#Grace Cunard

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Birthday remembrance - actor/screenwriter Grace Cunard #botd

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Unmasked (Grace Cunard & Francis Ford, 1917)

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The Purple Mask, episode 13 (1917)

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Unmasked dir. Francis Ford and Grace Cunard

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In 1950, a plague known as Masculitis was thought to have killed every man on Earth over the age of 12. Boys 12 and younger had survived due to a vaccination that had left them sterile. Women took over all major roles including President of the United States. Chaos was created when a fertile man was found and captured. (The Last Man on Earth flm, loosely based on the book The Last Man and a short story in Munsey's Magazine)

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Grace Cunard

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I read two great books about women in Early Hollywood. On my newsletter, you can read my thoughts on them and more.

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19 gennaio ... ricordiamo ...

19 gennaio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2023: Yoon Jeong-hee, pseudonimo di Son Mi-ja, attrice sudcoreana. È apparsa in circa 280 opere che le hanno valso oltre venti statuette come miglior attrice, diventando una delle donne di spicco del cinema sudcoreano degli anni Sessanta. Yoon ottenne la sua prima parte come attrice mentre studiava alla Chosun University, raggiungendo la notorietà già con il suo film di debutto, Cheongchun…

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Princess Grace of Monaco at the christening of the new cruise liner Cunard Princess in New York Harbor on March 30, 1977.

The Cunard Princess operated cruises between New York and Bermuda.

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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 9th April 1923

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Monday 9th April — Hackwood¹

Have been spending a few days here … a simpatico party … Lady Curzon, glittering, gracious and a supreme hostess, all the Duggans;² Lady Patricia Herbert³ (the very nicest girl in London, although Lady Mary Ashley⁴ runs her neck and neck …) … Mrs Vansittart,⁵ an affected American, Paul of Serbia⁶ …. Lord Curzon is away doing a Coué cure⁷ for the benefit of his leg or brow beating some important conference for the welfare of civilisation … I forget which. Lady Curzon told us of a conversation she had with Lord Balfour⁸ a few evenings ago. He was unusually playful and she depressed and discouraged, she is subject to unaccountable fits of Weltschmerz,⁹ which result, I think, from something unsatisfied in her.¹⁰ He tried to console her and talked to her beautifully about life and all she had to live for … her husband, the world’s most striking and brilliant man … her children charming … her friends many … her beauty unsurpassed. Next day he wrote her an inimitable note to say how much he had enjoyed being next to her. She, delighted, said to Lady Cunard¹¹ as she read it: ‘AJB is an angel — I should like to kiss him on the forehead’. Maud repeated this to him and his only comment was: ‘Why the forehead?’ Maud Cunard motored to Hackwood with Serge Obolensky¹² for what she calls ‘the day in the country’ on Sunday. They arrived at six o’clock. She pretended never to have seen plus fours before and said ‘And what has little Paul got on? And Chips¹³ too what are they?’ She made us rock with laughter for two hours with stories about herself and her hatred of the country, etc. She said that all Nancy’s troubles were due to the fact that her father ‘my dear at the age of 12 had put her … put her on a horse, a four-legged horse’. As she was leaving we loaded her car with guns, tennis racquets, golf clubs, etc. She was much flustered at this or pretended to be and shook hands with a footman and ‘bobbed’ to the butler and was amazing but delicious … all pink and white, like a sweet, and dressed in a costume de sport made by Vionnet.¹⁴ Serge was anxious to return as he is wooing Alice Astor.¹⁵ I introduced them … I shall now have this new romance on my conscience.

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1. Hackwood Park, near Basingstoke in Hampshire, rented by Lord Curzon from 1906 until 1925.

2. Lady Curzon’s children by her first marriage: Alfred Duggan (1903–64), who became a minor novelist; Hubert Duggan (1904–43), Tory MP for Acton from 1931 to 1943 and anti-appeaser in the 1930s; and (Grace) Marcella Duggan (1907–95).

3. Patricia Herbert (1904–94), by courtesy Lady Patricia Herbert from 1913, daughter of the 15th Earl of Pembroke and 12th Earl of Montgomery, married in 1928 William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden (1903–48). She was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth from 1937 until 1994.

4. Lady Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper (1902–36), daughter of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, married in 1928 Napier George Henry Sturt (1896–1940), who in 1919 succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Alington of Crichel. He died on active service in Egypt during the Second World War, though of drink rather than in action.

5. Gladys Robinson-Duff (1892–1928), daughter of General William C. Heppenheimer of the United States, married in 1921 Robert Gilbert Vansittart (1881–1957), who would be Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1930 to 1938, and who would be raised to the peerage in 1941 as 1st Baron Vansittart. Vansittart was also an accomplished novelist, playwright and poet.

6. Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893–1976) had known Channon at Oxford and would remain one of his closest friends, and be Prince Regent of Yugoslavia (the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) from 1934 to 1941 during the minority of Peter II. He was the nephew of King Peter I and married Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark (1903–97), sister-in-law of Channon’s other closest friend, the Duke of Kent. After treating with the Germans in 1941 Paul was forced from Yugoslavia and forbidden ever to return; the post-war communist regime stripped him of his property and proclaimed him an enemy of the state. Until 1945 the British authorities held him in Kenya under house arrest. Serbia rehabilitated him posthumously in 2011, after which he was reburied with Princess Olga and their son Nicholas.

