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Thank you! I am glad someone appreciates my pics! I thought no one even noticed them anymore.
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The older pics of Grace remind me of Catherine Deneuve
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It is a celery stick, Kelli Ann.
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my pleasure! the scans are from a book, here is the link http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679418032/104-3429371-0009515?v=glance&n=283155
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no problemparty_vixen said:Ah thankyou.
you can also find alot of the pictures in the book already posted in this thread because they were featured in that LIFE magazine special edition on Grace that came out last yearEDIT: yes it was the wonderful unipine that scanned them... post #394 and #395
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The Grace Kelly Years - Princess of Monaco', is the first ever organized and provides an intimate and intriguing glimpse of the Hollywood actress from Philadelphia who became a fairytale princess and made Monte Carlo synonymous with glamour and style.
In the 1920's, Somerset Maugham wrote:"Monaco is a sunny place for shady people". That was all to change the day Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco on April 19,1956, in what was called the "Wedding of the Century", wearing a bridal gown designed by Helen Rose, of MGM studios.
The wedding dress is one of the focal points of the exhibition and has returned to Monaco for the first time since the marriage, having previously been donated to the Museum of Philadelphia by Princess Grace.
Curated by Frédéric Mitterand, a nephew of the former French president, and designed by Nathalie Crinière, both of whom had unparalleled access both to the archives of Princess Grace herself and to those of the Grimaldi family, as well as close co-operation from Prince Albert and the Princesses Caroline and Stephanie, the exhibition has been two years in the making.
It is divided into a series of different 'rooms', each of which focuses on aspects of her life, from the artificial lighting of Hollywood's great movie sets to the sun-drenched landscapes of Monaco.
The Hollywood Room, for example, is conceived as a vast movie set featuring posters, film stills, trailers and excerpts from the 11 movies she made in just five years, including High Noon, High Society and The Country Girl (for which she won a best Actress Oscar) and leads into The Hitchcock Room, dedicated to the thrillers she made with Alfred Hitchcock, such as Rear Window, Spellbound and Dial M for Murder.
The Ball Room documents her revival of Monaco's famous Red Cross and Rose Balls and features gorgeous gowns designed by the very best haute couture ateliers of the day including Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Givenchy, Lanvin and Yves Saint Laurent.
Display cases document her love of hats - especially flower creations, cloches and turbans by Jean Barthet and the Monagasque milliner Alice Delimel - as well as her predilection for funny, outsize sunglasses and spectacles.
Her most famous accessory, the 'Kelly' bag, by Hermès, which became a cult which endures to this day, after Princess Grace was pictured carrying one on the cover of an American magazine in 1958, occupies an entire wall of exhibits. Her everyday, weekend and holiday clothes are shown, in wardrobe situations, matched with the shoes which went with each outfit.
Apparently, Princess Grace kept everything in museum condition, bagged and labelled - a boon to the curator and designer. Other areas show a mock-up of her dressing table and office. She also kept a treasure trove of letters, billets-doux and MGM contracts, all of which are on display.
There are the passionate telegrams and handwritten notes in which Prince Rainier declared his love to her before their wedding, countless thank-you notes and chatty letters from close, personal friends including the likes of Bing Crosby, Richard Burton, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Greta Garbo, David Niven, Margot Fonteyn, Bob Hope, Cary Grant and Joan Crawford, some handwritten to 'Dear Gracie' or Dearest Graceling", as well as many from Hitchcock signed simply 'Hitch'.
Other rooms demonstrate her close involvement with the ballet and the arts, her love of flower paintings and poetry, her devotion to humanitarian causes and, of course, the Princess Grace Foundation which she established for children.
Home movies, family snapshots and toys emphasise the close family life the Rainiers enjoyed aware from the public spotlight. "It is a very emotional and indeed proud moment for me, knowing that a tribute is being paid to our mother, Princess Grace, on the 25th anniversary of her demise," Prince Albert said. "For the first time, in Monaco, this exhibition is to present personal effects and belongings that for my sisters and myself revive happy memories we shared with our mother, who was a peerless woman."
