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Grace Bradley, 1913-09-21 ~ 2010-09-21, was an American film actress, active in Hollywood during the 1930s. Bradley was born in Brooklyn. As a child she took piano lessons and by the age of six she gave her first recital. After winning a scholarship, she attended the Eastman School of Music near Rochester, New York, aged twelve, Originally she had wanted to become a professional pianist. While in school she took dance lessons and played piano. Her grandfather wanted her to be educated in Berlin, so that she could receive more formal education but a Broadway producer discovered her during one of her dance recitals and hired her for a professional show.
During her career she co-starred opposite such notable figures as Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Alice Faye, Bruce Cabot, William Bendix, Fred MacMurray, Harold Lloyd, Claudette Colbert, and W.C. Fields. In May 1937, Bradley agreed to a blind date and met Hopalong Cassidy star William Boyd. The two of them got along so well that they were married in June 1937.
Grace Bradley Boyd died on her 97th birthday. Two days later, private services were held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. She was buried with her husband there in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Sacred Promise.
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