Grace Kelly

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love letter from Rainier to Grace before she leaved New York for the wedding in the Constitution

that was interesting to read...thanks and welcome to TFS


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I saw Dial M for Murder last night...I'm trying to find a copy of Rear Window on amazon, I think they have some used ones available.

 

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Where did you see Dial M for Murder? What station was it on?

 

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By all means, pls see Rear Window-it is WELL worth it.

 

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From the exhibit

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From the exhibit
Grace's horoscope

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Philly Inquirer
The Boyd Theater can now take its rightful place in Philadelphia history as the city's last great movie palace.

The Philadelphia Historical Commission last week voted unanimously to give historic status to the old downtown theatre.

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The action was a big relief for the Friends of the Boyd, a nonprofit preservation group that rallied to save the theater.

The hard-won designation protects the classic art deco building - located on Chestnut Street near Rittenhouse Square - from being demolished or altered.

After initially dragging its feet, the commission deserves credit for finally doing the right thing. It passed up an opportunity in 2002 to grant historic certification to the Boyd.

In the latest battle, Mayor Nutter threw his support behind classifying the building as a protected landmark. That was a stark contrast to former Mayor John Street's administration, which stood by while the previous owner - a major mayoral campaign contributor - skillfully blocked historic status for the theater.

Without the protection, preservation groups had feared that the Boyd could be lost. The National Trust for Historic Preservation this year listed the theater as one of the country's 11 most endangered historic places.

Built in 1928, the now-shuttered, 2,350-seat theater once opened for such movie stars as Grace Kelly and Charleston Heston. It was most recently known as the Sameric.

Its 74-year run ended when the ornate movie house closed in May 2002.

The Boyd's future has been up in the air since its current owner, concert promoter Live Nation, abandoned plans to transform the theater into a music venue and put it up for auction.

The new historic certification should help speed up the search for a new owner interested in possibly reviving the old theater. Remarkably intact, the theater would be a perfect place for live shows.

The Boyd Theater - the only remaining movie palace in Center City - almost became history. Let's hope its near demise serves as a reminder in the future to preserve the city's rich historical legacy.

 

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Herald Tribune
The actress-princess at the Paris Hôtel de Ville Weekly Highlights from Globespotters Urban advice from reporters who live there / iht.com/globespotters
BY By Caroline Matthews
CR The New York Times Media Group
WC 201 words
PD 2 August 2008
SN International Herald Tribune
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PG 20
LA English
CY © 2008 The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved.
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Caroline Matthews suggests meeting an old star in Paris: ''Until Aug. 16, the Hôtel de Ville in Paris is featuring 'Les Années Grace Kelly, Princesse de Monaco,' a free exhibition that explores the life of the movie star who became a princess. The exhibition is a must-do for anyone nostalgic for the glamour of an era studded with stars like Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant and Humphrey Bogart.

''Walking into the exhibit, one gets a glimpse into Kelly's childhood in Philadelphia and the source of her self-confidence. Her father was a gold medal Olympic rower whose bricklaying business became one of the biggest in the United States. Her mother was the first director of women's athletics at the University of Pennsylvania.

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''The exhibition elegantly catalogues her acting career. A striking wall of magazine covers showcases her celebrity. Scenes from her films like ''Rear Window'' and ''The Country Girl,'' for which she won the Academy Award for best actress, are projected on the walls.''

 

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Irish Times

ON THE MORNING of her 40th birthday, Wednesday, November 12th 1969, Grace Kelly, screen icon and Princess of Monaco, recorded in her diary her weight and body measurements (122lbs, bust 35½ inches, waist 27 inches, hips 37 inches).

It's a touching insight into the "human" side of one of the enduring style icons of the 20th century, and indicative of the intimate nature of The Grace Kelly Years: Princess of Monaco, now running at l'Hôtel de Ville in Paris.

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The exhibition, curated by Frédéric Mitterrand and launched in Monaco last summer as a tribute on the 25th anniversary of her death, is a spellbinding recreation of the princess's public and private lives.

