Grace Livingston Furniss
Grace Livingston Furniss was an American playwright.
Grace Livingston Furniss was born on March 15, 1864 in Bayonne. She was the daughter of author William Furniss and Louise Furniss.
She collaborated with Abby Sage Richardson on a number of plays, including The Pride of Jennico, an adaptation of the novel by Agnes Castle and Egerton Castle. Directed by Edward E. Rose, it premiered at the Criterion Theatre on March 6, 1900 and ran for 143 performances. James K. Hackett played Basil Jennico, a Bohemian nobleman who marries a princess after some machinations including identity switching, royal plotting, and a gypsy.
Her play The Man on the Box premiered at Hoyt's Theatre on October 3, 1905 and ran for 111 performances. Based on the novel by Harold McGrath, Henry E. Dixey plays a lieutenant on leave who pretends to be a coachman, but picks up the wrong woman. The couple ends up together after a series of melodramatic misadventures.
Two of her plays were adapted into films: The Pride of Jennico and Gretna Green. She was also writer of the short film On With the Dance.
Grace Livingston Furniss died at the Colly Convalescent Home in Rye, New York on April 20, 1938,