Grace Kelly

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this is HQ, she looks so lovely with this smile.
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oh that dress is nice kochie...
i like it too :D i especially like how the fabric used around her waist also creates a sort of train in the back...
and thanks for the HQ :flower:
#2870 - agree with Beckham18, cute family picture. alot of their cutest family pictures are of them playing in the snow


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Interesting article about apartment building in NYC that Grace once lived in
WHAT comes to mind when you think of the Manhattan House, the first and perhaps the grandest postwar white-brick apartment house in Manhattan? The magic of Grace Kelly, maybe? Or a brutish battle over a condominium conversion, with tenants warring with the sponsors and the sponsors fighting with each other?

But now the dispute between the building owners has been settled; the project has been refinanced; and prices on many apartments, especially those of existing tenants, have been cut. A new marketing campaign is trying to shift attention to glamour and to Grace Kelly, who lived there in the early 1950s.

Manhattan House, built in 1950, fills a full city block at 66th Street and Third Avenue, with five 20-story towers, 584 units and large gardens. It also has several hundred tenants, some of whom have been fighting the conversion in state court and others complaining that elderly market-rate tenants were being forced out.

The project, which would be the largest Manhattan condo conversion ever, valued at more than $1.1 billion if completed, faced extensive delays, expiring financing and a dispute between two partners: Jeremiah W. O’Connor Jr., who provided most of the capital, and N. Richard Kalikow, who managed the project.

But two weeks ago, Mr. O’Connor settled the lawsuit, obtained full control of the project and signed up for new financing, an amendment to the offering plan said. Court records did not indicate the terms of the settlement, and neither Mr. O’Connor nor Mr. Kalikow would discuss them.

Under the conditions set in his financing, Mr. O’Connor promised to find buyers for 15 percent, or about 88, of the 584 apartments, and obtain the approval of the attorney general to put the plan into effect by next June 1.

Within days of taking control, Mr. O’Connor held a party in a newly renovated rooftop library and club space; several hundred tenants attended. He announced that the insider discount for tenants had been doubled, to 15 percent, for those who buy within 30 days. Prices were cut by 6.6 percent over all, according to the amendment. But Brett Buehrer, a vice president at O’Connor Capital Partners, said that the decreases were aimed mainly at occupied apartments.

Grace Kelly, who become Princess Grace of Monaco, lived at the Manhattan House while pursuing an acting career. She also lived at the Barbizon Hotel, which was recently converted into a condominium, Barbizon/63, with a marking campaign that also mentioned her, along with other notable actresses who lived there.

At the Manhattan House, the developers are a sponsor of an ongoing exhibit of Grace Kelly memorabilia. It was timed to the 25th anniversary of her death, on Sept. 14, 1982, and an auction of a gown and a dress suit worn by Ms. Kelly will be held to raise money for the Princess Grace Foundation.

Dolly Lenz, a broker at Prudential Douglas Elliman who is heading marketing at the project, said that four designers had been commissioned to create apartments “inspired by Princess Grace.” They are Alexa Hampton, Jamie Drake, Campion Platt and Maureen Footer.

Asking prices on one-bedrooms with terraces start just over $1 million. A tenant lawsuit seeking to stop the conversion is still pending, but the court allowed the sponsor to continue its sales program.

NYT
 
Grace Kelly's iconic style

by KRISTEN SEYMOUR ON DEC 13TH 2007 10:15AM
FILED UNDER: FASHION, CELEBRITY WEDDINGS, BRIDAL BEAUTY, CELEBRITY

If you'd like to mold your bridal style after a celebrity, you could choose Halle Berry or Charlize Theron -- they're beautiful women with a fantastic sense of style. But what would you choose? They're gorgeous, but if you wanted to dress like them, what would you wear?

If you want to score a starlet's style, don't limit yourself to recent Oscar nominees -- look to history for your inspiration. And who could provide better inspiration than one of the greatest style icons of all time? Let's take a look at the beauty and fashion of Grace Kelly.