7. A psychotherapy-based cure featuring auto-suggestion, fashionable but heavily criticised at the time, developed by Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie (1857–1926), a French psychologist.

8. A. J. Balfour, raised to an earldom in 1922.

9. World-weariness.

10. Curzon was desperate for a male heir (he had three daughters from his first marriage) to the earldom and marquessate he had obtained; various medical procedures had been followed to help Lady Curzon conceive, but no child resulted and the marriage was strained accordingly.

11. Maud Alice Burke (1872–1948), born in San Francisco, married in 1895 Sir Bache Cunard, 3rd Bt (1851–1925), grandson of the shipping line’s founder. They had lived largely apart since 1911, Cunard basing himself in Leicestershire where he enjoyed field sports. In London with their daughter Nancy Clara (1896–1965), Lady Cunard – who after her husband’s death became known as ‘Emerald’ – established one of the leading salons of the era, which thrived until the Second World War. After separating from her husband she became the mistress of Sir Thomas Beecham, the conductor, and funded many of his musical projects.

12. Prince Sergei (‘Serge’) Platonovich Obolensky Neledinsky-Meletsky (1890–1978) had been educated at Oxford and became part of the Russian diaspora after the revolution. He emigrated to America and became a successful businessman.

13. The first time in the diaries that he refers to his nickname.

14. Madeleine Vionnet (1876–1975) was one of Paris’s leading fashion designers of the interwar years.

15. Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902–56), daughter of John Jacob Astor IV. She and Obolensky married in 1924 and divorced in 1932. She would marry four times before her death at the age of 54.

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my great-grandpa's first movie was the broken coin, released in 1915 (he was 12) and he writes the names of the actors and everything, eddie polo (he actually got this name correct!), francis for (francis ford, almost) and pear vite (pearl white, which is weird cause she wasn't in that film? she was an actress from the same period but didn't star in the broken coin, the main actress there was grace cunard)

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Silent film actor, screenwriter, director Grace Cunard was born on April 8, 1893 #botd

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Jack Buchanan, the film actor, producer and singer, was born this day in 1890.

Our own Scottish "Fred Astaire" Jack's films include, Monte Carlo, The Band Wagon and Yes, Mr.Brown. Check out the video with the aforementioned Astaire.

Walter John Buchanan or Jack as he was called was born in Helensburgh the family home being Garthland in West Argyle Street, just along the road from his childhood, and later lifelong friend John Logie Baird.

To his bitter regret he was deemed unfit for military service in World War I.

Made his stage debut at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow in 1912 and, by the 1920s, had become Britain's leading musical comedy star. He also worked occasionally as a producer from 1922. He was famous for "the seemingly lazy but most accomplished grace with which he sang, danced, flirted and joked his way through musical shows.... The tall figure, the elegant gestures, the friendly drawling voice, the general air of having a good time."

Turning down a chance to relocate permanently to Hollywood he stated they could make films here every bit as good as in the U.S, and should be doing so.

In December 1930, he opened, with his business partner Walter Gibbons, the Leicester Square Theatre. This venue was bombed out during the war and Buchanan lost a sizeable amount of money as a result. However, he went on to manage the Garrick Theatre in 1946.

Buchanan was a frequent broadcaster on British radio, especially during the Second World War. Programmes included The Jack Buchanan Show and, in 1955, the hugely popular eight-part series Man About Town. He made the transition to TV and was part of the very first outside broadcast in the British Isles, conducted of course, by his friend John Logie Baird. Television appearances in the USA included Max Liebman's Spotlight in 1954 and long running Ed Sullivan Show.

Buchanan was noted for his portrayals of the quintessential English gentleman, despite being a Scot, and was known for his financial generosity to less prosperous actors and chorus performers. He loved National Hunt horse racing and was known to , cancel the day's performance of his current musical and charter whole excursion train to the racecourse and back, supplying meals for the entire cast and crew of his show, in addition to giving them £5 each for a "flutter" on the horse of their choice.

In 1956, he returned to Glasgow to open the studios for Scottish Television at the Theatre Royal. It was to be his last public performance.

He died from spinal cancer in London in October 1957. His ashes were scattered from the decks of a Cunard Liner in recognition of his 50+ transatlantic sailings he took while alternating shows on London's West End and Broadway.

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The Purple Mask, episode 12 (1917)

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New York - Princess Grace of Monaco, left, and an unidentified companion enter a restaurant in New York Saturday night. Princess Grace is in the United States for the christening of the Cunard liner "Princess." Photo is dated 3-27-1977

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LIVERPOOL WATERFRONT - THE THREE GRACES

The iconic Three Graces at Liverpool's waterfront - The Royal Liver Building, Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool building. These three beautiful listed buildings would have been among the last things seen by the thousands of people who emigrated and left the UK for the USA during the early twentieth century, on the hundreds of cruise ships which sailed down the River Mersey. #photography #liverpool #thethreegraces #RiverMersey

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