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Gloria Grahame

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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Not long before she died in 1981 at age 57, Gloria Grahame, who had acted in films signed by Frank Capra, Nicholas Ray, Josef von Sternberg, Vincente Minnelli, Elia Kazan, Fritz Lang, and Fred Zinnemann, demolished them all in one sweeping statement. “Those men never directed me,” she told an English stage director with whom she was currently working. “I’d go home and work on it with my mother, then come in and shoot it, and that would be that.”
—Donald Chase, “Gloria Grahame In Praise of the Naughty Mind,” Film Comment, 1997

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I liked the strong characters. I don’t mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.”
—Ida Lupino

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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

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Gloria Grahame: Marriage Hollywood Style

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Gloria Grahame
Gloria Grahame

Before Woody and Soon-Yi there was Gloria and Anthony.

In June 1948, the day after that she divorced her first husband, actress Gloria Grahame (1923 – 1981) wed director Nicholas Ray.

The marriage was troubled right from the start and ended when Ray walked in on Grahame while she was in bed with another man.

Actually, a boy.

He was 13-year-old Anthony Ray, Nick’s son from a previous marriage.

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