Overview
Born : November 28, 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Died : October 5, 1981 in New York City, New York, USA (stomach cancer with peritonitis)
Birth Name : Gloria Hallward
Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Gloria Grahame Hallward, an acting student of her mom (stage entertainer and instructor Jean Grahame), acted expertly while still in secondary school. In 1944 Louis B. Mayer saw her on Broadway and gave her a MGM contract under the name Gloria Grahame. Her introduction in the lead spot of Blonde Fever (1944) was propitious, however her first open acknowledgment came borrowed out in It's a Wonderful Life (1946). In spite of the fact that her ability and sex request were of star quality, she didn't fit the star design at MGM, who offered her agreement to RKO in 1947. Here a similar issue restored; her best film in these years was made borrowed out, In a Lonely Place (1950). Before long, she left RKO. The 1950s, her best period, brought her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and pigeonhole her as obscure, incomparably hot women in seven notable film-noir works of art.
Bits of gossip about being hard to work with on the arrangement of Oklahoma! (1955) assisted sideline her film with careering from 1956 ahead. She likewise experienced conjugal and youngster authority inconveniences. Eight years after separate from Nicholas Ray, who was 12 years her senior (and purportedly had found her in bed with his 13 year old child), and after a resulting union with Cy Howard finished in separate, in 1960 she wedded her previous stepson Anthony Ray (who was very nearly 14 years more youthful than she was.) This drove previous spouses Nicholas Ray and Cy Howard to sue Grahame; each man looking for care of his particular kid, putting tattle editorialists and embarrassment sheets into overdrive. Grahame herself went through electroconvulsive treatment after the resulting pressure caused a mental meltdown. Shockingly, nonetheless, Grahame and Anthony "Tony" Ray demonstrated a blissful couple. The association would be Grahame's longest marriage, enduring right around 14 years (10 years longer than her past association with Ray's dad); the couple had two youngsters, Anthony Jr. also, James.
In 1960, Grahame continued stage acting, joined with TV work and, from 1970, a few for the most part sub-par films. She was portrayed as a genuine, capable entertainer; unconstrained, legitimate, and solid willed; innovative and inquisitive; unimaginably hot yet unreliable about her looks (inciting plastic medical procedure on her renowned lips); cherishing grateful male organization; "a piece crazy". In 1975, she was treated for bosom malignant growth. After five years, she was determined to have malignant growth once more, despite the fact that it is indistinct assuming this was another disease or a metastasis of her bosom disease. Grahame at last moved to England in 1978. Her most active time of British and American stage work finished unexpectedly in 1981 when she fell from malignant growth side effects during a practice. She wished to stay in Liverpool with her accomplice, Peter Turner (just about 30 years her lesser), however after Turner told her offspring of her ailment and approaching demise, two of her kids traveled to England to recover her, demanding she return to the United States. She kicked the bucket a couple of hours after the fact that very day of stomach malignant growth and peritonitis at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan on October 5, 1981 at age 57.
Gloria was dropped from sovereignty. Her dad's family dropped from King Edward III through John of Gaunt; her mom's, from the Scottish Kings of the Hebrides.
Gloria's granddad Reginald Francis Hallward gave Oscar Wilde the thought for 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.'
Grahame's folks previously emigrated from the UK to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1911, then moved to Los Angeles, California in 1915. Jean (or Jeanne) McDougall (1890-1894), a Lochranza, Scotland-conceived stage entertainer and acting mentor, referred to expertly as Jean Grahame (Gloria's grandma's birth name) and London-conceived decorator, engineer and creator Reginald Michael Bloxam Hallward (also known as Michael Hallward; 1889-1982) both endure their more youthful little girl. Their first youngster, entertainer Joy Hallward (1911-2003), was Gloria's more seasoned sister.
Gloria was not brought into the world in 1925 as generally expressed, yet at the same in 1923.
Gloria's youngsters: Timothy Ray (conceived 12 November 1948) by Nicholas Ray; Marianna Paulette Howard (conceived 1 October 1956), by Cy Howard, and Anthony Ray Jr. (conceived 30 April 1963) and James Ray (conceived 21 September 1965) by Anthony Ray.
Musically challenged, she sang without naming in just a single film, Oklahoma! (1955), where her melodies were altered together from accounts made in a real sense note by note.
Her 1960 union with previous stepson Anthony Ray, despite the fact that her longest and best association, caused an extraordinary embarrassment in Hollywood, which prompted both her profession log jam and an unpleasant kid authority fight with her previous spouses.
Her film yield totalled 39 element films, 4 TV-motion pictures and 2 miniseries.
Grahame spent her last days in the Liverpool, England home of her companion Peter Turner and his loved ones. She was flown back to New York by her youngsters only hours before her demise at St. Vincent's Hospital, Manhattan, matured 57, from stomach malignant growth and peritonitis. She predeceased her nonagenarian guardians; her dad kicked the bucket in 1982 and her mom passed on in 1984. A 1987 life story of Grahame was named "Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool".
