Grace Cunard: Difference between revisions

Cunard was married three times. On April 30, 1912, in New York, at the age of 19, she married actor Harry Harvey, who was 20 years her senior.<ref>"New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940", marriage certificate, Harry Harvey and Harriet Mildred Jeffries, April 30, 1912, [[Manhattan]], New York; microfilm, New York City Municipal Archives, New York.</ref>{{efn|Records show that actor-director Harry Harvey was born in New York City on June 4, 1873, so he was just shy of 39 years old in 1912. On his and Jeffries' (Cunard's) marriage certificate, however, he is listed as 36, which was due to either a deliberate misrepresentation on his part or his age was recorded incorrectly at the time.}} That marriage ended before 1917, although the reasons for its ending are not clearly documented. Her next marriage was to Irish-born actor [[Joe Moore (actor)|Joe Moore]]. They wed at [[Seal Beach, California]], on January 17, 1917, but divorced eight years later.<ref>"California Marriages, 1850-1952", certificate of marriage, Joseph Moore and Harriet Jeffries, January 17, 1917, Seal Beach, Orange County, California, California State Board of Health, Sacramento; digital image of original document, archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.</ref> Then, on September 1, 1925, Cunard married Frederick Lorenzo Tyler, a film [[stunt double|stuntman]] who professionally used the name Jack Tyler Shannon.<ref name="CalMar">"California County Marriages, 1850-1952", Frederick Lorenzo Tyler and Harriet M. Jeffries, September 1, 1925, Los Angeles, California State Board of Health, Sacramento; copy, archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.</ref> They remained married for over 40 years, until her death from cancer in 1967. At the time of her death, she was residing at the [[Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital|Motion Picture Country Home]] in [[Woodland Hills, California|Woodland Hills]], a neighborhood of Los Angeles.<ref name="NYT"/> Her gravesite is also in Los Angeles, at [[Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery]] in the neighborhood of [[Chatsworth, Los Angeles|Chatsworth]].<ref>[http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8726367/grace-cunard "Grace Cunard Shannon"], Oakwood Memorial Park, Chatsworth, Los Angeles County, California. [[Find a Grave]], memorial registration 8726367 with image of marker. Retrieved April 28, 2020.</ref>

The Ford-Cunard 1917 short ''[[Unmasked (1917 film)|Unmasked]]'' was selected in 2014 by the United States Film Preservation Board for inclusion in the [[National Film Registry]].<ref>[http://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ "Unmasked"] (1917) added to National Film Registry, United States Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Retrieved May 4, 2020.</ref> In 2018, in recognition of the many contributions made by women to the development of the motion-picture industry in the silent era, film library and distributor [[Kino International (company)|Kino Lorber, Inc.]], in cooperation with the Library of Congress, released a special six-[[DVD|disc]] box set titled ''Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers''. Included in that set are copies of three episodes from Cunard's 1916-1917 serial ''The Purple Mask'' as well as a copy of the short ''The Daughter of 'The Law''', which she directed and starred in, in 1921.<ref>Dargis, Manohla (2018). [http://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/movies/first-women-filmmakers-film-series.html "Critic's Notebook: Thrills, Tears and the Real Gone Girls of Cinema"], review and discussion of Kino Lorber's film presentations and its DVD series ''Pioneers: The First Women Filmmakers'', ''The New York Times'' (online edition), July 19, 2018. Retrieved May 4, 2020.</ref>

* ''[[Unmasked (1917 film)|Unmasked]]'' (1917) co-directed

* ''East[[Easy to Look At]]'' (1945)

* [https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-grace-cunard/ Grace Cunard]{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at Women Film Pioneers Project

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