GLORIA GRAHAME RARE VINTAGE 1954 GELATIN SILVER LIPPMAN PHOTOGRAPH HUMAN DESIRE
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:13095568 | Industry: Movies |
| Size: 8" x 10" | Object Type: Photograph |
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GLORIA GRAHAME RARE VINTAGE 1954 GELATIN SILVER LIPPMAN PHOTOGRAPH HUMAN DESIRE
DESCRIPTION: GORGEOUS - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! Original... vintage sexy pin-up 1954 gelatin silver photograph (see publicity snipe and credit stamp on verso) of actress GLORIA GRAHAME promoting the film "HUMAN DESIRE".
- SIZE: approx. 8" X 10"
- TONE: B&W
- FINISH: glossy
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SHIPPING TERMS
- I ship all items using, what I call, triple protection packing.The photos are inserted into a display bag with a white board, thenpacked in between two thick packaging boards and lastly wrapped withplastic film for weather protection before being placed into theshipping envelope.
- The shipping cost for U.S. shipments includes USPS "Delivery Confirmation" tracking.
- Combined Shipping Discounts:If you purchasemore than one item within a two week period that will be shippedtogether just add $2.00 to the base shipping cost. This will cover anyadditional quantity of a similar item purchased. If you purchasedifferent types of items (i.e. clothes andphotos) please contact me for the lowest possible shipping discount. Please wait for me to issue the invoice with the reduced shipping cost before making payment.
PAYMENT TERMS
- Please pay within three (3) days of purchase.
- All sales taxes applicable to the City of Los Angeles, State ofCalifornia and the 2019 Marketplace Sales Tax Law in other states shall beapplied.
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I will respond to all inquiries within 24 hours. Please feel free to contact me anytime at 1-310-880-8140 (Pacific Standard Time)
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GLORIAGRAHAME BIO
(November 28, 1923 ? October 5, 1981) was an American Academy Award?winning actress.Grahame began her actingcareer in theatre, and in 1944 shemade her first film for MGM. Despitea 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 Awardfor Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire (1947), and she won this award for her work in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). She achieved her highest profile with SuddenFear (1952), Human Desire(1953), The Big Heat (1953), and Oklahoma! (1955), but herfilm career began to wane soon afterwards.She returned to work on thestage, but continued to appear infilms and television productions, usually in supporting roles.Diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1980, Grahame refused to accept the diagnosis and traveled to England to work in aplay. Her health rapidly failed andshe returned to New York City, where she died in 1981.Grahame was born GloriaHallward in Los Angeles, California. Reginald Michael Bloxam Hallward, her father, was an architect and author and her mother, Jeanne McDougall, who used the stagename Jean Grahame, was a Britishstage actress and acting teacher.McDougall taught her younger daughter acting during her childhood andadolescence. The couple had anotherdaughter, Joy Hallward (1911?2003), an actress who married John Mitchum (the youngerbrother of actor Robert Mitchum).Grahame was signed to acontract with MGM Studios under her professional name after Louis B. Mayer saw her performing on Broadway for severalyears.She made her film debut in BlondeFever (1944) and then scored one of her most widely praised roles as thepromiscuous Violet, saved fromdisgrace by George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1946). MGM was not able to develop her potential as astar and her contract was sold to RKO Studios in 1947.Grahame was often featured infilm noir pictures as a tarnished beauty with an irresistible sexual allure. During this time, she made films for several Hollywood studios. She received an Oscar nomination for BestSupporting Actress for Crossfire (1947).Grahame starred with HumphreyBogart in the 1950 film In a Lonely Place, a performance which garnered her considerable praise.Though today it is considered among her finest performances, it wasn't a box-office hit and Howard Hughes, owner of RKO Studios, admitted that he never saw it. Whenshe asked to be loaned out for roles in Born Yesterday and A Place inthe Sun, Hughes refused andinstead made her do a supporting role in Macao. However, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in MGM's The Bad andthe Beautiful (1952).Other memorable roles includedthe scheming Irene Nieves in Sudden Fear (1952), the femme fatale Vicki Buckley in Human Desire (1953), and mob moll Debby Marsh in Fritz Lang's TheBig Heat (1953) in which, in ahorrifying off-screen scene, she isscarred by hot coffee thrown in her face by Lee Marvin's character.Grahame's career began towane after her performance in the musical film Oklahoma! (1955). Grahame, whom audiences were used to seeing as a film noir siren, was miscast as an ignorant country lass in a wholesome musical, and the paralysis of her upper lip from plasticsurgery altered her speech and appearance.She began a slow return to the