Today's Blind Items- Old Hollywood
This actress was A list at the peak of her fame. She was a multiple Academy Award winner/nominee. Some of my all-time favorite Hollywood stories are about her. This studio owner who is more famous for what he did outside the studios used to sleep with her regularly. When he would try and pass her off to his friends though she would always refuse so he would put her in bad movies or keep her from not working. There was one particular incident where he wanted her to have sex with another woman and she refused so he told her she couldn't do a lead role she really wanted and made her do a tiny tiny part in a movie. He thought it would make her furious. It did, but she ended up getting nominated/winning an Academy Award. She would often wear a hat while having sex because she didn't want men to be turned off by her face which she always hated. The story for which she is most well known involved her sleeping with her husband's son when he was still in elementary school and then later in life marrying him.
Messed up much?
ReplyDeleteGloria Grahame
ReplyDeleteGloria Grahame. Duh.
ReplyDeletehaha...jinx! :)
ReplyDeletedamn right @ Sandy-- movie Its A Wonderful Life-- she played the loose woman Viola(?)
ReplyDelete:) @ streeet
ReplyDeletehollywood pays $100 for a kiss bu 10 cents for the soul...
ReplyDeleteGloria Grahame and Howard Hughes. Won Best Supporting Actress for nine minutes performance in the Bad and the Beautiful, hated her looks, married Tony Ray, son of previous husband Nicholas Ray
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info @Dave S. -I incorrectly thought it regarded her role as Violet(a typo above) in IAWL=== they could easily make a movie from Ms. Grahame's life--really sad & strange @ her facial surgeries cuz her lips were too thin she thought(I just read her Wikipedia)
ReplyDeleteI'm just a girl who can't say no
ReplyDeletehahaha...of course she obviously did say no before Oklahoma or Howard Hughes woudn't've demoted her to that 'bit part'
ReplyDeletei just read the Wikipedia piece on her and what a story! I agree, the story of her life would make a fascinating movie.
ReplyDeleteI consistently confuse Gloria Grahame with Sheilah Graham.
ReplyDeleteHoward Hughes was a nasty piece of work before he went batshit crazy. He should have been publicly flogged for what he did to Rita Hayworth (and the rest of them).
Gloria , still i doubt nicholas ray cared
ReplyDeletekeep her from not working? So that meant she didn't get to take vacations?
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