1. Gloria Grahame began her acting career in theater, and in 1944 made her first film for MGM.
28 Facts About Gloria Grahame
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Gloria Grahame returned to work on the stage, but has appeared in films and television productions, usually in supporting roles.
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In 1980, the cancer returned, but Gloria Grahame refused to accept the diagnosis or seek treatment.
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Gloria Grahame Penelope Hallward was born in Los Angeles, the younger child of Michael and Jean Hallward.
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Gloria Grahame's English father, Reginald Michael Bloxam Hallward was an architect and author; her Scottish mother, Jean McDougall, who used the stage name Jean Grahame, was a stage actress and acting teacher.
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Gloria Grahame attended Hollywood High School before dropping out to pursue acting.
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Gloria Grahame made her Broadway debut on December 6,1943, at the Royale Theatre as Florrie in Nunnally Johnson's The World's Full of Girls, which was adapted from Thomas Bell's 1943 novel Till I Come Back to You.
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Gloria Grahame made her film debut in Blonde Fever and then achieved one of her most widely praised roles as the vixenish Violet Bick, saved from disgrace by George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life.
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Gloria Grahame received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire.
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Gloria Grahame starred with Humphrey Bogart in the film In a Lonely Place for Columbia Pictures, a performance for which she gained praise.
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Gloria Grahame appeared as wealthy seductress Harriet Lang in Stanley Kramer's Not as a Stranger starring Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, and Frank Sinatra.
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Gloria Grahame guest-starred in television series, including the science-fiction series The Outer Limits.
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Gloria Grahame appears in an episode of The Fugitive and an episode of Burke's Law.
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Over time, Gloria Grahame became increasingly concerned with her physical appearance; she particularly felt her upper lip was too thin and had ridges that were too deep.
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Gloria Grahame was a Democrat who supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign in the 1952 presidential election.
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The day after her divorce from Clements was final, Gloria Grahame married director Nicholas Ray.
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Gloria Grahame filed for divorce from Howard in May 1957, citing mental cruelty.
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Gloria Grahame was the son of her second husband Nicholas Ray and his first wife Jean Evans, and was Grahame's former stepson.
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Howard claimed Gloria Grahame was an unfit mother, and the two fought over custody of their daughter for years.
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From 1979 to 1981, Gloria Grahame had a relationship with British actor Peter Turner.
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Turner authored a book about his time with Gloria Grahame called Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, which was later turned into a movie of the same name.
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Gloria Grahame underwent radiation treatment, changed her diet, stopped smoking and drinking alcohol, and sought homeopathic remedies.
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Gloria Grahame told her former lover, actor Peter Turner, and asked him not to contact doctors or her family.
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Gloria Grahame was immediately admitted to St Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan on October 5,1981, where she died a few hours later of stomach cancer and peritonitis at age 57.
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Gloria Grahame's remains were interred at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, Los Angeles.
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On February 8,1960, for her contributions to the motion-picture industry, Gloria Grahame had a star placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6522 Hollywood Boulevard.
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On November 16,2017, the motion picture Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, based on Peter Turner's account of the final years of Gloria Grahame's life, was released in the United Kingdom.
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Gloria Grahame had kept an apartment at the Manhattan Plaza residential complex, and its community room, where her portrait hangs, is dedicated to her.