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

Known For: Acting

Born: Los Angeles, California, USA, 1923-11-28

Died: 1981-10-05

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Blonde Fever	Sally Murfin	44
2	1945	Without Love	Flower Vendor	68
3	1946	It's a Wonderful Life	Violet	83
4	1947	It Happened in Brooklyn	Nurse	60
5	1947	Crossfire	Virginia "Ginny" Tremayne	66
6	1947	Song of the Thin Man	Fran Page	68
7	1947	Merton of the Movies	Beulah Baxter	68
8	1949	A Woman's Secret	Susan Caldwell / Estrellita	56
9	1949	Roughshod	Mary Wells	53
10	1950	In a Lonely Place	Laurel Gray	76
11	1952	The Greatest Show on Earth	Angel	63
12	1952	Macao	Margie	62
13	1952	Sudden Fear	Irene Neves	73
14	1952	The Bad and the Beautiful	Rosemary Bartlow	73
15	1953	The Glass Wall	Maggie Summers	53
16	1953	Man on a Tightrope	Zama Cernik	65
17	1953	The Big Heat	Debby Marsh	76
18	1953	Prisoners of the Casbah	Princess Nadja	54
19	1954	The Good Die Young	Denise Blaine	64
20	1954	Human Desire	Vicki Buckley	68
21	1954	A Star Is Born World Premiere	Self	80
22	1954	Naked Alibi	Marianna	60
23	1955	The Cobweb	Karen McIver	58
24	1955	Not as a Stranger	Harriet Lang	62
25	1955	Oklahoma!	Ado Annie Carnes	66
26	1956	The Man Who Never Was	Lucy Sherwood	70
27	1957	Ride Out for Revenge	Amy Porter	55
28	1959	Odds Against Tomorrow	Helen	67
29	1966	Ride Beyond Vengeance	Bonnie Shelley	58
30	1971	Blood and Lace	Mrs. Deere	59
31	1971	Escape	Evelyn Harrison	48
32	1971	The Todd Killings	Mrs. Roy	43
33	1971	Black Noon	Bethia	61
34	1971	Chandler	Selma	45
35	1972	The Loners	Annabelle	50
36	1973	Tarot	Natalie	49
37	1974	The Girl on the Late, Late Show	Carolyn Porter	55
38	1974	Mama's Dirty Girls	Mama Love	35
39	1976	Mansion of the Doomed	Katherine	62
40	1978	The Dancing Princesses	The Witch	0
41	1979	Chilly Scenes of Winter	Clara	66
42	1980	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Mistress Page	0
43	1980	A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square	Ma	64
44	1980	Melvin and Howard	Mrs. Sisk	64
45	1981	Mr. Griffin and Me	Mara Emerson	0
46	1981	The Nesting	Florinda Costello	53
47	1983	Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	65
48	1998	Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman	Self (archive footage)	0
49	2003	'In a Lonely Place' Revisited	Self (archive footage)	100

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	70
2	1953	General Electric Theater	Elena Carlisle	60
3	1960	Harrigan and Son		0
4	1961	The New Breed	Nurse Nora Springer	70
5	1962	Sam Benedict	Rita Bain	60
6	1963	The Outer Limits	Florida Patton	78
7	1963	The Fugitive	Dorina Pruitt	72
8	1963	Burke's Law	Helen Dekker	60
9	1963	Burke's Law	Doris Landers	60
10	1964	Daniel Boone	Molly Hogan	69
11	1967	Mannix	Mae Darling	67
12	1968	The Name of the Game	Madame Noh	68
13	1969	Then Came Bronson		48
14	1973	Kojak	Helen	70
15	1976	Rich Man, Poor Man	Sue Prescott	78
16	1977	Seventh Avenue	Moll	50
17	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Olivia	67