Grace Kelly

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More Grace quotes:
"Getting angry doesn't solve anything. "

"I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel. "

"Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal."

Brainy Quotes

 

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Grace Trivia

In The Swan (1956) she played a young woman betrothed to a prince! It was her penultimate role. Shortly after making the film she became engaged to a prince in real life.

In 1993, the USA and Monaco simultaneously released a commemorative postage stamp honoring her. However, USA federal law forbids postage stamps depicting foreign heads of state, so the USA stamp listed her as Grace Kelly, while the Monaco stamp listed her as Princess Grace.


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When actress Jennifer Jones became unexpectedly pregnant, Paramount begged MGM to allow Kelly to take her place in 1954's The Country Girl. The studio initially refused, but she successfully battled for the role. The result was a Best Actress Oscar. Greta Garbo had refused the role earlier.


When she married Prince Rainier III of Monaco, MGM released a Technicolor film of their wedding ceremony


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Her wedding gown was the most expensive garment MGM designer Helen Rose had ever made. It used twenty-five yards of silk taffeta and one hundred yards of silk net. Its 125-year-old rose point lace was purchased from a museum and thousands of tiny pearls were sewn on the veil.

After marriage, she occasionally lent her presence to documentaries like The Children of Theatre Street, a 1977 film about the Kirov Ballet School.


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It was announced in 1962 that she was to return to Hollywood to star in Hitchcock's Marnie, but she later withdrew from the project and never acted again.

Her uncle, George Kelly, was the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist behind the plays The Show-Off and Craig's Wife.

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[scriptgirl]

It was while filming Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief on the French Riviera in 1955 that she met Prince Rainier III of Monaco, and the two began a romance.


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[scriptgirl]

Grace's Bio from Divas

From Screen Princess to Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly’s amazing life was a fairy tale sprung to life for legions of dreamy little girls and starlet wannabes. Her inconspicuous beginnings as a proper young lady from a privileged family, through some years filming for Hollywood, led her eventually to becoming Princess Grace, Countess Grimaldi, the wife of Prince Rainier III of Monaco. It wasn’t destined to be nothing but sunbathing and baccarat, however; Monaco’s survival depended upon her ability to produce an heir, thereby ensuring tiny Monaco’s right to continued independence from France.
She filled her new role well. In 1958, Grace dutifully produced Albert, their second child-- and an heir. Along with his two sisters, Caroline and Stéphanie, tabloids were well-supplied with fodder for many years, thanks to their antics-- especially those of the two girls. After Princess Grace matured into a steady life dedicated to good causes, due to her husband’s insistence that she abandon her film career after seeing her working in High Society, it became difficult to believe that these three children could have been borne by Her Serene Highness.

 

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Pt 2 of her bio from Divas

Grace’s film career culminated in an Academy Award for her work in The Country Girl (1954), but began some years earlier. Though the family was well off, she decided to join New York City’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 1949 she debuted on Broadway in The Father, by Strindberg. In 1951 she landed a part in Fourteen Hours for Twentieth Century-Fox. Her work in 1952 opposite Gary Cooper in High Noon led to a contract with MGM. 1953 saw Grace starring opposite Clark Gable and Ava Gardner in Mogambo.
Her work with Alfred Hitchcock, however, was to provide the definitive stamp on a rapidly-escalating career. His penchant for casting cool blondes in his cinematic tour de forces provided Grace with unforgettable roles in Dial M for Murder, Rear Window (both from 1954), and 1955’s To Catch A Thief. Her cool, aloof demeanor naturally led to talk of romances with many of her leading men, but Grace knew better how to behave.
Life as a Princess, however, ended tragically. At the young age of fifty-two, Grace died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident when the car in which she and daughter Stéphanie had been driving crashed through a barrier on a twisting road and down a hill. She was sent to her final rest from the grand church in which she had been married many years before-- remembered by the world for her beauty, dignity, and most of all by the quality inherent in her baptismal name.

 

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Topham

 

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El Pais

 

[VivaLaLucy]

I've been a member of tfs for quite some time, but haven't post a post yet, but I'd like to thank you folks for posting such rare pictures and post these:

source: ebay

 

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SET

 

[kochie332]

I've been a member of tfs for quite some time, but haven't post a post yet, but I'd like to thank you folks for posting such rare pictures and post these:

well thats a wonderful first post! really great modeling shots

 

[scriptgirl]

I have always read the Kelly family was rich, but were they as rich as the Kennedys?

TRF

 

[Romy B]

^ I have never seen that picture before.

 

[Beckham18]

Is she Pregnant in that Picture ?

 

[scriptgirl]

Yes, she is.

eyedea

 

[nmyngan]

love this set

ebay

 

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globe

 

[kochie332]

love this set

her early headshots were beautiful

and she really was such a cute pregnant woman

liverani, TPG