Biografie

She was tone-deaf and sang without dubbing in only one film Oklahoma (1955), where her songs were edited together note-by-note from other recordings.

Unhappy with the tilt of her upper lip, she often stuffed cotton along her gumline to straighten it out. The effect was cosmetically less than flattering and made it difficult for her to speak. A leading man, after kissing her, ended up with a mouth full of cotton.

Her marriage to Anthony Ray was her longest and most successful union. Her 1960 marriage to former stepson Nicholas Ray caused a great scandal in Hollywood, which led to both her career slowdown and a bitter child custody battle with her former husbands.

Is portrayed by Annette Bening in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017).

Grahame spent her last days in the Liverpool, England home of her friend Peter Turner and his family. She was flown back to New York by her children just hours before her death at St. Vincent's Hospital, Manhattan, aged 57, from stomach cancer and peritonitis. She predeceased her nonagenarian parents; her father died in 1982 and her mother died in 1984. A 1987 biography of Grahame was entitled "Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool".

It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.