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Daily Record
Grace is top bride.(News)
Article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) Article date: February 5, 2007 More results for: grace kelly
HOLLYWOOD icon Grace Kelly's wedding outfit has been named the most stylish of all time.

Her lace dress for her 1956 marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco topped magazine Brides' top 50.

Incredibly, Jordan's 2005 Barbie-style creation was in eighth place.

Nicole Kidman's oneshouldered gown from last June came second, a head of Jackie Kennedy's 1953 outfit.

 

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Harper's Bazaar
Jackie, Audrey and Grace would all be 75 this year: ... and never has their fashion influence been so evident as in this season's collections. Chameleonlike Jennifer Jason Leigh explains her fascination with these style icons and pays tribute to her fellow actresses Audrey and Grace.(Style Icons)
Article from: Harper's Bazaar Article date: February 1, 2004 Author: Tapert, Annette More results for: grace kelly
In 1929, a strange and remarkable alignment of stars in the fashion firmament led to the birth of three of the 20th century's most important style arbiters: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly. Each woman added a new vocabulary to our style vernacular, and their innate fashion sense continues to influence what we consider elegant, glamorous and original.

Just ask Jennifer Jason Leigh, one of their acolytes, whose knowledge of these women is appropriately vast. "So much of contemporary fashion has been influenced by them," she says, cataloging a list of items in her own closet inspired by the chic trio. "I love the idea of being made to look like them," she continues. On the following pages, Jennifer assumes the styles of her Hollywood predecessors Audrey and Grace. "And I've been so influenced by Jackie's style as well. When you think of her, you can always conjure a specific picture in your mind of what she's wearing," says Jennifer, referring to the unadorned cloth coats, low-heeled pumps, shift dresses and spare, elegant lines of the suits and gowns that Jackie brought to mainstream America. A decade after her death, her influence is still showing up on the runways: Oscar de la Renta reinvented her full-skirted dresses with the bowcinched waists; Michael Kors at Celine showed her classic oversize
sunglasses paired with a head scarf; and her signature color palette of icy pink, yellow, blue and green was used in the spring collections of Valentino and Versace.

More than any other first lady, Jackie possessed the charisma and photogenic qualities of a movie star, marking a departure from matronly forerunners like Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower. How fitting for the young woman whose Miss Porter's School yearbook entry declared that her life ambition was "not to be a housewife." When Jackie moved into the White House in 1961, she looked like anything but a housewife, wearing significant jewelry and fur coats and changing her hairdo according to whim and occasion--French twists, bouffant bobs, chignons, even wigs.

Jackie's atypical good looks stood in stark contrast to the era's pervasive ideas of beauty: Her eyes were set a little too far apart, her teeth crooked, her face too wide, her feet size 10; everything about her was larger than life and slightly out of proportion. Crucial to Jackie's style legacy was her ability to edit and cultivate her attributes--assets and flaws alike. She hid her imperfect teeth with a demure smile and she chose her clothing (favoring Givenchy, she had American-made incarnations of his designs created by Oleg Cassini during her tenure as first lady) in order to maximize what she thought was a less-than-ideal body. She was ultimately so successful in her efforts that the 1962 Miss America publicly lamented, "If only I looked like Jackie." But Jackie wasn't the only role model influencing women of her day, and the first lady herself cited Audrey Hepburn as a major inspiration.

 

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Sunday Gazette
The Sunday Book Club: Story of Grace and Rainier is no simple fairy tale
Article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail Article date: June 8, 2003 Author: Regina C. Davis More results for: grace kelly
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I HAVE a confession to make: I love reading about the glamorous, exciting lives of celebrities. People magazine, Eonline's "The Awful Truth" and the occasional Globe or Star (usually while at my hairdresser's, where no one can see me) - yes, it's one of many guilty pleasures.

That's one of the reasons why when it came time to choose the Sunday Book Club's summer reading titles, this month's selection, "Once Upon a Time: Behind the Fairy Tale of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier" by J. Randy Taraborrelli, immediately caught my eye.

I received several notable suggestions. There certainly is no shortage of interesting biographies on the best-sellers lists lately, including books by former first lady and now Sen. Hillary Clinton and Jordan's Queen Noor.

