Grace Kelly

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Rear Window is pretty easy to get on DVD, at least it is here in the States.
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A new version is being released in October in the US but the old version from 2001 is out of print. I just got it from a seller on Amazon.

 

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I got my copy of Rear Window today which is another one I really wanted to see but they don't print anymore! So I'm glad I found a DVD of it...I read in a recent issue of Bazaar that it is a must see for the fashion alone...

it really is a must see for the fashion, Grace's wardrobe is beautiful


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Try it now. I can see it fine.
Another from the session in 3843

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From the exhibit

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The Morning Call
Gown of Grace: Exhibit on Princess' 1956 Nuptials an Elegant Tribute to a Philly Girl

Posted on: Sunday, 2 April 2006, 12:00 CDT
By Frank Whelan, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.
Apr. 2--In the two years that he was chaplain to the royal family of Monaco (July 1969 to July 1971), David Voellinger did many things with Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace, the Academy Award-winning, Philadelphia-born actress Grace Kelly.
He swam in the royal pool (purified with ozone bubbles -- Voellinger compares it to "swimming in champagne"), ate ham sandwiches made for him by Princess Grace and met the occasional house guest -- David Niven, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, tennis player Bjorn Borg.
In all that time together, Voellinger says, Rainier and Grace mentioned their wedding day only once. "We were having a private dinner in the family quarters of the palace with the children," recalls Macungie resident Voellinger, 67. "I can't even remember now what it was that brought it up."
But 50 years later, Voellinger himself is reflecting on those nuptials, which took place on April 19, 1956, at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Monaco. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is commemorating the event with the exhibit "Fit for a Princess: Grace Kelly's Wedding Dress." The famous dress and other items from Kelly's storybook wedding, including a bridesmaid's dress, flower girl's dress and the lace-and-pearl-encrusted prayer book Kelly carried, will be on display through May 21.
Princess Grace gave her dress to the museum in June 1956, just a few months after her wedding. It was formally presented to the museum by her parents. It remains the most popular piece of apparel in its collection of more than 30,000 items, says Kristina Haugland, the museum's associate curator of costumes and textiles. Haugland, who curated the exhibit, says the dress is kept in a climate-controlled storage area and only shown on special occasions. It was last shown in 1997-98 in the large survey exhibition, "Best Dressed: 250 Years of Style."
Voellinger's personal memory of Rainier and Grace's wedding is tied to a three-day religious retreat by the senior class at Philadelphia's Northeast Catholic High School in April 1956.
Before the retreat began, the students were addressed by the Rev. J. Francis Tucker. An Oblate of St. Francis De Sales priest and personal chaplain to Rainier, Tucker was said to have acted as the go-between between the Prince and Grace Kelly, whose family he knew well.
"Tucker looked out at us and said, 'This is the year of grace,' " recalls Voellinger. "When we heard it we all started laughing and then he stopped and started laughing as if he had just realized why what he said sounded funny."
When the royal couple mentioned their wedding day, Voellinger recalled Tucker's remarks and the date of the event popped into his head.
"I looked up and said 'April 19, 1956.' Their jaws dropped and they asked how I remembered the date so well." Voellinger then shared with Rainier and Grace Tucker's unintentional double entendre. They both laughed.
Screen goddesses were nothing new in the 1950s, but Kelly was different. The convent-educated granddaughter of an Irish immigrant and daughter of John B. Kelly, a politically well-connected Philadelphia brick contractor ("Kelly For Brickwork") combined all-American wholesomeness and refined, finishing-school manners.
But the roles she played with Social Register hauteur -- "the fair Miss Frigidaire" as Frank Sinatra called her character in Kelly's last film "High Society" (1956) -- never made her unapproachable. Curator Haugland compares her influence to that of First Lady Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy as a representative of the post-World War II era's ideal of beauty, chic sophistication and glamour.


