Gloria Grahame

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1923-11-28 (58 years old)

Deathday

1981-10-05

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

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...

Acting

1954

Human Desire

as Vicki Buckley

2003

'In a Lonely Place' Revisited

as Self (archive footage)

1952

Macao

as Margie

1952

The Bad and the Beautiful

as Rosemary Bartlow

1953

The Glass Wall

as Maggie Summers

1947

Crossfire

as Virginia "Ginny" Tremayne

1976

1954

Naked Alibi

as Marianna

1955

Oklahoma!

as Ado Annie Carnes

1953

The Big Heat

as Debby Marsh

1947

1956

The Man Who Never Was

as Lucy Sherwood

1973

Tarot

as Natalie

1954

The Good Die Young

as Denise Blaine

1950

In a Lonely Place

as Laurel Gray

1952

Sudden Fear

as Irene Neves

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1974

1949

A Woman's Secret

as Susan Caldwell / Estrellita

1971

Blood and Lace

as Mrs. Deere

1955

Not as a Stranger

as Harriet Lang

1955

The Cobweb

as Karen McIver

1966

Ride Beyond Vengeance

as Bonnie Shelley

1971

Chandler

as Selma

1947

Merton of the Movies

as Beulah Baxter

1953

Man on a Tightrope

as Zama Cernik

1972

The Loners

as Annabelle

1949

Roughshod

as Mary Wells

1944

Blonde Fever

as Sally Murfin

1971

1971

Escape

as Evelyn Harrison

1957

1971

Black Noon

as Bethia

1953

Prisoners of the Casbah

as Princess Nadja

1980

1974

Mama's Dirty Girls

as Mama Love

1978

1945

Without Love

as Flower Vendor

1980

Melvin and Howard

as Mrs. Sisk

1981

The Nesting

as Florinda Costello

1981

Mr. Griffin and Me

as Mara Emerson

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