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Gloria Grahame has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1950s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including It's a Wonderful Life.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950
Crime · Drama

Killer's Kiss
1955
Thriller · Crime

No Way Out
1950
Drama · Crime

Casque d'Or
1952
Drama · Crime

House by the River
1950
Thriller · Crime

The Hitch-Hiker
1953
Thriller · Crime

The Wrong Man
1956
Crime · Drama

I Want to Live!
1958
Drama · Crime

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
Dir. Frank Capra · With James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
Dir. Nicholas Ray · With Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy

After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando

Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?
Dir. David Miller · With Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Dir. Edward Buzzell · With William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford

In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
Dir. Fred Zinnemann · With Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?
Dir. Edward Dmytryk · With Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan

To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
Dir. Cecil B. DeMille · With Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston
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