![]() His wife had been involved with gangster Johnny Stompanato, bodyguard During the acrimonious divorce proceedings that followed, JeanĪlleged extreme jealousy and an affair with peroxide blond siren ![]() Sleeping pills in 1946, the second by stabbing herself in the abdomen Jean twice attempted suicide, the first with Her age, had led to a whirlwind romance, seven years of rocky marriageĪnd, ultimately, divorce. A chance meeting in July 1941 between Jean and the actor For the next few years, Jean's screenĬareer was overshadowed by her turbulent private life. Next stop was 20th Century Fox where she spent five years underĬontract, but had very little to do after refusing to appear inĬareer move, as it turned out. (plus complimentary tutor) the platinum blonde insurance salesman'sĭaughter made her first motion picture appearance in a credited part in Meant that she could only work four hours a day (and with an official She was only 17, not 19 years old - as she had claimed. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan on Octoat age 57.įailed in her first bid to break into movies, after MGM discovered that She died a few hours later that same day of stomach cancer and peritonitis at St. She wished to remain in Liverpool with her partner, Peter Turner (almost 30 years her junior), but after Turner notified her children of her health condition and impending death, two of her children flew to England to retrieve her, insisting she return to the United States. Her busiest period of British and American stage work ended abruptly in 1981 when she collapsed from cancer symptoms during a rehearsal. Grahame eventually moved to England in 1978. Five years later, she was diagnosed with cancer again, although it is unclear if this was a new cancer or a metastasis of her breast cancer. In 1975, she was treated for breast cancer. She was described as a serious, skillful actress spontaneous, honest, and strong-willed imaginative and curious incredibly sexy but insecure about her looks (prompting plastic surgery on her famous lips) loving appreciative male company "a bit loony". In 1960, Grahame resumed stage acting, combined with TV work and, from 1970, some mostly inferior films. The union would be Grahame's longest marriage, lasting almost 14 years (10 years longer than her previous union with Ray's father) the couple had two children, Anthony Jr. Surprisingly, however, Grahame and Anthony "Tony" Ray proved a happy couple. Grahame herself underwent electroconvulsive therapy after the ensuing stress caused a nervous breakdown. Eight years after divorce from Nicholas Ray, who was 12 years her senior (and reportedly had discovered her in bed with his 13 year old son), and after a subsequent marriage to Cy Howard ended in divorce, in 1960 she married her former stepson Anthony Ray (who was almost 14 years younger than she was.) This led former husbands Nicholas Ray and Cy Howard to sue Grahame each man seeking custody of his respective child, putting gossip columnists and scandal sheets into overdrive. She also suffered from marital and child-custody troubles. Rumors of being difficult to work with on the set of Oklahoma! (1955) helped sideline her film career from 1956 onward. The 1950s, her best period, brought her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and typecast her as shady, inimitably sultry ladies in seven well-known film-noir classics. Here the same problem resurfaced her best film in these years was made on loan-out, In a Lonely Place (1950). Although her talent and sex appeal were of star quality, she did not fit the star pattern at MGM, who sold her contract to RKO in 1947. Her debut in the title role of Blonde Fever (1944) was auspicious, but her first public recognition came on loan-out in ![]() Mayer saw her on Broadway and gave her an MGM contract under the name Gloria Grahame. Gloria Grahame Hallward, an acting pupil of her mother (stage actress and teacher Jean Grahame), acted professionally while still in high school. ![]()
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