There are others—Lizbeth Scott, Joan Bennett—who better encapsulate the shadowy world of tough dames, crooked cops, and double crossings, and chief among them is Gloria Grahame in “The Big ...

The Big Heat The picture starts with a tight, ... Gloria Grahame’s character, that of a gangster’s sweetie, is choice and she makes it a colorful, important part of the picture.

In ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,’ Annette Bening plays screen siren Gloria Grahame in her waning days when, terminally ill, she reconnects with a much younger former lover.

For film noir buffs, Gloria Grahame was a goddess of the genre, starring in such films as Nicholas Ray’s 1950 “In a Lonely Place” and Fritz Lang’s 1953 “The Big Heat,” in which her ...

The Big Heat (1953) With the Fritz Lang–helmed noir, The Big Heat, Gloria Grahame cemented herself as the quintessential femme fatale, an archetype she brought humanity and elegant vulgarity to ...

Gloria Grahame as Debbie Marsh, and Glenn Ford as Dave Bannion in The Big Heat, Fritz Lang, dir, Columbia Pictures, 1953. Screenshot.

Gloria Grahame in ‘The Big Heat’ (1953). Photo: Getty Images ‘She always played a tart.” That’s one fan’s not unappreciative summary of the movie career of Gloria Grahame (1923-1981 ...

In her day, Grahame was one of Hollywood’s most accomplished creators of femme fatales, who won an Oscar for “The Bad and the Beautiful” and did memorable work in “The Big Heat ...