Trivia

Grace had been a fan of William Boyd for years, claiming since age 12 that one day she would marry him. When he called the actress to attend a party he was giving at his house, she believed the invitation was a prank played by her friends. Upon realizing it WAS Boyd, she immediately accepted, and the rest is history.

Her husband, William Boyd, died nine days before her 59th birthday.

Although, in black and white films, her hair looked blond, in reality Grace was a natural redhead.

She endured years of fighting for the legal rights to her late husband's 66 "Hopalong Cassidy" features.

Every year until her death she traveled to Ohio in May to attend the annual Hopalong Cassidy Festival.

One of the six "Paramount Proteges" of 1935. The others were Wendy Barrie, Katherine DeMille, Gertrude Michael, Gail Patrick, and Ann Sheridan.

Was discovered by a Broadway producer during a recital.

She devoted her time to a lot of volunteer work at the Laguna Beach Hospital where her husband had spent his final days.

Chose not to renew her Paramount Pictures contract, upon its 1943 expiration, in wanting to devote more time to help the movie cowboy image of her husband, William Boyd.

She died on her 97th birthday.

Was educated at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

Is interred with her husband, William Boyd, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Sacred Promise.

Was the lead actress in the original Broadway production of "Strike Me Pink" (1933) when she left the show to begin her Hollywood career. Her role was later taken over by Dorothy Dare who later found herself in Tinsel Town working as a musical movie star.