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Although Gloria Grahame was a talented and accomplished stage and screen actress, her acting career was often overshadowed by her somewhat scandalous private life. Married four times, her husbands included actor Stanley Clements, director Nicholas Ray, and writer Cy Howard; she had a daughter with Howard and a son with Ray. In 1960, Grahame's fourth marriage made headlines; she married her former stepson (Nicholas Ray's son), producer/director Anthony Ray. This union produced two sons, born in the early 1960s.
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“Gloria Grahame is a wonderful actress of that period,” said Jonathan Kuntz, professor of the History of the American Motion Picture. “She’s almost an iconic, film noir heroine type and very much a bad girl. She starts out in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ directed by Frank Capra, playing a girl who ends up in some scenes of the film being a bad girl and then she’s quite wonderful in many ‘50s films playing a similar role.”
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In love relationships, Gloria Grahame seeks companionship and friendship with someone who is fun loving, playful and open to adventure and new experiences. She enjoys traveling together, meeting new people and making new friends. Honeymooning in a distant location appeals to Gloria, and she is ... attracted to foreigners or people with diametrically different backgrounds than her own. Gloria Grahame supports her partner in taking risks and making positive changes, rather than preserving the status quo. She also very much wants a partner who will encourage her own aspirations and dreams. It is very important to Gloria that she have a spiritual or intellectual rapport with her love partner, perhaps more important than the emotional/physical aspect.
Gloria Grahame joined the list of aging Hollywood stars who bloodied their hands in the wake of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? with this sick, effective horror film about nasty doings at a private orphanage. Grahame gives a wonderfully grotesque performance as Mrs. Dorothy Deere, a crazy widow who bilks the county out of money by running a home for wayward youths. If any of her tenants happens to run away, the wino handyman Tom kills them with a meat-cleaver and throws them into a deep-freeze in the cellar. Into this unsavory situation comes young Ellie Masters (Melody Patterson of TV's F-Troop), whose prostitute mother was viciously murdered with a claw-hammer while in bed with a john. Ellie witnessed the killer leaving the burning bedroom, and is warned by helpful cop Carruthers (Vic Tayback) that he could still be around.
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Carl Buckley (Broderick Crawford) needs the intervention of his beautiful wife Vicki (Gloria Grahame) to keep his job, so Vicki meets with Carl's boss Owens (Grandon Rhodes), and Carl's job is secure. Insanely jealous, Carl finds Vicki with Owens on board a train and kills Owens. Jeff Warren (Glenn Ford), an off-duty train engineer protects Vicki and they begin an affair. Still obsessively jealous, Carl becomes an alcoholic and blackmails Vicki into staying with him. Vicki persuades Jeff to kill Carl, but at the last minute Jeff relents, taking on the letter which Carl has used to blackmail Vicki with. Vicki leaves town on the train with Carl -- all the while taunting him with her infidelity.
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An early anti-Semitism film, and a thrilling murder mystery with Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, and Gloria Grahame. Ryan and Grahame were nominated for Supporting Oscars, so was the picture (which lost to the anti-Semitism film - Gentleman's Agreement (1947), its Writing and director Edward Dmytryk (his only nomination).
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