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7 unusual facts about Grace Moore


Del Rio, Tennessee

Grace Moore, Del Rio's most famous resident, was born in Nough in 1898.

Nough is the birthplace of opera singer and actress Grace Moore.

Ernő Balogh

Settling in New York, he established a successful career as both soloist and accompanist; in the latter capacity, he played with celebrated musicians including Fritz Kreisler, Lotte Lehmann, and Grace Moore.

Esperanza Cruz Hidalgo

She had the opportunity to study with renowned artists from Argentina, Ecuador, United Statess, and Mexico, including: Aida Mastrazzi, María Ruanova, Robert Joffrey, Joseph Balanchine, Igor Youskevitch, Grace Moore, Kitty Sakilarides, Ileana Leonidoff and Nelsy Dambré.

Frank Forest

He spent twelve years performing leading tenor roles in opera houses all over Europe and acted in several films, including I'll Take Romance along with American soprano and actress Grace Moore in 1937.

Jellico, Tennessee

Jellico was the childhood home of Grace Moore, soprano star of opera, musical theatre, and film, and Homer Rodeheaver, hymnwriter, trombonist, and pioneer in the recording of sacred music.

Sydney Rayner

He appeared with that company through 1938, in Aïda (with Elisabeth Rethberg), Cavalleria rusticana (with Rosa Ponselle), Carmen again (opposite Ponselle), Les contes d'Hoffmann (conducted by Maurice Abravanel and directed by Herbert Graf), Manon (with Bidu Sayão in her Met debut, later with Grace Moore), Faust, and Pagliacci (opposite Robert Weede in his Met debut).


A Lady's Morals

The movie features Grace Moore as Lind, Reginald Denny as a lover, and Wallace Beery as P. T. Barnum; Beery would play Barnum again four years later in The Mighty Barnum.

General Motors Concerts

The rotating line-up of leading name performers featured Björling, Donald Dickson, Helen Jepson, Maria Jeritza, Grace Moore, Erna Sack, Joseph Schmidt and Richard Tauber.

Her Cardboard Lover

In December 1934, MGM production chief Irving Thalberg announced his plan to adapt the play for a musical starring Maurice Chevalier and Grace Moore, but the project never came to fruition.


see also

So This Is Love

So This Is Love (film) (aka The Grace Moore Story), a musical starring Kathryn Grayson