In her eyes: notes on Gloria Grahame
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- Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2017
- With a curl of her lip and an arch of her eyebrow, Gloria Grahame was the actress who stood up to both Humphrey Bogart and Lee Marvin in their most violent roles. In this video essay, Serena Bramble explores the burn mark Grahame left on the silver screen.
Read the text of this video in the December 2017 issue of Sight & Sound: www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/si...
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool is now on UK release: movies.powster.com/film-stars-dont-die-in-liverpool
In a Lonely Place and The Big Heat are re-released in UK cinemas on 24 November:
www.parkcircus.com/films/5517-in-a-lonely-place
www.parkcircus.com/films/5518-the-big-heat
Good at Being Bad: the films of Gloria Grahame runs 13 November-30 December at BFI Southbank, London: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/glo... 
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I just watched"In A Lonely Place" again. Gloria was terrific!
When she was good, she was good!!!! But when she was bad she was better!!! Gone 38 years, but never forgotten, she was one damn good actress who never got old. I love all your performances Miss Grahame! You could do no wrong on the bit screen.
Ah, ' Glorious ' Gloria Grahame. She is one of my all time favourites. She is such a beauty and her body of work is quite exceptional. Who else could give the real tough guys such a run for their money.
we're all living in Pottersville now.
She had a quality that made her unique. Her delivery was almost a whisper; she came through as someone who needed rescuing without asking for help.
Yes, she oozes raw sexuality, something quite unseen in the 40s and 50s.
None will surpass her roles in The Big Heat or In a Lonely Place. Legendary.
Thank you for this. The first time I saw Gloria Grahame was flouncing past James Stewart every Christmas in "It's a Wonderful Life". Unforgettable. I remain smitten to this day. I'm so pleased with the renewed interest in her work.
Her part in "The Man Who Never Was" was heartbreaking... could easily have rated a Best Supporting Actress Award....that film is almost semi -documemtary, cool and detached Brit war film..but Gloria's character is the raw emotion the film needs,and hits the viewer like a ton of bricks.War is hell.Her best "unknown" performance..
Not her best but more than adequate. strangely, through most of the movie her whole face has this glazed wet look that is awful. These are back in the days when a woman went to the powder room if her nose was a little shiny. BAFFLING.
Just watched “ Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool” so I’m watching this with new eyes. Great job, Serena.
Thank you Serena. Poor Gloria, like Susan Hayward, i feel was very underrated in her work and barely remembered today.
I remember her every day, she was and is brilliant.
Not forgotten to me either. I'm always watching her films
Wow! What a wonderful tribute to the sublime Gloria Grahame. Thank you so much, Serena, for your insightful dialogue, your perfect voice and narration, and your selection of scenes from her films. Bravo!
Fantastic insight.
I see I'm not the only one who is fascinated by the most captivating actress.
Thank you
One of my favorite actresses. Can't believe there's not a full-length biography of her.
Because of Gloria's lack of self confidence, she avoided the Hollywood party circuit, and was reviled by the press.
Well, I'm five years late, but--there is. It's called Suicide Blonde: The life of Gloria Grahame, by Vincent Curcio, published in 1989.
@@lottaandgus Oooh, I gotta read that!
Gloria was like a beautiful jaguar- you never knew which way she d jump. And therein lies a fascination.
Great job ! Terrific actress - they don't make them like they used to !!
I fell in love with her the first time I saw 'The Big Heat' and my heart lifts every time I see her on film.
Thanks Serena. I just saw her in "In A Lonely Place" and really liked the ending.
Thank you for making this! I got into film noir with movies like Blade Runner, Sin City and Touch of Evil. I have seen most of the classic film noir movies and Gloria Graham is the one all these actresses aim to emulate...hands down...she is the best film noir actress ever. She is so beautiful and her performances are haunting and stay with you especially the Big Heat and Lonely Place.
Gloria Grahame, brilliant and beautiful and full of life.
She should be better known. Love her.
