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Film stars don't die in Liverpool, a true love story, Peter Turner

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Film stars don't die in Liverpool, a true love story, Peter Turner

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Film stars don't die in Liverpool

Oclc number

957302816

Responsibility statement

Peter Turner

Sub title

a true love story

Summary

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 even after their love affair had ended. And it was to him she turned in her final hour of need

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