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439:". The article, titled "Her Grace and Francis I", includes interviews with both Ford and Cunard. "Ford freely admits", writes Henry, "that Miss Cunard provides most of the ideas for the stories." He then quotes Ford regarding his and Cunard's methodology for developing their films: "'It takes us about two hours to make a two reel scenario, once we get an idea...If we both agree on the plan for the story, we make the scenario together; if we disagree, each writes a scenario and then we either take the best one or combine the two.'"
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hardly believe I would take to it as a steady diet. Later on, when I feel I am too old to take leads...I guess, I will direct entirely, because I will never give up Motion
Pictures—I am too wrapped up in them. At the same time I am glad I do direct now and again, for I can say that I have tried every angle of the manufacturing end of the business, and, what is more, that I am conversant with every branch and can even cut and assemble a film, with appealing
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296:, and others. Their close professional relationship, which had quickly evolved into a personal one as well, led many movie fans to assume the couple were married. The two were increasingly being referred to in trade publications and newspapers as the production team of "Ford-Cunard", with Francis being credited consistently for directing and both of them being praised as "unusually promising screen artists".
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supported the family by working as a grocery clerk. Harriet completed her formal education in
Columbus, leaving school after the eighth grade, presumably to devote full time to an acting career. When and where she was introduced to performing in theatre remains uncertain; but by 1906, at the age of 13, the future film star was already acting in local stage productions such as
273:. After her high-profile role in that release, Ince fired her when she refused to leave Ford's company to work elsewhere at Bison. Ford, infuriated by her treatment, left Bison with his crew and players, including Cunard, to work for Universal Pictures. At Universal she continued throughout 1913 to co-star and collaborate with Ford in other two-reel shorts like
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filmmaking were women, it was still not common by the 1910s for a young actress with an eighth-grade education to write, perform in, direct, and edit films to the extent Cunard did, often doing all those duties on a single project. Totals vary in film references regarding the number of silent productions in which she worked. Her entry in the 2005 edition of
542:. Shortly after the release of that film, Universal underwent a change in leadership and administrative restructuring, which resulted in the studio discontinuing its program of serials and low-budget features. Cunard was 53 years old by that time, so after working nearly four decades in motion pictures, she decided to retire permanently from the industry.
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1811:"California Marriages, 1850-1952", certificate of marriage, Joseph Moore and Harriet Jeffries, January 17, 1917, Seal Beach, Orange County, California, California State Board of Health, Sacramento; digital image of original document, archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1217:, "'an overambitious press agent'" circulated in the media that she was born in Paris, France, no doubt in an attempt to make her personal history seem more “exotic" to film fans. Many examples of that fabricated part of her biography can be found in the media and studio directories, including in her entry in the
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one newspaper in 1915 reported that she had authored 400 scenarios, a highly implausible figure given the amount of time Cunard had worked in motion pictures by then. Whatever the true totals, news items and reviews of her completed films testify that her output was prodigious, especially between 1913 and 1918.
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Born in 1893, Harriet
Jeffries was the elder of two daughters of Ohio natives Washington and Lola (née Longshore) Jeffries. The federal census of 1900 documents that seven-year-old Harriet, her younger sister Armina (Mina), and their parents were still residing that year in Columbus, where Washington
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The spelling of
Curnard's middle name in her birth name varies in modern sources, being given as "Mildred" and in a few sources as "Milfred". Early official records clearly document it as Mildred, including her original 1912 certificate of marriage to Harry Harvey in Manhattan, New York. Her January
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Honestly, I hardly know how to answer you...I love acting and am awfully fond of writing, too. As to the directing, I have done a good deal of it and often put on a photoplay while Mr. Ford is cutting and assembling a picture, I believe that I best like it in the way I do it—that is occasionally. I
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credits her with starring in over 100 silent films, writing screenplays or treatments for 44 of those releases, and directing at least eight of them on her own and more in concert with Ford. Some period newspapers and trade publications credit her with writing between 150 and 200 "photoplays", while
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At the time Cunard started working in films, it was not uncommon for members on set and in post-production to assume a variety of additional duties beyond their primary assignments. Cunard was no exception. While it is now well documented that a significant number of the "pioneers" in early
American
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Records show that actor-director Harry Harvey was born in New York City on June 4, 1873, so he was just shy of 39 years old in 1912. On his and
Jeffries' (Cunard's) marriage certificate, however, he is listed as 36, which was due to either a deliberate misrepresentation on his part or his age was
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Grace Cunard before she started acting in films in 1908. According to Cunard, after one of her "stock engagements" a friend one evening at dinner dared her to try acting in "'canned drama'", a slang term used in the theatre community to describe motion pictures. She accepted the dare and "in the
188:. That article by staff writer Al Ray informs his readers, "Grace Cunard...when very young, begged for a stage life until her mother took her to a manager who gave her the title part in 'Dora Thorne.'" Her other early stage performances included traveling with stock companies to theatres in
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and "worked for a day's pay to see what it was like." She enjoyed the experience, so she pursued more film roles, which at first consisted of small uncredited parts. Over the next three years she was cast in better roles at
Biograph and at other studios located in New York, New Jersey, and
1321:"Twelfth Census of the United States: 1900," digital image of original census page, June 11–12, 1900, household of Washington Jeffries, Montgomery Township, Columbus City Ward 17, Franklin County, Ohio. Bureau of the Census; National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
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in one of its 13 episodes, but her presence in that production was deemed important enough by
Universal to include her name in a third-tier bold credit on the serial's theater posters. Her last screen appearance, one uncredited, is in the role of a woman with a baby in the 1946 drama
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Cunard was married three times. On April 30, 1912, in New York, at the age of 19, she married actor Harry Harvey, who was 20 years her senior. That marriage ended before 1917, although the reasons for its ending are not clearly documented. Her next marriage was to Irish-born actor
317:, announced, "One of the most interesting and thrilling moving pictures ever shown at the Regale theater, is that scheduled for today. Francis Ford has dramatized Grace Cunard's famous novel, 'She Wolf', and with Miss Cunard appears in the moving picture version of the story."
