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Saturday, December 21, 2019

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)

Let me start by saying that Annette Benning and Jamie Bell as sensational choices as the aging movie star Gloria Grahame and he end of life love interest Peter Turner.
The movie focuses on the actress' rather melancholy final days whose come-hither features and figure got her pegged in the ‘50s as Hollywood’s go-to femme fatale in a series of black-and-white film noirs. For a decade or so, she had quite a run, and she reached her pinnacle after claiming a supporting Oscar as a seductive Southern belle in 1952’s “The Bad and the Beautiful.” By the time Technicolor took over the silver screen, however, Grahame earned a rep for being difficult and obsessive about altering her looks. Also not helping was the tawdry talk that she and spouse No. 4, Anthony Ray, were intimate when he was 13 and she was his stepmom while wed to husband No. 2, Anthony's father.
The movie steadfastly focuses on the last couple years of her life where she is clutching at straws and dying of breast cancer at 57.  The sad side of show business.

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