Grace Kelly

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#2950 - gosh that outfit she wore to the civil ceremony is so beautiful i really like how she added the hat. thanks romy!
#2951 - i think stephanie looks the cutest in that picture but of course Grace looks nice too

 

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From AHN
New York, NY (CNS) - One of the most iconic and influential names in Hollywood fashion will be honored at one of the most iconic and influential department stores in the world.
New York's Saks Fifth Avenue is holding a month long celebration of Grace Kelly's style. The actress and princess is the face of one of the most classic styles in the fashion world, which is still recreated to this day.
Dresses similar to those worn by Kelly will be on display in the store. Gowns by Carolina Herrera, Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Zac Posen and Vera Wang have been designed to resemble those worn by the Oscar winning Princess of Monaco.
Honorable Maguy Maccario Doyle, the Consul General of Monaco in New York, told CT, "When we first had the idea of American designers paying their own tribute to Grace Kelly as a fashion icon we asked Saks. If they would have said no, I don't know how we would have done it."
Michael Fink, Vice President and women's Fashion Director at Saks Fifth Avenue, added, "Grace Kelly had an undeniable influence on fashion and she unarguably continues to be an important fashion icon of our time."
The designers will also create dresses based on film costumes from "High Society" and "To Catch A Thief".

 

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DIB Online
Sotheby’s New York is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the death of Gace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, by exhibiting unique and valuable belongings giving insight into her private life. The exhibition, titled “Grace, Princess of Monaco: A Tribute to the Life and Legacy of Grace Kelly” features jewelry, dresses, photographs, letters, film clips, sound recordings, and other items most of which have never been seen outside of Monaco.
The Tribute will focus on the varying stages of Kelly’s life, from Oscar-winning Hollywood star and style icon to Princess of Monaco as a wife, mother and humanitarian. A commemorative catalogue published by the Consulate General of Monaco will be on sale, and proceeds will benefit the Princess Grace Foundations-USA, which identifies and assists emerging talent in theater, dance and film.
On October 25, a select number of Kelly’s clothes items will be offered in a live auction at the 25th Anniversary Princess Awards Gala.

 

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The Post Chronicle
Twenty-five years after Princess Grace was killed in a car accident, her life is being celebrated in New York with several exhibits and auctions.
The late Grace Kelly was an Oscar-winning actress and princess of Monaco.
Life magazine has devoted an entire issue of its Great Photographers Series to her and the issue of Town & Country, which hits stands Tuesday, will feature 30 pages of photos and interviews with Grace's three children and closest friends, the New York Daily News said.
Many of the princess's personal belongings will be on display for the first time in the United States at Sotheby's through Oct. 26.
They include an ensemble Grace wore to the 1955 Academy Awards, where she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Country Girl, as well as the dress she was wearing when she first met Prince Rainier.
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Those attending a [COLOR=#0000ff! important][FONT=Arial, helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=#0000ff! important][FONT=Arial, helvetica, sans-serif]gala[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] Thursday can bid on some of Grace's gorgeous frocks.
Dresses inspired by ones Grace wore will also be displayed at Manhattan's Saks Fifth Avenue store from Friday through Oct. 26

 

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Seattle PI
Grace Kelly: 25 years after her death, a star is reborn

