Gloria Grahame
Gloria Grahame ( born November 28, 1923 in Los Angeles, † October 5, 1981 in New York City ) was an American actress.
Life
Grahame was the daughter of an architect and a theater actress, drama teacher was later. Soon she began as a child theater to play and therefore also broke their school career from early to go to a theater on tour. You made it to Broadway in New York, where it was discovered in the 1940s by Hollywood producer Louis B. Mayer for the film. Her film debut was in 1944. Attention first excited her in a supporting role in Frank Capra's Is not life beautiful?. Although they shone as a musical star in Oklahoma!, But they played mostly wicked or difficult characters such as in Fritz Lang's lust for life, the remake of the classic La bete humaine. Twice she was nominated for an Oscar. 1948 1953 1953 she received the trophy for her supporting role in city of illusions. After 1956, its success was mainly due to private problems subsided significantly.
Gloria Grahame was four times married. Her second husband was the director Nicholas Ray, her fourth whose son Tony: with two they had one or two of their four children. In 1981, she died of cancer.