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Friday’s openings redux: Noir queen Grahame’s last gasp

Dan Webster

Seems there's a single addition to Friday's list of movie openings. And it is based on a the real story of a Hollywood legend:

"Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool": Annette Bening stars as Gloria Grahame, the one-time Hollywood flame who — in the last years of her life — had a fling with a much younger British actor, Peter Turner (Jamie Bell). The Liverpool of the film's title is where Turner's family lived when Graham, facing the cancer that would eventually kill her, asked to come stay with them.

"There is a tremendous warmth and tenderness to this sweet, sad love story," wrote reviewer Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian.

To see some highlights of Grahame's career, click here.