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From the Grace exhibit-her suitcases
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Atlantic City Monthly Magazine
The Princess of Ocean City
A new exhibit celebrates Hollywood star, princess and
one-time OC sunbather Grace Kelly
by Marjorie Preston
Her story almost defies belief: Philadelphia society
girl, daughter of a bricklayer, becomes one of
Hollywood’s greatest stars. At the height of her
success, with an Oscar under her belt, she tosses it
aside to become princess of an obscure principality on
the French Riviera. Such was the life of Grace Kelly,
whose glacial perfection onscreen, and fairytale
marriage off-screen, has graven her into the American
psyche.
A third act of her life, the final one, was equally
dramatic. In 1983, at 53, Princess Grace died shortly
after her car plummeted off the winding drive at
Monaco’s Moyenne Corniche, site of one of her most
famous scenes (in Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief).
Though she lived and traveled all over the world,
Grace Kelly always loved and returned to Ocean City.
This year, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her
wedding to Prince Rainier, the Ocean City Historical
Museum has mounted a tribute to the screen goddess
that includes motion picture lobby cards (Mogambo, The
Swan), photographs, and a bisque doll in Monegasque
garb donated by the princess. The exhibit is small,
but the memory of the golden girl who once summered
here still looms large.
Bill D’Arcy may remember her best. The onetime Ocean
City lifeguard dated a teenaged Grace Kelly for two
years. “We had a summer romance,” says D’Arcy, of the
courtship that in fact lasted two summers, in the
mid-1940s. “She was a great gal.”
The couple met, of course, on the beach. Grace’s
brother, Jack, was also a lifeguard (and later, an
Olympic rower). Her father, millionaire John B. Kelly,
was a generous patron of the lifeguard team.
Bill and Grace spent idyllic days in Ocean City,
strolling the beach and boardwalk, and in Atlantic
City, listening to big band concerts with stars likeVaughan Monroe, Glenn Miller and crooner Rudy Vallee.“That was the highlight of the whole summer, to go tothe Steel Pier and spend the whole day,” says D’Arcy.“They had a big ballroom in the middle of the pier andeverybody danced.” According to D’Arcy, Grace did amean jitterbug.Romance bloomed. Back in the East Falls section ofPhiladelphia, where both lived in the off-season, Bill
went to Grace’s junior prom, and she went to his
senior prom. But the next summer, when Bill was
pulling duty on Ocean City’s Second Street beach,
Grace sauntered by on the arm of another boy. “And
that was it, sayonara,” says D’Arcy with a chuckle.
“Nothing ever really developed, but it was fun.”
The house that John B. built, at the corner of 26th
and Wesley, still stands (once an oceanfront property,
the big Spanish style manse is now one block from the
beach). A second Kelly home across the street was
demolished several years ago. The Kellys attended St.
Augustine Roman Catholic Church, and many around town
still remember seeing Grace Kelly at Sunday mass.
According to museum president Fred Miller, “She would
come back at least once a year to visit her mother,
with Prince Albert and Stephanie and Caroline, and it
would always cause a lot of commotion.”
Author of the upcoming, Ocean City: America’s Greatest
Family Resort (which includes a chapter on the Kellys)
Miller says Grace probably spent dreamy afternoons
plotting her future stardom at one of four movie
houses on Ocean City’s boardwalk: the Village Theatre
at Eighth Street, long gone, the Surf (now the Surf
Mall), and two theatres that still remain, the Strand
and the Moorlyn.
The Kellys in OC circa 1934: (L to R) Lizanne,
Margaret, Grace, Kell, Peggy and Jack. RIGHT: Grace
Kelly.
She never confided those dreams to Bill D’Arcy, who
was amazed and delighted when his former flame became
a leading lady. Grace went on to star in classics like
High Noon, Dial M for Murder, The Bridges at Toko Ri
and High Society, opposite leading men like William
Holden, Bing Crosby, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart and
Cary Grant. She won the Oscar in 1955, for her
portrayal of an embittered wife in The Country Girl.
Rumors of her involvement with Crosby and Holden have
never been substantiated, but Grace did enjoy a famous
fling with playboy designer Oleg Cassini, who visited
the Kellys in Ocean City and got a chilly reception
from the straitlaced Catholic clan. Cassini later said
the feeling was akin to “mort dans l’ame (death in my
soul).”
Cassini soon got the boot. Shortly thereafter, Grace
was in Cannes filming To Catch A Thief when a
photographer from Paris Match prevailed upon her to do
a photo spread with the prince of Monaco. As Rainier
squired her around his private zoo, the journalist
said later, “We felt like indiscreet onlookers.”
Within months, the two were engaged, and Grace shocked
the world by announcing she would retire.
Bill D’Arcy was pleased. “Good for her,” he says. “We
knew she was going with Prince Rainier, he was at the
house in East Falls, and it was great for her.” But
long before she became Hollywood royalty, and then
European royalty, Grace and her family, says D’Arcy,
“were the royalty of Ocean City.”
