Gloria Grahame
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Gloria Grahame Hallward (November 28, 1923 – October 5, 1981), known professionally as Gloria Grahame, was an American stage, film, and television actress and singer. She began her acting career in theatre and in 1944 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 was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire (1947), and later won the award for her work in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). She achieved her highest profile with Sudden Fear (1952), The Big Heat (1953), Human Desire (1954), and Oklahoma! (1955), but her film career began to wane soon afterwards.
Grahame's fourth and final marriage was to actor Anthony "Tony" Ray, the son of her second husband Nicholas Ray and his first wife Jean Evans; Anthony Ray was her former stepson. According to Nicholas Ray, their relationship reportedly began when Tony Ray was 13 years old and Grahame was still married to his father (Nicholas Ray allegedly caught the two in bed together, which he claimed effectively ended the marriage to Grahame in 1950.)
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1944 | Blonde Fever | Sally Murfin | Alternative title: Autumn Fever |
1945 | Without Love | Flower girl | |
1946 | It's a Wonderful Life | Violet Bick | |
1947 | It Happened in Brooklyn | Nurse | |
1947 | Crossfire | Ginny Tremaine | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress |
1947 | Song of the Thin Man | Fran Ledue Page | |
1947 | Merton of the Movies | Beulah Baxter | |
1949 | A Woman's Secret | Susan Caldwell aka Estrellita | |
1949 | Roughshod | Mary Wells | |
1950 | In a Lonely Place | Laurel Gray | |
1952 | The Greatest Show on Earth | Angel | |
1952 | Macao | Margie | |
1952 | Sudden Fear | Irene Neves | |
1952 | The Bad and the Beautiful | Rosemary Bartlow | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture |
1953 | The Glass Wall | Maggie Summers | |
1953 | Man on a Tightrope | Zama Cernik | |
1953 | The Big Heat | Debby Marsh | |
1953 | Prisoners of the Casbah | Princess Nadja aka Yasmin | |
1954 | The Good Die Young | Denise Blaine | |
1954 | Human Desire | Vicki Buckley | |
1954 | Naked Alibi | Marianna | |
1955 | The Cobweb | Karen McIver | |
1955 | Not as a Stranger | Harriet Lang | |
1955 | Oklahoma! | Ado Annie Carnes | |
1956 | The Man Who Never Was | Lucy Sherwood | |
1957 | Ride Out for Revenge | Amy Porter | |
1959 | Odds Against Tomorrow | Helen | |
1966 | Ride Beyond Vengeance | Bonnie Shelley | |
1971 | Blood and Lace | Mrs. Deere | |
1971 | The Todd Killings | Mrs. Roy | |
1971 | Chandler | Selma | Alternative title: Open Shadow |
1972 | The Loners | Annabelle | |
1973 | The Magician | Natalie | Alternative title: Tarot |
1974 | Mama's Dirty Girls | Mama Love | |
1976 | Mansion of the Doomed | Katherine | Alternative title: The Terror of Dr. Chaney |
1979 | A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square | Ma Fox | |
1979 | Head Over Heels | Clara | Alternative title: Chilly Scenes of Winter |
1980 | Melvin and Howard | Mrs. Sisk | |
1981 | The Nesting | Florinda Costello | Alternative titles: Phobia and Massacre Mansion |