Gloria Grahame
Gender: Female
Born: 28th November 1923
Died: 5th October 1981
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Rich Man, Poor Man
Movies: Crossfire, Human Desire, In a Lonely Place, Naked Alibi, Odds Against Tomorrow, The Big Heat, The Glass Wall, Oklahoma, A Woman's Secret, The Cobweb, The Bad and the Beautiful, Sudden Fear, Man on a Tightrope, The Man Who Never Was, Merry Wives of Windsor, The Greatest Show on Earth, Blood and Lace, Roughshod, Merton of the Movies, It's a Wonderful Life, Without Love, Song of the Thin Man, It Happened in Brooklyn, Head Over Heels, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, Ride Beyond Vengeance, Macao, Black Noon, The Nesting, Blonde Fever
Gloria Grahame (November 28, 1923 – October 5, 1981) was an American Academy Award–winning 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.
Grahame was born Gloria Hallward in Los Angeles, California. Reginald Michael Bloxam Hallward, her father, was an architect and author and her
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