Volume III: Biographies

 

MOORE, Grace *

Actress (1910-1912)

Thanhouser Career Synopsis: Grace Moore's photograph appeared in lobby displays in late 1910 and early 1911 as one of 12 leading members of the Thanhouser stock company. The February 3, 1912 issue of The Billboard named her as one of the leading Thanhouser players. Note: A Grace Moore, born in Jellico, Tennessee on December 15, 1901, became an operatic soprano who made film operettas for Columbia in the 1930s and was a different person from the Thanhouser player. She was married to Valentin Parera, a Spanish screen actor, in 1931, and died in a plane crash on January 26, 1947.

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