Gloria Grahame Bio Actress Her Last Days Film Noir Tragic Death HC/DJ SIGNED

Description: Film stars Don't Die In Liverpool by Peter Turner - copyright 1986 UK 1st edition - This hardcover book issued with dustjacket is very good condition - Dustjacket is in very good condition with very minor wear - book has no torn or missing pages ... pages have tanned (see photos) Signed on title page "For Sos With best wishes Peter Turner 1986" Turner recalls the dying days of the late Gloria Grahame, a movie actress who had some success in the '50s and '60s, winning an Oscar for her performance in The Bad and the Beautiful. In England in 1981 to appear in a play, Grahame reached the terminal stage of stomach cancer and called on Turner, her ex-lover, for support. He took her to his parents' home in Liverpool, where her condition continued to deteriorate; along with being a food faddist, she was so distrusting of doctors that she would not enter a hospital. Eventually Turner contacted two of her children, who went to England and flew her to New York, where she died. As a picture of a caring lower-middle-class British family, willing to make great sacrifices to help a stranger, the story is heartwarming Gloria Grahame is best remembered today for her awesome femme fatale roles in such classic noirs as "Crossfire", "In a Lonely Place", "Macao", "Sudden Fear", "The Big Heat", "Human Desire", "The Naked Alibi", and "Odds Against Tomorrow". In short, she was THE female icon of 1950s film noir, with a wonderful combination of sensuality and vulnerability in her screen characters. Also listed Ann Miller SIGNED, Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy, Hedy Lamarr, Norma Shearer, Montgomery Clift, Barbara Payton, Joan Fontaine & Olivia de Havilland, Veronica Lake, Joan Crawford SIGNED & other Hollywood Bios!!! Thanks for looking and happy bidding Combine postage offered

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