Grace Henderson

Grace C. F. Roth Henderson (January 1860 – October 30, 1944) was an American stage actress and prolific performer in silent motion pictures.

Her father William (Wilhelm) F. was a justice of the peace born in Stuttgart in 1823, who died on April 19, 1871, in Ann Arbor.

In 1903, in rehearsals for the Broadway production of My Wife's Husband, Henderson refused to act with a black player, Moses Fairfax, who had a significant part.

George Ballantine, Grace's Parisian companion, wed Minnie Howe Parry on August 28, 1896, at the Waldorf.

[5] Grace allegedly had an affair with actor Maurice Barrymore in the late 1880s and bore a son who was mentally unstable or deficient.

The son was confined to institutions and was virtually unknown to outside sources until Grace started appearing in early movies and devoting a lot of her salary to his upkeep.

left to right: Tallulah Bankhead , Tom Moore and Grace Henderson in Thirty a Week (1918).