"The Princesses and I have been keen to ensure that the choice of exhibits will bear faithful witness to Princess Grace's personality and influence.
" I hope that through this exhibition visitors will discover all the aspects that helped make her personality so richly diverse and realize that behind her mythical image lay an extremely sensitive woman and a deeply loving mother whose sense of aesthetics engaged her in a permanent quest for perfection."
The exhibition will remain on show in Monaco until September 23rd and will then subsequently travel to London, Paris and the United States.
The Grace Kelly Years - Princess of Monaco', is the first ever organized and provides an intimate and intriguing glimpse of the Hollywood actress from Philadelphia who became a fairytale princess and made Monte Carlo synonymous with glamour and style.
In the 1920's, Somerset Maugham wrote:"Monaco is a sunny place for shady people". That was all to change the day Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco on April 19,1956, in what was called the "Wedding of the Century", wearing a bridal gown designed by Helen Rose, of MGM studios.
The wedding dress is one of the focal points of the exhibition and has returned to Monaco for the first time since the marriage, having previously been donated to the Museum of Philadelphia by Princess Grace.
Curated by Frédéric Mitterand, a nephew of the former French president, and designed by Nathalie Crinière, both of whom had unparalleled access both to the archives of Princess Grace herself and to those of the Grimaldi family, as well as close co-operation from Prince Albert and the Princesses Caroline and Stephanie, the exhibition has been two years in the making.
It is divided into a series of different 'rooms', each of which focuses on aspects of her life, from the artificial lighting of Hollywood's great movie sets to the sun-drenched landscapes of Monaco.
The Hollywood Room, for example, is conceived as a vast movie set featuring posters, film stills, trailers and excerpts from the 11 movies she made in just five years, including High Noon, High Society and The Country Girl (for which she won a best Actress Oscar) and leads into The Hitchcock Room, dedicated to the thrillers she made with Alfred Hitchcock, such as Rear Window, Spellbound and Dial M for Murder.
The Ball Room documents her revival of Monaco's famous Red Cross and Rose Balls and features gorgeous gowns designed by the very best haute couture ateliers of the day including Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Givenchy, Lanvin and Yves Saint Laurent.
Display cases document her love of hats - especially flower creations, cloches and turbans by Jean Barthet and the Monagasque milliner Alice Delimel - as well as her predilection for funny, outsize sunglasses and spectacles.
Her most famous accessory, the 'Kelly' bag, by Hermès, which became a cult which endures to this day, after Princess Grace was pictured carrying one on the cover of an American magazine in 1958, occupies an entire wall of exhibits. Her everyday, weekend and holiday clothes are shown, in wardrobe situations, matched with the shoes which went with each outfit.
Apparently, Princess Grace kept everything in museum condition, bagged and labelled - a boon to the curator and designer. Other areas show a mock-up of her dressing table and office. She also kept a treasure trove of letters, billets-doux and MGM contracts, all of which are on display.
There are the passionate telegrams and handwritten notes in which Prince Rainier declared his love to her before their wedding, countless thank-you notes and chatty letters from close, personal friends including the likes of Bing Crosby, Richard Burton, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Greta Garbo, David Niven, Margot Fonteyn, Bob Hope, Cary Grant and Joan Crawford, some handwritten to 'Dear Gracie' or Dearest Graceling", as well as many from Hitchcock signed simply 'Hitch'.
Other rooms demonstrate her close involvement with the ballet and the arts, her love of flower paintings and poetry, her devotion to humanitarian causes and, of course, the Princess Grace Foundation which she established for children.
Home movies, family snapshots and toys emphasise the close family life the Rainiers enjoyed aware from the public spotlight. "It is a very emotional and indeed proud moment for me, knowing that a tribute is being paid to our mother, Princess Grace, on the 25th anniversary of her demise," Prince Albert said. "For the first time, in Monaco, this exhibition is to present personal effects and belongings that for my sisters and myself revive happy memories we shared with our mother, who was a peerless woman."
