Grace Moore
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About
Singer who starred on both the Metropolitan Opera stage, Broadway, and in film, known by the nickname the Tennessee Nightingale.
Before Fame
She studied singing in New York, performing in nightclubs to make a living and beginning on Broadway in the Roaring 1920s.
Trivia
She performed at the Met in Paris, singing in several Italian operas, and giving a Royal Command Performance at the Covent Garden in London.
Family Life
She was born Mary Willie Grace Moore in Slabtown, which is modern-day Del Rio, in Cocke County, Tennessee, moving with her family to Knoxville at an early age.
Associated With
At the height of her popularity, MGM sought to give Moore equal billing to Maurice Chevalier in one of their movies, which so upset the Frenchman that he left Hollywood.
