Grace Bradley

Lovely Grace Bradley in a seductive glamour sitting from 1935. Bradley was born in Brooklyn on September 21, 1913. Although she made one film in 1932, her film career did not gather steam until she starred in the film “Too Much Harmony” (1933), which provided her "first film credit”. 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). 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). In May 1937, Bradley agreed to a blind date and met Hopalong Cassidy star William Boyd. The two of them hit it off so well that they married three weeks later, in June 1937. In the 1940s, Bradley's star began to wane and, in 1943, she starred in her last big role in “Taxi, Mister”. Following this, Bradley had officially played out her Paramount contract and she spent the remainder of the 1940s alongside her husband and traveled around the country with him helping to promote his cowboy image. She did come out of her publicity trips with Boyd to make one more film appearance, an uncredited cameo role in “Tournament of Roses” (1954). Following his death in 1972, Bradley retired from the entertainment world; however, since she shared such a strong union with her husband she still continued to do things to help keep Boyd's memory alive. With her acting career behind her, she devoted her time to volunteer work at the Laguna Beach Hospital where her husband had spent his final days. Grace Bradley, at age 97, passed away on her birthday in 2010. Two days later, private services were held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, where she was interred with her husband in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Sacred Promise.

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