Stars of Vaudeville #923: Grace Moore by Trav S.D.

Today is the birthday of Grace Moore, “The Tennessee Nightingale” (Mary Willie Grace Moore, 1898-1947). Originally from Knoxville, Moore briefly attended Ward-Belmont College in Nashville before studying seriously to be an opera singer in Washington, D.C., New York and Paris. She debuted at a Greenwich Village cabaret called The Black Cat, and worked in vaudeville […]

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