Her style has influenced designers for decades (click here for recent examples), and rightfully so. Whether it was for a movie, an awards ceremony, or simply for her own pleasure, Kelly exuded a signature look that, coupled with her natural beauty, showed the world what style really meant. She loved oversized hats, big sunglasses, short white gloves, Hermes silk scarves, and, of course, pearls. Hermes loved her so much that one of the most sought-after handbags of all times was named after her.

As a Hollywood star, the characters she played wore unfathomably gorgeous gowns (my favorite is the to-die-for blue gown in To Catch a Thief), but for her own wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, she topped even those. Her wedding gown was designed by Helen Rose, who had dressed her in High Society and The Swan. But, even better was the detail underneath -- tiny blue bows decorated her petticoat.

Be sure to look through the Grace Kelly gallery for more samples of her classic style!

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Grace Kelly: an enduring style icon
Dr John Wallace
The past year has seen a number of events celebrating the life of Grace Kelly, who died in 1982. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of her death, Prince Albert, Grace Kelly's son, opened the palace archives in Monaco to provide manuscripts, photographs and other objects for a new book that attempts to give an insight into her personality.
Grace Kelly kept ‘mementoes’ all her life and a wide range of these have now been collected from around the world. This book attempts to evoke her domestic world over a twenty-year period and includes letters from Alfred Hitchcock, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Jacqueline Kennedy and Greta Garbo.

Classic photographs of the actress are also reproduced here by Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon and the actor Yul Brynner who, apparently, was a keen photographer.
Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia in 1928. Her grandfather had left Ireland in 1867 and she was the daughter of a wealthy Irish businessman who made his money in the building industry. Her parents, although ‘serious people’, were broadminded and were happy with whatever career Grace chose.
White gloves
Initially, she trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Like James Dean and Steve McQueen, she did television work before turning to Broadway. Her film debut was in Fourteen Hours in 1951 and she caused some surprise when she turned up for her interview with MGM wearing white gloves.
Her subsequent film career was short, but highly successful. She was in and out of Hollywood in just six years. Her big break came in 1951 with High Noon, directed by Stanley Kramer.
Between 1951 and 1955, she appeared in 11 films, usually as a cool, elegant ‘beauty’.
When Alfred Hitchcock came on the scene, looking for a successor to Joan Fontane and Ingrid Bergman, she made three masterpieces with him. As she said later: “Hitch taught me everything.”
‘Hitch’ was born in London in 1899 and moved to Hollywood in 1939. He specialised in the suspense thriller, in which he often appeared, briefly and wordlessly. Hitchcock’s greatest works were Rear Window, Vertigo, The Birds and To Catch a Thief.
High class
In three of Hitchcock’s films, Grace Kelly had memorable scenes that were suggestive of high class. For his contribution to film, Hitchcock was knighted in 1980, the year of his death. Grace Kelly was perceived as articulate and graceful. She played the Quaker wife opposite Gary Cooper in High Noon, directed by Fred Zinnerman. She also starred with Ray Milland in the diabolical Dial M for Murder.
She was excellent opposite James Stewart, encased in plaster, in Rear Window. And she dealt with Cary Grant in a regal manner in the comedy-detective story, To Catch a Thief, filmed on Monaco’s doorstep on the French Riviera.
The most important actor in the history of cinema, Cary Grant was a box-office draw for thirty years. He was born in Bristol and initially worked with a troupe of acrobats and jugglers, until moving to America in 1920. A suave, debonair performer, he specialised in sophisticated, light comedy, opposite actresses like Grace Kelly.
He retired from the screen in 1966 and was given a special Oscar, in 1970, for his unique mastery of screen acting. Grace Kelly’s last film was High Society, with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, for MGM.
Her final official appearance in the movie world was as a presenter, with Audrey Hepburn, at the 28th Academy Awards in 1956. Though she hated Hollywood, ‘a town without pity’, she won an Oscar, in 1954, for her role in Country Life.
Relationships
Grace Kelly’s first serious attachment was to the talented fashion designer, Count Oleg Cassini. He had previously been married to actress Gene Tierney who, like Vivien Leigh, suffered from depression.
However, it was during the shooting of To Catch a Thief, on the Côte d’Azure, in the spring of 1954, that Grace Kelly first discovered the principality of Monaco. Olivia de Havilland’s husband arranged her first meeting with its prince on May 6 1955, during the Cannes Film Festival.
In April 1956, 1,500 journalists covered Grace Kelly’s wedding to Prince Rainier III at St Nicolas’ Cathedral, Monaco. Her father felt that the ceremony was like “a Cecil B. de Mille spectacular” and the tiny police force was overwhelmed by the amount of jewellery on display.
After the marriage, watched by thirty million viewers on Eurovision, Grace Kelly retired from the screen. She went on to distribute prizes for the Monaco Grand Prix and host charity events to which high society flocked. The couple had three children, Princess Caroline, Princess Stephanie and Prince Albert. Unusually, she brought up the children herself and tried to protect them from over-exposure in the media.