On July 12, 1953, The Morning Call printed an interview with Kelly, the only one she is ever known to have given to the Lehigh Valley press. No byline appears on the story, but Sylvia Lawler, former Evening Chronicle/Morning Call critic/editor, recalls the reporter as Janet McNally, who worked briefly for the former Sunday Call-Chronicle.
Kelly was in mid-career that summer. She had just come back from Africa after filming "Mogambo" with Clark Gable and Ava Gardner. Three days later she would leave for Hollywood and the set of "Dial M for Murder," her first movie with director Alfred Hitchcock.
Kelly spoke of her acting education at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and looking for work. "I think I talked to every stock company manager in the country until finally I got a break at the Bucks County Playhouse," she told McNally. Kelly's debut at Bucks County was in 1949. She appeared in the "Torch-Bearers," a play written by George Kelly, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who was also her uncle.
Gary Cooper, her co-star in the western "High Noon," really was the strong, silent type, but, said Kelly, "good to work with." She added that the most unintentionally exciting moment in her career was the first night in the African bush while filming "Mogambo." Kelly had left her tent flap open and awoke to find herself facing a baboon.
"I was afraid to scream for fear he'd come right toward me," Kelly said. "He just sniffed around, very curious you know, and then went off again. That's when I screamed."
Lawler recalls talking to McNally about Kelly a few days after the interview. "The question we all had about her [Kelly] back then was whether or not she was an intelligent person, a person of substance," says Lawler. "Janet assured us that she was."
In 1954, Kelly won the Academy Award for best actress for her performance in "The Country Girl." In 1955, while filming Hitchcock's "To Catch A Thief" in the south of France, Kelly met Rainier at the Cannes Film Festival. On Jan. 5, 1956, the couple jointly announced their engagement. Kelly was 26.
The media frenzy of the next couple of months was huge by 1950s' standards. Kelly's father, who liked to call his royal son-in-law Ray, noted the crowd of the media that overwhelmed his home. "It's a good thing I built this house myself or there'd be no place for any of them," he said.
One of the chief topics of interest in the press was Kelly's dress. Engaged for a time to Oleg Cassini, one of the era's mega-couturiers, it was assumed someone with his star quality would design it. After months of speculation it was decided that MGM's Helen Rose, the two-time Academy Award-winning designer who had costumed Kelly for "Mogambo,""Green Fire,""The Swan" and "High Society," would design the dress. She offered it to the bride as a gift.
Kelly and Rose consulted frequently over the top-secret design. The actress had specific suggestions. She wanted a gown with a long train, long sleeves and a high neckline. With those concepts in mind, 35 craftspeople at MGM -- seamstresses, milliners, beaders, embroiderers, dyers -- went to work. Under Rose's supervision, the dress took six weeks to complete.
The bodice was made of rose point lace. So no seams would be visible, a thin silk gauze was re-embroidered over it. Three petticoats and a 14-inch-long skirt support were added to make sure the dress would hold its proper shape. The headpiece was also made of rose point lace. Wax orange blossoms, leaves fashioned from tiny pearls and wired lace motifs decorated its base.
Rose felt the Kelly wedding dress was her masterwork. It reflected, she said, Kelly's personality -- "simple but elegant, feminine, ladylike but necessarily regal." Two days before the wedding the design was made public. Immediately, fashion houses in New York set to work copying it.
As the wedding day approached, a tide of publicity traveled in Kelly's wake. An entourage of 80, most of them family members and press, traveled to Europe with her on the S.S. Constitution. What Kelly wore, how much luggage she carried (60 pieces), her score at shuffleboard and how her pet poodle, Oliver, was handling potential seasickness made headlines.
Most of the details Americans received about the wedding came from three newspaper wire service reporters. Television coverage of the event was seen by an estimated 30 million people in Europe. Technology at the time did not allow for live transmission to the U.S. But at the close of the wedding, a helicopter with television film of the event quickly took it to Nice, a fighter jet swept it to Paris and a propeller-powered TWA plane carried it to America.
There were more than 500 wedding guests, representing an intersection of celebrity and monarchy. President Dwight Eisenhower sent hotelier Conrad Hilton as his personal representative. Others present were British author W. Somerset Maugham, who had famously called Monaco "a sunny place for shady people," actress Ava Gardner, the Aga Khan and former King Farouk of Egypt.
On the long-awaited wedding day The Morning Call featured an editorial cartoon of a small sailboat, with a crown on its sail labeled "The Honeymoon." It rode on rough seas called Pitiless Publicity and Prying Curiosity. A cartoon balloon above the boat read, 'Do you think it will ever calm down?' "
Newspaper readers were given intimate details of the wedding. Rainier's nervous lip pulling during the civil ceremony (Monaco's law required a civil wedding and the Catholic Church required a religious ceremony, so the couple had to have both), the dropping of the ring in the church's carpet by the young page boy and the fainting of one of Grace's cousins, Jeanne Goit of Westport, Conn., who was carried from the church on a stretcher, were topics of conversation at breakfast tables across America.
At one point, Kelly's veil got tangled under her chair and Rainier almost tripped over his dangling sword. But when Bishop Gilles Barthe of Monte Carlo finished the ceremony, Rainier and Grace were safely married in the eyes of church, state and most of the world. They changed clothes, boarded the yacht Deo Juvante II, translated by the Prince as "God Helps Us," and sailed to a secluded honeymoon at the nearby French harbor of Villefrance-Sur-Mer.
To some, the fairy tale of the movie star and the prince was one of happy ever after, frozen in 1956. But the tabloid spotlight that had followed the royal couple often returned when the their children -- Princess Caroline, Prince Albert, Princess Stephanie -- created news with their sometimes scandalous private lives.
Long after he had left Monaco and married, Voellinger kept in occasional touch with Rainier and Grace. "We always at least sent Christmas cards," he recalls. On a day in 1982 the phone rang in Voellinger's home. "It was Grace looking for me," he says. A family member who thought it was a joke refused the call. "I kept waiting for her to call back but she never did," says Voellinger.
Two week later on Sept. 14, the 52-year-old Princess and her youngest daughter, Princess Stephanie, were driving the hairpin turns of the Riviera's Moyenne Corniche highway, which Kelly had done hundreds of times before, when her British Rover 3500 began to zigzag out of control. Most sources say she apparently had a minor stroke. The car jumped off the road and tumbled several times before finally landing in a garden 120 feet from the highway.
Princess Stephanie suffered only minor injuries. But her mother, severely injured, died the next day with her family at her bedside. A few days later Princess Grace was given a full royal funeral befitting the role she had played since April 19, 1956, when she held the attention of the world.