"The Princesses and I have been keen to ensure that the choice of exhibits will bear faithful witness to Princess Grace's personality and influence.
" I hope that through this exhibition visitors will discover all the aspects that helped make her personality so richly diverse and realize that behind her mythical image lay an extremely sensitive woman and a deeply loving mother whose sense of aesthetics engaged her in a permanent quest for perfection."
The exhibition will remain on show in Monaco until September 23rd and will then subsequently travel to London, Paris and the United States.
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CHINS up, noses in the air, they pranced haughtily down L'Avenue Princesse Grace. They'd both been to the hairdressers.
The woman wore a fur coat and dripped with Maison Cartier. Her pet poodle wore an eye-catching designer fur coat teamed with an expensive necklace. And a pair of Prada sunglasses.
The Principality of Monaco, "Le Petit Province" on France's Cote d'Azur, may be better known as a tax haven that hosts a Formula One Grand Prix at the end of May.
It may now be a byword for uninhibited self-indulgence and conspicuous opulence. A social gaffe may be not having a heli-pad on your super-yacht.
But not long ago – before it had a reputation as a poseurs' paradise – Monaco was associated with elegance and sophistication, mainly in the shape of one lady.
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Champagne is the national drink of Monaco, and many corks will be popped and glasses raised this northern summer in memory of the principality's favourite, and most beautiful, daughter.
Grace Kelly was a Hollywood actress who became Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco when she married Prince Rainier III.
To mark the 25th anniversary of her death at the age of 52 in a car accident above Monte Carlo, the world's second-smallest independent state (after the Vatican) is staging the first retrospective exhibition tracing the late princess's life and legacy.
Says her son Prince Albert: "For my sisters and myself, this exhibition will revive happy memories we shared with our mother, who was a peerless woman."
The Grace Kelly Years exhibition is being held at the Grimaldi Forum, named after Monaco's ruling family. It begins on July 12 and will transfer to New York on September 23, when two of the princess's dresses will be auctioned for her charity foundation.
They're expected to fetch more than the $A1,117,500 raised recently by the black Givenchy dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the film Breakfast At Tiffany's.
The Monte Carlo exhibition features Grace's wedding gown, made from 125-year-old Brussels lace and a hundred metres of silk net.
It was designed by Helen Rose, chief costume designer of MGM Studios, and three dozen seamstresses worked on it for six weeks.
Also on show will be the black-and-white Rolls-Royce convertible Grace used after her marriage.
Thirty million people worldwide watched the "wedding of the century" on April 16, 1956. It was a star-studded affair attended by the Aga Khan, Somerset Maugham, David Niven, Cary Grant, Aristotle Onassis and Ava Gardner.
Frank Sinatra stayed away because it was "her day". (And he'd just been divorced from Gardner.) The royal couple met at the Cannes film festival when Kelly was working on a photo shoot for Paris Match.
The Les Annees Grace Kelly exhibition will show footage of that meeting, as well as the bride-to-be's arrival from New York.
Twenty thousand people saw Kelly off, and a similar number welcomed her to her new home. She travelled by boat from New York to give the painters time to decorate the Royal Palace.
The exhibition (spread over 15 rooms, including the Chamber of Love and the Glamour Room) includes private correspondence, photos and personal memorabilia never seen before, as well as jewellery and clothing such as the dresses she wore in High Society and to receive her Oscar for The Country Girl in 1955.
Grace Kelly starred in 11 films during a five-year career, including three by Alfred Hitchcock (Dial M For Murder, To Catch A Thief and Rear Window). The exhibition includes letters from the legendary director, as well as from Jacqueline Kennedy.
There are hats, brooches and bracelets, Kelly's famous signature Hermes Kelly bag and her 12-carat emerald-cut diamond engagement ring. One room is an exact replica of her studio in Roc Angel, where she painted and pressed flowers.
"From the moment she arrived, she personified the optimism of the post-war years, and became a symbol of glamour," exhibition curator Frederic Mitterand says.
As well as elegance, She (as Grace is referred to in print in Monaco) brought in tourists.
She revived Monte Carlo's fortunes. She became the face of the French Riviera. She threw grand charity balls and parties for local children in the palace grounds. She created a Garden Club, and decorated chapels and homes for the elderly with her favourite flowers.
Mitterand says: "We want this exhibition to recreate the incomparable world of Princess Grace and evoke the reasons the memory of her persists in all our minds.
"She bequeathed us an image of immutable elegance. It is the elegance of the era that was hers, and for which we feel nostalgic."
Grace Patricia Kelly was born in Philadelphia in 1928. Her father, John, was a three-times Olympic rowing gold medallist who later became President Roosevelt's National Director of Fitness.
John Kelly, who made his fortune through bricks, reputedly stumped up a $2 million dowry.
Every inch of the 2.6sqkm of Monaco has associations with the princess.
There is now a Princess Grace walking tour, and the 25 stops on the new Princess Grace Trail include St Nicholas Cathedral, where the couple were married and are buried.
Grace's tomb is the only one honoured daily by fresh flowers. Rainier died in 2005 at the age of 81.
The tour takes you to Grace's rose garden, where her statue stands, and the offices of the Red Cross, for whom she worked.
It goes past the nursery she founded, the headquarters of AMADE (World Association of Children's Friends), her daughters' homes and the Hotel de Paris, where she celebrated her 25th wedding anniversary with a party in the wine cellars.
In the space of three hours, you have seen Monaco and lived through the life of its most famous resident.
"Hers was a truly storybook life," said my guide. "People want to discover the place where a beautiful princess lived in a pink hilltop palace with her handsome prince. She was an inspiring lady."
Princess Grace of Monaco turned heads. Far more than a pretentious poodle and its walking boutique of an owner.
The Sunday Telegraph
The woman wore a fur coat and dripped with Maison Cartier. Her pet poodle wore an eye-catching designer fur coat teamed with an expensive necklace. And a pair of Prada sunglasses.
The Principality of Monaco, "Le Petit Province" on France's Cote d'Azur, may be better known as a tax haven that hosts a Formula One Grand Prix at the end of May.
It may now be a byword for uninhibited self-indulgence and conspicuous opulence. A social gaffe may be not having a heli-pad on your super-yacht.
But not long ago – before it had a reputation as a poseurs' paradise – Monaco was associated with elegance and sophistication, mainly in the shape of one lady.
Related Sections
Romance
Travel Homepage
Champagne is the national drink of Monaco, and many corks will be popped and glasses raised this northern summer in memory of the principality's favourite, and most beautiful, daughter.
Grace Kelly was a Hollywood actress who became Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco when she married Prince Rainier III.
To mark the 25th anniversary of her death at the age of 52 in a car accident above Monte Carlo, the world's second-smallest independent state (after the Vatican) is staging the first retrospective exhibition tracing the late princess's life and legacy.
Says her son Prince Albert: "For my sisters and myself, this exhibition will revive happy memories we shared with our mother, who was a peerless woman."
The Grace Kelly Years exhibition is being held at the Grimaldi Forum, named after Monaco's ruling family. It begins on July 12 and will transfer to New York on September 23, when two of the princess's dresses will be auctioned for her charity foundation.
They're expected to fetch more than the $A1,117,500 raised recently by the black Givenchy dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the film Breakfast At Tiffany's.
The Monte Carlo exhibition features Grace's wedding gown, made from 125-year-old Brussels lace and a hundred metres of silk net.
It was designed by Helen Rose, chief costume designer of MGM Studios, and three dozen seamstresses worked on it for six weeks.
