Subject:  Gloria Grahame

Size:  Slightly under 7x8

Description:  Rare inscribed and signed book photo of a still from Fritz Lang's classic 1953 film noir The Big Heat, in which she had one of her best roles.  Grahame (1923-1981) also gave memorable performances in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Crossfire (1947), Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place (1950), Sudden Fear (1952), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, Lang's Human Desire (1954), and Oklahoma! (1955).  (Item signed circa late seventies)

Condition:  Very Fine; mounted on board with an authentication strip on the reverse