Unsung, unsung, very unsung. As a man now at the age of 60, i stumbled crossed Gloria, and really not paying too much attention to her, thru all the B/W films that i grew up on in the 60's and 70's on TV. Only interested in the main star, or stars of the movies that i saw, i started to notice her and said, Damn! I luv her, from that sweet little voice to the vixen she played in ones like "Sudden Fear". But the one that stood out to me of all was the roll she played in "The Man That Never Was" of the girlfriend of the false fallen British Soldier. It truly made me wonder how it was that she never had at least one film to her credit were she was the leading Actress. But good for her, i believe she lived her life with no regrets....or maybe,.... little to none.
It's wonderful to see how Annett Bening emulated her, and...oh, may i also say, i also see some similarity to her looks in Taylor Swift.
Can't go wrong with that at all. With Love, to Gloria Grahame.
Michael
Thank you,Serena!!
Great tribute to a great actress! 👍👍
Just saw The big heat , she was amazing, and Stole the movie. I wanted to see more of her character. She owns the screen and you want her to come out with a happy ending despite her complex lifestyle. She’s a true legend.
I just saw that movie too and she is wonderful in it. No matter what, she seems to command the screen in whatever scene she is in.
Gloria steals every movie she's in.
Serena, I suspect both of us watch TCM. Bravo, excellent tribute to a fine actress.
Back in the late 70's when her husband was filming a scene in my neighborhood, she appeared at my door, looking for a son that may have been her stepson, and I learned who she was, but the only film I had seen her in was Oklahoma. She could have been anyone off the street because she wasn't dressed up in any way, and when she complimented my home which was innovated by me with my inventive crafts projects, I was very flattered, especially when she said that her director or producer would love to do a scene there if he was able to see what I had accomplished. Rest in peace, Gloria.
I'm watching In a Lonely Place for the second time but can't get through it. I keep reading reviews which require me to rewind and watch a scene over and over to catch little things that went by me. This is a wonderful tribute. Thank you. I wonder and wonder. How do stars like Veronica Lake, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks and on and on wind up lonely and (other than Brooks' wonderful occasional comments on the Industry from her isolated little apartment) forgotten. The arch of the eyebrow! What power.
I only recently became aware of Grahame through reading The Castle On Sunset by Shawn Levy.
I immediately thought, wow, I need to find out more about this actress. A couple of days later I found the Paul McGuigan film on DVD where I didn't expect to find it. I'm now looking forward to discovering her work film by film.
This video essay was a joy to view. Thanks.
Very well written and also excellent narration.
*A well-crafted mini-documentary. The only thing I would've added is a passing mention of her TV appearances, one from "The Fugitive" and the other from "The Outer Limits".*
The movie Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool is out now, just watched it the other day. I really enjoyed it's a very moving performance's from Annette Benning and Jamie Bell. Benning is so like Graham in the movie.
Beautiful girl she was. I loved watching her with Humphrey bogart. She was a remarkable woman. So beautiful.
A brilliant and very underrated actor.
She was so perfect in the Big Heat.
Most fascinating, beautiful woman in Hollywood history. I can never get enough of Gloria Grahame.
Amazing video essay!
Grahame was much better in "in A Lonely Place" role than Bacall would have been. I can't imagine Bacall - who was a rather one note actress - conveying the range of complex emotions which Grahame displays so convincingly here.
I have to take exception to your assessment of Bacall's acting range. However, I will agree that Grahame was a better fit for the role.
Agree, admittedly I'm not a huge Bacall fan, liked her in certain things, but here she wouldn't fit.
at this moment when men are being taken down from positions of power for their abuse of women, Gloria Grahame being remembered is a sweet irony. she was on the receiving end of male violence and possessiveness in her films, but it's her dignity that made her a great screen presence. highly eroticized, she's an underdog candidate for national heroine. thank you for this respectful, insightful appraisal.
Unfortunately, she also may have been a sexual abuser -- of a minor boy. We don't know for sure, but she may have had sex w/her 13-year-old stepson.
Let's keep this straight. We don't KNOW that this happened. We don't KNOW that Gloria Grahame had sex w/her 13-year-old stepson. This has been reported -- not proven.
At any rate, I admire Gloria Grahame as an actress very muc. But she should have gone to jail IF she had sex a/her 13-year-old stepson!
Again: She MAY have committed statutory rape w/a 13-year-old step-son. It is UNFAIR to write this as if it is established fact. What's more, this is not about being "never dull" but about committing a very serious crime.