Also on show will be the black-and-white Rolls-Royce convertible Grace used after her marriage.
Thirty million people worldwide watched the "wedding of the century" on April 16, 1956. It was a star-studded affair attended by the Aga Khan, Somerset Maugham, David Niven, Cary Grant, Aristotle Onassis and Ava Gardner.
Frank Sinatra stayed away because it was "her day". (And he'd just been divorced from Gardner.) The royal couple met at the Cannes film festival when Kelly was working on a photo shoot for Paris Match.
The Les Annees Grace Kelly exhibition will show footage of that meeting, as well as the bride-to-be's arrival from New York.
Twenty thousand people saw Kelly off, and a similar number welcomed her to her new home. She travelled by boat from New York to give the painters time to decorate the Royal Palace.
The exhibition (spread over 15 rooms, including the Chamber of Love and the Glamour Room) includes private correspondence, photos and personal memorabilia never seen before, as well as jewellery and clothing such as the dresses she wore in High Society and to receive her Oscar for The Country Girl in 1955.
Grace Kelly starred in 11 films during a five-year career, including three by Alfred Hitchcock (Dial M For Murder, To Catch A Thief and Rear Window). The exhibition includes letters from the legendary director, as well as from Jacqueline Kennedy.
There are hats, brooches and bracelets, Kelly's famous signature Hermes Kelly bag and her 12-carat emerald-cut diamond engagement ring. One room is an exact replica of her studio in Roc Angel, where she painted and pressed flowers.
"From the moment she arrived, she personified the optimism of the post-war years, and became a symbol of glamour," exhibition curator Frederic Mitterand says.
As well as elegance, She (as Grace is referred to in print in Monaco) brought in tourists.
She revived Monte Carlo's fortunes. She became the face of the French Riviera. She threw grand charity balls and parties for local children in the palace grounds. She created a Garden Club, and decorated chapels and homes for the elderly with her favourite flowers.
Mitterand says: "We want this exhibition to recreate the incomparable world of Princess Grace and evoke the reasons the memory of her persists in all our minds.
"She bequeathed us an image of immutable elegance. It is the elegance of the era that was hers, and for which we feel nostalgic."
Grace Patricia Kelly was born in Philadelphia in 1928. Her father, John, was a three-times Olympic rowing gold medallist who later became President Roosevelt's National Director of Fitness.
John Kelly, who made his fortune through bricks, reputedly stumped up a $2 million dowry.
Every inch of the 2.6sqkm of Monaco has associations with the princess.
There is now a Princess Grace walking tour, and the 25 stops on the new Princess Grace Trail include St Nicholas Cathedral, where the couple were married and are buried.
Grace's tomb is the only one honoured daily by fresh flowers. Rainier died in 2005 at the age of 81.
The tour takes you to Grace's rose garden, where her statue stands, and the offices of the Red Cross, for whom she worked.
It goes past the nursery she founded, the headquarters of AMADE (World Association of Children's Friends), her daughters' homes and the Hotel de Paris, where she celebrated her 25th wedding anniversary with a party in the wine cellars.
In the space of three hours, you have seen Monaco and lived through the life of its most famous resident.
"Hers was a truly storybook life," said my guide. "People want to discover the place where a beautiful princess lived in a pink hilltop palace with her handsome prince. She was an inspiring lady."
Princess Grace of Monaco turned heads. Far more than a pretentious poodle and its walking boutique of an owner.
The Sunday Telegraph
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Antwerp, Belgium—The story of Grace Kelly, Hollywood glamour girl and European royalty, continues to intrigue decades after her tragic death, and in a new exhibition titled "Diamond Divas," the Antwerp World Diamond Centre pays homage to the eternal star.
To be held April 11-June 8 at the Province of Antwerp's Diamond Museum, the exhibition will showcase an impressive collection of diamond-set jewelry, exhibited for the very first time to the public.
