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Actor Peter Turner on the real-life romance that inspired Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Peter Turner discusses his new film about Gloria Grahame, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool.
Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool is based on Peter Turner's memoir of his relationship with actress Gloria Grahame. (SonyPicturesClassics/Youtube)

As a young aspiring actor in the late '70s, Peter Turner had no idea his boarding house neighbour was Gloria Grahame, a Hollywood star from the 1950s, until they fell in love. Three decades apart in age and from different ends of the acting spectrum, a new film Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool tells the incredible story of this unlikely romance.

Turner talks to host Tom Power about putting his affair with Grahame on the silver screen and what her story says about how woman were treated under the Hollywood studio system.    

Produced by Ben Edwards.