Gloria Grahame News

The best film in this five-movie set - and certainly the most well known - is Fritz Lang's hard-edged "The Big Heat" , based on the novel by William P. McGivern.

More noir: the Columbia Noir Classics on DVD 0 After writing the onerous article on " Boston Noir " and attending the "Boston Noir" book launch/reading at the Boston Book Festival I thought I'd fill in the gaps in my noir knowledge by checking out the Columbia Film Noir Classics I box set of five 50s B-ish films from that genre, to be released by ...

Oklahoma has produced many Hollywood stars. Texas has produced more. But let's say that Oklahoma quality trumps Texas quantity in performers, and then let's see what happens in the Cotton Bowl on Saturday for some real bragging rights.

Criminal Mastermind: Esquire magazine has called George Pelecanos "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world." Novelist George Pelecanos knows crime: He's authored 16 detective novels set in the nation's capital and has written and produced for HBO's The Wire .

Tonight the Noir Bar is In A Lonely Place ... join crime fiction author Kelli Stanley as she serves up a glass of bitters with one of Bogie's greatest films.

Odds Against Tomorrow has a great scene involving Robert Ryan and Gloria Grahame.

BAMcinematek presents the Best of NewFest, NYC's LGBT film festival. Screenings include "Mississippi Damned," tomorrow at 2 p.m.; "Pop Star on Ice," tomorrow at 7 p.m.; and "Prodigal Sons," Sunday at 6:50 p.m. 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn; 718-636-5100. FILM FORUM: Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame star in Nicholas Ray's 1950 noir romance "In a ...

New York-based cinephiles, take note: In a Lonely Place , starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, opens Friday at the Film Forum for a nine-day run.

ROUGHSHOD is a fine little RKO Western with solid performances, an interesting storyline, and an authentic "fresh air" feel thanks to extensive location shooting.

Gloria Grahame and Humphrey Bogart find themselves in a poignant yet complicated love affair in the 1950 film 'In a Lonely Place.' In a Lonely Place by Roger Ebert The courtyard of the Hollywood building occupied by Humphrey Bogart in "In a Lonely Place" is one of the most evocative spaces I've seen in a movie.

They called Gloria Grahame, that most enigmatic and evocative of screen presences, a suicide blonde because "she dyed by her own hand." The compulsively watchable, Grahame -- Oscar winner for The Bad and the Beautiful but more widely known as the vamping Violet in It's a Wonderful Life and Ado Annie in Oklahoma! -- is the star du jour Thursday ...

IT'S been 30 years since the death on June 16, 1979, of Nicholas Ray, the hard-living Ameri can filmmaker lionized by the French New Wave.