Robert J. Lentz

Gloria Grahame, Bad Girl of Film Noir

The Complete Career

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Produktbeschreibung

A marvelous actress, Gloria Grahame (1923-1981) was also an iconic figure of film noir. Her talents are showcased in several classic motion pictures of the 1940s and 1950s, including It's a Wonderful Life, Crossfire, In a Lonely Place, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Big Heat, Oklahoma!, and The Bad and the Beautiful, for which she earned an Academy Award. This comprehensive overview of Gloria Grahame's life and work examines each of her feature films in detail, as well as her made-for-television productions, her television-series appearances and her stage career. Also discussed are the varied ways in which Grahame's acting performances were affected by her tumultuous personal life--which included four marriages, the second to director Nicholas Ray and the fourth to Ray's stepson Anthony.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9780786434831
• ISBN-10: 078643483X
• Artikelnr.: 33166295

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Lentz works in the fields of movie distribution and theater management, and also reviews films for print and radio media. His website is filmbobbery.com. He lives in Randolph, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS     
INTRODUCTION     
Short Films: Soundies (1943-1944)     
Feature Films     
Blonde Fever (1944)     
Without Love (1945)     
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)     
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)     
Crossfire (1947)     
Song of the Thin Man (1947)     
Merton of the Movies (1947)     
A Woman's Secret (1949)     
Roughshod (1949)     
In a Lonely Place (1950)     
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)     
Macao (1952)     
Sudden Fear (1952)     
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)     
The Glass Wall (1953)     
Man on a Tightrope (1953)     
The Big Heat (1953)     
Prisoners of the Casbah (1953)     
The Good Die Young (1954)     
Human Desire (1954)     
Naked Alibi (1954)     
The Cobweb (1955)     
Not as a Stranger (1955)     
Oklahoma! (1955)     
The Man Who Never Was (1956)     
Ride Out for Revenge (1957)     
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)     
Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966)     
Blood and Lace (1971)     
The Todd Killings (1971)     
Chandler (1971)     
The Loners (1972)     
Tarot (1973)     
Mama's Dirty Girls (1974)     
Mansion of the Doomed (1976)     
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979)     
Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979/1982)     
Melvin and Howard (1980)     
The Nesting (1981)     
Feature-Length Made-for-Television Movies, Miniseries and Specials     
Escape (1971 Movie)     
Black Noon (1971 Movie)     
The Girl on the Late, Late Show (1974 Movie)     
Rich Man, Poor Man (1976 Miniseries)
Seventh Avenue (1977 Miniseries)
The Dancing Princesses (1979 Filmed
Stage Production)     
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1979 Filmed Stage Production)     
Mr. Griffin and Me (1981 Special)     
Television Series Appearances     
APPENDIX A-THE FILMS LISTED BY STUDIO AND DISTRIBUTOR     
APPENDIX B-THE STAGE PLAYS     
APPENDIX C-JOY HALLWARD: THE OLDER SISTER'S FILM APPEARANCES     
NOTES ON SOURCES     
BIBLIOGRAPHY     
INDEX