Gloria Grahame

Actor Nov 28 (died age 57) Los Angeles, California, USA 1944–2025 (81 year career)

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Biography

Gloria Grahame (November 28, 1923 – October 5, 1981) was an American actress. Grahame began her acting career in theatre, and in 1944 she made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), MGM did not believe she had the potential for major success, and sold her contract to RKO Studios. Often cast in film noir projects, Grahame received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire (1947), and she won this award for her work in Th…

Known For

Film

It's a Wonderful Life

Violet

Film

In a Lonely Place

Laurel Gray

Film

The Big Heat

Debby Marsh

Film

The Bad and the Beautiful

Rosemary Bartlow

Film

Sudden Fear

Irene Neves

Film

The Greatest Show on Earth

Angel

Film

Oklahoma!

Ado Annie Carnes

Film

Crossfire

Virginia "Ginny" Tremayne

Filmography

Acting (66)

Movies (49)

Akai Ito

2025

'In a Lonely Place' Revisited

2003

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Nesting

as Florinda Costello

Mr. Griffin and Me

as Mara Emerson

The Merry Wives of Windsor

1980

as Mistress Page

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

as Ma

Melvin and Howard

as Mrs. Sisk

Chilly Scenes of Winter

1979

as Clara

6.6

The Dancing Princesses

1978

as The Witch

Mansion of the Doomed

as Katherine

Mama's Dirty Girls

as Mama Love

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

as Carolyn Porter

Tarot

as Natalie

The Loners

as Annabelle

Chandler

as Selma

Escape

as Evelyn Harrison

Black Noon

as Bethia

Blood and Lace

as Mrs. Deere

The Todd Killings

as Mrs. Roy

Ride Beyond Vengeance

1966

as Bonnie Shelley

5.9

Odds Against Tomorrow

as Helen

Ride Out for Revenge

as Amy Porter

The Man Who Never Was

as Lucy Sherwood

Oklahoma!

as Ado Annie Carnes

Not as a Stranger

as Harriet Lang

The Cobweb

as Karen McIver

The Good Die Young

as Denise Blaine

Naked Alibi

as Marianna

Human Desire

as Vicki Buckley

A Star Is Born World Premiere

1954

as Self

8.0

Prisoners of the Casbah

as Princess Nadja

The Big Heat

as Debby Marsh

The Glass Wall

as Maggie Summers

Man on a Tightrope

as Zama Cernik

The Bad and the Beautiful

1952

as Rosemary Bartlow

7.3

The Greatest Show on Earth

as Angel

Macao

as Margie

Sudden Fear

as Irene Neves

In a Lonely Place

as Laurel Gray

Roughshod

as Mary Wells

A Woman's Secret

as Susan Caldwell / Estrellita

5.6

It Happened in Brooklyn

1947

as Nurse

5.8

Crossfire

1947

as Virginia "Ginny" Tremayne

Song of the Thin Man

as Fran Page

Merton of the Movies

as Beulah Baxter

It's a Wonderful Life

as Violet

Without Love

as Flower Vendor

Blonde Fever

as Sally Murfin

Television (17)

Tales of the Unexpected

as Olivia

Seventh Avenue

as Moll

Rich Man, Poor Man

as Sue Prescott

Kojak

as Helen

Then Came Bronson

as Charlene Braden

The Name of the Game

as Madame Noh

Mannix

as Mae Darling

Daniel Boone

as Molly Hogan

The Fugitive

as Dorina Pruitt

The Outer Limits

as Florida Patton

Burke's Law

as Helen Dekker

Sam Benedict

as Rita Bain

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self

5.4

The New Breed

1961

as Nurse Nora Springer

7.0

Harrigan and Son

1960

General Electric Theater

1953

as Elena Carlisle

6.4

The Colgate Comedy Hour

1950

as Self

6.8