Lee Grant was standing at the edge of the kind of career most actors spend a lifetime chasing. Then Hollywood stopped calling. Not because audiences had rejected her. Not because critics thought she lacked talent. And not because she had suddenly forgotten how to act. At the beginning of the 1950s, Grant was emerging as one of the most exciting young performers in American theater and film. Her screen debut in Detective Story brought enormous attention, earning her the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actress and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.…
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