💖 Gloria Grahame (1923 – 1981) American actress and singer 🎙️
#GloriaGrahame #oldhollywood

67 years ago:
The Man Who Never Was (UK)
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will...
1956-04-03
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43791
#TheManWhoNeverWas #RonaldNeame #CliftonWebb #GloriaGrahame #StephenBoyd #Film

70 years ago:
The Glass Wall (US)
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped during the war, as Tom can prove Peter's right to legal entry into the United States. If he can't find Tom within 24 hours and prove his case, he will...
1953-03-19
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/34752
#TheGlassWall #VittorioGassman #GloriaGrahame #AnnRobinson #Columbia #Movies

69 years ago:
The Good Die Young (UK)
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
1954-03-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/47312
#TheGoodDieYoung #LewisGilbert #LaurenceHarvey #GloriaGrahame #RichardBasehart #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

In a Lonely Place (1950). I know almost everybody regards this as one of the great noirs but I'm underwhelmed by it.

Bogart is OK as the bitter failed writer but I just didn't find the character believable. Gloria Grahame does her best. But for me the script just doesn't hold together. Dorothy B. Hughes' novel is much much better.

But I'm a notorious Nicholas Ray sceptic.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2021/11/in-lonely-place-1950.html

#humphreybogart #GloriaGrahame #NicholasRay #filmnoir #classicmovies #classicmovie

💖 Gloria Grahame (1923 – 1981) American actress and singer 🌸
#GloriaGrahame #oldhollywood

With a cool title sequence, rapid cuts, zoom-ins, extreme closeups, jazzy score and old New York scenery, there are a lot to love in Odds Against Tomorrow. It patiently spends 2/3rd of the film on the characters before the heist. #HarryBelafonte is mesmerizing as a conflicted anti-hero, so is #RobertRyan in his aging grizzly man persona. #GloriaGrahame shows up as saucy next door neighbor of Slater (Ryan) and their scene together is deliciously explosive. #robertwise #filmnoir

Gloria Grahame in the underrated film noir Naked Alibi (1954).

Sterling Hayden and Gene Barry are her co-stars.

#filmnoir #classicmovies #GloriaGrahame #SterlingHayden #GeneBarry #FilmMastodon