By WILLIAM ARNOLD
P-I MOVIE CRITIC
MONTE CARLO, Monaco -- Twenty-five years ago come Sept. 14, one of the great modern fairy tales came to an abrupt end when -- under circumstances that still seem slightly mysterious -- Princess Grace Kelly died in a car crash on a twisty mountain road above this tiny Mediterranean principality.
Over that quarter century, Monaco has done remarkably little to perpetuate the memory of their famed movie-star-turned-princess. Unlike England with Princess Diana, no monument has been erected, and her films have been absent from Monegasque television. All of this is reportedly the result of the fact that her grieving husband, Prince Rainier, simply couldn't bear to be reminded of his loss.
AP Grace Kelly studies the script for "The Swan" in 1955.But two years after Rainier's death, his son and successor, Prince Albert II, has broken the unspoken royal decree of silence and is helping commemorate his mother's life in an unprecedented series of events timed to play off the anniversary of her death -- and the whole world seems to be joining in.
In 2007, no less than five books have been or will be published about her, including Wendy Leigh's best-selling tell-all biography, "True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess"; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art's lavish photo retrospective, "Grace Kelly: Icon of Style to Royal Bride."
This fall, Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein and Prada are all featuring Kelly-inspired creations in their collections ("The fashion scene is dominated by looks inspired by her glacial glamour," the Guardian reported late last month), while Tommy Hilfiger stores are selling the designer's own memorial volume, "Grace Kelly: A Life in Pictures."
Meanwhile, her films have been re-released on DVD; a song called "Grace Kelly" was the No. 1 single in the United Kingdom earlier this year; and the European press has been full of thoughtful tributes all summer, many of them focusing on how the worldwide publicity of her 1956 wedding sparked the ongoing economic renaissance of Monaco.
In October, New York will see a special exhibition sponsored by Sotheby's titled "Grace, Princess of Monaco: The Life and Legend of Grace Kelly," displaying previously unseen photos and home movies of the princess, as well as such personal items as the dress she wore when she first met Prince Rainier.

An epic exhibition


But the undisputed centerpiece of the phenomenon is "The Grace Kelly Years," an epic exhibition currently running through Sept. 23 at Monte Carlo's Grimaldi Forum which has been painstakingly assembled over a period of two years from the royal family's extensive archive of her personal memorabilia.
Curator Francois Mitterrand told the press: "Princess Grace has bequeathed us an image of immutable elegance. We may never have seen any of her films or visited the principality of Monaco, yet this image remains present in all our minds like a necessary antidote to the harshness of the world we live in.
"It is the elegance of a wealthy young woman from Philadelphia personifying the American dream; the elegance of Technicolor Hollywood glamour; the elegance of a woman in love who freely chose to alter the course of her existence to become a princess of one of Europe's oldest dynasties.
"It is the elegance of her smiling reserve that so fascinated the media, her immensely sensitive and poetic lifestyle that retained its share of mystery, and her beauty preserved by its perpetually youthful charm. It is the elegance of the era that was hers and for which we all feel nostalgic."
The massive exhibit -- which will travel to London later in the fall and possibly other world capitals in 2008 -- is divided into 15 rooms that are each lavishly dedicated to a stage or aspect of her life, including her Philadelphia childhood, her years as a struggling New York actress, and her career as a Hollywood star.
For movie fans, the highlight of the exhibit is the special room devoted to the three thrillers she made with Alfred Hitchcock -- "Dial M for Murder," "To Catch a Thief" and "Rear Window." Among the items displayed are costumes, mock-ups of the movie sets and correspondence tracing her close friendship with the master of suspense.
Also on view are the Best Actress Oscar that Kelly won for her performance in 1954's "The Country Girl"; selections of her correspondence with Jackie Kennedy and other notables; and her wedding gown, -- designed by MGM's Helen Rose from 125-year-old Brussels rose-point lace and 100 yards of silk taffeta.

Princess Grace trail


In support of the exhibition, Monaco also has opened a Princess Grace Trail, a self-guided walking tour of some 25 locations associated with Her Serene Highness, including the royal palace where she lived, the public park where she had her first date with Rainier, and the hospital from which her charitable endeavors were administered.
The climax of the trail is St. Nicolas Cathedral, where she and Rainier were married and now lay side by side in flower-covered graves as a continuous stream of tourists pass by each day. "Her tomb is Monaco's most popular tourist attraction," a tourist-board handout proclaims, "second to the Monte Carlo casino."
One place that is not on the official trail is the lonely hairpin curve where the Rover P6 she was driving that September day in 1982 lost control, plunged over a 45-foot embankment and burst into flames. The site, with its spectacular view of the Riviera, is unmarked but also gets hordes of tourists.
How did the accident happen? It's never been clear. The official report says she suffered a stroke at the wheel. But rumors persist that she was arguing with her daughter, Princess Stephanie, who was in the car with her. Other rumors say Stephanie was driving the car that killed her mother. The speculation has never ended.
The guide who took me to the death site explained: "In many ways, the life of the princess was so perfect that, over time, it would maybe not be that interesting to us. But it also had a dark side -- her affairs, her children's scandals and her death. The mix of good and bad -- this is a legacy that creates a timeless legend."