Born into a wealthy Irish Catholic family in Philadelphia, Grace Kelly became an Oscar-winning star of the silver screen before meeting and marrying her prince. Some of the most touching letters on display are those from her husband, Prince Rainier III, including this note, sent to her in April 1956 as she and her entourage sailed to the French Riviera for her wedding on board the SS Constitution: "My darling, This is to tell you in a very mild way how terribly much I love you, miss you, need you and want you near me always. Safe trip my love. Rest, relax and think of me burning myself out with this terrible longing of you, for you! I love you so."

The fairy-tale wedding, attended by 600 guests and watched on television by an estimated 30 million people, was the invite of the year, as this telegram sent by Rainier to his bride illustrates. "Having to fight overwhelming demand invitations STOP At this point and time all have to be refused as only one per cent refusals in all sent out STOP Just about had enough STOP Love Rainier."

The princess's wedding dress, the seating plan for the ceremony and the gift record book - open on the page recording the receipt, from General and Mrs Julian Brown, of a "glass bunny" - make for some voyeuristic viewing.

Some of the stylish princess's most admired fashion outfits, and thatHermès bag, are on display, alongside a sparkling multi-carat treasure trove of jewellery by Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Harry Winston and others, including her 10.48 carat emerald-cut diamond engagement ring.

But it's the intimate family album photographs and the letters that are most revealing. There is the heart-wrenching letter from her father, asking her to reconsider her frowned-upon relationship with the married, "twice your age", fashion designer Oleg Cassini, which begins: "I have never seen your mother so upset over anything." There is also the warm and humorous correspondence with her favourite director and lifelong friend Alfred Hitchcock.

"I hate to disappoint you," Princess Grace wrote by way of explaining that she would have to decline a part he had offered her. "I also hate the fact that there are probably many other 'cattle' who could play the part equally as well. Despite that, I hope to remain one of your 'sacred cows'."

The Grace Kelly Years: Princess of Monaco, is at l'Hôtel de Ville, Paris, until August 16th. Opening hours are Monday to Saturday, 10am to 7pm. Admission is free. The exhibition will then travel to Moscow, Doha, Rome, London and Melbourne

 

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The Sun
CRUMBLING Irish cottage that belonged to royal actress Grace Kelly could become a major tourist attraction.

The Princess of Monaco coughed up around Euro 10,000 for the thatched farmhouse of her ancestors in 1976.

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Her granddad John Bernard Kelly was born in the home in Newport, Co Mayo.

Before her tragic death in 1982, she had planned to build a massive dormer type building there with accommodation for guests and staff.

But the plans were ditched after her fatal car smash.

However, local councillor Frank Chambers has revealed that the Grimaldi family - who have ruled Monaco for 700 years - will work with Mayo County Council in restoring the site.

He said it "could be a tourist asset for the whole west of Ireland".

 

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Turkish Daily News
Prince Albert II is a ruler, a pioneering environmentalist, a sportsman and a wonderful person completely devoted to public life, Turkey's Consul General to Monaco Tuna Aksoy Köprülü told a gathering of 100 diplomatic and leading Turkish figures along the Bosporus Thursday to honor the third anniversary of the prince's enthronement. Guests included consul generals from China, Germany, France, Austria, Russia, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Korea, Japan, Chile, the Philippines and Egypt, while three bodyguards trailed the Israeli consul general. Stepping up protection following this week's terror attack on the American Consulate in Istanbul, security boats motored back and forth flashing their spotlights, while other security personnel in black crept around the Sait Halim Pasa palace. Meanwhile the multi-billionaire head of the family powerhouse of Turkish industry, Rahmi Koç, arrived on his boat just in time for the evening's toast, complaining about Istanbul traffic. Istanbul Municipality representative Erman Tuncer, a member of the Islamic-rooted ruling Justice and Development Party mingled alongside the representative of the Orthodox Church Patriarchate.

In her toast wishing Prince Albert II well, Köprülü announced that in Singapore in April the U.N. Environmental Program had presented the prince with the Champions of the Earth Award, an honor bestowed upon leaders acting boldly on behalf of the global environment. She added that last year the same award was given to Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.

Köprülü, who spent many years living in the sovereign Mediterranean city-state Monaco, has watched the prince up close since he was a young man. Several days before the party, Köprülü sat with the Turkish Daily News on her patio in Yeniköy facing a peek-a-boo view of the Bosporus to discuss the man behind the prince.

