Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool exclusive clip: Annette Bening shines as film siren Gloria Grahame

She stars across Jamie Bell, who plays the young man she fell in love with in the late 1970s

Gloria Grahame was one of Hollywood's most shimmering stars.

An Oscar-winner for her role in 1952's The Bad and the Beautiful, she snapped up roles in The Big Heat (1953), Human Desire (1953), and In A Lonely Place (1950), alongside Humphrey Bogart. She was the ultimate film noir siren, but a role in Oklahoma! (1955) labelled her miscast by the press as a country lass.

Hollywood began to turn on her. Over her career, she was intensely concerned with her own appearance, undergoing cosmetic procedures that left her upper lip largely immobile due to nerve damage - and the hyenas circled in. She was called difficult on set, too, as malicious rumours spread that she'd alienated the rest of the cast in an effort to upstage them.

Grahame retreated back to her origins, the theatre. In the late '70s, she performed in London, where she met a struggling young actor named Peter Turner. The pair fell in love.

It's his memoir of that unusual romance that forms the basis of a new film, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, with Annette Bening perfectly capturing Grahame's Old Hollywood magnetism onscreen, and Jamie Bell starring as Turner.

Directed by Paul McGuigan, it also stars the likes of Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham, Stephen Graham, Frances Barber, and Leanne Best.

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool hits UK cinemas 16 November.

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