 

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Northeast Times
Grace & Royalty

By Thom Nickels
For the Times

he Philadelphia Museum of Art is recalling the heyday of a royal wedding with local ties — an image that lingers all these years later.
The museum just celebrated the opening of an exhibition highlighting the acquisition of a bridesmaid’s dress and petticoat that are on display with the wedding gown worn by the late Grace Kelly, the Philadelphia socialite and Oscar-winning actress whose comfortable life took a royal turn when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco 50 years ago.
The dress was worn by Maree Rambo when she was a bridesmaid in Kelly’s fairy-tale wedding on April 19, 1956. Rambo (then Maree Frisby Pamp) was a lifelong friend of Kelly’s, a camaraderie that started when they attended school together in Germantown.
Their wedding apparel is the centerpiece of Fit For a Princess: Grace Kelly’s Wedding Dress, an exhibit that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the royal wedding and continues at the art museum through May 21. In fact, it is the first time that the gown — a gift to the museum from the hometown princess — has been displayed since a 1997 exhibit devoted to 250 years of fashion.
Maree Rambo’s bridesmaid dress, constructed of silk organza over silk taffeta and organdy, is clearly of much humbler design than Grace Kelly’s royal gown. Bridesmaids’ dresses, of course, are traditionally designed not to outshine the bride’s, and Rambo’s dress clearly conjures the image of a maid or a second-tier attendant in a highly stylized garment.
The Joseph Hong-designed hat, made of stitched synthetic horsehair and silk organza, also called to mind the look of a scullery maid or a well-dressed French peasant on holiday.

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Throughout her life, Princess Grace, who was just 52 when she suffered a stroke while driving and died of injuries in the September 1982 car crash, was noted for her fierce loyalty to old friends, her years as an actress in Hollywood notwithstanding. Her Monaco bridesmaids consisted of friends from New York’s Academy of Dramatic Arts, one of her sisters (the other was pregnant and unable to take part) and Maree Rambo.
During a recent tea at the museum to celebrate the exhibition, Rambo was in attendance but not a featured speaker (she explained later that she was offered the opportunity but opted to stay in the background).
Grace Kelly, who grew up in the city’s East Falls section, the daughter of a millionaire brick contractor, blossomed as one of America’s top actresses of the 1950s.
She made fewer than a dozen films. But her big break — as the rigid Quaker wife opposite Gary Cooper in High Noon — was followed by Mogambo (Clark Gable and Ava Gardner) and a supporting-actress Oscar.
It earned Grace Kelly more attention in Hollywood, but a flurry of films in the mid-’50s — the Alfred Hitchcock thrillers Dial M for Murder and Rear Window, along with The Country Girl (she won a best-actress Oscar at 26), To Catch a Thief, High Society and The Swan — particularly cemented her stature in films that have evolved into classics today.
That remarkable streak — and, of course, her beauty didn’t hurt — elevated Grace Kelly to American darling. Her elegant manner of dress — hats, pearls and white gloves — became the order of the day. Women’s Wear Daily and Time magazine featured her on their covers in the 1950s.
But Grace Kelly ultimately chose a different path when she and Prince Rainier, a wealthy bachelor, met at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1955. Their courtship led to the altar in less than a year, and in 1956, Princess Grace of Monaco, shortly after the wedding, donated her gown to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
She retired from Hollywood at 27 and never made another film. But her royal life brought a new fame as a Monaco ambassador, as she turned to charitable endeavors and eventually had three children, and her gift of the wedding gown was marked with a celebratory soiree at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A 1956 photograph of that event in a museum publication, Grace Kelly, Icon of Style to Royal Bride, shows many women in pearls, hats and mink stoles.

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Most Philadelphians of a certain age can remember going to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and seeing the famed wedding dress in a department store display case drowned in bright lights. Unfortunately, the heat of those lights gradually started to break down the delicate fabric; conservators decided to put the dress away for safekeeping and display it only on special occasions.
And this big anniversary is one of those occasions. The gown, along with Maree Rambo’s bridesmaid attire, is on exhibit in a small section of the first-floor Costumes and Textiles wing of the museum. The regal gown — its classic ivory color, the many frontal buttons and bell shape, ivory lace down the back and its long sleeves and high collar — puts to shame the dresses that pass for wedding gowns today.
In the 1950s, the idea was to expose only the bride’s back, not outline old appendectomy scars.
Of course, Grace Kelly had money and the power of celebrity to ensure that she wore a gown for the ages. But this elegant creation — complemented by shoes, headpiece and a net veil designed to show her face — was a wedding gift to Grace Kelly from Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios.
The task of designing it went to Helen Rose, an Oscar-winning designer who created Kelly’s costumes for two of her films. About 35 members of the wardrobe department worked on the dress in MGM Studios for six weeks.
Photographs of the period depict matronly types in wire-rim glasses hard at work on the gown — and laboring under top-secret conditions. Outsiders were forbidden to see the dress; security was so tight that the gown’s blueprint was locked up at night.
In those days, Grace Kelly was so popular and beloved that everybody following the barrage of pre-wedding news wanted her dress to be a masterpiece.
Two days before the ceremony, details of the gown were released. Almost immediately, copies were made, and on the day of the wedding women could buy a version of the dress in New York.
MGM supervised production of every part of the bridal ensemble, including the headpiece, the veil, the lace-and-pearl-encrusted bridal prayer book, even the shoes with two-and-a-half-inch heels. These items are also on display in the Costume and Textiles wing. The shoes, in fact, call to mind the emerald slippers of Dorothy, since they actually did whisk away a Philadelphian to become "Her Serene Highness Grace Patricia of Monaco."