But this is summer after all, and I wanted something fun yet refined, something a little more glamorous. Enter Taraborrelli's biography of Monaco's most famous royal couple.

Taraborelli, who also wrote a well-received biography of the Kennedy women, "Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot," has written an intriguing and lengthy profile of a marriage that made headlines all over the world for decades. After all, what could be more romantic than the marriage of a beautiful American movie star to the handsome prince of a wealthy, exclusive principality?

TARABORRELLI begins his book by delving into the unique - and often nasty - family dynamics that influenced the early years of both Grace and Rainier. As someone only vaguely familiar with this story, it was interesting to learn that Grace Kelly, the unruffled, sophisticated and classic movie star, was deeply hurt and often driven by her father's constant disapproval.

In fact, many of the friends and family members Taraborrelli refers to in the book felt that Grace's main motivation for accepting Rainer's marriage proposal was the attention it garnered from her father.

Rainier is at least as intriguing as Grace. It's easy to understand America's fascination with the life of one of our most respected film stars. But on this side of the Atlantic at least, Rainier's story always seems to take second stage. Taraborrelli's portrait of Rainier reveals a complex man deeply committed to his country, and an individual who in real life was not the dashing fairy- tale prince he is often made out to be.

Taraborrelli's book is also an interesting lesson on history and politics, as each played a significant part in how the marriage came about. The government of Monaco and the laws that dictated Rainier's decisions with regard to his personal life are little known parts of the story.

For example, according to a centuries-old treaty with France, Monaco is actually considered a self-governing principality and not an actual country, with the provision that if any of its rulers fail to produce an heir, control will revert back to France.

So it was imperative that Rainier marry. At the time of his proposal, Grace Kelly was only one of several names being considered. During their courtship, doctors also had to verify that Grace was capable of giving birth to an heir to the throne.

And then there was the small matter of a $2 million dowry.

Needless to say, part of what makes this book so hard to put down are the many twists to the tale and the little details many readers might not be familiar with.

Despite its length (432 pages), Taraborrelli's book is an easy read - he has a talent for explaining complex affairs of state or family relationships in a way that's interesting and easy to follow. Grace's death in a 1982 car accident and the turbulent and often scandalous lives of her children and Rainier's life in the years since add tragedy to the romance.

It's one of those rare books that are truly hard to put down.

Excerpt from 'Once Upon a Time' Grace learned early on that Rainier wasnt the easiest person to live with. She came from a world in which she usually got her way; she had been a pampered Hollywood star, after all. However, at the Palace, she found herself playing the most subservient role of her life, spouse to a man who was not only ruler of a principality, but also of a palace, his home much like her father had been in his house. In his view, he was never wrong, again like Jack Kelly. If a dinner party went on too long, he would sometimes fall asleep at the table. Once, the Prince and Princess were entertaining the elderly Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, often referred to as Queen Ena, who was also Prince Alberts godmother. As the Queen who was the mother of the Spanish pretender Don Juan told a long story about how she was almost assassinated on her wedding day in Madrid in 1906, Princess Grace tried to act captivated. She hoped to keep the Queens
eyes on her because, seated right next to the Queen was Rainier, sound asleep. Later, when Grace challenged Rainier about it, he defended himself by saying that he and Grace had heard Enas big story a dozen times, and I can sleep anywhere I wish, because its my Palace. He would blow up. Oh boy, would he ever! said Graces sister Lizanne good-naturedly. Now that was something to see.

 

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Daily Mail
Revealed: the family album of Grace Kelly; Wedding of the century: MGM released Grace from her contract in return for the film rights True beauty: Glamorous off screen too Revealing: Sketches on display.
Article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) Article date: July 10, 2007 More results for: grace kelly
Byline: HELEN BRUCE

SCREEN idol Grace Kelly captured hearts worldwide with her stunningbeauty and fairytale marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco.

Her every movement and word on the silver screen of Hollywood was captured forever, and watched by millions.

But her life after quitting movies for the prince has been shrouded in mystery.

Her family jealously guarded many of their memories and her personalpossessions.

