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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... more

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.

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It's a Wonderful Life
(1946)
Drama, Family, Fantasy
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
Frank Capra
Cast:
James Stewart, Donna Reed, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore
8.6
94%
89
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In a Lonely Place
(1950)
Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Nicholas Ray
Cast:
Humphrey Bogart, Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid
8.0
98%
N/A
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The Big Heat
(1953)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Fritz Lang
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin
7.9
100%
N/A
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The Bad and the Beautiful
(1952)
Drama, Romance
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way...
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Cast:
Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan
7.9
96%
N/A
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Oklahoma!
(1955)
Music, Romance, Western
This joyous celebration of frontier life combines tender romance and violent passion in the Oklahoma Territory of the 1900s with a timeless score filled with unforgettable songs. Rodgers and Hammerstein's hit Broadway musical.
Runtime:
145 min
Director:
Fred Zinnemann
Cast:
Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame, Rod Steiger, Gene Nelson
7.1
88%
74
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The Greatest Show on Earth
(1952)
Drama, Family, Romance
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
Runtime:
152 min
Director:
Cecil B. DeMille
Cast:
Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame
6.7
44%
N/A
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Sudden Fear
(1952)
Drama, Thriller
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
David Miller
Cast:
Joan Crawford, Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett
7.5
92%
N/A
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Human Desire
(1954)
Drama, Romance
Jeff Warren, a Korean War vet just returning to his railroad engineer's job, boards at the home of co-worker Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec's beautiful daughter. He becomes attracted immediately to Vicki Buckley, the sultry wife of brutish railroad supervisor Carl Buckley, an alcoholic wife beater with a hair-trigger temper and pe...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Fritz Lang
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Case
7.1
59%
N/A
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Song of the Thin Man
(1947)
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Edward Buzzell
Cast:
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell
7.0
80%
N/A
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The Man Who Never Was
(1956)
Drama, History, Thriller, War
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the pape...
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Ronald Neame
Cast:
Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd
7.4
100%
N/A
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Odds Against Tomorrow
(1959)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Robert Wise
Cast:
Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame
7.4
N/A
N/A
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Macao
(1952)
Adventure, Drama, Romance
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
Runtime:
81 min
Director:
Josef von Sternberg
Cast:
Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Thomas Gomez, Gloria Grahame
6.7
44%
N/A
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Not as a Stranger
(1955)
Drama, Romance
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows...
Runtime:
135 min
6.8
N/A
N/A
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The Cobweb
(1955)
Drama
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.
Runtime:
124 min
6.5
80%
N/A
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It Happened in Brooklyn
(1947)
Comedy, Music, Romance
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Brooklyn is not so nice after all. He is able to share a place with Nick, the janitor of his old High School, and get a job as a singer in a music store. He also meets Leo, a talented pianis...
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Richard Whorf
Cast:
Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante, Gloria Grahame
6.5
83%
N/A
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Chilly Scenes of Winter
(1979)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to return to her husband, an A-Frame salesman.
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Joan Micklin Silver
Cast:
John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan, Gloria Grahame
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Man on a Tightrope
(1953)
Drama, Thriller
Elia Kazan's 1953 film stars Fredric March as the owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia who plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him. The cast also includes Gloria Grahame, Terry Moore, Cameron Mitchell, Richard Boone and Adolphe Menjou.
Runtime:
105 min
7.1
N/A
N/A
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The Good Die Young
(1954)
Crime
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Lewis Gilbert
Cast:
Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart, Joan Collins, John Ireland
6.8
N/A
N/A
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A Woman's Secret
(1949)
Drama, Mystery
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few p...
Runtime:
84 min
6.1
43%
N/A
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The Glass Wall
(1953)
Drama
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I named Tom whom he helped during the war, as Tom can prove Peter's right to legal entry in the United States. If he can't find Tom within 24 hours and prove his case, he will be branded a fugitive and will be perma...
Runtime:
82 min
Director:
Maxwell Shane
Cast:
Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson, Douglas Spencer, Robin Raymond
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Naked Alibi
(1954)
Crime
Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the eyes of tough Chief Conroy, who pursues him doggedly despite lack of evidence. The obsessed Conroy is dismissed from th...
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Jerry Hopper
Cast:
Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry, Marcia Henderson, Max Showalter
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Blood and Lace
(1971)
Horror
After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage...
Runtime:
87 min
5.7
N/A
N/A
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Roughshod
(1949)
Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Rancher Clay and his brother, Steve, head out across the Sonora mountain pass, followed by Lednov, an ex-con seeking revenge on Clay for putting him behind bars. Clay and Steve unexpectedly cross paths with a group of dance hall girls -- including Mary, Marcia and Helen -- whose stagecoach has broken down, and help them get to the near...
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Mark Robson
Cast:
Robert Sterling, Gloria Grahame, Claude Jarman Jr., John Ireland, Jeff Donnell
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Merton of the Movies
(1947)
Comedy, Romance
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by...
