In her eyes: notes on Gloria Grahame

With a curl of her lip and an arch of her eyebrow, Gloria Grahame was the actress who stood up to both Humphrey Bogart and Lee Marvin in their most violent roles. In this video essay, Serena Bramble explores the burn mark Grahame left on the silver screen. Read the text of this video in the December 2017 issue of Sight & Sound: Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool is now on UK release: In a Lonely Place and The Big Heat are re-released in UK cinemas on 24 November: Good at Being Bad: the films of Gloria Grahame runs 13 November–30 December at BFI Southbank, London: