Gloria Grahame on TCM
Gloria Grahame is Turner Classic Movies‘ star of the day on Thursday, Aug. 13.
TCM’s "Summer Under the Stars" series continues with an offbeat choice, for Gloria Grahame was hardly what one would call a top star or one who fit the mold of your usual Hollywood personality of that era, whether on or off screen.
In films, Grahame usually came across as vulgar, sleazy, and untrustworthy — and I mean that as a compliment; in my book, shady movie characters have almost invariably been much more interesting than clean-cut movie heroes. Off-screen she could be just as interesting: for instance, footage from the 1954 A Star Is Born premiere shows the actress clearly intoxicated (and not [...]
by Andre Soares | August 12, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Crossfire, Edward Dmytryk, Gloria Grahame, John Paxton, Summer Under the Stars, TCM, The Big Heat, Turner Classic Movies
Gloria Grahame at Bright Lights
Dan Callahan takes a look at Gloria Grahame’s life and career in a lengthy article at Brights Lights:
"Grahame lives on the edges of most of her films, too disturbing an image, too turbulent a consciousness to ever really play a lead role. She could look severe, even plain, when she wasn’t overly made up for gaudy seduction. Almost always, she played tramps of some sort, but she was enough of an actress to make them very different kinds of tramps, and her filmography offers a sort of strumpet cornucopia. She is capable of turning up in anything, even It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), where she’s the flip side of the film’s Donna Reed sweetheart: Violet Bick (how’s that for a [...]
by Andre Soares | May 11, 2008
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Best Films – 1953
Jacques Tati in Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
FILM
The Bandwagon
d: Vincente Minnelli; scr: Adolph Green, Betty Comden
The Big Heat
d: Fritz Lang; scr: Sidney Boehm
Blowing Wild
d: Hugo Fregonese; scr: Philip Yordan
Calamity Jane
d: David Butler; scr: James O’Hanlon
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
d: Howard Hawks; scr: Charles Lederer
How to Marry a Millionaire
d: Jean Negulesco; scr: Nunnally Johnson
I Confess
d: Alfred Hitchcock; scr: George Tabori, William Archibald
Madame De… / The Earrings of Madame De…
d: Max Ophüls; scr: Marcel Achard, Max Ophüls, Annette Wademant
Peter Pan
d: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske; scr: Ted Sears, Bill Peet, and others
Pickup on South Street
d, scr: Samuel [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: Best Films, Classic Movies, Danielle Darrieux, Gloria Grahame, I Confess, Jacques Tati, Leslie Caron, Lili, Montgomery Clift, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, The Big Heat, The Earrings of Madame De
