Mary Grace Borel

Mary Grace Borel Shumate Marshal Sweet Paxton (October 31, 1915 – May 18, 1998) was an American socialite and film actress.

[2][3] Her paternal grandfather, Antoine Borel, was a prominent San Francisco banker and consul general of Switzerland.

A debutante ball with 400 invited guests in honor of her father's sisters, Alice and Grace, was reported in an 1898 newspaper article.

[4] Mary Grace's own family's doings were often written up in the local society pages, as for example a news item about Mary Grace's eighth birthday party in 1923,[5] her family's summer vacation plans after their return from Europe in 1927,[6] and her participation in the annual Horse Show and Race Meet of the Gymkhana Club of San Mateo and her sister's own blue-ribbon-winning horse.

[12] Borel moved to Los Angeles, where she met Australian-born Hollywood film actor Alan Marshal.

[15] Borel married for the third time in July 1958 to Clyde Robert Sweet, an interior decorator from Lafayette.

[15][17] In 1963 it was reported that that marriage, too, had ended in divorce and that Borel was remarried to her fourth husband, Peter V. Paxton, a Los Angeles insurance broker.