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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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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92% | 60% | 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 | 30% | 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% | 49% | The Cobweb | Karen McIver (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 87% | 75% | Oklahoma! | Ado Annie Carnes (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 58% | 73% | Human Desire | Vicki Buckley (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Naked Alibi | Marianna (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | The Good Die Young | Denise Blaine (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | 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/ |
- | 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/ |
- | 1949 |
| 88% | 75% | Crossfire | Ginny (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 91% | 71% | Song of the Thin Man | Fran Ledue Page (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 83% | 45% | 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
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 86% | The Outer Limits | Florinda Patten (Character) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Grindl | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |