Today is the birthday of Grace Moore, “The Tennessee Nightingale” (Mary Willie Grace Moore, 1898-1947). Originally from Knoxville, Moore briefly attended Ward-Belmont College in Nashville before studying seriously to be an opera singer in Washington, D.C., New York and Paris. She debuted at a Greenwich Village cabaret called The Black Cat, and worked in vaudeville […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:39PM on December 5, 2015