Grace Bradley married Hopalong Cassidy in 1937 - but that happy day was still a few years off. Her career was just taking off in ’33, and she’d have a 10-year run, including “The Big Broadcast of 1938.” Her Wikipedia entry, which has the sound of something written by a friend - says:
. . . since she shared such a strong union with her husband she still continued to do things to help keep Boyd's memory alive. Although she never bore children she considered all the children who enjoyed her husband's work as Hopalong Cassidy to be like her children. She also endured years of fighting for the legal rights to her late husband's sixty-six "Hopalong Cassidy" features. With her acting career behind her she devoted her time to a lot of volunteer work at the Laguna Beach Hospital where her husband had spent his final days.
She died in September of 2010 at the age of 97.
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