They deemed her home videos, family photographs and treasured items to be 'tooraw' for her doting public, who had been shocked and saddened by her untimelydeath.

But now, on the 25th anniversary of that tragic car crash in the mountains ofMonaco, the palace has opened up its archives for a major retrospectiveexhibition of her life and work.

From Thursday, visitors to Monaco's Grimaldi Forum will see a fascinatingrecord laid bare of an American-Irish Catholic girl whose acting and romanceswould make her a legend.

Among the items to be shown is the film of Grace's wedding, made by MGM. Theactress's recording studio made the filming of what they believed would be thewedding of the century a condition of her release from her film contract.

The video recording from April 19, 1956 was the last time her legion of fanssaw her appear as the quintessential film starlet.

Also on show in Monaco is the wedding dress she wore for this life changingevent, made from 125-year- old Brussels lace and 100 yards of silk taffeta.

The collection will also include a host of revelatory video recordings thatshow a relaxed Grace as a mother and wife, and grainy behind-the- scenesfootage she took after her friend, the director Alfred Hitchcock, taught herhow to use a camera.

Some home videos feature her reading a map to her children, Princesses Carolineand Stephanie and Prince Albert, while her husband drives the car on a familyholiday.

The material reveals her to be an avid letter writer, whose personalcorrespondence included letters from Hitchcock planning visits to Monaco, andfrom Jackie Kennedy, thanking Kelly for her support in her husband's politicalcampaign.

Grace was 52 when she died, having apparently suffered a stroke that led her toveer off the road and plunge down the mountainside.

The Philadelphia-born actress had managed to visit Ireland with her husband,including a stay in Killarney.

The exhibition's curator, Frederic Mitterrand, the nephew of former Frenchpresident FranAois Mitterrand, said her story was being told with honesty.

'I am addressing this experience with the greatest candour. I think we all havean idea of what a wonderful person Princess Grace was, but at the same timethat idea has been frozen for 25 years and is limited to a few powerful,beautiful, moving images that perhaps do not sufficiently express her diverseand complex personality,' he said.

'The paramount idea behind this exhibition is to illustrate the bestknownfacets of her life, but also to show all the parts of it we no longer thinkabout but that make her even more engaging and human.' Prince Albert II ofMonaco added that the show would 'revive happy memories we shared with ourmother'.

'This is a very emotional and proud moment for me, knowing that a tribute isbeing paid to our mother,' he said.

During a recent interview, Albert, 49, now in charge of the principality,reflected on the sudden death of his mother. 'It's obvious that it wasdifficult for all of us,' the prince said. 'It took me a while to get over itand try to help my family, help my father as much as possible.' Albert said theexhibition was a chance to tell Grace's story their own way - before someoneelse tried to do it for them.

He and his sisters selected hundreds of items from among Grace's possessionsfor display.

The Grace Kelly Years will continue until September 23 in the Grimaldi Forum.Some of her belongings will then be auctioned at Sotheby's in New York City inOctober. Proceeds will go to her foundation, which helps young artists intheatre, film and dance.

 

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Evening Standard
Why Hollywood is still obsessed with Grace Kelly.
Article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Article date: May 30, 2002 Author: Leigh, Wendy More results for: grace kelly
Byline: WENDY LEIGH

A STEAMY May morning in Monte Carlo and Princess Grace of Monaco's best friend is being interviewed by an American television network about her.

Since Grace died in a car crash almost 20 years ago, Jean Van Remoortel - a restaurant owner of indeterminate age - has given almost 600 interviews about her. "Honey," she says in her Texan accent, "I just know that they keep on coming, asking me about her, getting me to tell them her story."

Grace's life story - beautiful Irish Catholic rich girl from the wrong side of the tracks cultivates an aristocratic air, becomes a Hollywood star, then gives it all up to marry a prince - may be a Cinderella saga of mythic proportions, but it is as a screen icon, a style icon and as a woman that Grace continues to fascinate.

With the re-release tomorrow of High Society - Grace's swan song before she retired from Hollywood and married Rainier - a new generation is being introduced to the last of the legendary Hollywood goddesses.