She had a reserved personality given to discreet ‘melancholy’ and she took her official duties seriously. She was interested in making a comeback to play Marnie with Sean Connery in 1962, but her royal status prevented this. Instead, the part went to Tippi Hedren.
High society
Grace Kelly had a timeless style and two of her dresses were recently bought by Newbridge Silverware for €170,000 in an auction hosted by David Niven’s son. They have recently gone on display at the company’s visitor centre in County Kildare. She wore one of these dresses in 1961 on an official visit to Ireland with her husband.
Grace Kelly was killed in a tragic car accident in 1982, almost 26 years ago, on roads very close to those filmed in To Catch a Thief with Cary Grant and directed by ‘Hitch’. For a brief period, Grace Kelly, whose grandfather had come from Mayo, made Hollywood believe in itself.

Irish Medical Times
 
Irish firm pays €246,000 for iconic Grace Kelly dresses
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This chiffon ballgown, modelled yesterday in Dublin by Aisling Crowley, was worn by Grace Kelly in the movie High Society in 1956


By Fergus Black
Friday November 02 2007
<>The Hollywood star, who married Prince Rainier was killed in a car accident in 1982

Fergus Black

an Irish company has just forked out $355,000 (€246,000) at a New York auction for two dresses worn by Hollywood icon Grace Kelly.

Newbridge Silverware, more renowned for its classic tableware and jewellery products, has just added another two items to its own special collection in its museum of style icons, which opened earlier this year.

One of the outfits bought by the Co Kildare company for $135,000 is a vivid green Givenchy-designed sleeveless dress with matching fringed bolero jacket worn by Princess Grace during her first visit to her ancestral Ireland more than 47 years ago, and during an official visit to the White House for lunch with President Kennedy in 1961.

Also snapped up by the company for $220,000 was a Helen Rose-designed layered chiffon ball gown with rhinestones and pink and white embroidered flowers which was worn by a young Grace Kelly in the 1956 musical 'High Society'.

The Hollywood star, who married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956, was killed in a car accident in Monaco in 1982.

Both her outfits went under the hammer at a Sotheby's action in New York with the proceeds going to the Princess Grace Foundation in the US and they will now go on display in the company's museum of style icons in Newbridge.

The classy outfits were showcased yesterday in Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel where Princess Grace and Prince Rainier stayed and where a suite is named after the princess.

Company CEO William Doyle yesterday described Princess Grace as the "epitome" of feminine style and elegance.

"Grace Kelly was indeed a true princess and we are honoured to showcase these very special garments within our museum of style icons," he said.

The museum contains a huge collection of garments worn by icons of the silver screen.

A recent addition was the hot pink cocktail dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie, 'Breakfast at Tiffanys' for $160,000.

Other acquisitions include a vintage Giorgio Armani suit worn by actress Susan Sarandon in 'Elizabethtown' and a two-piece costume worn by Barbra Streisand in 'Funnygirl', the sleeveless gown worn by Julie Andrews in 'Star' and shoes worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in 'Failure to Launch'.

- Fergus Black
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