Grace Bradley

Grace Bradley

A petite and extremely lovely blonde "B" film actress who eventually deserted her career in favor of standing by her man (cowboy icon William Boyd, aka, "Hopalong Cassidy"), Grace Bradley spent the rest of her life in his shadow and devoting herself to her husband's career. Bill's Hoppy was the longest span of any fictional character played by the same actor. Following his death in 1972, she spent a good deal of her time keeping his good name and image in tact. Grace initially studied to be a concert pianist, playing Carngie Hall at age 15. She also took advantage of her budding loveliness by modeling full time and taking singing/dancing lessons on the sly. She went on to act, sing, and dance on the Broadway stage in the musicals "Strike Me Pink" and "The Little Show". While performing at the Paradise nightclub in Manhattan in 1933, the dancer was "discovered" and signed by a Paramount Pictures director. Heading west, she often came off as an assertive "bad girl" or femme-fatale at Paramount with such fun, party-girl names as Goldie, Trixie, Flossie, Lily and Sadie. Her first full-length movie was as a second lead in the Bing Crosby/Jack Oakie musical comedy Too Much Harmony (1933), in which she sang and danced to the feisty tune "Cradle Me With a Hotcha Lullaby". She subsequently appeared in the W.C. Fields classic Six of a Kind (1934); the Richard Arlen pictures Come On, Marines! (1934) and She Made Her Bed (1934); the Claudette Colbert/Fred MacMurray comedy The Gilded Lily (1935), and had the female lead opposite Bruce Cabot in Redhead (1934). Appearing secondary in the Bing Crosby/Ethel Merman version of Anything Goes (1936), her musical talents were tapped into with the films The Cat's-Paw (1934), Stolen Harmony (1935), Old Man Rhythm (1935), Sitting on the Moon (1936) and Wake Up and Live (1937). Elsewhere, various "B" male co-stars would include Wallace Ford, Lee Tracy, Jack Haley, John Boles, Robert Livingston, Jack Holt and Robert Armstrong. In 1937, Grace happened to cross paths with Bill Boyd, who became her "Prince Charming on a big white horse". She had a long-time school-girl crush on Boyd and was instantly smitten upon their first meeting. He was 42 and she 23. He asked her to marry him within a few days and they were married three weeks later on June 5th. Boyd had already been married four times, none lasting longer than six years. Grace would become the fifth (and last) Mrs. William Boyd in a marriage that lasted 35 years. The couple had no children together; Bill had one child from his third marriage. William Lawrence Boyd retired from show business in 1953 quite wealthy. Suffering from Parkinson's disease, he died of heart failure in Laguna Beach in 1972 at age 77. Grace went on to spend the last decades of her life devoting herself to volunteer work at the Laguna Beach hospital where her husband lived out his final days. She later withstood legal battles that stemmed from copyright infringements, but enjoyed appearing occasionally at Hopalong Cassidy tributes. The definitive biography Hopalong Cassidy - An American Legend was co-authored by Grace and Michael Cochran in 2008. Grace Bradley Boyd died,  21 September 2010, Dana Point, California. of complications from old age at age 97 on her birthday; and she was interred next to her husband at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Clendale, California.

  • 人气度 : 4.196
  • 闻名 : Acting
  • 生日 : 1913-09-21
  • 出生地 : Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Grace Bradley 电影

  • 1934
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    The Cat's-Paw

    The Cat's-Paw

    6.2 1934 HD

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  • 1942
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    Brooklyn Orchid

    Brooklyn Orchid

    1 1942 HD

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  • 1934
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    Six of a Kind

    Six of a Kind

    5.8 1934 HD

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  • 1939
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    The Invisible Killer

    The Invisible Killer

    4 1939 HD

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  • 1936
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    Sitting on the Moon

    Sitting on the Moon

    6 1936 HD

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  • 1937
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    Larceny on the Air

    Larceny on the Air

    5 1937 HD

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  • 1943
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    Taxi, Mister

    Taxi, Mister

    3 1943 HD

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  • 1942
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    The McGuerins from Brooklyn

    The McGuerins from Brooklyn

    5 1942 HD

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  • 1937
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    O.H.M.S.

    O.H.M.S.

    5 1937 HD

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  • 1941
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    Sign of the Wolf

    Sign of the Wolf

    6 1941 HD

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  • 1936
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    Anything Goes

    Anything Goes

    5.4 1936 HD

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  • 1935
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    Two-Fisted

    Two-Fisted

    7 1935 HD

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  • 1937
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    Wake Up and Live

    Wake Up and Live

    5.3 1937 HD

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  • 1936
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    天空情侠

    天空情侠

    4.333 1936 HD

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    It's All Yours

    It's All Yours

    5 1937 HD

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  • 1935
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    金莲花

    金莲花

    6.4 1935 HD

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    Stolen Harmony

    Stolen Harmony

    6 1935 HD

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  • 1933
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    柔情曼歌

    柔情曼歌

    5 1933 HD

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  • 1938
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    The Big Broadcast of 1938

    The Big Broadcast of 1938

    5.9 1938 HD

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  • 1938
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    Romance on the Run

    Romance on the Run

    1 1938 HD

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  • 1935
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    Old Man Rhythm

    Old Man Rhythm

    6.3 1935 HD

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  • 1936
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    F-Man

    F-Man

    1 1936 HD

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  • 1933
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    Girl Without a Room

    Girl Without a Room

    5.3 1933 HD

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  • 1936
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    Rose of the Rancho

    Rose of the Rancho

    1 1936 HD

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  • 1934
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    Redhead

    Redhead

    6 1934 HD

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  • 1932
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    Tip Tap Toe

    Tip Tap Toe

    1 1932 HD

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  • 1934
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    She Made Her Bed

    She Made Her Bed

    3.5 1934 HD

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  • 1936
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    Don't Turn 'em Loose

    Don't Turn 'em Loose

    4.8 1936 HD

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  • 1934
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    Come On, Marines!

    Come On, Marines!

    5 1934 HD

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  • 1937
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    Roaring Timber

    Roaring Timber

    5 1937 HD

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  • 1941
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    The Hard-Boiled Canary

    The Hard-Boiled Canary

    1 1941 HD

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  • 1936
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    Dangerous Waters

    Dangerous Waters

    3 1936 HD

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  • 1933
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    The Way to Love

    The Way to Love

    1 1933 HD

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