1. Grace Darmond's parents were Vincent Baptiste "James" Glionna, an Italian-American barber and violinist who had lived in Canada since 1877, and Alice Louise Sparks Glionna, an Ontario native of Irish descent.
11 Facts About Grace Darmond
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Grace Darmond was baptised as a Roman Catholic on December 3,1893, as Mary Gracie Glionna.
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Grace Darmond signed with Selig Polyscope Company in 1914, and made her film debut in the comedy short The Clock Went Wrong.
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Grace Darmond starred in the first Technicolor film, The Gulf Between, with actor Niles Welch.
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Grace Darmond was pretty, slender and starred in many notable films of the period, but she never was able to break through as a leading actress in big budget films.
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Grace Darmond appeared in Below the Surface, starring with Hobart Bosworth and Lloyd Hughes, and that same year played in A Dangerous Adventure, produced and directed by Warner Brothers.
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Grace Darmond ended her acting career, and for the most part disappeared from the public eye until her death in 1963.
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Grace Darmond was reportedly a lesbian, but she has been referred to as bisexual.
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Grace Darmond socialized, as did many struggling movie actresses of that era, with actress Alla Nazimova, who was allegedly a former lesbian lover of Jean Acker, although it has never been verified that Nazimova and Grace Darmond were linked romantically.
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Grace Darmond evidently lied about her age to her fiance, as well as the county clerk, as she would have been at least 29 at the time the marriage licence was issued.
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Grace Darmond clearly continued this subterfuge with her husband throughout their marriage, as she is listed as his wife, Grace D Jennings, 28, on the 1930 census, which reveals that the couple resided at 712 N Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California, and that they had a butler named Chris W Tandoc.