Gloria Grahame

Gloria Grahame has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6522 Hollywood Boulevard. Helen Hayes died on March 17, 1993 and was interred in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, New York. She is interred in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6220 Hollywood Blvd. 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. Hayes wrote three memoirs: A Gift of Joy, On Reflection and My Life in Three Acts. 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. She followed that up with several roles in Disney films such as Herbie Rides Again, One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing and Candleshoe.

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). She starred in My Son John and Anastasia, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1970 for Airport. MGM was not able to develop her potential as a star and her contract was sold to RKO Studios in 1947. She returned to Hollywood in the 1950s, and her film star began to rise. 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). Eventually, a theater was named in her honor. Mayer saw her performing on Broadway. Hayes and MacArthur eventually returned to Broadway, and she starred for three years in Virginia Regina.

She was signed to a contact with MGM Studios after Louis B. But she never became a fan favorite. 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. She followed that with starring roles in Arrowsmith, A Farewell to Arms, The White Sister, What Every Woman Knows and Vanessa: Her Love Story. Gloria Grahame (November 28, 1923 - October 5, 1981) was an American film actress. Her sound film debut was The Sin of Madelon Claudet, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. By 10, she had made a short film called Jean and the Calico Doll, but she only moved to Hollywood when her husband, playwright Charles MacArthur, signed a Hollywood deal.

Born Helen Hayes Brown in Washington, DC, she began a stage career at an early age. She was eventually to garner the nickname "First Lady of the American Theater". Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 - March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose successful and award-winning career spanned almost 70 years.