Grace Darling | |
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| Born | Grace Foster November 20, 1893 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | October 7, 1963 (aged 69) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1913–1921 |
| Spouses | Pat Rooney
(m. 1908, divorced)Harry Turek (div. 1915) |
Grace Darling (née Foster; November 20, 1893 – October 7, 1963) was an American actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era. She was best known for her role as Beatrice Fairfax in a 1916 serial of the same name.[1][2]
Biography
Darling was reportedly born in New York City.[3] By the mid-1910s, she was under contract at Hearst-Selig,[4] and would write travelogues for Hearst papers from her globe-trotting adventures.[5] She was a bit eccentric, and was known for carrying around a doll dressed in imaginative outfits during the height of her fame.[6] She was sometimes confused for the actress Ruth Darling, who died in a 1918 car crash in San Francisco.[7] She told reporters she married actor Pat Rooney when she was 15 years old; despite their eventual divorce, she was caring for him at the time of his death.[8] She was also married to a Harry Turek of San Francisco.[9][10]
Selected filmography
- Everyman's Price (1921)
- The Common Sin (1920)
- The Discarded Woman (1920)
- Even as Eve (1920)
- False Gods (1919)
- Virtuous Men (1919)
- Beatrice Fairfax (1916)
- The Glass Pistol (1914)
- How Men Propose (1913)
- The Midget's Revenge (1913)
- Pearl as a Detective (1913)
- Knights and Ladies (1913)
References
- ↑ "Motion Pictures". The San Francisco Examiner. 10 Sep 1916. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ↑ Greenwood, Warren. "When Ithaca Was the Silent Hollywood". Ithaca Times. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ↑ "Grace Darling at the American". The Bulletin. 14 Dec 1919. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ↑ "Grace Darling Is on Her Way to Chicago". The San Francisco Examiner. 4 Mar 1915. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ↑ "Grace Darling Off to the Exposition". The San Francisco Examiner. 26 Jan 1915. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ↑ "Grace Darling Starts Fad of Always Carrying Boy Doll Very Queerly Dressed". The Sacramento Bee. 19 Feb 1916. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ↑ "Ruth Darling, Movie Actress, Killed in S.F. Automobile Accident". The Bulletin. 12 Sep 1918. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ↑ "Pat Rooney, Early Screen Actor, Dies". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 16 Jan 1933. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ↑ "Grace Darling, Movie Actress, Gets Divorce". San Francisco Chronicle. 29 May 1915. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ↑ Olsson, Jan (2007). Los Angeles Before Hollywood: Journalism and American Film Culture, 1905 to 1915 (PDF). Stockholm, Sweden: National Library of Sweden. ISBN 978-91-88468-06-2.