Want to know the best Gloria Grahame movies? How about the worst Gloria Grahame movies? Curious about Gloria Grahame box office grosses or which Gloria Grahame movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Gloria Grahame movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information. This page comes from a request from Flora, FilmNoirFan and Mike.
Gloria Grahame (1923-1981) is an Oscar®-winning American actress. Grahame received a Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress nomination for 1947’s Crossfire, and would later win the award for her work in 1952’s The Bad and the Beautiful. She achieved her highest profile with 1952’s Sudden Fear , 1953’s Human Desire , 1953’s The Big Heat, and 1955’s Oklahoma!. Gloria Graham’s IMDb page shows 64 acting credits from 1944-1981. This page will rank 37 Gloria Grahame movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television roles and movies not released in North America were not included in the rankings.
Gloria Grahame Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Gloria Grahame movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Gloria Grahame movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Gloria Grahame movies by domestic yearly box office rank
- Sort Gloria Grahame movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Gloria Grahame movie received.
- Sort Gloria Grahame movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Blue link in Co-star column takes you to that star’s UMR movie page
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Gloria Grahame Table
- Eight Gloria Grahame movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 21.62% of her movies listed. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) was her biggest box office hit.
- An average Gloria Grahame movie grosses $82.80 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 20 Gloria Grahame movies are rated as good movies…or 54.05% of her movies. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) is her highest rated movie while The Losers (1972) is her lowest rated movie.
- Eight Gloria Grahame movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 21.62% of her movies.
- Four Gloria Grahame movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 10.81% of her movies.
- An average “good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00. 21 Gloria Grahame movie scored higher that average….or 56.75% of her movies. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) got the the highest UMR Score while The Losers (1972) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Gloria Graham
- Gloria Grahame Hallward was born in Los Angeles, California in 1923.
2. Gloria Grahame was descended from royalty. Her father’s family descended from King Edward III through John of Gaunt; her mother’s, from the Scottish Kings of the Hebrides.
3. Gloria Graham was taught acting by her mother Jean Grahame. Jean Grahame was an English actress. Gloria attended Hollywood High School before dropping out to pursue acting.
4. Louis B. Mayer of MGM spotted Gloria Graham when she was performing on Broadway. He signed her to a movie contract but eventually sold her contract to RKO.
5. Gloria Grahame was unhappy with the tilt of her upper lip, she often stuffed cotton along her gumline to straighten it out. The effect was cosmetically less than flattering and made it difficult for her to speak. A leading man, after kissing her, ended up with a mouth full of cotton.
6. Ray Hagen and Laura Wagner picked Gloria Grahame as one of the toughest film actresses in their book “Killer Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames” (2004).
7. Gloria Grahame was married four times. She had four children.
8. Gloria Grahame’s first marriage was to actor Stanley Clements. Her second marriage was to director Nicolas Ray. Her third marriage was to write Cy Howard. Her final marriage was to Anthony Ray. Anthony was the son of Nicholas. She had one child with Nicolas and two children with Anthony. I imagine those kids had many “Chinatown” moments when introducing their family.
9. Columbia wanted to borrow Marilyn Monroe from 20th Century-Fox to play the role of Debby Marsh in 1953’s The Big Heat, but Fox’s asking price was too high. Gloria Grahame was cast instead.
10. Check out Gloria Grahame‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Gloria Grahame was Hollywood’s best tramp. Her characters exuded a tawdry insolence that taunted and was often punished. Bogart tried to strangle her, Broderick Crawford succeeded, and Lee Marvin disfigured her face with scalding coffee.
Our 4 Star Gloria Grahame Movies according to our book Rating The Movie Stars
1947’s Crossfire
1949’s A Woman’s Secret
1950’s It’s A Lonely Place
1952’s Sudden Fear
1952’s The Bad and the Beautiful
1953’s The Big Heat
1954’s Human Desire
1979’s Chilly Scenes of Winter
Hey Joel thanks for sharing your thoughts on Gloria Grahame…thoughts now almost 40 years old…but still entertaining.