His activities on behalf of people and the environment have an intimate quality, she said. First-hand accounts of his activities around the globe and transcripts of annual addresses to the United Nations and other organizations confirm the assessment. He is no ordinary royal.

His Serene Highness of Monaco, who turned 50 this year, Prince Albert II is the second child of one of history's great romances. He was born in 1958 to Rainier III of Monaco and Grace, princess of Monaco, formerly Grace Kelly of American stage and screen. Princess Grace died in a car crash in 1982.

In 2006 Prince Albert journeyed to the North Pole and to the same spot where his great-great-grandfather had stood on the glacier "Lillihöök" in the Artic territories a century earlier to the day. However Albert found no ice in sight, standing instead on a scraggly rock surface, where his team of 12 scientists measured a six-kilometer reduction in the glacier's size in 100 years. “The dramatic situation today obliges every one of us to act if we wish to protect the planet for future generations,” he wrote in his foundation's publication after the trip. The Prince Albert II Foundation addresses climate change, decreasing biodiversity and access to water around the world. “From Indonesia to Togo and God knows which other African countries, he has traveled the world in an effort to improve children's health, eradicate poverty and get the environment to a safer place,” Köprülü said.

Humble before the cause

Leaning across stacks of speeches and publications featuring his responsibilities on behalf of poor communities, the environment and, as of a few years ago, Monaco's diplomatic independence from France, Köprülü added that the prince hardly took any time out for himself. “He never even takes a long weekend retreat,” Köprülü said. “Can you imagine?”

Köprülü says the prince's extreme modesty and deflection of accolades must be a product of “his upbringing, his blueblood.” “I tell him, ‘You're too modest,'” she said.

Prince Albert has been putting the environment at the top of his agenda in annual addresses to the United Nations and on the ground in communities around the world for more than 25 years. “You all have missed the real story, the real voice,” referring to the focus in the press on Prince Albert as a playboy and on other headline-grabbing environmental activists.

This year marks another centennial of the prince's great-great-grandfather's own pioneering role in oceanographic exploration and research. A scientific research group of the Mediterranean was founded in 1909 when Albert I asked European leaders and the Ottoman sultan to cooperate. “People think you only go there to gamble or whatever,” said Köprülü before referring to Monaco's quieter wealth of innovation and leadership in atomic energy, cosmetics research and continued marine research.

Köprülü said young Albert was very close to his mother and is “more or less similar to her in character.” Princess Grace took a leading role in developing the principality's arts, elderly care and the Red Cross. She helped Monaco become enlightened, Köprülü said, noting the indefatigable dedication both mother and son showed people. “As many have said of Grace, Albert doesn't seem to have the word ‘no' in his vocabulary.”

From correspondent to consul general: Tuna Köprülü

Born and raised in Turkey, Tuna Aksoy Köprülü moved to Washington D.C. in 1966 when her husband was appointed as the press attache of the Turkish Embassy. She studied English philology and married into the famous Köprülü family, which distinguished itself during Ottoman times as influential in politics and foreign affairs. In an effort to familiarize Americans with Turkey, Köprülü frequently lectured at local D.C. high schools and social and professional clubs.

In the late 1970s she began working for the Turkish Daily News and later daily Hürriyet as White House correspondent. The only Turkish reporter to cover American politics day-to-day on the ground as well as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, she wrote a book in Turkish spanning the 15 years she spent inside the U.S. capital. The book's highlights include gossip and insider impressions that reveal as much about her enigmatic charm as they do the politicians she wrote about. In her first newspaper assignment in 1976 she interviewed Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalyn, before his presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in New York. Other revelations in her book include a behind-the-iron-curtain look at the U.S. arms embargo against Turkey, Ronald Reagan's Hollywood connections and Armenian terror against Turkey on U.S. soil. Her long list of acquaintances and snapshots reveal the range of her connections from George Bush and Henry Kissinger to Sammy Davis Jr., Sean Connery and Elizabeth Taylor. She has also enjoyed a degree of coziness with the likes of Turkish leading figures Turgut Ozal, Kenan Evren, Ismet Inönü, Tansu Çiller, Bulent and Rahsan Ecevit, and Vehbi and Rahmi Koç.

