shelley
Odds Against Tomorrow
as Helen
Ride Out for Revenge
as Amy Porter
The Man Who Never Was
as Lucy Sherwood
Oklahoma!
as Ado Annie Carnes
Not as a Stranger
as Harriet Lang
The Cobweb
as Karen McIver
Naked Alibi
as Marianna
A Star Is Born World Premiere
as Self
Human Desire
as Vicki Buckley
The Good Die Young
as Denise Blaine
Prisoners of the Casbah
as Princess Nadja
The Big Heat
as Debby Marsh
Man on a Tightrope
as Zama Cernik
The Glass Wall
as Maggie Summers
The Bad and the Beautiful
as Rosemary Bartlow
Sudden Fear
as Irene Neves
Macao
as Margie
The Greatest Show on Earth
as Angel
In a Lonely Place
as Laurel Gray
Roughshod
as Mary Wells
A Woman's Secret
as Susan Caldwell / Estrellita
Merton of the Movies
as Beulah Baxter
Song of the Thin Man
as Fran Page
Crossfire
as Virginia "Ginny" Tremayne
It Happened in Brooklyn
as Nurse
It's a Wonderful Life
as Violet
Without Love
as Flower Girl
Blonde Fever
as Sally Murfin