Visitors will find the engagement ring with emerald-cut diamonds that Prince Rainier of Monaco gave Kelly in 1955, and which she wore in the film High Society; the Cartier Art Deco "Riviere" necklace, set with rose- and old-cut diamonds that Prince Rainier offered her as a wedding present; a set of three Cartier brooches in platinum and yellow gold with rubies and marquise- and brilliant-cut diamonds; and, finally, the "Scroll" tiara in platinum and white gold with diamonds and pearls that Cartier created for Princess Charlotte of Monaco.
An Oscar-winning actress, Kelly rose to fame in such films as Dial M for Murder and To Catch a Thief, winning an Academy Award in 1954 for her role in The Country Girl. As a guest of honor at the Cannes Film Festival in 1955, she met Prince Rainier, and the couple was married the following year. Kelly died in 1982 in an auto accident.
In addition to the Grace Kelly pieces, the Diamond Divas exhibition will also include an array of jewelry owned or worn by some of the world's most notable women. From the legendary "Moon of Baroda," said to have belonged to the maharajas of Baroda and passed over the years through the hands of the Empress Marie Therese of Austria and Marilyn Monroe, to a diamond crown that "Queen of Pop" Madonna wore to her 2000 wedding to British film director Guy Ritchie, a host of dazzling diamond pieces will be on display.
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To be held April 11-June 8 at the Province of Antwerp's Diamond Museum, the exhibition will showcase an impressive collection of diamond-set jewelry, exhibited for the very first time to the public.
Visitors will find the engagement ring with emerald-cut diamonds that Prince Rainier of Monaco gave Kelly in 1955, and which she wore in the film High Society; the Cartier Art Deco "Riviere" necklace, set with rose- and old-cut diamonds that Prince Rainier offered her as a wedding present; a set of three Cartier brooches in platinum and yellow gold with rubies and marquise- and brilliant-cut diamonds; and, finally, the "Scroll" tiara in platinum and white gold with diamonds and pearls that Cartier created for Princess Charlotte of Monaco.
An Oscar-winning actress, Kelly rose to fame in such films as Dial M for Murder and To Catch a Thief, winning an Academy Award in 1954 for her role in The Country Girl. As a guest of honor at the Cannes Film Festival in 1955, she met Prince Rainier, and the couple was married the following year. Kelly died in 1982 in an auto accident.
In addition to the Grace Kelly pieces, the Diamond Divas exhibition will also include an array of jewelry owned or worn by some of the world's most notable women. From the legendary "Moon of Baroda," said to have belonged to the maharajas of Baroda and passed over the years through the hands of the Empress Marie Therese of Austria and Marilyn Monroe, to a diamond crown that "Queen of Pop" Madonna wore to her 2000 wedding to British film director Guy Ritchie, a host of dazzling diamond pieces will be on display.
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Eternally stylish, Grace Kelly
An exhibit fit for a princess.
By Karen Heller
Inquirer Staff Writer
The world has only so many princesses and Philadelphia produced precisely one. But Grace Kelly, born to a former bricklayer, was of such innate regal bearing and ineffable beauty that she successfully transformed Monaco from an afterthought into a nation with an enduring identity.
Twenty-five years after her death at 52 in a car crash, Princess Grace remains one of Monaco's two leading resources (the other being its stature as the world's most glamorous tax haven).
To celebrate the former, an extensive two-week celebration of her life begins today in Manhattan, its centerpiece a Sotheby's exhibition of more than 500 personal possessions, including 20 outfits and 65 pieces of jewelry - among them a tiara and her 10.47-carat, emerald-cut diamond engagement ring - plus hats, hairbrushes, home movies, gloves, letters and, naturally, an Hermès Kelly bag.
She apparently never threw anything away - the original exhibition in Monaco, which closed last month, contained 2,000 objects. This one is the largest display of her possessions ever presented in the United States, according to the consul general, and is free and open to the public.
