page_title: Valentine Grant
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Valentine Grant / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: 1916 --- 1916- Picture shows the parting benediction scene from the movie, "The Innocent Lie". Left to right; Jack J. Clark, Valentine Grant and Sidney Olcott. --- Image by© Bettmann/CORBIS
context_page_description: Valentine Grant was an American silent film actress.
context_section_description: Grant was a singer who studied music in New York, hoping to sing grand opera. She performed musically on a tour of the western United States until health problems forced her to cease singing.
  Grant became the companion of film director Sidney Olcott who cast her in his 1915 production of Nan O' the Backwoods. She had been part of the crew that went to film in Ireland, films released in 1915 she starred in All For Old Ireland, Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr and The Irish in America.
  Grant also appeared in several films for other companies such as Lubin Studios in Philadelphia and for Famous Players-Lasky. In 1914, she married Olcott, with whom she would remain for the rest of her life, and after he left Kalem she performed in a few films for his production company before retiring in 1918.
  Grant died in 1949 a few months before her husband. She is buried in Cypress View Mausoleum and Crematory, San Diego, California.
caption: Valentine with Jack J. Clark (left) and Sidney Olcott in The Innocent Lie (1916)
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