theater, and returned to films occasionally to play supporting roles, mostly in minor releases.She appeared on television too, including an episode of the ABC sitcom, Harrigan and Son, starringPat O'Brien, and a memorable episodeof the gothic sci-fi series The Outer Limits, in which she spoofed her own career by playing a forgotten film star living inthe past. She also appeared in"The Homecoming", a 1964television episode of The Fugitive, starring David Janssen.The play The Time of YourLife was revived in March 17, 1972 at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles with Grahame, Henry Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Lewis J. Stadlen, Ron Thompson, Jane Alexander, Richard X.Slattery and Pepper Martin among the cast with Edwin Sherin directing. Grahame has a star on theHollywood Walk of Fame at 6522 Hollywood Boulevard for her contribution to MotionPictures.Grahame had a string of stormyromances and failed marriages during her time in Hollywood, including marriages to director Nicholas Ray and later to Ray's son, Anthony, with whom she had an affair while still married to Ray.All of this took a toll on her career, as did a two-year hiatus after the birth of her daughter in 1956. Marital and child custody problems hampered herperformance on the set of Oklahoma!Additionally, the actress's concernover the appearance of her upper lip led her to pursue plastic surgery anddental operations that caused visible scarring and ultimately rendered the liplargely immobile because of nerve damage, which affected her speech. She married: Stanley Clements (1926?1981), actor, married August 1945, divorced 1 June 1948. Nicholas Ray, director, married 1 June 1948, separated 1951, divorced 1952. The couple had one child, Timothy (born November 1948, aka David Cyrus Howard during his mother's third marriage). Their marriage ended when Ray found Grahame in bed with his 13 year old son by his first marriage, Anthony, whom she later married. Cy Howard, writer, married 1954, divorced 1957. They had one daughter, Marianna Paulette (born 1956). Anthony Ray, her former stepson, married May 1960, divorced 1974. The Rays had two sons, Anthony Jr (born 1963) and James (born 1965).In the late 1970s, Grahame traveled to England to perform in plays. While there, she met Liverpool actor Peter Turner with whomshe had a romantic relationship.They moved to the USA andlived in New York and California, where their affair ended. Turnersubsequently returned to England.In 1980, Grahame was diagnosed with stomach cancer but refused surgery, insisting that she did not have the disease. In 1981, she traveled to Englandto perform in a play. While there, a procedure to have fluid drained from her stomachresulted in a perforated bowel. Thisbecame apparent only after she collapsed during a rehearsal.Peter Turner heard the newsthat Grahame was ill in a hotel in Lancaster, England. Accompanied by members of his family, he collected her and took her to his home inAigburth, Liverpool. There, he and his family nursed her until some of her children arrived to take herback to New Yorkwhere, at the age of 55, she died.She is interred in OakwoodMemorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California, as Gloria H.Grahame.Bibliography Vincent Curcio, Suicide Blonde: The Life of Gloria Grahame (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989) Peter Turner, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (New York: Grove Press, 1987)Filmography Year Film Role Notes 1944 Blonde Fever Sally Murfin 1945 Without Love Flower girl 1946 It's a Wonderful Life Violet Bick 1947 It Happened in Brooklyn Nurse Crossfire Ginny Tremaine Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role Song of the Thin Man Fran Ledue Page Merton of the Movies Beulah Baxter 1949 A Woman's Secret Susan Caldwell aka Estrellita Roughshod Mary Wells 1950 In a Lonely Place Laurel Gray 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth Angel Macao Margie Sudden Fear Irene Neves The Bad and the Beautiful Rosemary Bartlow Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated - Golden Globe 1953 The Glass Wall Maggie Summers Man on a Tightrope Zama Cernik The Big Heat Debby Marsh Prisoners of the Casbah Princess Nadja aka Yasmin 1954 Human Desire Vicki Buckley Naked Alibi Marianna The Good Die Young Denise Blaine 1955 The Cobweb Karen McIver Not as a Stranger Harriet Lang Oklahoma! Ado Annie Carnes 1956 The Man Who Never Was Lucy Sherwood 1957 Ride Out for Revenge Amy Porter 1959 Odds Against Tomorrow Helen 1966 Ride Beyond Vengeance Bonnie Shelley 1971 Blood and Lace Mrs. Deere The Todd Killings Mrs. Roy Chandler Selma 1972 The Loners Annabelle 1973 Tarot Angela 1974 Mama's Dirty Girls Mama Love 1976 Mansion of the Doomed Katherine 1979 A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square Ma Fox Head Over Heels Clara 1980 Melvin and Howard Mrs. Sisk 1982 The Nesting Florinda Costello (courtesy of Wikipedia)
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DESCRIPTION: GORGEOUS - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! Original... vintage sexy pin-up 1954 gelatin silver photograph (see publicity snipe and credit stamp on verso) of actress GLORIA GRAHAME promoting the film "HUMAN DESIRE".