Two important outfits, selected by her children, will be auctioned at an Oct. 25 gala to benefit the Princess Grace Awards for emerging performing artists: a Helen Rose gray-over-rose embroidered gown that the actress wore in High Society, her last film; and a Givenchy sleeveless belted dress with matching bolero jacket. She wore the latter in 1961 on a visit to the Kennedy White House and a trip to Ireland.
The outfit, incidentally, is kelly green.
The auction is open to the public with an initial bid of $2,000 followed by $500 increments. Forms are available at www.aCelebrationofGrace.com.
If Monaco long had been, as W. Somerset Maugham put it, "a sunny place for shady people," Grace Kelly changed all that when she married Prince Rainier in 1956. Though the Grimaldi family's presence stretched back to 1297, it was she who imported style, glamour, beauty, international attention and, well, grace to the postage stamp of a principality - one square mile, with 4,000 subjects.
"She brought to Monaco a cool beauty and a sense of purpose," says Maguy Maccario-Doyle, Monaco's consul general, who helped head this month's celebration. "Monaco was never the same after her. She transformed her country."
The exhibition, like Grace's life, is divided equally. Her first 26 years were spent in the United States, as a member of a close-knit East Falls family, a New York actress and model, and then a Hollywood star. Her second 26 years were based in Monaco as a princess, wife, and doting mother of a son and two daughters.
"What is astonishing is how much she accomplished in the first 26 years," says Maccario-Doyle, who knew the princess during her last three years. "She made great movies with leading actors, won an Oscar, and even had a hit record." It didn't hurt that "True Love" was a Cole Porter composition sung with Bing Crosby.
In just 11 movies, Grace Kelly acted opposite Crosby, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra, and worked with her lifelong friend Alfred Hitchcock three times, producing two indelible classics, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief.
The exhibition emphasizes Grace's elegant style, her unerring taste for understated refinement and designs marked by sumptuous fabric and clean lines; she was incapable of looking blowsy or trendy. She loved accessories, especially hats and gloves - "and she made eyeglasses chic," Maccario-Doyle says.
Two of Grace's children, Prince Albert and Princess Caroline of Hanover, will attend the gala (Rainier died in 2005); Albert will also be at the Oct. 24 Casino Couture benefit, which will feature gambling and fashion, to benefit the Princess Grace Foundation. Both events will be held at Sotheby's. There is no mention of the whereabouts of Princess Stephanie.
Which points to Monaco's quandary: With their colorful and capacious love lives, Grace's children (Albert a 49-year-old bachelor, the women with five marriages between them) have single-handedly supported Paris Match and other European pictorials for decades, but not one of them has been able to extend her glamour, joy or charm.
Consequently, Princess Grace remains the country's most significant import - and most successful export.
Princess Grace is a lipstick: Princess Grace Coral, available for $19.50 at saks.com or esteelauder.com.
Princess Grace is a fashion icon: Six dresses by six contemporary designers inspired by her outfits are on display in Saks Fifth Avenue's windows Oct. 19 through 26 in New York and will be auctioned at the casino event.
Princess Grace is a book: a handsome $45 companion catalog. She is also a magazine: a lengthy tribute in the November Town & Country.
Twenty-five years after Grace Kelly's death, Monaco still mourns its Philadelphia-born princess and, it seems, needs her more than ever. So it comes as little surprise that the foundation plans a museum in her honor, to showcase her possessions permanently in the country she forever altered.
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An exhibit fit for a princess.
By Karen Heller
Inquirer Staff Writer
The world has only so many princesses and Philadelphia produced precisely one. But Grace Kelly, born to a former bricklayer, was of such innate regal bearing and ineffable beauty that she successfully transformed Monaco from an afterthought into a nation with an enduring identity.
Twenty-five years after her death at 52 in a car crash, Princess Grace remains one of Monaco's two leading resources (the other being its stature as the world's most glamorous tax haven).
