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Annette Bening portrays noir star Gloria Grahame in ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’

Annette Bening is one of those rare actresses who makes a movie, however otherwise deficient, worth seeing. In “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,” she is playing Gloria Grahame, the film noir siren whose career sputtered out in the last decades of her short life. Based on the 1986 memoir of the same name by Peter Turner, and directed by Paul McGuigan from a scattershot script by Matt Greenhalgh, the film

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