Gloria Grahame

Biography

Gloria Grahame (of real name Gloria Hallward) was born the 28 of November of 1923 in the Angels, California (the United States). In his childhood she would begin to take part in scholastic theater productions since her mother, Jean McDougall, was a professor and actress of theater (in where she acted under the name of Jean Grahame) simultaneously that its teacher from his more tender childhood. After the first pinitos in scene at her student time Gloria would be able to make debut in Broadway in the years 40.En New York was discovered by the tycoon of the Goldwyn Meter Mayer, Louis B. Mayer, who after appreciating his interpretativos beauty and its ways made him sign a contract with his powerful company when Gloria counted had only twenty years of age. Red-baptize with the artistic last name of its mother, Grahame made debut in "Blonde Fever" (1944) next to Phillip Dorn and Mary Astor interpreting to a vampiresa. Later it would take part in a vehicle for the mythical pair Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, "Without love" (1945), reaching finally the fame by its secondary paper in the masterpiece of Frank Capra, "What beautiful is to live" (1946).A to weigh of this work, to the Meter to not interested him to prorogue its contract and it yielded it to the RKO, in where it did not have too much fortune either, breaking their contractual commitment at the beginning of the years 50.En that stage carried out very good films as "Crossroads of hatreds" (1947) of Edward Dmytryk or "In a lonely please" (1950), a film directed by its husband at those moments, Nicholas Ray, with which already he had shared credits previously in "a woman secret" (1949). Before her wedding with Ray, with that contracted marriage in 1948, the actress been had married with actor Stanley Clemens, to whom was related between 1945 and 1948. Gloria, who underwent serious problems of vision, was a woman that used to appear in screen with a safe and sensual image, being in fact one girl of quite uncertain personality. In 1952 Gloria one divorced of Nicholas Ray. Two years later contracted marriage with the writer Cy Howard, with whom remained until 1957. Later, peculiarly, 1960 with his married in hijastro (son of Nicholas Ray), Anthony Ray, connection that did not favor to its image. In 1976 Anthony and Gloria they would finish divorciándose.En whatever to its cinematographic race years 50 were splendid for the Californian actress, who would obtain the Oscar to the best secondary feminine interpreter by "Captives of badly" (1952), a title directed by Vincente Minnelli. To the margin of this film, Gloria took part in titles like "the greater spectacle of the world" (1952) of Cecil B. DeMille, "the bribed ones" (1953) of Fritz Lang, film in which Lee Marvin threw a boiling coffee in the heat of to him face, "human Desires" (1954), film that again matched it with Glenn Ford with the direction of Lang after "the bribed ones", "the spider fabric" (1955), again with Minnelli of director, "you will not be a stranger" (1955), the first largometraje of Stanley Kramer, or "Oklahoma" (1955) western musical directed by Fred Zinneman and in which Gloria sang with her own voice. From end of decade in ahead the works in which it took part they lacked in his majority of quality and as many other illustrious interpreters directed to their passages towards the world of the theater and televisión.Gloria Grahame, the bright cinematographic star that descended from the high British royalty would die of cancer in the city of New York the 5 of October of 1981. It was 57 years old.