After 25 years in Washington she returned to Turkey following the death of her husband, Ertugrul, where she was named Turkey's honorary ambassador to Monaco, a role that followed in her father's footsteps. In the 1960s her parents had made a home in Monaco where she later inherited their family home and lived for most of the decade between 1990 and 2000. “In a way we belong to Monaco, if I may say so,” she told the TDN.

Köprülü is working on a book project that will trace the life and environmental ambitions of Prince Albert II from his heritage to the present. She said she plans to interview family members, including Grace Kelly's family in Philadelphia, who had a large impact on his formidable years. From teammates and officials on the International Olympic Committee, where he has served as vice president for 18 years, to classmates and professors at Amherst College in Massachusetts where he graduated from. During her three research trips to the U.S. Library of Congress, she unearthed material that gives legs to historical biography such as a 100-year-old clipping from the New York Post heralding the arrival of Prince Albert I of Monaco.

Books by Tuna Köprülü available in English at Remzi Bookstores

“Foreign Palaces in Istanbul”

Published in 2005 at the request of the Greater Istanbul Municipality, “Foreign Palaces in Istanbul” is the first book to tell the story of 13 palace residences of foreign ambassadors to the Ottoman court. Through detailed histories, stories, documents and primarily sumptuous photographs, the book features palaces belonging to Britain, the United States, Italy, Holland, Germany, Sweden, France, Italy (Venice), Belgium, Austria, Spain and Egypt.

The foreign embassies built palatial mansions surrounded by gardens along the main street known as the Grand Rue de Pera, today's pedestrian thoroughfare Istiklal Caddesi. Pera became the Ottoman Empire's glittering showcase of European lifestyle in Istanbul. Köprülü provided details about the American Palace near Tünel, which was purchased in 1892 by Ambassador John Leishman and was the first foreign property representing the U.S. government. Known as Corpi Palace and designed by Italian architect Giacomo Leoni, it remains shrouded in mystery. The first owner was a Genevan shipping magnate Ignazio Corpi whose young fiancee was found dead in a bedroom soon after she moved in. Köprülü says young U.S. Marines who guarded the palace before the consulate moved to Istinye had not enjoyed their post due to the haunting sounds coming from the bedroom. She also notes that Sultan Abdülmecit attended the opening ball after the last restoration of the British palace, or Pera House, which was damaged in several fires.

“Istanbul the Capital of Cultures” (Kültür Baskenti Istanbul)

The first section of the book deals with the Roman and Byzantine periods from 627 B.C. to 1453, and the second focuses on the period from 1453 to 1923, namely the Ottoman era. After learning that Istanbul had been selected as a European Cultural Capital for 2010, Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbas immediately asked Köprülü to prepare a comprehensive book on the city.

 

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Sunday Telegraph
It is safe to assume that Alfred Hitchcock may have been bitter at never winning an Oscar, although as a director he was nominated for the award five times. The son of a greengrocer from Leytonstone, 'Hitch' felt socially disadvantaged in Britain and, according to this book, physically awkward in Hollywood, where his obesity and sexual hang-ups were at odds with the glamour of Tinseltown.

In Spellbound by Beauty Donald Spoto sets out to reveal a dark side to Hitchcock's complex personality. As the subtitle suggests, Hitchcock's relationship with actresses sometimes bordered on the pathological. The strength of Spoto's narrative is that it treats Hitchcock's body of work in chronological order, allowing film buffs to develop a clear appreciation of the director's development from early silent movies such as The Pleasure Garden (1926), and thrillers such as The Lodger (1927). In such work, some of Hitchcock's trademark visual themes emerge clearly - blonde heroines, chases up or down a staircase, an element of bondage and a true inventiveness when it comes to unusual camera angles.

It is useful to be reminded of some of Hitchcock's more subtle films, works which don't easily fit into the thriller genre, including Lifeboat (1944), with screenplay by John Steinbeck and starring Tallulah Bankhead and William Bendix. Bankhead, who was known for outrageous behaviour, apparently took to parading around the set without her knickers, claiming that because the film required her to be perpetually soaking wet, she was suffering from painful chaffing. A visiting reporter complained at the site of Ms Bankhead hitching her dress above her waist and revealing all, and the studio bosses asked Hitchcock to put a stop to it. He replied with a note saying that he couldn't work out which department should address the problem - 'make-up, wardrobe or hair?'

