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Gloria Grahame, Bad Girl of Film Noir

Author: Robert J. Lentz

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0786487224

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.

Femme Noir

Author: Karen Burroughs Hannsberry

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2012-10-26

Total Pages: 1298

ISBN-13: 0786491590

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Though often thought of as primarily a male vehicle, the film noir offered some of the most complex female roles of any movies of the 1940s and 1950s. Stars such as Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Tierney and Joan Crawford produced some of their finest performances in noir movies, while such lesser known actresses as Peggie Castle, Hope Emerson and Helen Walker made a lasting impression with their roles in the genre. These six women and 43 others who were most frequently featured in films noirs are profiled here, focusing primarily on their work in the genre and its impact on their careers. A filmography of all noir appearances is provided for each actress.

Suicide Blonde

Author: Vincent Curcio

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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Starring in such films as Crossfire and The Bad and the Beautiful, Gloria was a legend on screen as well as off. Here is her biography, a story of a self-destructive woman on a collision course with the stars and a vastly underrated classic actress who will never be forgotten. 30 black-and-white photos.

Claire Trevor

Author: Derek Sculthorpe

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2018-05-03

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1476630690

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Claire Trevor (1910–2000) is best remembered as the alluring blonde femme fatale in such iconic noir films as Murder, My Sweet (1944) and Raw Deal (1948). Yet she was a versatile performer who brought rare emotional depth to her art. She was effective in a range of diverse roles, from an outcast prostitute in John Ford’s classic Stagecoach (1939) to the ambitious tennis mother in Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951) to the embittered wife of a landowner in William Wellman’s overlooked gem My Man and I (1952). Nominated for three Oscars, she deservedly won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Gaye Dawn, a gangster’s broken-down moll in Key Largo (1948). The author covers her life and career in detail, recognizing her as one of the finest actresses of her generation.

Film Noir

Author: Bruce Crowther

Publisher: Burns & Oates

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios

Author: Lutz Bacher

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780813522913

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Drawing on documents in many archives and on interviews with more than sixty of Ophuls' contemporaries, Bacher traces the European director's struggle to find a niche in the U.S. film industry.

Angela Bassett

Author: Dawn Fitzgerald

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 0791058107

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It would take a long time for Hollywood to recognize veteran Angela Bassett as a superb actor -- not until she received an Academy award nomination in 1994 for her dead-on portrayal of pop star Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with it?

The Films of Lana Turner

Author: Lou Valentino

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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This biography of Lana Turner focuses on her career as an actress and her motion pictures.

In a Lonely Place

Author: Dorothy B. Hughes

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2010-05-06

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0141192313

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Dix Steele is back in town, and 'town' is post-war LA. His best friend Brub is on the force of the LAPD, and as the two meet in country clubs and beach bars, they discuss the latest case: a strangler is preying on young women in the dark. Dix listens with interest as Brub describes their top suspect, as yet unnamed. Dix loves the dark and women in equal measure, so he knows enough to watch his step, though when he meets the luscious Laurel Gray, something begins to crack. The American Dream is showing its seamy underside.

Doris Day

Author: Eric Braun

Publisher: Orion

Published: 2010-12-30

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1409105695

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An in-depth and fascinating study of one of Hollywood's most popular icons - fully updated and including previously unreleased pictures. Doris Day is almost always portrayed as the sunny, squeaky-clean girl next door. This wholesome image kept her at the top for twenty-four years and thirty-nine films. But behind the effervescent, ever-cheerful image that Doris Day portrayed through dozens of classic Hollywood movies was an extraordinary story of private pain. Her dazzling smile hid a tormented personal life that included four marriages, and a terrifying accident that nearly ended her life. And yet for generations of movie-goers Doris Day remained the embodiment of innocent beauty and apple-pie homeliness, and even today she exerts a powerful fascination for millions of fans around the world.