Andrea Feldman

(New York Magazine). Gloria Grahame has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6522 Hollywood Boulevard. The most striking performance - in large part non-performance - comes from the late Andrea Feldman as the flat-voiced, freaked-out daughter, a mass of psychotic confusion, infantile and heart-breaking. She is interred in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California. She was noted for her exhibitionist nature and heavy dependence on drugs, particularly amphetamines. In 1981 Grahame collapsed during a rehearsal for a British stage play, and returned to New York City where she died soon after from cancer. Feldman’s suicide preceded the release of Heat, in which she had a significant role, by only three weeks. Often regarded as a difficult actress, Grahame's career began to wane after her role in Oklahoma! (1955), although she continued to play supporting roles for the rest of her life in the United States, and also in the United Kingdom, where she resided for many years.

Urban legend often mis-attributes the location of Feldman’s suicide to the Hotel Chelsea. She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination for Crossfire (1947), and won the same award for The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). Feldman was holding a can of Coke in one hand and a rosary in the other when she jumped from the fourteenth floor of 51 Fifth Avenue & 12th St, NYC. MGM was not able to develop her potential as a star and her contract was sold to RKO Studios in 1947. In August of 1972, Andrea summoned several ex-boyfriends, including poet Jim Carroll, to the home of her parents so that they would be witness to her 'final starring role'; her suicide. Changing her name to Gloria Grahame, she made her film debut in Blonde Fever (1944) and scored her most widely praised MGM role as the small town girl Violet, who is saved from a life of shame by George Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life (1946). Feldman was heavily involved in the Exploding Plastic Inevitable shows curated by Andy Warhol at which she would perform her famous whip-dance. Mayer saw her performing on Broadway.

A native New Yorker, she starred in several of Warhol’s underground movies before committing suicide in 1972. She was signed to a contact with MGM Studios after Louis B. Andrea Feldman (also known as Andrea ‘Whips’ Feldman) (1948- 8 August 1972) was an actor and Warhol superstar. Born Gloria Hallward in Los Angeles, California, her mother Jean Grahame was a stage actress and acting teacher who taught Gloria acting during her childhood and adolescence. Heat (1972). Gloria Grahame (November 28, 1923 - October 5, 1981) was an American film actress. Trash (1970).

Four Stars (1967) aka 24 Hour Movie.