Ethel Grist

Biography

Ethel May Grist was born circa 1879 in Melbourne, Australia, and died in Jun. 1959, in Perth, Western Australia. She married Francis Xavier Cullenane on Jun. 29th 1905, in South Melbourne, Australia. Francis was an actor, casting agent and stage manager who had a small role in the 1906, film 'Ned Kelly' - which was the first feature length movie ever produced. Although she had been on the stage from very young age, after her husband Francis died in 1919, she left the theatre/film industry, remarried and never performed again.