- SIZE: approx. 8" X 10"
- TONE: B&W
- FINISH: glossy
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SHIPPING TERMS
- I ship all items using, what I call, triple protection packing.The photos are inserted into a display bag with a white board, thenpacked in between two thick packaging boards and lastly wrapped withplastic film for weather protection before being placed into theshipping envelope.
- The shipping cost for U.S. shipments includes USPS "Delivery Confirmation" tracking.
- Combined Shipping Discounts:If you purchasemore than one item within a two week period that will be shippedtogether just add $2.00 to the base shipping cost. This will cover anyadditional quantity of a similar item purchased. If you purchasedifferent types of items (i.e. clothes andphotos) please contact me for the lowest possible shipping discount. Please wait for me to issue the invoice with the reduced shipping cost before making payment.
PAYMENT TERMS
- Please pay within three (3) days of purchase.
- All sales taxes applicable to the City of Los Angeles, State ofCalifornia and the 2019 Marketplace Sales Tax Law in other states shall beapplied.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
I will respond to all inquiries within 24 hours. Please feel free to contact me anytime at 1-310-880-8140 (Pacific Standard Time)
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GLORIAGRAHAME BIO
(November 28, 1923 ? October 5, 1981) was an American Academy Award?winning actress.Grahame began her actingcareer in theatre, and in 1944 shemade her first film for MGM. Despitea 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 Awardfor Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire (1947), and she won this award for her work in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). She achieved her highest profile with SuddenFear (1952), Human Desire(1953), The Big Heat (1953), and Oklahoma! (1955), but herfilm career began to wane soon afterwards.She returned to work on thestage, but continued to appear infilms and television productions, usually in supporting roles.Diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1980, Grahame refused to accept the diagnosis and traveled to England to work in aplay. Her health rapidly failed andshe returned to New York City, where she died in 1981.Grahame was born GloriaHallward in Los Angeles, California. Reginald Michael Bloxam Hallward, her father, was an architect and author and her mother, Jeanne McDougall, who used the stagename Jean Grahame, was a Britishstage actress and acting teacher.McDougall taught her younger daughter acting during her childhood andadolescence. The couple had anotherdaughter, Joy Hallward (1911?2003), an actress who married John Mitchum (the youngerbrother of actor Robert Mitchum).Grahame was signed to acontract with MGM Studios under her professional name after Louis B. Mayer saw her performing on Broadway for severalyears.She made her film debut in BlondeFever (1944) and then scored one of her most widely praised roles as thepromiscuous Violet, saved fromdisgrace by George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1946). MGM was not able to develop her potential as astar and her contract was sold to RKO Studios in 1947.Grahame was often featured infilm noir pictures as a tarnished beauty with an irresistible sexual allure. During this time, she made films for several Hollywood studios. She received an Oscar nomination for BestSupporting Actress for Crossfire (1947).Grahame starred with HumphreyBogart in the 1950 film In a Lonely Place, a performance which garnered her considerable praise.Though today it is considered among her finest performances, it wasn't a box-office hit and Howard Hughes, owner of RKO Studios, admitted that he never saw it. Whenshe asked to be loaned out for roles in Born Yesterday and A Place inthe Sun, Hughes refused andinstead made her do a supporting role in Macao. However, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in MGM's The Bad andthe Beautiful (1952).Other memorable roles includedthe scheming Irene Nieves in Sudden Fear (1952), the femme fatale Vicki Buckley in Human Desire (1953), and mob moll Debby Marsh in Fritz Lang's TheBig Heat (1953) in which, in ahorrifying off-screen scene, she isscarred by hot coffee thrown in her face by Lee Marvin's character.Grahame's career began towane after her performance in the musical film Oklahoma! (1955). Grahame, whom audiences were used to seeing as a film noir siren, was miscast as an ignorant country lass in a wholesome musical, and the paralysis of her upper lip from plasticsurgery altered her speech and appearance.She began a slow return to the theater, and returned to films occasionally to play supporting roles, mostly in minor releases.She appeared on television too, including an episode of the ABC sitcom, Harrigan