We don't KNOW for sure that she had sex w/Tony Ray when he was 13. This should be mentioned as a story that is told -- not fact. If it happened, it was a criminal offense.
@@Denisenoe
She could have come after me, I wouldn't have told! She was about 30 years older than me. I'd been OK with it!
Unique. She could play sexy, sad, funny, impudent and her voice had that certain something to it. But yeah, her eyes.
And her pouty mouth and turned up nose. She was lovely and a talented actress.
Fantastic!!
Gloria Graham. Strong and beautiful.
amazing woman
I discovered her at 12 years old watching her on Wonderful Life. Thankfully, I found her again on TCM in the 90s.... what a babe.
I'm an old, gay man, but watching Gloria Grahame makes me shiver, in a good way.
I've loved Gloria Grahame since I first saw her in It's a Wonderful Life. I twas ten or twelve years old. Strange to say, I had an accident in my kitchen a few days ago. I badly scalded my wrist with boiling chicken broth, second degree burns. The first thing I thought of was Grahame in The Big Heat.
Thanks for putting this together I meet you would Gloria grahame fan
Very nice tribute. I'm watching her films in TCM's "Summer Under The Stars" for 8/17/21 day of her films. I've come away with a better appreciation of her work.
Loooove her.
First time I saw her was in Fritz Lang’s The Big Heat as a mobster’s moll who gets hot coffee thrown in her face by him. I was amazed by her.
Such a remarkable actress RIP 🙏💙💙💙
This was a superb posting. Full of intelligence and class.
Wow this was very well done, really never knew who she was but stumbled upon this from a clip from The Big Heat coffee scene. Grahame was brilliant! Kudos :-)
I wonder if you would consider comparing Gloria Grahame and Barbara Stanwyck?
One of those actresses whom you just didn't take your eyes off, like the character she was playing or not.
Great video!
Thanks for pointing out the 'Gloria' aspects of The Grifters - a favorite movie of mine.
(9:30) THE BIG HEAT...remember that coat. Gloria has a lovely scene with Jeanette Nolan, wherein she admires what is almost the exact same mink coat on the other character. Then muses, "You know, we're very much alike, you and me.." It is one of those moments.....
... it was 1980 and the shop was Fiorucci
Fiorucci is an expensive brand, no? What year did you meet her, because if it was between '79 and '81 then she was flat broke (according to Peter Turner, the last man she was involved with). Possibly why she didn't buy anything.
Truly, worth seeing!
Greatest show on earth was the first movie I saw her in
Gloria beats them all today.
Am I the only one that has seen Gloria Grahame in Sudden Fear playing opposite Joan Crawford and Jack Palance?
Voted “Stepmother of the Twentieth Century” in a poll of teenaged boys.
Whats wrong with you?
Nothing you can't fix
Love it!
Apparently that rumour about the teenage son is false.
5:30 it is?
Gloria Graham should have been arrested for being entirely too kissable.
This was amazing, although the narrator is very hard to understand, sounds like she runs her words together or speaks too fast.
Why do people look past her being with a young child.
Ray’s son was 13 not 14
I'm sure you wouldn't say Isn't love grand if it was a 20 something man with a 14 year old girl
If this was a man who slept with his 13 year old ,
Step daughter , would you give her such compliments , not 14 year old stepson, and she many years later married him , all to odd for me ,as reported on this video
Agree. That was pretty disgusting what she did, its funny how some people overlook some things people do. And you're right, if she was a man, would've been a different ballgame. She'd be right up there with Woody, Roman, Bill, etc.
That is just a rumor. Any how, I separate the artist from the person.
@@guineapig4701 no proof she engaged in sexual relations with minor. No police report nor was everr brought up in divorce court. Ray spread the rumor to destroy her.
vocal fry much?
"Isn't love grand?" in your fullest vocal fry 🤢🤢🤮
couldn’t make it through this, the non stop vocal fry is too laughable
She ruined her face with plastic surgerys around her mouth to tighten the look.
Ever think it was the studio system, not her...?
@@qwj68boots No, it was her, by all accounts. She was terribly insecure about her looks.
Who’s narrating this....such an annoying voice..is it Kim catrall
I think her voice is fine.
Shut up, Larry Flynt.