Ironically, High Society, a 1956 musical version of The Philadelphia Story, is not her best film (Rear Window and To Catch a Thief compete to qualify). However, her performance as wilful heiress Tracy Lord, torn between two lovers - Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby - highlights exactly why Grace Kelly remains relevant today, and shows what current so-called stars, pretenders to her throne, could learn from her.

In it she plays a glamorous, independent woman. Hitchcock, who was enthralled by the hint of unbridled passion simmering under her regal facade, dubbed her "a snow-covered volcano".

There is no nudity, no overt eroticism, in High Society, but Grace's ladylike performance exudes sexuality.

It is generally thought that audiences are influenced by TV or film love scenes, often imitating onscreen lovers. For a blueprint of how to project sexual desire, look no further than the High Society scene in which Sinatra sings You're Sensational, to Grace and note the veiled lust in her eyes, her sensuous body language, the invitation in her voice. Or watch her slow-motion kiss with Jimmy Stewart in, Rear Window.

Or the picnic scene in To Catch a Thief, The secret of Grace's onscreen sexuality is that, for the most part, she was playing herself. Like Hepburn, Dietrich, Garbo and Bette Davis, Grace gave audiences what they wanted - a consistent screen image to which they could return again and again.

Her onscreen mix of fire and ice worked - simply because it was real offscreen as well. She managed to put it about royally, yet was always discreet. In her private life, she projected an aura of wholesome purity, yet was wildly promiscuous. Her lovers included John Kennedy, the Shah of Iran, Clark Gable, Ray Milland and William Holden.

"Grace had more lovers in a month than I did in a lifetime," says Zsa Zsa Gabor, herself no slouch in the bedroom.

Since the Fifties, Grace's onscreen sexual aura has spawned countless imitators, none of whom made the grade.

Loren and Lollobrigida scorched with Latin sexuality, but Grace's more subtle brand of sex appeal proved more enduring.

Faye Dunaway imitated her cool blonde languor in The Thomas Crown Affair, but her sleek elegance was overshadowed by a feline sexuality tinged with vulgarity. Sharon Stone made a bid at besting the classy actress in Basic Instincts, even using Grace's trademark HermEs scarf to tie up her lovers.

Ultimately, though, she lacked Grace's charm and breeding. Another ersatz Grace, Gwyneth Paltrow, tried to rival her glamour in A Perfect Murder - a remake of Dial M For Murder - but merely succeeded in being tissue-pale, wafer thin and profoundly uninteresting.

Had Grace lived, her image would still be everywhere today. She would have continued to outshine all her imitators. Instead, she died in a mysterious Monaco car accident at 52, yet she remains a film goddess and a style icon who has never gone out of fashion.

For the ultimate perspective on Grace's enduring appeal, Brief Encounter producer Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan, who had a 10-day romance with her while she was in London in 1953, says: "She was very beautiful, with wonderful skin, a wonderful figure and a very attractive speaking voice. She was tough, though, no shrinking violet. She was in control of her image. Every actress has tried to imitate her, but none of them ever comes close. There will never be another Grace."

 

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The Mirror
Heirs and Graces of tragic princess; LAST NIGHT'S VIEW.(Features)
Article from: The Mirror (London, England) Article date: October 15, 1997 Author: Purnell, Tony More results for: grace kelly
It is not only gentlemen who prefer blondes. It seems royals do too.

Prince Rainier put Marilyn Monroe on top of his list when he went shopping for a bride.

She was just a night of passion away from becoming Princess Marilyn of Monaco according to Network First (ITV).

A delegation met the Hollywood sex symbol and discussed the possibility of her marrying Rainier.

The dumb blonde had never heard of Monaco: "Where's that?" she asked.

But her next questions were wise enough: "Is he good looking?" swiftly followed by "Is he rich?"

Having totted up the Grimaldi millions she flashed her famous smile: "Just give me one night with him and he will want me," she confided.

Sadly for the grasping sex goddess Rainier's personal chaplain supported Hollywood rival Grace Kelly who was considered a safer bet.

When the star of High Society announced her engagement the movie world was stunned.

They couldn't believe she was giving up a glittering career to play princess in a tiny out of the way place.

The fascinating documentary on the Grimaldi Dynasty showed how the fairytale turned sour.

