In A 'Liverpool' Love Story, One Versatile Leading Lady Plays Another
Annette Bening stars as the noir actress Gloria Grahame in Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool, based on the memoir of a younger man she loved, who quite loved her back, late in her life.
Underrated in her '50s heyday and forgotten by many outside the noir aficionados who restored her to posthumous cinephile glory, the Hollywood movie star Gloria Grahame both endured and brought on herself a difficult life. A versatile actress who subtly telegraphed subterranean emotional complication, Grahame was mostly cast as seductive wantons, from the simpering minx saved from a life of infamy by Jimmy Stewart in Frank Capra's (1946) to the callow Southern belle she played in Vincente Minnelli's 1952 , for which that keeps the Grahame flame today.
