Prot-a-gonist* Gloria Grahame, 1923-1981 | Queen of Film Noir / 7 essential films

Gloria Grahame, 1923-1981

“You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.”

“I remember everything, even the dates. But I don’t want others to remember the details, just the image.”

“I don’t think I ever understood Hollywood. Whatever they told me to do, I did. I went to the studio in the morning, stayed on the set all day, then went home, and ate my dinner, and studied my part, and went to sleep.”

” It wasn’t the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.”

Gloria Grahame, 1923-1981

“I married Nicholas Ray, the director. People yawned. Later on I married his son, and from the press’s reaction you’d have thought I was committing incest or robbing the cradle!”

“There’s always a race against time. I don’t think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One’s body starts to fall apart.”

“Hey, I like this: early nothing.”

Gloria Grahame

Gloria Grahame and George Cooperin in Crossfire (1947) / dir. Edward Dmytryk

Gloria Grahame and Humphrey Bogart in Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place, 1950

Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame in Sudden Fear (1952) / dir. David Miller

Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat (1953) / dir. Fritz Lang

Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame in Human Desire (1954) / dir. Fritz Lang

Sterling Hayden and Gloria Grahame in Naked Alibi (1954) / dir. Jerry Hopper

Gloria Grahame and Robert Ryan in Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) / dir. Robert Wise

Gloria Grahame, 1955

Also:
The Book & the Movie: In a Lonely Place / Dorothy B. Hughes, 1947 | Nicholas Ray, 1950