Happy 100th Birthday to Gloria Grahame!

It always bugged me that she wore her lipstick about a half an inch above where her upper lip actually stopped.

My all time favourite town slut!

She wore her lipstick like that because she was very self-conscious about her lips. She even stuffed cotton in her mouth to make her upper lip appear larger. She would’ve loved the injectable’s of today.

R3 It just made her look like she didn't know how to put on lipstick.

You can see how far over over upper lip she painted. It's like she just ate a popsicle or something. .

You guys stop picking on Gloria on her birthday!

She had sex with her stepson.

She didn’t really have an upper lip and as R3 said was extremely self conscious.

RKO really screwed around with her career, forced her to give up what could have been classic performances, made her do crap, and then she won an Oscar for a nine minute performance in The Bad and the Beautiful!

R8 She looks much more attractive and natural in that picture.

The fact that I never got her appeal endears her to me. Don't find her attractive, didn't respond positively to any of her performances, and that lip thing. A star who made it on pluck alone. Didn't she end up married to her stepson? She was more attractive later in life than she was as a young woman.

I didn't even know she was alive to celebrate!

she's not

Annette Bening played a late-in-life GG in a biopic a few years ago and thought she was going to win an Oscar for it. She didn’t even get nominated.

R13 She died at 57. She didn't exactly make it to "late-in-life."

Can you celebrate a birthday when you're dead? I always thought the clock stopped. I mean, if I'm going to be 150 and look it, I think it's only fair I should be alive.

I have always wanted to see a picture of the stepson, to see if she was a whore, or had taste.

57=Late in life

The stepson was 13 when she started fucking him. She was a pedophile.

[quote]The stepson was 13 when she started fucking him.

When the kid was in his early 20s they married and had two children together.

A BIG lush.

She also had a plastic surgeon pick away at her lip from what I’ve heard.

R21 Why would she have a surgeon pick away at her lip if she wanted it to be bigger?

He meant the OTHER lip.

She'll have my love for ever, if only for Violet Bick

The surgeon made the indentation in the upper lip deeper. Grahame didn’t like the way it stuck out in photos.

Her over over the hill Hollywood actress horror movie phase.

The over the lip lipstick was common practice. Lucille did it...Dorothy Malone did it...etc.

The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film declared Blood and Lace (1970) was the sickest film to ever get a PG rating. It's grimy.

[quote]Can you celebrate a birthday when you're dead?

I went to her grave site and left a bottle of Jean Nate and a nice blouse.

I never miss a Milton Selzer performance, r28.

Annette Benning played Grahame who died at the age of 57 in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool. Benning was 59 when the movie was released.

[Quote] I never miss a Milton Selzer performance

then you must have seen Robert Adrich's indescribable The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)

She had something done to her upper lip and I think damaged the nerves or something so she couldn’t move it, which is why she talked with kind of lisp. She was obsessed about it.

Grahame is at her best in Sudden Fear

Gloria Grahame winning Best Supporting Actress...what a touching speech!

LOL, R35, she barely even slowed down at the podium!

I always thought she was a little weird looking but cute, and I appreciate her special niche of playing the girls who were some combination of naughty, bad, slutty, or stupid.