Grace Stevens

Biography

A brisk Lake Michigan wind greeted Grace Stevens in 1875, the day she first opened her eyes in Chicago. Twenty-one years later that same determination carried her onto dimly lit stages, and by 1916 she was stepping into Life’s Shadows, flickering her name across the nation’s new silver dream-screens. She slipped effortlessly between deception and devotion, first beguiling audiences as The Fair Pretender (1918) and then dazzling them again in T'Other Dear Charmer that same whirlwind year, sealing her brief but unforgettable mark on silent-era cinema.