Discontent with the slant of her upper lip, she regularly stuffed cotton along her gumline to fix it. The impact was cosmetically not exactly complimenting and made it hard for her to talk. A main man, subsequent to kissing her, wound up with a mouth brimming with cotton.
Covered at Oakwood Memorial Park, 22601 Lassen, Chatsworth, California. Trailblazer Section Lot 242, Space 8.
In Italy, a lot of her movies were named by Rina Morelli, however sometimes she was additionally named by Renata Marini, generally remarkably in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952); Lydia Simoneschi; Andreina Pagnani, in Fritz Lang's Human Desire (1954) and Wanda Tettoni in Crossfire (1947).
An exceptionally dear companion of Jeff Donnell. They met on the arrangement of Roughshod (1949), and showed up together the following year In a Lonely Place (1950).
Profiled in "Executioner Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames" by Ray Hagen and Laura Wagner (McFarland, 2004).
Lobbied for the Judy Holliday job in Born Yesterday (1950) and Shelley Winters job in A Place in the Sun (1951).
Allegedly didn't continue ahead with Humphrey Bogart during the shooting of In a Lonely Place (1950) as Bogart had lobbied for the piece of Laurel Gray to be given to his better half Lauren Bacall, which was rather given to Grahame.
Grahame's first spouse, entertainer Stanley Clements, died only eleven days after her passing in 1981.
Was the 37th entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) at The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953) on March 19, 1953.
A work of art of Grahame was hanging in the Ellington Room of the Manhattan Plaza, where Grahame kept a condo during her most recent five years as indicated by a January 1990 article about the entertainer that showed up in "Movies in Review.".
Grahame was planning to show up as Amanda in a creation of "The Glass Menagerie when she was at first blasted with malignant growth.
After the basic praise she got for "Crossfire," RKO bought her agreement from MGM.
Guaranteed never to watch her own surges or her old motion pictures on TV.
Is one of 15 Oscar-winning entertainers to have been brought into the world in the province of California. The others are Fay Bainter, Jo Van Fleet, Liza Minnelli, Tatum O'Neal, Diane Keaton, Sally Field, Anjelica Huston, Cher, Jodie Foster, Helen Hunt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Marcia Gay Harden and Brie Larson.
Is depicted by Annette Bening in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017).
Fatherly granddaughter of Reginald (1858-1948) and Adelaide (née Bloxam) Hallward (1860-1925). Both were brought up on the Isle of Wight, England and kicked the bucket in Shorne, Kent, England.
Showed up in three Oscar Best Picture chosen people; It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Crossfire (1947) and The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), with the last winning in 1952.
She showed up in five movies that have been chosen for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "socially, by and large or tastefully" huge: It's a Wonderful Life (1946), In a Lonely Place (1950), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), The Big Heat (1953) and Oklahoma! (1955).
Resembled Greer Garson.
Her accomplice Peter Turner was right around multi decade more youthful than her.
Peter Turner composed a book about his existence with Gloria that was made into the Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017). Which featured Annette Bening as Gloria Grahame, Jamie Bell as Peter Turner and himself as Jack.
Her child Timothy Ray was additionally beginning around 1960 to 1974 her brother by marriage, after her marriage with Anthony Ray, Timothy's relative, who was before her progression child.
On August 17, 2021, she was respected with a day of her filmography during the Turner Classic Movies Summer Under the Stars.
She was the main entertainer to enter Actor's studio after previously getting an Academy Award statuette.
List of Gloria Grahame Movies
- Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series)
- The Nesting
- Mr. Griffin and Me (TV Movie)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor (TV Movie)
- Melvin and Howard
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
- Head Over Heels
- The Dancing Princesses (TV Movie)
- Seventh Avenue (TV Mini Series)
- Mansion of the Doomed
- Rich Man, Poor Man (TV Mini Series)
- Mama's Dirty Girls
- The Girl on the Late, Late Show (TV Movie)
- Game of Murder
- Police Trap
- Chandler
- Black Noon (TV Movie)
- The Todd Killings
- Escape (TV Movie)
- Blood and Lace
- Mannix (TV Series)
- Ride Beyond Vengeance
- Burke's Law (TV Series)
- The Fugitive (TV Series)
- The Outer Limits (TV Series)
- Grindl (TV Series)
- Sam Benedict (TV Series)
- The New Breed (TV Series)
- Harrigan and Son (TV Series)
- General Electric Theater (TV Series)
- Odds Against Tomorrow
- Ride Out for Revenge
- The Man Who Never Was
- Oklahoma!
- Not as a Stranger
- The Cobweb
- Naked Alibi
- Human Desire
- The Good Die Young
- Prisoners of the Casbah
- The Big Heat
- Man on a Tightrope
- The Glass Wall
- The Bad and the Beautiful
- Sudden Fear
- Macao
- The Greatest Show on Earth
- In a Lonely Place
- Roughshod
- A Woman's Secret
- Merton of the Movies
- Song of the Thin Man
- Crossfire
- It Happened in Brooklyn
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Without Love
- My Heart Tells Me (Short) (uncredited)
- Polka Dot Polka (Short)
- Blonde Fever & Many more….
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