Trivia of Gloria Grahame
Trivia of Gloria Grahame (28 November 1923 - 5 October 1981)
*Gloria Grahame Hallward, an acting pupil of her mother (stage actress and teacher Jean Grahame), acted professionally while still in high school. In 1944 Louis B. Mayer saw her on Broadway and gave her an MGM contract under the name Gloria Grahame.
*Tone-deaf, she sang without dubbing in only one film, Oklahoma! (1955), where her songs were edited together from recordings made almost literally note by note.
*Grahame was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Ginny Robert Mitchum's love interest in Crossfire (1947).She said that was her favorite role.
*At 9 minutes and 32 seconds, Gloria Grahame's performance in film The Bad and The Beautiful (1952) became the shortest to ever win an Oscar. She held the record until 1976, when Beatrice Straight won for her 5 minute performance in Network (1976).
*Very concerned with her physical appearance; she particularly felt her upper lip was too thin and had ridges that were too deep. She began stuffing cotton or tissues under it, which she felt gave her a sexier look. Several co-stars discovered this during kissing scenes. In the mid-1940s, Grahame began undergoing small cosmetic procedures on her lips and face. Grahame's obsession with vanity led her to undergo more cosmetic procedures that rendered her upper lip immobile because of nerve damage.
*Her marriage to former stepson Anthony Ray (who was almost 14 years younger than she was) caused a great scandal in Hollywood in 1960's, which led to both her career slowdown and a bitter child custody battle with her former husbands, including Anthony Ray's father (film director Nicholas Ray).The union would be Grahame's longest marriage, lasting almost 14 years (10 years longer than her previous union); the couple had two children, Anthony Jr. and James.
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