Runtime:
82 min
Director:
Robert Alton
Cast:
Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien, Gloria Grahame, Leon Ames, Alan Mowbray
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Mansion of the Doomed
(1976)
Horror
An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in a car-accident he caused.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Michael Pataki
Cast:
Richard Basehart, Gloria Grahame, Lance Henriksen, JoJo D'Amore, Trish Stewart
5.6
N/A
N/A
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
(1983)
Comedy, Documentary
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Runtime:
83 min
Director:
Ron Blackman, Bruce Goldstein, Stanley Sheff
Cast:
Gig Young, Bud Abbott, Walter Abel, Katharine Alexander, Ray Anthony
8.5
N/A
N/A
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
(1979)
Action, Comedy, Crime
An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
Runtime:
110 min
5.9
N/A
N/A
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The Nesting
(1981)
Horror, Mystery
A New York writer of gothic fiction finds her mansion full of ghosts from a brothel massacre.
Runtime:
104 min
Cast:
Robin Groves, Christopher Loomis, Michael David Lally, John Carradine, Gloria Grahame
4.6
N/A
N/A
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The Todd Killings
(1971)
Thriller
Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into the lives of high school kids in a small California town. Girls find him attractive and are only too willing to accompany him to a nearby desert area to be his "...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Barry Shear
Cast:
Robert F. Lyons, Richard Thomas, Belinda Montgomery, Ed Asner, Gloria Grahame
6.2
N/A
N/A
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Ride Out for Revenge
(1957)
Action, Drama, Western
When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.
Runtime:
78 min
Director:
Bernard Girard
Cast:
Rory Calhoun, Gloria Grahame, Lloyd Bridges, Joanne Gilbert, Vince Edwards
5.8
N/A
N/A
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Black Noon
(1971)
Horror, TV Movie, Western
Reverend John Keyes and his wife, Lorna, on their way to a new congregation out west, break down in the desert and are rescued by the residents of a nearby town. At first warm and welcoming, the townspeople become more and more solicitous of John and insistent that he stay on as their minister, against the wishes of Lorna, who goes unh...
Runtime:
75 min
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Blonde Fever
(1944)
Comedy, Drama
Peter (Philip Dorn) and Delilah (Mary Astor) are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of the sultry Sally (Gloria Grahame), a waitress who catches Peter's wandering eye. Delilah strikes back by hiring Sally's boyfriend (Marshall Thompson) as a waiter. Sally i...
Runtime:
69 min
5.6
N/A
N/A
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Escape
(1971)
Science Fiction, TV Movie, Thriller
A scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.
Runtime:
73 min
Director:
John Llewellyn Moxey
Cast:
Christopher George, William Windom, Marlyn Mason, Avery Schreiber, John Vernon
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Mama's Dirty Girls
(1974)
Crime, Thriller
Mama loves men, but she loves money even more. She's trained her three teenager daughters to meet, marry and murder men for their money. But soon they meet Harold and he's got other plans.
Runtime:
82 min
Director:
John Hayes
Cast:
Gloria Grahame, Sondra Currie, Candice Rialson, Christopher Lofton
6.3
N/A
N/A
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The Girl on the Late, Late Show
(1974)
Mystery, TV Movie, Thriller
A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiries have set off a string of murders.
Runtime:
73 min
Director:
Gary Nelson
Cast:
Don Murray, Bert Convy, Yvonne De Carlo, Gloria Grahame, Van Johnson
6.3
N/A
N/A
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Tarot
(1973)
Horror, Thriller
A young, beautiful woman marries a rich old blind man. While in the household she becomes aware of a plot to kill her elderly husband.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
José María Forqué
Cast:
Sue Lyon, Fernando Rey, Gloria Grahame, Christian Hay
5.7
N/A
N/A
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Seventh Avenue
(1977)
Drama, TV Movie
A poor young man from New York's Lower East Side determines to overcome his status, and through hard work rises to become a power in the garment industry.
Runtime:
360 min
Director:
Russ Mayberry, Richard Irving
Cast:
Steven Keats, Dori Brenner, Jane Seymour, Anne Archer, Jack Gilford
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Prisoners of the Casbah
(1953)
Adventure, Romance
A low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemies. The groom is able to wed or cast away his bride simply by saying "I Marry You" or "I Divorce You" three times.
Runtime:
78 min
Director:
Richard L. Bare
Cast:
Gloria Grahame, Cesar Romero, Turhan Bey, Nestor Paiva, Paul Newlan
5.0
N/A
N/A
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Chandler
(1971)
Crime, Drama
A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.
Runtime:
85 min
4.3
N/A
N/A
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The Loners
(1972)
Action, Drama
On his motorcycle Stein, a half-blood Indian, tries to stay out of the hands of the police, who are chasing him for accidentally killing a cop. Together with his friend Alan and a beautiful but desperate girl Stein will get involved in a robbery and more death. The police intensify the search, but the three won't give up that easily.
Runtime:
79 min
Director:
Sutton Roley
Cast:
Dean Stockwell, Patricia Stich, Todd Susman, Scott Brady, Gloria Grahame
4.5
N/A
N/A