Film Stars Don't die in Liverpool : : a True Love Story

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Call Number: 791.43 Tu
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Released as a motion picture of the same title in 2017.
On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He had no choice but to take her into his chaotic and often eccentric family's home in Liverpool. Liverpool born and bred, Turner had first set eyes on Grahame when he was a young actor, living in London. Best known for her portrayal of irresistible femme fatales in films such as The Big Heat, Oklahoma, and The Bad and the Beautiful, for which she won an Oscar, Grahame electrified audiences with her steely expressions and heavy lidded eyes and the heroines she bought to life were often dark and dangerous. Turner and Grahame became firm friends and remained so ever after their love affair had ended. And it was to him she turned in her final hour of need.

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Heart-felt Memoir submitted by mcreader on August 6, 2018, 6:11pm Friend/lover of Gloria Grahame writes of his experience with this Hollywood actress until her death. His writing shows his and his family's love for this lady. It is very heart-warming. Sometimes hard to understand the time-line (flip-floppinb between current and past memories). I do see this more as conversational. Worth-reading (but I'm checking out the film).