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If anyone watches Mad Men the character January Jones plays is a dead ringer for Grace Kelly when she's all done up as Betty Draper. It's so incredible...

 

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GRACE KELLY EXPOSED

By Sara Wallis 14/04/2007
EXCLUSIVE: SINATRA, BRANDO, CURTIS, NIVEN, GABLE & CROSBY.. SHE JUST WANTED THEM ALL
GRACE Kelly was the innocent Hollywood sweetheart who captivated a generation of moviegoers.
A beautiful queen of the silver screen, she enjoyed a privileged life, which culminated in a fairytale marriage to her Prince Charming, Monaco's Prince Rainier III. But all was not what it seemed...
Grace's sweet image has been shattered once and for all, in an explosive book that exposes the actress's darker side.
The controversial new biography brands her a sex-obsessed cheater who stopped at nothing to get what she wanted. In True Grace: The Life And Times Of An American Princess, Hollywood biographer Wendy Leigh claims the actress had a string of torrid flings - both before and after she wed.
As a rising star, Grace passionately pursued her leading men, most of whom were married. Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Ray Milland, Bing Crosby and William Holden were all on her hit-list.
To fed-up Hollywood wives, Grace was a constant threat. "I have nothing good to say about her," declared one. "She had an affair with my best friend's husband, Ray Milland!"
When asked just how many men Grace had seduced, the woman - widow of top director Henry Hathaway - added: "Everybody. Yes, she wore white gloves but she was no saint!"
In one incident, Crosby is said to have walked in on Grace as she lay naked in bed with Marlon Brando - who, to add insult to injury, had beaten him to an Oscar just hours before. It comes as no surprise that "fisticuffs" ensued.
Grace is also alleged to have had a fling with David Niven while he was married - a rumour that circulated around Hollywood for years.
Before Rainier wed the 26-year-old actress in 1956, he asked Niven which of his lovers had been best in bed. "Grace, of course," he replied, before hastily adding: "Er, Gracie Fields."
Even after she tied the knot, Grace showed no inclination to curb her wild ways, and even bedded her bridesmaid's husband.
Model Carolyn Reybold had been such a good friend that Grace named her first child after her. But that friendship wasn't to last after she took a fancy to Carolyn's wealthy other half, Malcolm.
Grace eventually confessed all - blaming it on her distress after her father was found to have cancer.
But the betrayal left Carolyn a broken woman - her life spiralled out of control after her marriage collapsed and she ended up living in homeless shelters. She's now in a nursing home on Long Island.
In Leigh's book, published by St Martin's Press in the US, it is claimed that Grace's infidelities were a direct reaction to her husband's affairs - and that they propelled her into the arms of Frank Sinatra and rekindled her feelings for Brando.
"I know my husband has affairs with other women," Grace once confided to her hairdresser. "That's very frustrating to me and makes me very unhappy."
Sinatra's affair with Princess Grace lasted for years, they even had a lovenest in a secluded French villa in Cap Ferrat, according to the book. The singer confided to his valet that Grace was his "dream girl".
Also on the list of alleged lovers are actor Tony Curtis, US tennis ace Sidney Wood, British producer Anthony Havelock-Allan and musician Richard Boccelli.
"She was basically a romantic," says Leigh. "She was attracted to high-energy, driven men. There was a string of them - from gangsters to princes and many in between."
