12 Facts About Grace Cunard

Grace Cunard's younger sister, Mina Cunard, was a film actress.

Grace Cunard went with her parents to Columbus, Ohio, when she was a baby.

Grace Cunard was initially hired by "fledgling producer" Thomas H Ince at Bison Studio, where director and actor Francis Ford cast her as the wife of General George Armstrong Custer in the two-reel military drama Custer's Last Fight.

Grace Cunard's collaboration with Ford continued into 1917, the same year she married for the second time, not to Ford but to the Irish-born actor Joe Moore.

At the time Grace Cunard started working in films, it was not uncommon for members on set and in post-production to assume a variety of additional duties beyond their primary assignments.

Some period newspapers and trade publications credit her with writing between 150 and 200 "photoplays", while one newspaper in 1915 reported that she had authored 400 scenarios, a highly implausible figure given the amount of time Grace Cunard had worked in motion pictures by then.

Grace Cunard starred in Hell's Crater, an elaborate five-reel Western written and directed by W B Pearson and filmed on location in Death Valley National Park.

Grace Cunard wrote, directed, and starred in The Man Hater ; directed and starred in Gasoline Buckaroo and A Daughter of The Law ; wrote and starred in The Gun Runners ; and co-wrote, directed and co-starred with Cole Hebert in Her Western Adventure.

Grace Cunard only appears as a landlady in one of its 13 episodes, but her presence in that production was deemed important enough by Universal to include her name in a third-tier bold credit on the serial's theater posters.

Grace Cunard was 53 years old by that time, so after working nearly four decades in motion pictures, she decided to retire permanently from the industry.

Grace Cunard's next marriage was to Irish-born actor Joe Moore.

Grace Cunard's gravesite is in Los Angeles, at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in the neighborhood of Chatsworth.