
Gloria Grahame
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gloria Grahame, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography

'In a Lonely Place' Revisited

Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

The Nesting

Mr. Griffin and Me

Melvin and Howard

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Chilly Scenes of Winter

The Dancing Princesses

Mansion of the Doomed

Mama's Dirty Girls

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

Tarot

The Loners

Chandler

Black Noon

The Todd Killings

Escape

Blood and Lace

Ride Beyond Vengeance

Odds Against Tomorrow

Ride Out for Revenge

The Man Who Never Was

Oklahoma!

Not as a Stranger

The Cobweb

Naked Alibi

A Star Is Born World Premiere

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