Hitchcock's wit was not normally so subtle. During the making of The 39 Steps (1934), he is said to have elicited a look of surprise from Madeleine Carroll in one scene by walking towards her with his flies unbuttoned. Far more interesting, to me, was the revelation that Carroll worked incognito during the Second World War as a Red Cross nurse, and received the Légion d'Honneur for her work supporting hundreds of orphans at a château she owned near Paris. Another snippet revealed by Spoto is that Anne Baxter, cast in Hitchcock's

I Confess (1953) was the granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright. Baxter's verdict on Hitchcock is one of the most cruelly articulate: 'He was ugly and unpresentable in polite society ... with a schoolboy's obsession with sex and an endless supply of very nasty, vulgar and naughty stories and jokes.'

The main thesis of Spellbound by Beauty is that Hitchcock was sexually inadequate, prone to inappropriate ribaldry and that he developed an unhealthy obsession with several of his leading ladies, notably Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly and more dangerously, Tippi Hedren.

Spoto quotes Hitchcock as saying that when it came to actresses, 'Nothing pleases me more than to knock the ladylikeness out of them.' If this were true then it goes against what most filmgoers will recall when they think of Kelly in To Catch a Thief (1955), or Bergman in Notorious (1946). And while it is true that Hedren is terrorised and physically abused in The Birds (1963), her physical beauty and immaculate style are the dominant images that remain for most fans. On the subject of style, Spoto quotes the costume designer Edith Head, whom he instructed to make Grace Kelly (Rear Window, 1954) 'appear like a piece of Dresden china, something slightly untouchable'.

The main thrust of Spoto's dissection of Hitchcock's dark side comes from interviews with Tippi Hedren, whom the director plucked from a career as a minor model to star in The Birds, and then Marnie (1964). Several Hollywood sources support Spoto's claim, backed by quotes from Hedren herself, that Hitchcock became obsessively jealous of the actress, and demanded that she make herself 'sexually available, wherever and whenever [Hitchcock] wanted'.

The evidence in the case of Hedren is compelling, but it is thin material for the basis of a whole book. Hitchcock died in 1980, and seems to have forged few close relationships in his life, remaining married to his wife Alma from 1926 until his death. He claimed that their marriage was unconsummated for over a year, and it seems likely that he had little interest in sex. The weakness of this book is that little of the material is fresh (Spoto has written two previous books on Hitchcock), and few of the sources have added anything new and interesting in the past 20 years. Obsessive or otherwise, Hitchcock's legacy is in his singular attention to detail and a collection of truly iconic heroines who epitomise what we now think of as high classic.

 

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Globe and Mail
Director Alfred Hitchcock offset a slight storyline with stunning visuals in this 1955 romantic thriller. Filmed on the French Riviera, the film stars the debonair Cary Grant as John Robie, an American expatriate and former jewel thief known as “The Cat.” A noble criminal who fought for the French Resistance, Robie is leading a sweet life of early retirement until a string of robberies mimicking his technique brings him to the attention of local authorities. Alternately dodging gendarmes and his old crime-world cronies, Robie realizes his only hope is to catch the copycat himself, which leads him into a romantic interlude with a gorgeous heiress, played by Grace Kelly, whose diamonds provide the perfect bait.

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While the cat-and-mouse game between Robie and the real thief pales by usual Hitchcock standards, the two leads imbue a crackling level of sensuality to the story; even though Grant was nearly double Kelly's age when the movie was filmed, they remain one of the best-looking couples in screen history. In off-camera folklore, it was during the filming of this movie that Kelly met Prince Rainier of Monaco. While it wasn't love at first sight, the Prince pursued his princess and they married the following year. Like moviegoers of the day, he was smitten.

 

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Where did you see Dial M for Murder? What station was it on?

Oh I randomly found a DVD of it this past weekend and couldn't resist. I had seen A Perfect Murder which I know was based off of it and I really wanted to see the original. I liked it a lot, actually it was almost like watching a play in a way; but I wasn't a big fan of Grace's British accent.

 

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Grace Kelly had it all really. Style, elegance & class. Something no money could buy...