1820:"California County Marriages, 1850-1952", Frederick Lorenzo Tyler and Harriet M. Jeffries, September 1, 1925, Los Angeles, California State Board of Health, Sacramento; copy, archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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and film director. During the silent era, she starred in over 100 films, wrote or co-wrote at least 44 of those productions, and directed no fewer than eight of them. In addition, she edited many of her films, including some of the
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During 1920 and 1921, she had opportunities working with Marion H. Kohn
Productions of San Francisco to once again use the full range of her talents in a series of two-reel Westerns. She wrote, directed, and starred in
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Eastern companies, Cunard in 1912 moved to California to work in the rapidly expanding film industry there. She was initially hired by "fledgling producer"
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Cunard throughout the 1930s continued to act but the complexity of her roles steadily declined until she performed predominantly in minor or uncredited bit parts. In the 1940s she still secured work at
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late in 1913, was one in a series of films in that period that focused attention on Cunard's writing. Promoted as a "photoplay" about an evil woman, a "wrecker of men's hearts and reputations",
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who professionally used the name Jack Tyler Shannon. They remained married for over 40 years, until her death from cancer in 1967. At the time of her death, she was residing at the
180:. Much later, in 1916, the circumstances of Grace Cunard's (Harriet Jeffries') entry into acting are briefly discussed in "Before the Stars Shone", an article in the New York-based
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In some period publications as well in some modern references, the name of the San Francisco-based Marion H. Kohn Productions is incorrectly spelled "Cohn".
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inspired the Ford-Cunard partnership to release between their ongoing shorts three more serials for Universal over the next two years: the 22-episode
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and questioned the 22-year-old actress about the different tasks she had performed on film projects and which of those tasks she enjoyed most:
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In the United States Census of 1940, as to the question "Highest grade of school completed", the entry for Harriet M. Tyler is recorded "8".
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Cunard's collaboration with Ford continued into 1917, the same year she married for the second time, not to Ford but to the Irish-born actor
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1832:(1917) added to National Film Registry, United States Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
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in 1924, she was cast in fewer and fewer primary roles and was relegated to playing secondary characters for the remainder of the decade.
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series eventually grossed what was then a staggering return in ticket sales: $ 1,500,000 ($ 45,630,000 today). The financial success of
1752:, January 3, 1942, p. 21; Internet Archive. Also see cast listing and image of the noted theatrical poster with Grace Cunard credited,
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was released by Universal in 1920, but it was not new. It was a substantially cut reissue of the 1917 five-reeler of the same title.
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Historical Newspapers (Ann Arbor, Michigan), subscription access through The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.
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1798:"New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940", marriage certificate, Harry Harvey and Harriet Mildred Jeffries, April 30, 1912,
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1627:"Chats With The Players / Grace Cunard, of the Universal Company"
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1506:), Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
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1775:"International Pictures and the merger with Universal Pictures"
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In 1921 two films with almost identical titles were released:
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also cites her full birth name as "Harriet Mildred Jeffries".
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Cunard being restrained by fellow actor Harry Schumm in
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Pennsylvania. Some of those other companies included
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1369:, entry for Grace Cunard under "Actresses—Leads",
1580:"How Women Worked in the US Silent Film Industry"
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1447:. New York: Harper & Row, 1988, pp. 147-148.
1407:"Grace Cunard, 73, Silent-Film Star", obituary,
208:It is likely that Harriet was already using her
1603:, June 1916, pp. 46-47. Retrieved May, 6, 2020.
1283:, the two-reel short directed by Grace Cunard.
628:, which she directed and starred in, in 1921.
1764:, Seattle, Washington. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
1748:"No Blackout in Shorts Production Activity",
1533:Wood, Thomas. "The Sad State of the Serial",
1305:Bean, Jennifer M. "Cunard, Grace ", entry in
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1428:"How I Became a Photoplayer / Grace Cunard"
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368:The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring
1945:Deaths from cancer in California
1718:for Marion H. Kohn Productions,
1474:John Ford: The Man and His Films
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1520:"AMUSEMENTS: The Regale",
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1631:Motion Picture Magazine
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1385:"Miss Grace Cunard"
1372:Motion Picture News
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1064:Rustlers of Red Dog
1048:The Fourth Horseman
1040:Resurrection (film)
872:Society's Driftwood
790:The Mysterious Rose
713:From Dawn Till Dark
700:Custer's Last Fight
279:From Dawn Till Dark
270:Custer's Last Fight
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178:Princess of Patches
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1443:Alleman, Richard.
1409:The New York Times
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1032:A Lady Surrenders
1008:A Trick of Hearts
1000:The Price of Fear
797:Smuggler's Island
719:The White Vaquero
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