Gloria Grahame
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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.215 |
| Birthday | 1923-11-28 |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Gloria Hallward, Глория Грэм, |
1946
It's a Wonderful Life
8.273/4447
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinfli...
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It's a Wonderful Life
1954
Human Desire
6.801/133
A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by t...
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Human Desire
2003
'In a Lonely Place' Revisited
10/1
Documentary about Nicholas Ray's film "In a Lonely Place" (1950).
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'In a Lonely Place' Revisited
1952
Macao
6.2/37
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he misle...
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Macao
1952
The Bad and the Beautiful
7.3/255
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of vari...
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The Bad and the Beautiful
1959
Odds Against Tomorrow
6.7/84
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
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Odds Against Tomorrow
1952
The Greatest Show on Earth
6.3/250
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won c...
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The Greatest Show on Earth
1953
The Glass Wall
5.3/23
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped...
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The Glass Wall
1947
Crossfire
6.6/139
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?
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Crossfire
1976
Mansion of the Doomed
6.19/29
An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of perfor...
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Mansion of the Doomed
1954
Naked Alibi
6/37
Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next...
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Naked Alibi
1955
Oklahoma!
6.6/171
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts...
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Oklahoma!
1979
Chilly Scenes of Winter
6.6/25
Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker w...
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Chilly Scenes of Winter
1953
The Big Heat
7.647/504
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicio...
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The Big Heat
1947
Song of the Thin Man
6.8/87
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
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Song of the Thin Man
1956
The Man Who Never Was
7/87
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a Britis...
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The Man Who Never Was
1973
Tarot
4.9/7
A young, beautiful woman marries a rich old blind man. While in the household she becomes aware of a plot to kill her elderly husband.
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Tarot
1954
The Good Die Young
6.486/35
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
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The Good Die Young
1950
In a Lonely Place
7.591/596
A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
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In a Lonely Place
1952
Sudden Fear
7.3/126
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leadin...
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Sudden Fear
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1974
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
5.5/4
A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiri...
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The Girl on the Late, Late Show
1949
A Woman's Secret
5.641/39
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal p...
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A Woman's Secret
1971
Blood and Lace
5.9/27
After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage ru...
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Blood and Lace
1955
Not as a Stranger
6.211/38
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out...
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Not as a Stranger
1955
The Cobweb
5.8/31
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.
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The Cobweb
1966
Ride Beyond Vengeance
5.8/10
Jonas Trapp falls in love with the beautiful Jessie, a wealthy girl out of his humble class. Against the wishes of her snobbish aunt, she marries him,...
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Ride Beyond Vengeance
1971
Chandler
4.5/9
A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.
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Chandler
1947
Merton of the Movies
6.8/4
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert...
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Merton of the Movies
1980
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
6.4/16
An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
1953
Man on a Tightrope
6.5/30
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performe...
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Man on a Tightrope
1972
The Loners
5/2
On his motorcycle Stein, a half-blood Indian, tries to stay out of the hands of the police, who are chasing him for accidentally killing a cop. Togeth...
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The Loners
1949
Roughshod
5.3/11
Rancher Clay and his brother, Steve, head out across the Sonora mountain pass, followed by Lednov, an ex-con seeking revenge on Clay for putting him b...
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Roughshod
1944
Blonde Fever
4.4/6
Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of the sultry...
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Blonde Fever
1971
The Todd Killings
4.3/10
Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year ol...
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The Todd Killings
1971
Escape
4.8/5
A scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to sto...
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Escape
1957
Ride Out for Revenge
5.5/8
When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.
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Ride Out for Revenge
1971
Black Noon
6.1/9
Reverend John Keyes and his wife, Lorna, on their way to a new congregation out west, break down in the desert and are rescued by the residents of a n...
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Black Noon
1953
Prisoners of the Casbah
5.4/4
A low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemies. The groom is able to wed or cast away his brid...
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Prisoners of the Casbah
1980
The Merry Wives of Windsor
0/0
Sir John Falstaff in love? Chaos must inevitably follow.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
1974
Mama's Dirty Girls
3.5/4
Mama loves men, but she loves money even more. She's trained her three teenager daughters to meet, marry and murder men for their money. But soon they...
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Mama's Dirty Girls
1947
It Happened in Brooklyn
6/14
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Bro...
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It Happened in Brooklyn
1978
The Dancing Princesses
0/0
A made-for-TV retelling of the story "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," directed by Ben Rea, featuring Jim Dale as the Soldier, Freddie Jones as the des...
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The Dancing Princesses
1945
Without Love
6.8/25
In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer toget...
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Without Love
1954
A Star Is Born World Premiere
8/2
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Acade...
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
1980
Melvin and Howard
6.4/66
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
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Melvin and Howard
1981
The Nesting
5.321/42
A New York writer of gothic fiction finds her mansion full of ghosts from a brothel massacre.
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The Nesting
1981
Mr. Griffin and Me
0/0
Kenneth Griffin, a Hollywood director, hasn't seen his wife in 24 years since he stole paintings from her and went into hiding.
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Mr. Griffin and Me
1998
Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
0/0
John Boorman met Lee Marvin in London when the latter was making The Dirty Dozen and immediately they struck up a friendship. Shortly afterwards they...
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