In fact, there were remarkable similarities between the lives of Princess Grace and the Princess of Wales.

Grace, who died in a car crash in 1982, came up against the same sort of problems Diana was to suffer.

She did not get on with her mother-in-law and suffered a great deal of hostility from the palace staff who looked down their noses at her.

But the thing that most got her down was... the paparazzi.

Prince Rainier wanted publicity for the principality but not at the expense of his privacy.

He called in a Hollywood PR guru in a bid to protect his family from the telephoto lenses.

"We must be able to draw a line and live like human beings," said the prince.

But press interest in the royal children quickly got out of hand.

Princess Grace revealed that for two years her daughter Stephanie was forced to go to gym classes in the boot of a car, while her eldest daughter Caroline was pursued everywhere she went.

"She has felt very much like a hunted animal," said Princess Grace.

Earl Spencer said much the same thing about Diana when he spoke at his sister's funeral all those years later.

MICHAEL Fish will never be allowed to forget the time he dismissed talk of a hurricane - hours before 110mph winds hit Britain.

His words came back to haunt him in The Great Storm (BBC1) which marked the tenth anniversary of the disaster.

Michael Buerk, who reported the news of the devastation on TV the next day, hosted the 999 special on some of the lucky escapes.

Firemen risked their lives to free a trapped student as a giant chimney tottered dangerously above them, while a milkman missed death by seconds when a tree crashed on to his float.

A woman who gave birth after struggling home in the high winds had no problem picking a name.

She called the baby Gayle.

 

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Seattle Post Intelligencer
IMMORTAL ICONS ALL: DI, GRACE, MARILYN.(Editorial)
Article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Article date: September 2, 1997 More results for: grace kelly
The untimely death of Diana, Princess of Wales, lifts her to the status of other icons such as John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean whose immortality was assured by the tragic circumstances of their deaths.

Soon after her death people were making comparisons to the shock of the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, when such was the impact that it is said everyone can remember where they were at the time they heard the news.

But to invade the public consciousness in such a way, an icon must have been a dazzling and controversial character, who was thought to enhance others' lives in some way - and then had their life cut short with much left unfinished. After that myths grow up, surrounding their lives and the way they died.

In her hold on public consciousness perhaps the figures that Diana most closely resembles are two women: Marilyn Monroe and Princess Grace of Monaco.

Like Diana, Marilyn Monroe was just 36 when she died, in 1962. She too was beautiful, much-photographed, controversial and, at times, intensely unhappy.

She had a difficult childhood resented publicity and yet often craved it. Her life, like Diana's, was a constant search for love although while Diana made one unhappy marriage, Monroe made several.

And like Diana, Marilyn stirred deep emotions. No one remained neutral about her. She was both much-loved and much-loathed.

Princess Grace was another ``fairy-tale'' princess who also died in a car crash 15 years ago. As Grace Kelly, she had been a world famous beauty before she married Prince Rainier of Monaco and she continued to hold the world's media in thrall.

But like Diana, the marriage between royalty and commoner was not a happy one.

While Diana battled depression and bulimia, Grace was often portrayed as a heavy drinker who, in her final years, sought comfort in the arms of younger men.

On Sept. 13, 1982, Princess Grace and her daughter Stephanie were three miles from the French border with Monaco when their metallic green Rover plunged off the mountainside at a bend.

The car, driven by Princess Grace, shot over the low barrier at the side of the road, turning over and over before coming to rest on a nursery slope 120 feet below. Princess Stephanie had slight bruising but Princess Grace later died of her injuries in a hospital.

Many icons have been seen as outsiders - when the 1950's film star James Dean was killed in a car crash in 1955, he had captured the fancy of many young people with films such as ``Rebel Without a Cause'' - only for his life to end at the age of 24. Fifteen years later another generation was shocked by the death of rock star Jimi Hendrix from a drugs overdose. He was just 27.

In 1980, the former Beatle John Lennon was murdered in New York at the age of 40 by Mark David Chapman. Three years before, the King of rock 'n' roll, Elvis Presley, had died at the age of 42.

Copyright 1997 The Independent, London. Distributed by New York Times Special Features.

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