Grace Kelly

[nel16]

I think her most true biography is her cinematography, and her marraige, and her children. Her legacy is exemplary of what it is to be a lady at all times.

I agree that she was very very graceful and lovely - I think she's amazing altogether - but Hitchcock famously said she was like a snowy volcano, that her cool elegance was a veil of what she could really be like (she had several affairs with her leading men, including quite a few that were married, and had a few affairs post-marriage as well... not that Prince Rainier wasn't doing the same).

Not that I'm suggesting her elegance was fake or anything, I just don't think it was Grace's intention to have people make a saint out of her or anything like that. I adore her for her human-ness and how despite everything that was expected of her and how she was treated at times, she tried to do the right thing and make others happy. She was lovely.

 

[DandyWarhol]

Grace Kelly is such a classic.. i think we all aspire to look like her and have her style at some points!

 

[OMIFAN9]

Hope this isn't a repeat,but its probably my fav of her(1952). Photo Credit:Bettmann

 

[baglover529]

I just watched High Society again. What a wonderful movie! It was funny and entertaining. Plus it's a musical...I love musicals! Grace was SPECTACULAR in the movie. I think it's her natural elegance, beauty, poise and je ne sais quoi.

I believe that NOONE today can even come close to Grace in terms of these. She was perfect and yet so human...wish I could be like her.

 

[kochie332]

i agree about how no one comes close

i love High Society!!!! its such a cute and funny movie

 

[nel16]

High Society is my favourite Grace movie (alongside To Catch a Thief). Great cast, great story and I love the song she sings with Bing Crosby! (To think they almost didn't let her sing for the movie because they didn't think her voice up to par. )

And that pic is beautiful, OMIFAN9.

 

[baglover529]

Oh yes, To Catch A Thief is right up there with High Society. Two of my favorite Grace Kelly movies too.

 

[kochie332]

i think my three favorite Grace Kelly movies are
Dial M for murder (because that is the first movie i saw with her in it, i was fascinated by her)
To Catch a Thief
High Society

 

[kissmesweet]

^^ I love To Catch a Thief!

i agree about how no one comes close

Absolutely! She's just phenomenal: in style and in her acting.

 

[kochie332]

The Images of a Lifetime: An Exhibition and Cocktail Party to Benefit The Princess Grace Foundation
June 26, 2007 - Gramercy Park Hotel, Roof Club and Garden
wireimage

 

[kochie332]

ive never seen some of the pictures of grace behind the people at the party
PMC

 

[cosmogrl5]

^ Those are wonderful. Thanks for sharing!

 

[nel16]

Oh wow, I'm so jealous of the people that got to go! I don't recognize some of those pictures either, are they maybe in that Grace book that one chick's looking at? *wants*

 

[nel16]

I've been reading Edith Head's Hollywood, and as most of you probably know Edith was a great friend of Grace's and dressed her for Rear Window, The Country Girl and To Catch a Thief, and I thought it was cool that Edith said her favourite actress was Grace because "she knew how to wear clothes" and also that Edith felt her best work was in To Catch a Thief and felt robbed of the Costume Design Oscar when it didn't win.

Credit: Simply Classics

There's also another interesting section where she lists "the flaws" of everyone she's worked on (Audrey Hepburn's neck was "too long and thin", Elizabeth Taylor, though she's the "most beautiful" person Edith says she's dressed, had "short legs", etc. etc.) and Grace's "flaw" is that her "waist is much too small" - how I'd love that flaw!

 

[kochie332]

^that is a nice "flaw"

she does know how to wear clothes

 

[dbear1000]

Grace's "flaw" is that her "waist is much too small" - how I'd love that flaw!

Well I don't think now days that would be considered a flaw, since they were much more voluptuous back then.

I also read a book about Edith Head (Edith Head: The Life and Times of Hollywood's Celebrated Costume Designer), and I think I remember reading something like that. It's a great read if anyone is interested. I bought it.

 

[cosmogrl5]

Thanks for the info! I am definitely going to pick up those books. They sound like just my kind of reading.

 

[nel16]

Edith Head's Hollywood was fantastic because it was part autobiography... she had been writing it up until she died in the early eighties, and then someone else came and finished it for her.

I'll have to check out the other one as well.

 

[nel16]

Someone's selling their Princess Grace Kelly "bride" doll on eBay. I didn't even know such a thing existed!

 

[kochie332]

article about another exhibit
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2007/07/11/efgrace111.xml

and pictures
abacapress