To celebrate the former, an extensive two-week celebration of her life begins today in Manhattan, its centerpiece a Sotheby's exhibition of more than 500 personal possessions, including 20 outfits and 65 pieces of jewelry - among them a tiara and her 10.47-carat, emerald-cut diamond engagement ring - plus hats, hairbrushes, home movies, gloves, letters and, naturally, an Hermès Kelly bag.
She apparently never threw anything away - the original exhibition in Monaco, which closed last month, contained 2,000 objects. This one is the largest display of her possessions ever presented in the United States, according to the consul general, and is free and open to the public.
Two important outfits, selected by her children, will be auctioned at an Oct. 25 gala to benefit the Princess Grace Awards for emerging performing artists: a Helen Rose gray-over-rose embroidered gown that the actress wore in High Society, her last film; and a Givenchy sleeveless belted dress with matching bolero jacket. She wore the latter in 1961 on a visit to the Kennedy White House and a trip to Ireland.
The outfit, incidentally, is kelly green.
The auction is open to the public with an initial bid of $2,000 followed by $500 increments. Forms are available at www.aCelebrationofGrace.com.
If Monaco long had been, as W. Somerset Maugham put it, "a sunny place for shady people," Grace Kelly changed all that when she married Prince Rainier in 1956. Though the Grimaldi family's presence stretched back to 1297, it was she who imported style, glamour, beauty, international attention and, well, grace to the postage stamp of a principality - one square mile, with 4,000 subjects.
"She brought to Monaco a cool beauty and a sense of purpose," says Maguy Maccario-Doyle, Monaco's consul general, who helped head this month's celebration. "Monaco was never the same after her. She transformed her country."
The exhibition, like Grace's life, is divided equally. Her first 26 years were spent in the United States, as a member of a close-knit East Falls family, a New York actress and model, and then a Hollywood star. Her second 26 years were based in Monaco as a princess, wife, and doting mother of a son and two daughters.
"What is astonishing is how much she accomplished in the first 26 years," says Maccario-Doyle, who knew the princess during her last three years. "She made great movies with leading actors, won an Oscar, and even had a hit record." It didn't hurt that "True Love" was a Cole Porter composition sung with Bing Crosby.
In just 11 movies, Grace Kelly acted opposite Crosby, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra, and worked with her lifelong friend Alfred Hitchcock three times, producing two indelible classics, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief.
The exhibition emphasizes Grace's elegant style, her unerring taste for understated refinement and designs marked by sumptuous fabric and clean lines; she was incapable of looking blowsy or trendy. She loved accessories, especially hats and gloves - "and she made eyeglasses chic," Maccario-Doyle says.
Two of Grace's children, Prince Albert and Princess Caroline of Hanover, will attend the gala (Rainier died in 2005); Albert will also be at the Oct. 24 Casino Couture benefit, which will feature gambling and fashion, to benefit the Princess Grace Foundation. Both events will be held at Sotheby's. There is no mention of the whereabouts of Princess Stephanie.
Which points to Monaco's quandary: With their colorful and capacious love lives, Grace's children (Albert a 49-year-old bachelor, the women with five marriages between them) have single-handedly supported Paris Match and other European pictorials for decades, but not one of them has been able to extend her glamour, joy or charm.
Consequently, Princess Grace remains the country's most significant import - and most successful export.
Princess Grace is a lipstick: Princess Grace Coral, available for $19.50 at saks.com or esteelauder.com.
Princess Grace is a fashion icon: Six dresses by six contemporary designers inspired by her outfits are on display in Saks Fifth Avenue's windows Oct. 19 through 26 in New York and will be auctioned at the casino event.
Princess Grace is a book: a handsome $45 companion catalog. She is also a magazine: a lengthy tribute in the November Town & Country.
Twenty-five years after Grace Kelly's death, Monaco still mourns its Philadelphia-born princess and, it seems, needs her more than ever. So it comes as little surprise that the foundation plans a museum in her honor, to showcase her possessions permanently in the country she forever altered.
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