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Gloria Grahame

Highest Rated: 96% In a Lonely Place (1950)

Lowest Rated: 10% Not as a Stranger (1955)

Birthday: Nov 28, 1923

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

Gloria Grahame electrified moviegoers with her turns as femmes fatale in such films as "Crossfire" (1947), "In a Lonely Place" (1950) and "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952), which earned her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Her women were dangerous, without question, and potentially lethal if cornered, like her mob moll in "The Big Heat" (1953), who lurked through the film's shadowy underworld on a hell-bent mission to avenge her disfigurement by Lee Marvin. She continued to appear on TV and in features as the years went on, but her career was cut short in 1980 when she was felled by stomach cancer. But the best of her screen roles continued to burn on late-night TV and in revival houses, where her incendiary presence had lost none of its power to entrance - or to burn.

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Highest rated movies

96% 89% In a Lonely Place
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94% 90% The Big Heat
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94% 95% It's a Wonderful Life Watchlist
92% 84% Sudden Fear
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91% 71% Song of the Thin Man
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91% 61% Melvin and Howard
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90% 92% Head Over Heels
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88% 75% Crossfire
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88% 84% Odds Against Tomorrow
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88% 84% The Man Who Never Was
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
91% 61% Melvin and Howard Mrs. Sisk (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 42% A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square Ma (Character) - 1979
90% 92% Head Over Heels Clara (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 36% Mansion of the Doomed Katherine (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Girl on the Late, Late Show Carolyn Parker (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Autopsy Natalie (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Loners Annabelle (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Todd Killings Mrs. Roy (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 22% Blood and Lace Mrs. Deere (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Black Noon Bethia (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Escape Evelyn Harrison (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 32% Ride Beyond Vengeance Bonnie Shelley (Character) - 1966
88% 84% Odds Against Tomorrow Helen (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ride Out for Revenge Amy Porter (Character) - 1957
88% 84% The Man Who Never Was Lucy Sherwood (Character) - 1956
10% 53% Not as a Stranger Harriet Lang (Character) - 1955
75% 47% The Cobweb Karen McIver (Character) - 1955
87% 75% Oklahoma! Ado Annie Carnes (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 54% Naked Alibi Marianna (Character) - 1954
60% 73% Human Desire Vicki Buckley (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet 54% The Good Die Young Denise Blaine (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet 60% The Glass Wall Maggie Summers (Character) - 1953
94% 90% The Big Heat Debby Marsh (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 78% Man on a Tightrope Zama Cernik (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Prisoners of the Casbah Princess Nadja/Yasmin (Character) - 1953
80% 86% The Bad and the Beautiful Rosemary Bartlow (Character) - 1952
92% 84% Sudden Fear Irene Neves (Character) - 1952
44% 59% Macao Margie (Character) - 1952
50% 53% The Greatest Show on Earth Angel (Character) - 1952
96% 89% In a Lonely Place Laurel Gray (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 50% Roughshod Mary Wells (Character) - 1949
43% 36% A Woman's Secret Susan Caldwell/Estrellita (Character) - 1949
88% 75% Crossfire Ginny (Character) - 1947
91% 71% Song of the Thin Man Fran Ledue Page (Character) - 1947
83% 43% It Happened in Brooklyn Nurse (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 45% Merton of the Movies Beulah Baxter (Character) - 1947
94% 95% It's a Wonderful Life Violet Bick (Character) $3.3M 1946
83% 67% Without Love Flower Girl (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet 33% Blonde Fever Sally Murfin (Character) - 1944

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Tales of the Unexpected Olivia (Character) 1980 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kojak Helen (Guest Star) 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rich Man, Poor Man Sue Prescott (Character) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mannix Mae Darling (Character) 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Name of the Game Unknown (Guest Star) 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Iron Horse Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fugitive Dorina Pruitt (Guest Star) 1964
92% 92% The Outer Limits Florinda Patten (Character) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Grindl Unknown (Guest Star) 1964