Tragically, Grace died before she found true happiness. The no-holds-barred biography of the Rear Window beauty comes on the eve of the 25th anniversary of Grace's death in a car crash at the age of 52.
She had been driving from her country home to Monaco with her daughter Princess Stephanie when she suffered a stroke, causing her Rover to veer off down the mountainside.
She died without regaining consciousness, while Stephanie suffered only minor injuries.
But in a twist that could have come from one of her Alfred Hitchcock films, the actress predicted her own untimely end.
According to True Grace, she'd asked famed psychic Frank Andrews: "I've always had a premonition that I'm going to die in a car crash. Will I?"
He replied: "What I can say is that if you don't change your eating habits and your drinking, you could easily have a stroke. And that could happen in a car."
Grace's tragic death cemented her iconic status. Born in Philadelphia, the third of four children, she didn't have the best role model when it came to marriage.
According to Leigh, the actress's philandering millionaire father Jack Kelly had many a lover behind her mother's back.
Little wonder then that Grace showed promiscuous behaviour from a young age - she was even romantically involved with her acting teacher Don Richardson.
Her first big role came at the age of 22, in Fourteen Hours. But it was in 1954, when Hitchcock cast her in Dial M For Murder and in Rear Window opposite Jimmy Stewart, that she became a star.
She also starred in Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief in 1955 and won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in The Country Girl.
Though her movie career spanned only five years and 11 films, her elegant beauty left a big impression and she clearly cast a spell over Prince Rainier, who she met while in Cannes for the 1956 film festival. He proposed within days.
Rainier had been led to believe that Grace was a virginal, worthy choice to be his wife and the mother of his children.
Grace turned her back on acting and focused on being a royal leader and mother - the couple had three children, Caroline in 1957, then Albert II in 1958 and Stephanie in 1965.
Aides say that Rainier knew about her affairs and went to his grave in 2005 still bitter.
When Grace died in 1982, millions mourned the passing of an American beauty who had bewitched everyone around her.
But now, with her secret life revealed, it seems Grace was never destined to live happily ever after.
Life and times of an icon
She was the first actress to appear on an American postage stamp.
French fashion house Hermes named one of its top products for Grace Kelly - the Kelly Bag.
Kelly is mentioned in dozens of popular songs including Madonna's Vogue, Eels' Grace Kelly Blues and Mika's hit Grace Kelly.
Her wedding gown was donated to the Philadelphia Museum Of Art.
The dress was designed by MGM's Helen Rose and was worked on by three dozen seamstresses for six weeks.
There were 600 guests at the wedding and an estimated 30 million people watched it on TV.
Nearly 100 million people watched her funeral on TV.
CHARLES IN LOVE-MATCH
GRACE Kelly was determined to make a match between her daughter Caroline and a 16-year-old Prince Charles, the book reveals.
Grace and Charles apparently got on "like a house on fire" and, according to her nephew Christian de Massy: "Grace wanted Caroline to marry Charles. She liked the British royal family."
But the romance wasn't meant to be. "When they met nothing developed," a source says.
Undeterred, Grace then tried to make a match between her nephew Christian and Princess Anne. However, Leigh reveals: "Their relationship did not progress either."

