Gloria Grahame

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Gloria Grahame (1947)

Gloria Grahame (born November 28, 1923 in Los Angeles , † October 5, 1981 in Manhattan , New York City ) was an American actress . She became known through films like Isn't Life Beautiful? (1946), A Lonely Place (1950) and Hot Iron (1953).

Life

Grahame was the daughter of an architect and a stage actress who later became an acting teacher. As a child, she began to play theater early on, which is why she dropped out of school early to go on tour with a theater. She made it to New York's Broadway , where she was discovered for the film by Hollywood producer Louis B. Mayer in the 1940s . She made her film debut in 1944. She first attracted attention in a supporting role in Frank Capras Isn't Life Beautiful? (1946). She also shone as a musical star in Oklahoma! (1955), but she mostly played wicked or difficult characters such as B. Fritz Lang's Greed for Life (1954), the remake of the classic Bestie Mensch . She was nominated for an Oscar twice: in 1948 and 1953. In 1953 she received the trophy for her supporting role in City of Illusions . After 1956 the success decreased significantly, mainly due to private problems.

Gloria Grahame was married a total of four times, first from 1945 to 1948 to the actor Stanley Clements . Her second husband was the director Nicholas Ray (marriage 1948, divorce 1952), her fourth his son Tony (marriage 1960, divorce 1974), with whom she had a relationship during her marriage to Nicholas, where Tony was still a minor. She has one with Nicholas and two of her four children with Anthony. Between the two marriages, she was still married to screenwriter and director Cy Howard , with whom she had a daughter, Paulette.

In 1976 Grahame was diagnosed with breast cancer. She died in 1981 at the age of 57 in St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan of complications from cancer and peritonitis . Gloria Grahame was buried in Oakwood Memorial Park in Chatsworth , California .

In the film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017) she is portrayed by Annette Bening .

Filmography (selection)

Grahame in A Song of the Thin Man

Awards

Web links

Commons : Gloria Grahame  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Schmid: In a lonely place: The American Dream between Humphrey Bogart and Donald Trump. In: Telepolis. Retrieved June 18, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b nytimes.com: Gloria Grahame, 55, Motion Picture Actress, this article from October 8, 1981 (English)
  3. ↑ brightlightsfilm.com: Fatal Instincts: The Dangerous Pout of Gloria Grahame Article from April 30, 2008 (English)
  4. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Gloria Grahame
personal data
SURNAME Grahame, Gloria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1981
Place of death Manhattan , New York City , New York , United States