She would have been 100 years old today - amazing to think that she could still possibly have been living. What a great actress. Any gossip about her?
It always bugged me that she wore her lipstick about a half an inch above where her upper lip actually stopped.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 28, 2023 2:31 PM |
My all time favourite town slut!
by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 28, 2023 2:32 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 28, 2023 2:40 PM |
R3 It just made her look like she didn't know how to put on lipstick.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 28, 2023 2:41 PM |
You can see how far over over upper lip she painted. It's like she just ate a popsicle or something. .
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 28, 2023 2:44 PM |
You guys stop picking on Gloria on her birthday!
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 28, 2023 2:53 PM |
She had sex with her stepson.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 28, 2023 3:04 PM |
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!
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 28, 2023 3:07 PM |
R8 She looks much more attractive and natural in that picture.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 28, 2023 3:10 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 28, 2023 3:50 PM |
I didn't even know she was alive to celebrate!
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 28, 2023 3:50 PM |
she's not
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 28, 2023 3:56 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 28, 2023 4:33 PM |
R13 She died at 57. She didn't exactly make it to "late-in-life."
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 28, 2023 5:05 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 28, 2023 5:38 PM |
I have always wanted to see a picture of the stepson, to see if she was a whore, or had taste.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 28, 2023 5:47 PM |
57=Late in life
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 28, 2023 5:54 PM |
The stepson was 13 when she started fucking him. She was a pedophile.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 28, 2023 5:57 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 28, 2023 6:00 PM |
A BIG lush.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 28, 2023 6:00 PM |
She also had a plastic surgeon pick away at her lip from what I’ve heard.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 28, 2023 6:20 PM |
R21 Why would she have a surgeon pick away at her lip if she wanted it to be bigger?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 28, 2023 6:29 PM |
He meant the OTHER lip.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 28, 2023 6:31 PM |
She'll have my love for ever, if only for Violet Bick
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 28, 2023 6:34 PM |
The surgeon made the indentation in the upper lip deeper. Grahame didn’t like the way it stuck out in photos.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 28, 2023 6:49 PM |
Her over over the hill Hollywood actress horror movie phase.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 1, 2023 5:20 PM |
The over the lip lipstick was common practice. Lucille did it...Dorothy Malone did it...etc.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 1, 2023 5:23 PM |
The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film declared Blood and Lace (1970) was the sickest film to ever get a PG rating. It's grimy.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 1, 2023 5:45 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 1, 2023 5:50 PM |
I never miss a Milton Selzer performance, r28.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 1, 2023 5:53 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 1, 2023 6:02 PM |
[Quote] I never miss a Milton Selzer performance
then you must have seen Robert Adrich's indescribable The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 1, 2023 6:14 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 1, 2023 6:30 PM |
Gloria Grahame winning Best Supporting Actress...what a touching speech!
by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 1, 2023 8:09 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 1, 2023 8:25 PM |