Gloria Grahame
Acting
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.
Akai Ito
'In a Lonely Place' Revisited
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Nesting
Florinda Costello
Mr. Griffin and Me
Mara Emerson
Melvin and Howard
Mrs. Sisk
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Ma
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Mistress Page
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Clara
The Dancing Princesses
The Witch
Mansion of the Doomed
Katherine
Mama's Dirty Girls
Mama Love
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
Carolyn Porter
Tarot
Natalie
The Loners
Annabelle
Chandler
Selma
Black Noon
Bethia
The Todd Killings
Mrs. Roy
Escape
Evelyn Harrison
Blood and Lace
Mrs. Deere
Ride Beyond Vengeance
Bonnie Shelley
Odds Against Tomorrow
Helen
Ride Out for Revenge
Amy Porter
The Man Who Never Was
Lucy Sherwood
Oklahoma!
Ado Annie Carnes
Not as a Stranger
Harriet Lang
The Cobweb
Karen McIver
Naked Alibi
Marianna
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Self
Human Desire
Vicki Buckley
The Good Die Young
Denise Blaine
Prisoners of the Casbah
Princess Nadja
The Big Heat
Debby Marsh
Man on a Tightrope
Zama Cernik
The Glass Wall
Maggie Summers
The Bad and the Beautiful
Rosemary Bartlow
Sudden Fear
Irene Neves
Macao
Margie
The Greatest Show on Earth
Angel
In a Lonely Place
Laurel Gray
Roughshod
Mary Wells
A Woman's Secret
Susan Caldwell / Estrellita
Merton of the Movies
Beulah Baxter
Song of the Thin Man
Fran Page
Crossfire
Virginia "Ginny" Tremayne
It Happened in Brooklyn
Nurse
It's a Wonderful Life
Violet
Without Love
Flower Vendor
Blonde Fever
Sally Murfin