Grace Elliston

{{Infobox person |name = Grace Elliston |image = Stage actress Grace Elliston (SAYRE 23990).jpg |caption = Elliston in 1902 |birth_name = Grace Rutter<ref name=":0" /> |birth_date = {{birth year|1878}}<ref name="a">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSIhzKnNUf4C|title=Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins, 5th Ed.|page=163|first=Adrian|last=Room|publisher=McFarland|date=January 10, 2014|isbn=9780786457632|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="b">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/grace-elliston-39501|title=Grace Elliston|work=Internet Broadway Database|access-date=January 22, 2022}}</ref><ref name="e">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iqIYAQAAIAAJ|title=Silent Film Necrology|page=156|first=Eugene|last=Vazzana|publisher=McFarland|date=2001|isbn=9780786410590|via=Google Books}}</ref><br>{{birth year|1881}}<ref name="c">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ftQEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA204|title=The Oxford Companion to American Theatre|page=204|first1=Gerald|last1=Bordman|first2=Thomas|last2=Hischak|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=May 6, 2004|isbn=9780199771158|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="d">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eKQYAAAAIAAJ|title=The New International Year Book|page=389|first=Frank|last=Colby|publisher=Dodd, Mead and Company|date=1950|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="f">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i41_AwAAQBAJ|title=One Hundred Years of Service Through Community: A Gould Farm Reader|page=14|first1=Steve|last1=Smith|first2=Terry|last2=Beitzel|publisher=UPA|date=April 28, 2014|isbn=9780761863489|via=Google Books}}</ref> |birth_place = Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1950|12|14|1878}}<br>{{death date and age|1950|12|14|1881}} |death_place = Lenox, Massachusetts, U.S. |occupation = Theatre actress |years_active = 1899–1922 }}

'''Grace Ellliston''' (1878<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=American national biography online|date=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|others=Mark C. Carnes, American Council of Learned Societies|isbn=978-0-19-860669-7|location=[New York]|oclc=1003238948}}</ref><ref name="a" /><ref name="b" /><ref name="e" /> or 1881<ref name="c" /><ref name="d" /><ref name="f" /> – December 14, 1950)<ref name="g">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1950/12/15/archives/grace-elliston-stage-star-dies-retired-actress-72-appeared-in-plays.html|title=Grace Elliston, Stage Star, Dies; Retired Actress, 72, Appeared in Plays Here With Many Noted Performers|work=The New York Times|date=December 15, 1950|access-date=January 22, 2022}}</ref> was an American theatre actress.<ref name="grace" />

Elliston was born '''Grace Rutter<ref name="e" /><ref name=":0" />''' in Memphis, Tennessee.<ref name="grace" /><ref name="b" /> In 1899, she appeared in the Broadway play ''Wheels Within Wheels''.<ref name="b" /> Her Broadway appearances included ''The Country Cousin'',<ref name="bde090417">{{cite news |title=Roosevelt Critic Of This New Play |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=September 4, 1917 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=10 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''The Shadow'', ''Arizona'', ''The Rector's Garden'', ''The Helmet of Navarre'', ''Her Husband's Wife'', ''Ourselves'', ''The Lion and the Mouse'' and ''A Blot in the 'Scutcheon'', among others.<ref name="b" /> Her final Broadway credit was ''The Lucky One'' in 1922.<ref name="b" />

Elliston died in December 1950 at the Crestwood Nursing Home in Lenox, Massachusetts.<ref name="g" /><ref name="grace">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92942964/miss-grace-elliston-actress-of-1880s/|title=Miss Grace Elliston, Actress of 1880's, Dies|work=Richmond Times-Dispatch|location=Richmond, Virginia|date=December 15, 1950|access-date=January 22, 2022|page=8|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}</ref> She was cremated.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92942887/elliston-will-leaves-residue-to-actors/|title=Elliston Will Leaves Residue To Actors' Fund|work=The Berkshire Eagle|location=Pittsfield, Massachusetts|date=January 11, 1951|access-date=January 22, 2022|page=6|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}</ref>

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