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By

Tim Appelo,

Rating: R

Run time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Stars: Jamie Bell, Annette Bening, Julie Walters

Director: Paul McGuigan 

Even if you can’t quite place the name, you remember Gloria Grahame, the pouty-lipped film noir star. She was once the flounciest floozy in movies. She tried to pry James Stewart away from

Donna Reed in It’s a Wonderful Life, got hot coffee in the face from gangster Lee Marvin in The Big Heat, puckered for any guy who said her lips were like cherries in Oklahoma! and played

Bogart’s lover in the masterpiece In a Lonely Place.

She earned two Oscar nominations and won for her husband Nicholas Ray’s The Bad and the Beautiful. But after she wooed and eventually married Ray’s young son Tony Ray, her career chilled. To

be fair, Nicholas was no innocent — he bedded the 16-year-old Natalie Wood — but Hollywood is not fair to female sexpots. In her 50s, Grahame wound up doing stage shows like The Glass

Menagerie in non-prestige theaters in Britain.

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