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I am collecting miscellaneous information about Moore at User:Orlady/Grace_Moore -- orlady 16:59, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I took these pictures at the cemetery where Grace is buried in the family plot, FOREST HILLS CEMETERY CHATTANOOGA, TN.
You are welcome to use them if you have the need http://picasaweb.google.com/IRINASDUDE/GRACEMOOREPARERAMOOREFAMILYPLOT20090914?feat=directlink (yoyohooyo) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yoyohooyo ( talk • contribs) 17:19, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I question the factual basis for the statement that she grew up in Chattanooga. All sources indicate that she grew up in Jellico, Tennessee, which claims her as its most famous citizen. For example, see http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=M119 , http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0601254/bio , and http://www.gracemoore.net/biography.php . This fact was added by User:ZekeMacNeil, who I have contacted. -- orlady 18:16, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
There is also some reason to question details about her birth. Some sources (including http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9125884/Grace-Moore ) give her birth date as 1901, not 1898. Apparently the 1901 birthdate appeared in Who's Who during her lifetime. I decided the best way to handle this is to use the 1898 date, but mention the other date in parentheses.
Birthplace is usually given as "Slabtown", but sometimes Del Rio is the place named. A couple of sources say "Nough, Tennessee." http://www.cockecounty.com/About.html says: "In Del Rio you will find many interesting stops including the Grace Moore birthplace," but there is no other information about the location of this birthplace. Slabtown no longer seem to be recognized as a community. However, I found a few genealogical query pages with references to "Slab Town" as a place near Del Rio. Also, there seems to have been a Slab Town School. -- orlady 23:30, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
A picture caption in the Tennessean article "Opera star trained at Ward-Belmont" identifies her mother as Tessie Jane Moore (not "Jane Moore", as given in current version of article based on Jellico history source. I think it's reasonable to assume that Jane is the same person as Tessie Jane. -- orlady 00:12, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
I also wonder if there is a factual basis for the statement "She reportedly made racist comments and refused to appear on the same stage as an African-American performer." -- orlady 18:30, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
I deleted the statement "She was at one time chosen by Florenz Ziegfeld as one of the most beautiful women in the world." It seems that Ziegfeld said that about many women. Since she apparently was never a Ziegfeld Girl, the statement has little significance here. -- orlady 19:04, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
http://www.maurice-abravanel.com/moore_grace_.html is interesting, but I think it may have errors.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Orlady ( talk • contribs) 04:15, 8 December 2006 (UTC).
I just spent a few hours doing a major cleanup of this
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I removed the infobox from this article because they're not used for opera singers, as per Opera Project guidelines ( Wikipedia:WikiProject_Opera#Infoboxes). User:Orlady then restored the box, noting on my Talk Page that " Grace Moore . . . was clearly a movie star and pop singer, not "just" an opera singer". I don't agree with this. IMO Moore was primarily an opera singer and her adventures in Hollywood were only typical of those of Met singers in that period. AFAIK she never sang pop songs (though the term may be anachronistic anyway).
Here is a list of her films and comments from The Internet Movie Database (IMDb):
It's clear from all these quotes that she was a singer not an actress.
The article states she made "her operatic debut at the Metropolitan Opera . . . on 7 February 1928. This is not true. She made her debut as Mimi at the Opéra-Comique, (see Max De Schauensee in New Grove). The article gives almost no information at all about her international career. It doesn't give her roles - as normal with WP articles on singers. It doesn't list her recordings - Beecham used her for ( a possibly complete?) Louise, She is also in a Met L'amore dei tre re and probably lots more.
I am not going to indluge in a edit war over this, but I hope to see the article improved and balanced. At the moment it treats Moore as a celebrity. I don't think she would have liked that. She deserves to be regarded seriously as a singer. -- Kleinzach 12:09, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
The plane - a KLM DC-3 originated in Amsterdam en route to Stockholm via Copenhagen. After take-off in Copenhagen the plane came down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.239.13.202 ( talk) 11:54, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
Could someone add to the controversy section why Moore curtsying offended the British public/press? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.25.176 ( talk) 04:44, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
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I am collecting miscellaneous information about Moore at User:Orlady/Grace_Moore -- orlady 16:59, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I took these pictures at the cemetery where Grace is buried in the family plot, FOREST HILLS CEMETERY CHATTANOOGA, TN.
