This episode of the Podcast You Must Remember This describes a life that is about as noir as it gets. With her masochism, addictions to plastic surgery, sex and alcohol, Gloria Grahame seems like she stepped out of a particularly overheated Jim Thompson story. Her characters in The Big Heat, Crossfire and In a Lonely Place are among the most memorable female roles of the film noir-era but now I will never get the image of male actors getting a mouthful of wet tissue after screen-kissing Graham...

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