 

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LEAD: THE BRIDESMAIDS Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, and Six Intimate Friends. By Judith Balaban Quine. Illustrated. 498 pp. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. $21.95.
THE BRIDESMAIDS Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, and Six Intimate Friends. By Judith Balaban Quine. Illustrated. 498 pp. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. $21.95.
If Judith Balaban Quine, who was born in 1932, is not quite the archetype of the women trapped by marriage that Betty Friedan seared into the public consciousness more than 25 years ago, she is among the victims who managed to loosen the bonds of the ''Feminine Mystique'' Ms. Friedan defined. Ms. Quine's book, ''The Bridesmaids - Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, and Six Intimate Friends,'' is haphazardly hung on the lives of the women who attended the American actress on April 19, 1956, when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco. The author was one of the bridesmaids. She seems less interested in the others than in Kelly's story and her own, and in the meaning of being a woman in a man's world. As her attendants accompanied the bride off the luxury liner Constitution in Monte Carlo, Ms. Quine reflected on the approaching wedding: Grace Kelly ''bore our myth and our expectations,'' she writes. All of them would be princesses and all their men, princes. ''How easy we all thought it would be.'' The daughter of Barney Balaban (president of Paramount Pictures) and Tillie Balaban, Ms. Quine was born, reared and came into adolescence and adulthood in the haut-suburbias of Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, the Savoy Plaza and Hampshire House in New York (including dancing with Montgomery Clift) and, of course, Beverly Hills.
Ms. Quine seems to have become an interesting, likable woman; a perfect - cheerful, supportive and empathic - college roommate; a long-term durable friend; a woman who will be there when you need her to counsel with, to weep with. Sad to say, she seems to have arrived at 1989 and the age of 57 disappointed - still struggling with what Ms. Friedan called ''the problem that has no name.'' ''The Bridesmaids'' reflects that struggle.
Ms. Quine's book is thin and its treasures spare almost to the point of absence. But, read against the authors musings about married life in the 50's, tinged always with a bit of rue, the narrative becomes a kind of commentary on the facts of life for women of their generation and, perhaps, that of their daughters. Maree Frisby was Grace Kelly's high-school friend, Sally Parrish and Bettina Thompson were classmates from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Carolyn Scott was a modeling companion, Rita Gam was a colleague of Kelly's on the stage - and, of course, there was the author, whom Grace called ''Judybird,'' ''Dear Judybird.''
The bridesmaids all had multiple marriages. They all got, in the Princess's word, ''preggos'' and raised children. Some had extramarital lovers. Most forged careers and lives for themselves. Whatever happiness any of them had is so wispily sketched it is hard to know if they had any. And one, Carolyn Scott, has lived in a shelter for women in New York City.
In 1953, at the age of 21, Ms. Quine married Jay Kanter, who was Grace Kelly's agent (the bride and the actress first met at the wedding). Ms. Quine says she had affairs with Marlon Brando and several others of the names she drops throughout the book. In Hollywood, she tells us, they say, ''Don't go to strangers.'' So she confined her infidelities to friends and she was not, she says, ''any the worse for the wear.'' She got preggos, had children and divorced Jay Kanter; married the actor Tony Franciosa, got preggos and divorced him; married another actor, Don Quine, taking on his children as well as her own.
She seems then to have caught on, to have found how to get happy - or at least happier. She and Don Quine started a business to promote professional karate; she developed a long-time devotion to social activism, working for such things as the A.C.L.U. Foundation, Governor Jerry Brown's Presidential candidacy and the California state government. By and large, she says, her children turned out all right, after the usual 60's rough times. And Judybird turned out all right, too, sustained by her enduring relationship with Grace; she worried about her, shared intimate secrets with her, giggled with her, sometimes literally sitting cross-legged on the bed with her, but more often at long distance and across time.

Grace Kelly, fairy-tale princess-wife of a loving prince, sadly killed in 1982, is the star of Ms. Quine's world. While there may be a fair amount of convivial drinking in this book, there is no alcoholism and no drugs. Like the shampoos of the 50's, ''The Bridesmaids'' seems squeaky clean. Despite other books and years of rumor, Ms. Quine's princess is without flaw or fault. The author manages to convince, but, alas, she is not a writer. There were times when I hooted at her ineptitude, but there were also times when I thought she might one day be a writer. She does know how to describe grieving. Because she is sensitive, articulate and sympathetic, her telling of her friend's death and the letters she still writes to Grace Kelly ''over there,'' despite their awkward sentimentality, are moving - the sentimentality is at least as true, and as lovingly awkward, as any memorial service.
Many readers who are women will recognize Judybird, her friends and themselves here, and almost all will recognize the stories of fairy-tale women who do not live happily ever after. I wish this were a better book. Judith Quine says she read Scott Berg's biography of Maxwell Perkins before she wrote ''The Bridesmaids,'' apparently trying to learn how she might be helped by a good editor. She should have had one. Perhaps she will next time.

