Acting

Grace Lenard

Born — Died

1913-11-26 — 1987-04-07

Place of birth

Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 6 titles

1940s · 10 titles

Honolulu Lu poster
5.8

While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.

Honolulu Lu

1941

They Knew What They Wanted poster
6.0

While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.

They Knew What They Wanted

1940

Secrets of a Model poster
8.0

Pretty girl in need of money for her dying mom's operation poses for a sculpture.

Secrets of a Model

1940

Paris Calling poster
6.0

Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...

Paris Calling

1941

Girls of the Road poster
5.4

The story of an eclectic group of women - tramps, ne'er-do-wells, innocents, fugitives, the once-priviledged, and all down-trodden - either running from or toward something, but who find they must support each other as they hitch-hike their way across Great Depression-era America in search of an increasingly elusive decent life.

Girls of the Road

1940

Millionaires in Prison poster
6.1

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.

Millionaires in Prison

1940

Dangerous Blondes poster
6.3

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.

Dangerous Blondes

1943

Broadway poster
6.4

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.

Broadway

1942

The Silver Bullet poster
6.0

A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible.

The Silver Bullet

1942

Off Again, On Again poster
7.3

Good samaritan Shemp rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking Shemp. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that Shemp and the girl are lovers. This doesn't sit well with Shemp's fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend (Dick Curtis) to kill him. When Shemp's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off the hit.

Off Again, On Again

1945