The Princess of Ocean City
A new exhibit celebrates Hollywood star, princess and
one-time OC sunbather Grace Kelly
by Marjorie Preston
Her story almost defies belief: Philadelphia society
girl, daughter of a bricklayer, becomes one of
Hollywood’s greatest stars. At the height of her
success, with an Oscar under her belt, she tosses it
aside to become princess of an obscure principality on
the French Riviera. Such was the life of Grace Kelly,
whose glacial perfection onscreen, and fairytale
marriage off-screen, has graven her into the American
psyche.
A third act of her life, the final one, was equally
dramatic. In 1983, at 53, Princess Grace died shortly
after her car plummeted off the winding drive at
Monaco’s Moyenne Corniche, site of one of her most
famous scenes (in Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief).
Though she lived and traveled all over the world,
Grace Kelly always loved and returned to Ocean City.
This year, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her
wedding to Prince Rainier, the Ocean City Historical
Museum has mounted a tribute to the screen goddess
that includes motion picture lobby cards (Mogambo, The
Swan), photographs, and a bisque doll in Monegasque
garb donated by the princess. The exhibit is small,
but the memory of the golden girl who once summered
here still looms large.
Bill D’Arcy may remember her best. The onetime Ocean
City lifeguard dated a teenaged Grace Kelly for two
years. “We had a summer romance,” says D’Arcy, of the
courtship that in fact lasted two summers, in the
mid-1940s. “She was a great gal.”
The couple met, of course, on the beach. Grace’s
brother, Jack, was also a lifeguard (and later, an
Olympic rower). Her father, millionaire John B. Kelly,
was a generous patron of the lifeguard team.
Bill and Grace spent idyllic days in Ocean City,
strolling the beach and boardwalk, and in Atlantic
City, listening to big band concerts with stars likeVaughan Monroe, Glenn Miller and crooner Rudy Vallee.“That was the highlight of the whole summer, to go tothe Steel Pier and spend the whole day,” says D’Arcy.“They had a big ballroom in the middle of the pier andeverybody danced.” According to D’Arcy, Grace did amean jitterbug.Romance bloomed. Back in the East Falls section ofPhiladelphia, where both lived in the off-season, Bill
went to Grace’s junior prom, and she went to his
senior prom. But the next summer, when Bill was
pulling duty on Ocean City’s Second Street beach,
Grace sauntered by on the arm of another boy. “And
that was it, sayonara,” says D’Arcy with a chuckle.
“Nothing ever really developed, but it was fun.”
The house that John B. built, at the corner of 26th
and Wesley, still stands (once an oceanfront property,
the big Spanish style manse is now one block from the
beach). A second Kelly home across the street was
demolished several years ago. The Kellys attended St.
Augustine Roman Catholic Church, and many around town
still remember seeing Grace Kelly at Sunday mass.
According to museum president Fred Miller, “She would
come back at least once a year to visit her mother,
with Prince Albert and Stephanie and Caroline, and it
would always cause a lot of commotion.”
Author of the upcoming, Ocean City: America’s Greatest
Family Resort (which includes a chapter on the Kellys)
Miller says Grace probably spent dreamy afternoons
plotting her future stardom at one of four movie
houses on Ocean City’s boardwalk: the Village Theatre
at Eighth Street, long gone, the Surf (now the Surf
Mall), and two theatres that still remain, the Strand
and the Moorlyn.
The Kellys in OC circa 1934: (L to R) Lizanne,
Margaret, Grace, Kell, Peggy and Jack. RIGHT: Grace
Kelly.
She never confided those dreams to Bill D’Arcy, who
was amazed and delighted when his former flame became
a leading lady. Grace went on to star in classics like
High Noon, Dial M for Murder, The Bridges at Toko Ri
and High Society, opposite leading men like William
Holden, Bing Crosby, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart and
Cary Grant. She won the Oscar in 1955, for her
portrayal of an embittered wife in The Country Girl.
Rumors of her involvement with Crosby and Holden have
never been substantiated, but Grace did enjoy a famous
fling with playboy designer Oleg Cassini, who visited
the Kellys in Ocean City and got a chilly reception
from the straitlaced Catholic clan. Cassini later said
the feeling was akin to “mort dans l’ame (death in my
soul).”
Cassini soon got the boot. Shortly thereafter, Grace
was in Cannes filming To Catch A Thief when a
photographer from Paris Match prevailed upon her to do
a photo spread with the prince of Monaco. As Rainier
squired her around his private zoo, the journalist
said later, “We felt like indiscreet onlookers.”
Within months, the two were engaged, and Grace shocked
the world by announcing she would retire.
Bill D’Arcy was pleased. “Good for her,” he says. “We
knew she was going with Prince Rainier, he was at the
house in East Falls, and it was great for her.” But
long before she became Hollywood royalty, and then
European royalty, Grace and her family, says D’Arcy,
“were the royalty of Ocean City.”
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Rare video of grace from the 50s-shows pics of her departing on boat for Monaco and modeling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEMjnS-Jd94&feature=related
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From a program about Grace called American Princess
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS_r0pX0z-I&feature=related
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