Gloria Grahame
Born: 1923-11-28 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Died: 1981-10-05
Known For: Acting
Biography
Gloria Grahame (November 28, 1923 – October 5, 1981) was an American actress. Grahame began her acting career in theatre, and in 1944 she made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), MGM did not believe she had the potential for major success, and sold her contract to RKO Studios. Often cast in film noir projects, Grahame received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire (1947), and she won this award for her work in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). She achieved her highest profile with Sudden Fear (1952), Human Desire (1953),The Big Heat (1953), and Oklahoma! (1955), but her film career began to wane soon afterwards. She returned to work on the stage, but continued to appear in films and television productions, usually in supporting roles. Diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1980, Grahame refused to accept the diagnosis and travelled to England to work in a play. Her health rapidly failed and she returned to New York City, where she died in 1981.
Filmography
2025
2003
- 'In a Lonely Place' Revisited as Self (archive footage)
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1981
- The Nesting as Florinda Costello
- Mr. Griffin and Me as Mara Emerson
1980
- Melvin and Howard as Mrs. Sisk
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square as Ma
- The Merry Wives of Windsor as Mistress Page
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Olivia
- Chilly Scenes of Winter as Clara
1978
- The Dancing Princesses as The Witch
1977
- Seventh Avenue as Moll
1976
- Rich Man, Poor Man as Sue Prescott
- Mansion of the Doomed as Katherine
1974
- Mama's Dirty Girls as Mama Love
- The Girl on the Late, Late Show as Carolyn Porter
1972
- The Loners as Annabelle
1971
- Chandler as Selma
- Escape as Evelyn Harrison
- Black Noon as Bethia
- The Todd Killings as Mrs. Roy
- Blood and Lace as Mrs. Deere
1969
- Then Came Bronson as Charlene Braden
1968
- The Name of the Game as Madame Noh
1967
- Mannix as Mae Darling
1966
- Ride Beyond Vengeance as Bonnie Shelley
1964
- Daniel Boone as Molly Hogan
1963
- The Fugitive as Dorina Pruitt
- Burke's Law as Helen Dekker
- The Outer Limits as Florida Patton
1962
- Sam Benedict as Rita Bain
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- The New Breed as Nurse Nora Springer
1960
1959
- Odds Against Tomorrow as Helen
1957
- Ride Out for Revenge as Amy Porter
1956
- The Man Who Never Was as Lucy Sherwood
1955
- Oklahoma! as Ado Annie Carnes
- The Cobweb as Karen McIver
- Not as a Stranger as Harriet Lang
1954
- Human Desire as Vicki Buckley
- Naked Alibi as Marianna
- A Star Is Born World Premiere as Self
- The Good Die Young as Denise Blaine
1953
- General Electric Theater as Elena Carlisle
- The Big Heat as Debby Marsh
- The Glass Wall as Maggie Summers
- Man on a Tightrope as Zama Cernik
- Prisoners of the Casbah as Princess Nadja
1952
- The Greatest Show on Earth as Angel
- The Bad and the Beautiful as Rosemary Bartlow
- Sudden Fear as Irene Neves
- Macao as Margie
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- In a Lonely Place as Laurel Gray
1949
- A Woman's Secret as Susan Caldwell / Estrellita
- Roughshod as Mary Wells
1947
- Crossfire as Virginia "Ginny" Tremayne
- Song of the Thin Man as Fran Page
- It Happened in Brooklyn as Nurse
- Merton of the Movies as Beulah Baxter
1946
- It's a Wonderful Life as Violet
1945
- Without Love as Flower Vendor
1944
- Blonde Fever as Sally Murfin