Grace Moore

Grace Moore died in a plane crash in Copenhagen Airport on January 26, 1947. Among the victims was also Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden, father of the present Swedish king, Carl XVI Gustaf.
. Moore's life story was made into a movie, So This is Love, in 1953, starring Kathryn Grayson. She appeared in only three films during the last thirty years of her life making her final film appearance in 1965. She was at one point chosen by Florenz Ziegfeld as one of the most beautiful women in the world. With the outbreak of World War II, Parlo returned to Germany. Born in Slabtown, Tennessee, she won fame as an opera, Broadway and Hollywood star, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1935 for One Night of Love. She was scheduled to appear in the Orson Welles production of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness but this did not eventuate.

Mary Willie Grace Moore (December 5, 1898 - January 26, 1947) was an American operatic soprano and actress. She attempted to establish a career in American films but despite a couple of roles in Hollywood films, was unable to extend her European success. During the 1930s she moved easily between German and French language films, achieving success in such films as L'Atalante (1934) and La Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion) (1937). Born Grethe Gerda Kornstädt in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) Parlo made her first film appearance in 1928 and quickly became a popular actress in Germany. Dita Parlo (September 4, 1906 - December 13, 1971) was a film actress.

". Its title track commences with the line "My name is Dita, I'll be your mistress tonight.. Madonna, said to have been fascinated by Parlo, took her name for the character she created for her Sex book and Erotica album.