 

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Grace attended dance class, even though she had what was considered "two left feet." (edit)

Grace appeared in the television series Philco Playhouse and Kraft Television Theater, with Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, James Dean and Antony Perkins. (edit)

Grace's list of broken hearts is quite long... one of them is her teacher at Academy of Dramatic Arts, Don Richardson. (edit)

The ring that Grace is wearing in High Society is the engagement ring that Ranier gave to her. (edit)

For her forts movie, Fourteen hour, the paycheck was only $120 a week. (edit)

At the beginning of her career, Grace appeared in television series called The Web. In his series appeared also Paul Newman and Eve Marie Saint. (edit)

While shooting Mogambo Grace and Clark Gable became really close. They had become this close that in England started the gossip of the two of them involved in a romantic relationship. An English tabloid sent to Mr. Gable a telegram asking to confirm or reject the story. His answer was that no one in his life had ever made him such a good compliment like that. (edit)

In 1958 Grace starred in the spot Invitatio to Montecarlo (edit)

For her 25th anniversary with Ranier, he gave her as a gift a theater, The Princess Grace Theater. (edit)

Grace and Cary Grant had a wonderful friendship, that last till Grace's death. Cary was often invited to Monaco, and he spent a lot of time there. (edit)

Even though her film career lasted just five years and she just made eleven films, Grace is remembered as a premier actress in American film. (edit)

It was reported to the press that Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby had an affair, while he was dating actress Kathryn Grant. Three days before the date scheduled for Crosby's marriage to Grant, Crosby confessed his affair with Grace and he no longer wished to marry Kathryn. Crosby later reconciled with Kathryn Grant and proposed to her once again. (edit)

Grace and the Shah of Iran had gone on at least six dates near the end of 1949. (edit)

Right after the car accident that resulted in her death, Grace's last words were: I'm sorry. She was talking to her youngest daughter, Stephanie who was in the car with her. (edit)

Grace hated driving the car, and she wasn't good at it. (edit)

Grace had a very difficult moment when she turned 40; She started thinking that leaving Hollywood so soon was a mistake. (edit)

When Grace picked up the 1954 Academy Award for her performance in The Country Girl, Judy Garland (who was nominated for A Star Is Born) didn't bother to hide her opinion that she had been gypped, sniffing at the thought of Grace Kelly "taking off her fuc***g make-up and grabbing MY Oscar." (edit)

 

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Grace and Alfred Hitchcock were soulmates who were involved in a very intense love affair of the mind. After she deserted him for marriage, he called her Princess Disgrace. (edit)

Rumor has it that Princess Grace, towards the end of her life, had an affair with a Hungarian director, 15 years younger than her. (edit)

When actress Jennifer Jones became unexpectedly pregnant, Paramount begged MGM to allow Grace to take her place in 1954's The Country Girl. The studio initially refused, but Grace successfully battled for the role in fact the result was an Academy Award for Best Actress. (edit)

Grace had a long-running practical joke going with Alec Guinness where each would smuggle an Indian tomahawk into the other's bed no matter where they were. Part of the joke was that neither would ever allude to the fact afterwards. (edit)

Grace briefly worked as a model for insecticide. (edit)

When people speak of Grace Kelly as one of the classic faces of her era, it's usually a Howell Conant photograph they are thinking about. His images of Grace vacationing in Jamaica in 1955 caused a sensation and were the making of Conant's career. It was also the beginning of an extraordinary collaboration between subject and photographer that lasted until her death in 1982. (edit)

Princess Grace first met French president de Gaulle on a state visit to Paris in 1959. To prepare for the trip, she had sent to the library for a copy of the general's memoirs. However, when she saw how huge the volume was she asked a secretary to provide her with a résumé. (edit)

After accepting Rainier's proposal, Grace called her friends to tell them she was engaged to be married but hung up before telling them who the man was. The consensus was Oleg Cassini. No one suyspected Prince Rainier. (edit)

Legend has it that Marilyn Monroe's engagement congratulations to Grace ran, "So glad you've found a way out of this business." (edit)

In 1959, Grace was awarded with a medal of merit by the Austrian government for her aid to Hungarian refugees escaping Russian invasion. (edit)

In 2007, a band called MIKA dedicated the song Grace Kelly to Grace, obviously. The song features several sound clips from her Oscar winning role in The Country Girl. (edit)

Grace Kelly was Hitchcock's muse. (edit)

 

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Grace Kelly didn't like her hand and her fingers, she often wore gloves to cover them up. (edit)