A GRACE KELLY FACT SHEET



Full name: Grace Patricia Kelly ("Destiny gave her the perfect first name," said producer Stanley Kramer.)

Born: Nov. 12, 1929, Philadelphia

Died: Sept. 14, 1982, Cote d'Azur, France; age 52

Birth sign: Scorpio

Father: Multimillionaire industrialist John Brendan (Jack) Kelly

Mother: Margaret Kelly, the first woman to head the Physical Education Department at the University of Pennsylvania

Uncle: Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright George Kelly ("Craig's Wife")

Educated: Raven Hill Academy, Stevens School (both Philadelphia), American Academy of Dramatic Arts

Broadway debut: Strindberg's "The Father," starring Raymond Massey (1949)

Best year as a movie star: 1954, in which she made five films (including two Hitchcock classics) and won the Best Actress Oscar

Movie star ranking: The American Film Institute places her No. 13 in its list of all-time great female stars.

Love affairs of her single years: Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Oleg Cassini, Ray Milland, the shah of Iran, and reputedly many more

Philatelistic accomplishment: Kelly is the first movie star to appear on a postage stamp.

Screen persona: A cool, upper-class reserve disguising a dormant passion waiting to be stirred -- spiced in her later films with a mischievous sense of humor.

Vocal quality: Sensuous, slightly husky and inoffensively patrician

Personal style: Wholesome but sophisticated, trademark white gloves

Indelible fashion mark: The Kelly bag, a boxy purse used to shield her first pregnancy from a Life magazine photographer

Eulogy (given by James Stewart "You know, I just love Grace Kelly. Not because she was a princess, not because she was an actress, not because she was my friend, but because she was just about the nicest lady I ever met."

If she were alive today: According to Karl Lagerfeld (quoted in Harper's Bazaar), "I am sure even at age 80, she would be stunning. That kind of perfection can age well."

-- William Arnold A LEGEND IN FIVE YEARS


In her meteoric, five-year career, Grace Kelly made 11 films, all of which are available on DVD:

FOURTEEN HOURS (1951 In this documentary-like thriller directed by Henry Hathaway, Kelly made her film debut as a face in the crowd looking up at a deranged man standing on the ledge of a tall building for 14 hours, threatening to jump.

HIGH NOON (1952 This Gary Cooper Western -- about a U.S. marshal with an unwanted appointment with a trio of gunmen bent on revenge -- is one of the undisputed classics of the genre but Kelly's part as the hero's Quaker wife is one of her more thankless starring roles.

MOGAMBO (1953 Kelly earned her first Oscar nomination for playing an adulterous wife who has a safari romance with hunter Clark Gable in this John Ford-directed adventure -- a remake of 1932's "Red Dust," which also starred Gable.

DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954 Kelly is the intended murder victim of husband Ray Milland in this suspense thriller (originally shot in 3-D) which has never had much of a critical following in the U.S. but is considered one of Hitchcock's greatest films by French critics.

REAR WINDOW (1954 Kelly plays Jimmy Stewart's fashion-plate girlfriend in this elegant thriller -- universally regarded as one of Hitchcock's masterpieces -- about a laid-up photojournalist who becomes voyeuristically involved with the lives of his neighbors.

THE COUNTRY GIRL (1954 Kelly won a best-actress Oscar for her deglamorized, change-of-pace role as the drab, nagging wife of an alcoholic singer (Bing Crosby) trying to make a Broadway comeback in this adaptation of an exceedingly grim play by Clifford Odets.