and Son, starringPat O'Brien, and a memorable episodeof the gothic sci-fi series The Outer Limits, in which she spoofed her own career by playing a forgotten film star living inthe past. She also appeared in"The Homecoming", a 1964television episode of The Fugitive, starring David Janssen.The play The Time of YourLife was revived in March 17, 1972 at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles with Grahame, Henry Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Lewis J. Stadlen, Ron Thompson, Jane Alexander, Richard X.Slattery and Pepper Martin among the cast with Edwin Sherin directing. Grahame has a star on theHollywood Walk of Fame at 6522 Hollywood Boulevard for her contribution to MotionPictures.Grahame had a string of stormyromances and failed marriages during her time in Hollywood, including marriages to director Nicholas Ray and later to Ray's son, Anthony, with whom she had an affair while still married to Ray.All of this took a toll on her career, as did a two-year hiatus after the birth of her daughter in 1956. Marital and child custody problems hampered herperformance on the set of Oklahoma!Additionally, the actress's concernover the appearance of her upper lip led her to pursue plastic surgery anddental operations that caused visible scarring and ultimately rendered the liplargely immobile because of nerve damage, which affected her speech. She married: Stanley Clements (1926?1981), actor, married August 1945, divorced 1 June 1948. Nicholas Ray, director, married 1 June 1948, separated 1951, divorced 1952. The couple had one child, Timothy (born November 1948, aka David Cyrus Howard during his mother's third marriage). Their marriage ended when Ray found Grahame in bed with his 13 year old son by his first marriage, Anthony, whom she later married. Cy Howard, writer, married 1954, divorced 1957. They had one daughter, Marianna Paulette (born 1956). Anthony Ray, her former stepson, married May 1960, divorced 1974. The Rays had two sons, Anthony Jr (born 1963) and James (born 1965).In the late 1970s, Grahame traveled to England to perform in plays. While there, she met Liverpool actor Peter Turner with whomshe had a romantic relationship.They moved to the USA andlived in New York and California, where their affair ended. Turnersubsequently returned to England.In 1980, Grahame was diagnosed with stomach cancer but refused surgery, insisting that she did not have the disease. In 1981, she traveled to Englandto perform in a play. While there, a procedure to have fluid drained from her stomachresulted in a perforated bowel. Thisbecame apparent only after she collapsed during a rehearsal.Peter Turner heard the newsthat Grahame was ill in a hotel in Lancaster, England. Accompanied by members of his family, he collected her and took her to his home inAigburth, Liverpool. There, he and his family nursed her until some of her children arrived to take herback to New Yorkwhere, at the age of 55, she died.She is interred in OakwoodMemorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California, as Gloria H.Grahame.Bibliography Vincent Curcio, Suicide Blonde: The Life of Gloria Grahame (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989) Peter Turner, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (New York: Grove Press, 1987)Filmography Year Film Role Notes 1944 Blonde Fever Sally Murfin 1945 Without Love Flower girl 1946 It's a Wonderful Life Violet Bick 1947 It Happened in Brooklyn Nurse Crossfire Ginny Tremaine Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role Song of the Thin Man Fran Ledue Page Merton of the Movies Beulah Baxter 1949 A Woman's Secret Susan Caldwell aka Estrellita Roughshod Mary Wells 1950 In a Lonely Place Laurel Gray 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth Angel Macao Margie Sudden Fear Irene Neves The Bad and the Beautiful Rosemary Bartlow Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated - Golden Globe 1953 The Glass Wall Maggie Summers Man on a Tightrope Zama Cernik The Big Heat Debby Marsh Prisoners of the Casbah Princess Nadja aka Yasmin 1954 Human Desire Vicki Buckley Naked Alibi Marianna The Good Die Young Denise Blaine 1955 The Cobweb Karen McIver Not as a Stranger Harriet Lang Oklahoma! Ado Annie Carnes 1956 The Man Who Never Was Lucy Sherwood 1957 Ride Out for Revenge Amy Porter 1959 Odds Against Tomorrow Helen 1966 Ride Beyond Vengeance Bonnie Shelley 1971 Blood and Lace Mrs. Deere The Todd Killings Mrs. Roy Chandler Selma 1972 The Loners Annabelle 1973 Tarot Angela 1974 Mama's Dirty Girls Mama Love 1976 Mansion of the Doomed Katherine 1979 A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square Ma Fox Head Over Heels Clara 1980 Melvin and Howard Mrs. Sisk 1982 The Nesting Florinda Costello (courtesy of Wikipedia)
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