Helen Rose was a MGM designer who dressed Grace Kelly for her home studio films. She was also the author of her fabulous wedding gown. The subtle, princely dress was made of yards of silk, silk, taffeta, silk tulle and rich, antique Valenciennes lace. (edit)

Grace Kelly had an affair with Ray Milland while they was Starring in Dil M For Murdere, but at the time Milland was married. (edit)

Even though Grace Kelly was short-sighted, she almost never wore her glasses. (edit)

Grace and her husband, Prince Rainer bought a silver frame as a wedding gift to Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981, when they attended their royal wedding. (edit)

Grace had a long list of lovers during her career in Hollywood. These included actors Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, William Holden, David Niven, Ray Milland, Bing Crosby, Jean-Pierre Aumont, and Cary Grant. (edit)

Grace had a television movie dedicated to her life called "Grace Kelly". Grace was portrayed by Christina Applegate and Cheryl Ladd. (edit)

Grace was considered for the role of Maggie the Cat in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, however she turned it down and the character was eventually played by Elizabeth Taylor. (edit)

Grace is famously mentioned in many songs. She is mentioned in Vogue by Madonna, We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel, and Wrap Her Up by Elton John. (edit)

Grace's wedding gown was the most expensive design that 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 thousants of tiny pearls were sewn on the veil. (edit)

Grace had hopes of returning to acting in Alfred Hitchcock's film "Marnie", but the people of Monaco didn't want their princess playing a thief and romancing Sean Connery. (edit)

One of Grace's bridesmaids at her royal wedding to Prince Rainer was actress Rita Gam. (edit)

The inscription at Grace's burial site in Monaco's cathedral, does not refer to her as a princess. It uses the title "uxor principis", which means "prince's wife", this is traditional in the House of Grimaldi. (edit)

Grace was ranked 51 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. (edit)

Grace was born at 5:31 AM EST. (edit)

In 1995, Grace was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history, coming in at fifth. (edit)

Grace's films were banned in Monaco by the command of Prince Rainer of Monaco. (edit)

Her nicknames were "Gracie" and "Graciebird". (edit)

The car accident which caused her death was reportedly caused by a stroke. (edit)

While pregnant with her first child, Grace often used her Hermes bag to hide her baby belly from the paparazzi. The company nicknamed that bag "the Kelly bag." (edit)

Her favourite flowers were roses. After her death, Prince Rainier of Monaco created a public rose garden in Monaco in her honour. (edit)

Other celebrities including Anne Hathaway, Neil Young and Al Michaels were born on her birthday. (edit)

She starred in the 1952 western film High Noon with Gary Cooper. (edit)

In 1956, she won a Henrietta Award at the Golden Globes for World Film Favorite (Female). (edit)

In 1955, she was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award in the category of Best Foreign Actress in the 1954 movie Dial M for Murder. (edit)

She has a Star on the Walk of Fame at 6329 Hollywood Blvd. (edit)

She is mentioned in the Billy Joel song We Didn't Start the Fire as Princess Grace. (edit)

In 1955, she was won an Academy Award for Best Actress for The Country Girl. (edit)

Her uncle George Kelly, was a, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. (edit)

Her cosin John F. Lehman, Jr. was Secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration. (edit)

 

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Her father and brother were both Olympic gold-medal winning rowers (scullers). (edit)

She attended and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, in New York City. (edit)

On January 1959 the Austrian government awarded her a medal of merit for aid to Hungarian refugees escaping Russian invasion, given through Monaco's Red Cross. (edit)

She was voted the 27th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly. (edit)

She was named #13 Actress on The American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends. (edit)

She was engaged to Oleg Cassini but broke it off to marry Prince Rainier of Monaco. (edit)

In 1993, she became the very first actress to appear on a postage stamp. (edit)

Her measurements were 34-24-35, in 1955. (edit)

She was 5 feet, 7 inches tall (1.70 m). (edit)

She had three children with Prince Rainier, Hereditary Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite, born January 23, 1957, Albert II, Prince of Monaco, born March 14, 1958 and Princess Stéphanie Marie Elisabeth, born February 1, 1965. (edit)

 

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