GREEN FIRE (1954 Time has been kind to this searching-for-emeralds adventure that was long considered Kelly's worst movie: The story moves like a whip, the Colombian locations and special effects are eye-filling and Kelly's romantic chemistry with Stewart Granger sizzles.

THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI (1955 Kelly is mostly an R&R decoration in this intelligent military drama, based on James Michener's novel, starring William Holden as a Navy pilot flying increasingly futile bombing missions in the stalemated Korean War.

TO CATCH A THIEF (1955 Kelly's third collaboration with Hitchcock -- in which she plays the saucy love-interest of cat burglar Cary Grant -- is a glorious display of '50s glamour and movie-star charisma, and the film that first took her to Monaco.

THE SWAN (1956 In another prescient film role -- adapted from a much previously filmed play by Ferenc Molnar -- Kelly is magnificently regal as a middle European princess engaged to Prince Alec Guinness but in love with tutor Louis Jourdan.

HIGH SOCIETY (1956 Kelly was never more charming or endearing than in her last film -- a musical remake of "The Philadelphia Story" -- in which she played a spoiled heiress engaged to John Lund but torn between Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.
-- William Arnold

 

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NYDN
No one fit the name Grace or the title princess more than Ms. Kelly. Muse to film directors like Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, the Pennsylvania native (and daughter of an Irish Catholic self-made millionaire) added poise and elegance to 11 films and glamour to the Monaco royal family when she married Prince Rainier III in 1956. But fashion was arguably where Kelly left the largest impression.
Known for clean lines, refined jackets and skirts, understated makeup and neat hair, Kelly elevated the idea of "natural" beauty to new heights. With her deep appreciation of couture, it was only natural she fell for designer Oleg Cassini before she became princess. While their romance didn't last, Kelly's influence no doubt inspired the designer's line, which later became a signature look for Jackie Kennedy. More recently, Princess Grace's regal style has been copied by starlets like Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Bosworth and Katie Holmes. But even 25 years after the car accident that took her life, no one compares to the original.
BLUE BLOOD - AND SOME PURPLE PASSION
With Grandma Grace Kelly's genes and Grandpa Prince Rainier's fortune, it's no wonder the offspring of Caroline, Stephanie and Albert are as gorgeous as screen stars - and just as drama-filled.
ALBERT'S OFFSPRING:
Jazmin Grace (born 1992)
Mother: Real-estate agent Tamara Rotolo
This teen, who attends private school in Palm Springs, Calif., was only officially acknowledged as a Grimaldi last year after DNA testing.
Alexandre (born 2003)
Mother: Former Air France flight attendant Nicole Coste
The product of a brief liaison with a Togo-born beauty, he lives in the French town Villefranche-sur-Mer, a short drive from Monaco.
CAROLINE'S KIDS:
Andrea (born 1984), Charlotte (born 1986), Pierre (born 1987)
Father: Italian playboy Stefano Casiraghi
Blond hunk Andrea, who recently moved to New York, is a thrill-seeker like his dad (killed in a powerboat racing accident in 1990 He rides horses, skis and plays soccer.
Charlotte, a student at Paris' Sorbonne, is a brunette remix of her Hollywood grandma, down to an offbeat taste in men (one ex was said to be the son of a famous Indian astrologer). Sax-playing Pierre lives and studies in Milan and looks set to take over his father's family firm.
Princess Alexandra (born 1999)
Father: Ernst August V, Prince of Hanover
As Grace's only titled grandchild, this 8-year-old is princess of a small, albeit defunct, German state.
STEPHANIE'S BROOD
Louis (born 1992), Pauline (born 1994)
Father: Former royal bodyguard Daniel Ducruet
Products of their mom's marriage to her bodyguard, the two recently surfaced on a farm-based D-list French reality show, "La Ferme Célébrités."
Camille Marie Kelly (born 1998)
Father: Unknown (some say it's Jean-Raymond Gottlieb, former palace head of security)
The arrival of Grandma's namesake and the fact that no father was listed on her birth certificate led to Princess Stephanie's unofficial banishment from the principality (don't worry, she's back home now).
Mark Ellwood

 

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