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Gloria Grahame (November 28, 1923 – October
5, 1981) was an United States|American film
actor|actress.

Born Gloria Hallward in Los Angeles, California,
her mother Jean Grahame was a stage actress and
acting teacher who taught Gloria acting during her
childhood and adolescence. She was signed to a
contact with MGM|MGM Studios after Louis B. Mayer
saw her performing on Broadway.   Changing her
name to Gloria Grahame, she made her film debut in
Blonde Fever (1944) and scored her most widely
praised role as the small town girl Violet, who is
saved from a life of shame by George Bailey in
It's A Wonderful Life (1946).  MGM was not able to
develop her potential as a star and her contract
was sold to RKO Studios in 1947.  

She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress nomination for Crossfire (movie)|Crossfire
(1947), and won the same award for The Bad and the
Beautiful (1952). She is perhaps best remembered,
however, for her role as the mob moll in The Big
Heat (1953). In what was considered a horrifying
scene at the time, she is disfigured by boiling
coffee thrown in her face by Lee Marvin. 

Often regarded as a difficult actress, Grahame's
career began to wane after her role in Oklahoma!
(1955), although she continued to play supporting
roles for the rest of her life in the United
States, and also in the United Kingdom, where she
resided for many years. 

In 1981, Grahame collapsed during a rehearsal for
a British stage play, and returned to New York
City where she died soon after from cancer. She is
interred in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in
Chatsworth, California.

Gloria Grahame has a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at
6522 Hollywood Boulevard.

==Filmography==
*Blonde Fever (1944)
*Without Love (1945)
*It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
*It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)
*Crossfire (movie)|Crossfire (1947)
*Song of the Thin Man (1947)
*Merton of the Movies (1947)
*A Woman's Secret (1949)
*Roughshod (1949)
*In a Lonely Place (1950)
*The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
*Macao (1952 movie)|Macao (1952)
*Sudden Fear (1952)
*The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
*The Glass Wall (1953)
*Man on a Tightrope (1953)
*The Big Heat (1953)
*Prisoners of the Casbah (1953)
*Human Desire (1954)
*Naked Alibi (1954)
*The Good Die Young (1954)
*The Cobweb (1955)
*Not as a Stranger (1955)
*Oklahoma! (1955)
*The Man Who Never Was (1956)
*Ride Out for Revenge (1957)
*Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
*Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966)
*Blood and Lace (1971)
*The Todd Killings (1971)
*Chandler (1971)
*The Loners (1972)
*Tarot (1973)
*Mama's Dirty Girls (1974)
*Mansion of the Doomed (1976)
*A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979)
*Head Over Heels (1979)
*Melvin and Howard (1980)
*The Nesting (1982)