- Born
- Died
- Birth nameMary Willie Grace Moore
- Nickname
- The Tennessee Nightingale
- Height5′ 4½″ (1.64 m)
- Grace Moore, the internationally
famous star of the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway, motion pictures, radio
and recordings, was born December 5, 1898, in Del Río near Newport,
Tennessee. Her family moved to Jellico when she was a young girl. She
attended Jellico High School where she was captain of the girls
basketball team in 19l6. She was selected by Florenz Ziegfeld of
Ziegfeld Follies fame as one of the ten most beautiful women in the
world. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her motion picture,
"One Night of Love", and was the subject of a movie titled, "So This is
Love", in which Kathryn Grayson portrayed the "Tennessee Nightingale",
as Grace was called. She died tragically in an airplane crash in 1947
at the height of her career.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpouseValentín Parera(July 15, 1931 - January 26, 1947) (her death)
- On the eve of her death, Grace had sung in concert before a packed
Copenhagen audience of over 4,000. She had just boarded a flight to
Stockholm Sweden when the KLM DC3 plane crashed and exploded upon
takeoff. - She was known as the comedian's comedian, and one of the few capable of
making Jack Benny laugh at the drop of a hat. Anyway, Edward G.
Robinson was hosting a private party for Grace Moore about the time her
movie (One Night of Love) was coming out in 1934. At some point during
the party, Grace was asked to sing the title song from the movie for
the guests, to which she obliged. As the guests set up a couple of rows
of chairs to listen to her sing, George Burns leaned forward and told
Jack Benny that "it would be very rude of him to laugh when she
starting singing". Of course the minute Grace started to sing, Benny
began to laugh... and continued to laugh. George's punch line... "See,
I don't make Jack Benny laugh... Grace Moore makes Jack Benny laugh". - She was good friends with Gloria Swanson and Gloria mentioned her in the film Airport 1975 (1974).
- Originally wanted to be a missionary.
- Born in Slabtown, Tennessee, she was commissioned a colonel on the
staff of the governor of Tennessee.
- Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary
ingredient of a career. - [on performing in movies] I already had some of the fame, but Hollywood gave me the rich lace trimmings, the royal robes, the furs, the jewels, the international celebrity.
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