You are welcome to use them if you have the need http://picasaweb.google.com/IRINASDUDE/GRACEMOOREPARERAMOOREFAMILYPLOT20090914?feat=directlink (yoyohooyo) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yoyohooyo ( talk • contribs) 17:19, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I question the factual basis for the statement that she grew up in Chattanooga. All sources indicate that she grew up in Jellico, Tennessee, which claims her as its most famous citizen. For example, see http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=M119 , http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0601254/bio , and http://www.gracemoore.net/biography.php . This fact was added by User:ZekeMacNeil, who I have contacted. -- orlady 18:16, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
There is also some reason to question details about her birth. Some sources (including http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9125884/Grace-Moore ) give her birth date as 1901, not 1898. Apparently the 1901 birthdate appeared in Who's Who during her lifetime. I decided the best way to handle this is to use the 1898 date, but mention the other date in parentheses.
Birthplace is usually given as "Slabtown", but sometimes Del Rio is the place named. A couple of sources say "Nough, Tennessee." http://www.cockecounty.com/About.html says: "In Del Rio you will find many interesting stops including the Grace Moore birthplace," but there is no other information about the location of this birthplace. Slabtown no longer seem to be recognized as a community. However, I found a few genealogical query pages with references to "Slab Town" as a place near Del Rio. Also, there seems to have been a Slab Town School. -- orlady 23:30, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
A picture caption in the Tennessean article "Opera star trained at Ward-Belmont" identifies her mother as Tessie Jane Moore (not "Jane Moore", as given in current version of article based on Jellico history source. I think it's reasonable to assume that Jane is the same person as Tessie Jane. -- orlady 00:12, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
I also wonder if there is a factual basis for the statement "She reportedly made racist comments and refused to appear on the same stage as an African-American performer." -- orlady 18:30, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
I deleted the statement "She was at one time chosen by Florenz Ziegfeld as one of the most beautiful women in the world." It seems that Ziegfeld said that about many women. Since she apparently was never a Ziegfeld Girl, the statement has little significance here. -- orlady 19:04, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
http://www.maurice-abravanel.com/moore_grace_.html is interesting, but I think it may have errors.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Orlady ( talk • contribs) 04:15, 8 December 2006 (UTC).
I just spent a few hours doing a major cleanup of this
article. If there's something I've missed please fix it.
NewYork1956 07:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I removed the infobox from this article because they're not used for opera singers, as per Opera Project guidelines ( Wikipedia:WikiProject_Opera#Infoboxes). User:Orlady then restored the box, noting on my Talk Page that " Grace Moore . . . was clearly a movie star and pop singer, not "just" an opera singer". I don't agree with this. IMO Moore was primarily an opera singer and her adventures in Hollywood were only typical of those of Met singers in that period. AFAIK she never sang pop songs (though the term may be anachronistic anyway).
Here is a list of her films and comments from The Internet Movie Database (IMDb):
It's clear from all these quotes that she was a singer not an actress.
The article states she made "her operatic debut at the Metropolitan Opera . . . on 7 February 1928. This is not true. She made her debut as Mimi at the Opéra-Comique, (see Max De Schauensee in New Grove). The article gives almost no information at all about her international career. It doesn't give her roles - as normal with WP articles on singers. It doesn't list her recordings - Beecham used her for ( a possibly complete?) Louise, She is also in a Met L'amore dei tre re and probably lots more.
I am not going to indluge in a edit war over this, but I hope to see the article improved and balanced. At the moment it treats Moore as a celebrity. I don't think she would have liked that. She deserves to be regarded seriously as a singer. -- Kleinzach 12:09, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
The plane - a KLM DC-3 originated in Amsterdam en route to Stockholm via Copenhagen. After take-off in Copenhagen the plane came down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.239.13.202 ( talk) 11:54, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
Could someone add to the controversy section why Moore curtsying offended the British public/press? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.25.176 ( talk) 04:44, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
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