The Silver Screen Oasis

ElCid wrote: ↑November 1st, 2023, 8:32 am Gloria Graham will be featured on TCM on Tuesdays in November. TCM Now Playing has a rather poor opinion of Macao, which will be shown. Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Gloria Graham, William Bendix are in it. I have always enjoyed it and have a DVD of it. Not a great movie, but entertaining.
Some other good movies of hers are also featured this month.

speedracer5 wrote: ↑November 1st, 2023, 11:39 am I love Gloria Grahame. I think she won her Oscar for the wrong film. She should have won for "The Big Heat," not "The Bad and the Beautiful." She's really great in "In a Lonely Place." I love her in "The Glass Wall" where she doesn't play her typical bad girl femme fatale-type part. I like her in "Human Desire" and feel sorry for her being married to a windbag like Broderick Crawford. I also like her in "Naked Alibi." Gloria looks gorgeous in that film. She also makes a good pairing with Sterling Hayden. I love "Odds Against Tomorrow," though Gloria's part isn't particularly important to the overall plot. She's more there to show how much of a sleaze Robert Ryan's character is.

I'm excited about Gloria Grahame's Star of the Month, thank you, TCM!

cmovieviewer wrote: ↑November 1st, 2023, 11:53 am Here is the TCM article on the Gloria Grahame programming this month that I believe ElCid is referring to:

https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/021848

jamesjazzguitar wrote: ↑November 1st, 2023, 7:51 pm

cmovieviewer wrote: ↑November 1st, 2023, 11:53 am Here is the TCM article on the Gloria Grahame programming this month that I believe ElCid is referring to:

https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/021848

Thanks for posting this. I just found out Gloria was married to one of my favorite bit-part actors, Stanley Clements.

As for Marco; I didn't find anything negative related to the final cut of the film. The article just mentions the mess up production by Sternberg and how Ray took over and reshot certain films (but not largely re-shot as indicated).

Anyhow, for those that haven't seen Marco, I recommend it. Mitchum and Russell have great chemistry in this one, and Brad Dexter makes a good villain.

kingrat wrote: ↑November 21st, 2023, 12:26 am Don't miss Gloria Grahame in NOT AS A STRANGER, to be shown tomorrow. If this were shown back to back with THE COBWEB, it would be a double dose of Bad Movies We Love heaven. This movie takes itself very seriously. You, however, probably will not. Get ready for some strange casting (who can we cast as a medical student? why, Frank Sinatra!) and some Min-ne-so-ta accents. And, of course, the famous stallion and mare scene which is so heavily symbolic of you-know-what.

I Love Melvin wrote: ↑November 2nd, 2023, 8:41 am

Gloria was only fourth billed but she got this great pulp-novel-type portrait on the poster for Vincente Minnelli's garish fever dream about the doings at a psychiatric institute. I'd never seen it until TCM started to program it every once in a while and now I never miss it. There's drama with the staff, there's drama with the patients, there's drama at home. Gloria plays the neglected wife of the new head of the institute, Richard Widmark, whose radical ideas put him at odds with other staffers and with the trustees and which take up all his "me" time at home. So Gloria "finds things to do", shall we say, one of which is preempting the planning of new drapes by the inmates by ordering designer drapes more to her personal taste, causing an uproar that precipitates a tempest in a teapot that is not to be believed. To me, Gloria has always seemed to be in her own little bubble of heightened reality, which I mean as a compliment, so she's right at home in this scenario awash with overblown themes. And she looks like a million bucks, even on Widmark's relatively meager salary. I may get blowback for this, but it's a movie you can't possibly take seriously; you just have to strap in and take the giddy thrill ride, and to me Gloria's the star attraction, even in a stew this dense with name actors.

kingrat wrote: ↑November 21st, 2023, 3:48 pm She's lucky it wasn't curtains for her career!