Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When presenter Edmund Gwenn called Grahame's name as the winner, however, she carried herself to the stage atop quivering heels, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ConsiderThis “Soon to be a major motion picture.” From its publication in 1986, that was what British actor-writer Peter Turner ...

Annette Bening gives Gloria Grahame a nobility rarely shown to faded Hollywood actresses in “Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool,” a tender if generic portrait of aged glamour. Based on the 1986 memoir ...

Gloria Grahame might well have been concocted in a lab experiment to create a classic Hollywood star. That’s assuming the experiment included not only looks and talent but also the haunted arc of a ...

More than 20 years ago, film producer Barbara Broccoli told Annette Bening about a 1984 memoir recounting an affair between Oscar-winning actress Gloria Grahame — in her later years an England-based ...

Hollywood blondes of the 1950s were varied. Cheerful, versatile Doris Day was the most popular; Marilyn Monroe, the most famous; Grace Kelly, the most classically beautiful and acclaimed; 40s holdover ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Annette Bening in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool. (Sony Pictures Classics) Frears specifically recommended Bening tap into ...

The rise of talking pictures coincided with the Great Depression. The ostensible golden age of the studios paralleled the darkest days of the thirties. Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane,” released two ...

“Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool” tells the story of the last years of glamour star Gloria Grahame, a worthy subject; but the movie faces two challenges that are very hard to get around. The first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gloria Grahame may not have been a classic Hollywood actress with the name recognition of women like Katharine Hepburn, Joan ...