Profile
Grace Moore
Opera Singer + Actress
Female
Born
Dec 5, 1898
Hometown
Del Rio, Tennessee
Died
Jan 26, 1947
Death Place
Copenhagen, Denmark
Other Names
Moore, Mary Willi...
Grace Moore was an American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film. She was nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale. " Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience.
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1898
Birth
Born in 1898.
TWENTIES
1920
22 Years Old
Grace Moore's first Broadway appearance was in 1920 in the musical Hitchy-Koo, by Jerome Kern.
1922
24 Years Old
In 1922 and 1923 she appeared in the second and third of Irving Berlin's series of four Music Box Revues.
1923
25 Years Old
In the 1923 edition she and John Steel introduced Berlin's song "What'll I Do".
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THIRTIES
After training in France, Moore made her operatic debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on February 7, 1928, singing the role of Mimì in Giacomo Puccini's La bohème.
1930
32 Years Old
Attracted to Hollywood in the early years of talking pictures, Moore's first screen role was as Jenny Lind in the 1930 film A Lady's Morals, produced for MGM by Irving Thalberg and directed by Sidney Franklin.
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1931
33 Years Old
Moore married Valentín Parera, a Spanish movie actor, in Cannes, on July 15, 1931.
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1934
36 Years Old
After a hiatus of several years, Moore returned to Hollywood under contract to Columbia Pictures, for whom she made six films. In the 1934 film One Night of Love, her first film for Columbia, she portrayed a small-town girl who aspires to sing opera.
For that role she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1935.
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1936
38 Years Old
In 1936 King Christian X of Denmark awarded her his country's medal of 'Ingenito et Arti.'
FORTIES
1944
46 Years Old
Moore published an autobiography, You're Only Human Once, in 1944.
1947
49 Years Old
Grace Moore died in a plane crash near the Copenhagen, Denmark airport on January 26, 1947, at the age of 48.
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