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The curator of the current exhibit, Kristina H. Haugland, explained how she had heard that Grace had a copper penny encased in the base of one of the shoes. Haugland said she’d felt the base of the bridal shoes, hoping to detect the buried penny, but when she felt nothing it occurred to her that she worked for a prestigious museum with a sophisticated conservation department, so Haugland had the shoes x-rayed.
Sure enough, a copper penny was concealed along the metal shank of the left shoe. (Rumors had abounded in 1956 that Grace Kelly wore flats during the ceremony so that Prince Rainier would not look like a shrimp. Those are the two-and-a-half-inch heels.)
Prince Rainer did not want the wedding Mass to be held in Philadelphia (in the bride’s parish church, St. Bridget’s in East Falls) for fear that the event would become a circus.
By all accounts, the royal couple embarked on a happy life in Monaco — a union unexpectedly broken by the tragic crash in ’82.
It was just a year ago — April 6, 2005 — that Prince Rainier died at 81 after a period of deteriorating health. He was laid to rest in a marble tomb in Monaco, next to his wife, the former Grace Kelly of Philadelphia. ••

 

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Neopoprealismjournal
Both literally and metaphorically, Grace Kelly was the cinema's fairy-tale princess; beautiful, elegant, and impossibly glamorous, she transcended the limits of Hollywood aristocracy to attain the power and glory of true royalty. Born November 12, 1929, in Philadelphia, PA, her father was a wealthy industrialist while her mother was a onetime cover girl. Her uncle, George Kelly, was the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist behind the plays The Show-Off and Craig's Wife. At the age of ten, she made her own theatrical debut in a Philadelphia-area production, and in her late teens she moved to New York, where she worked as a model while attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After turning down a Hollywood contract for fear of being typecast as a starlet, Kelly began to work in television, and in 1949 she made her Broadway debut in a revival of August Strindberg's The Father. When Hollywood again came calling, she accepted and was soon cast in a bit part in 1951's Fourteen Hours.
In just her second screen appearance, Kelly co-starred in a certifiable classic, the 1952 Western High Noon. Curiously, however, she did not benefit from the film's success, and no other offers were immediately forthcoming. She agreed to a screen test for a role in Taxi! but was rejected in favor of Constance Smith. However, the screen test found its way to director John Ford, who tapped her for 1953's Mogambo. The result was a seven-year contract with MGM, as well as a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. Alfred Hitchcock then enlisted Kelly's services for a pair of 1954 films, Dial M for Murder and the brilliant Rear Window; it was said that she was the perfect blonde the master director had been seeking throughout his career. She was now a major star, and 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.
After starring in MGM's Green Fire, Kelly teamed with Hitchcock for the third and final time on 1955's To Catch a Thief. While filming on the French Riviera, she met Prince Rainier III of Monaco, and the two began a romance which was soon making international headlines. After starring in 1956's High Society, a musical update of The Philadelphia Story, and a remake of the onetime Lillian Gish vehicle The Swan, Kelly announced her pending marriage to Rainier. She also announced her retirement from filmmaking to devote her full energies to her new duties as Princess of Monaco. A lavish wedding soon followed, and although it was announced in 1962 that she was to return to Hollywood to star in Hitchcock's Marnie, she later withdrew from the project and never acted again. Grace Kelly died September 14, 1982, in an auto accident after suffering a heart attack while driving.

 

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Signs on San Diego
Haunted by memories of elegant Princess Grace

September 14, 2007
Fate has been cruel to our most loved princesses, depriving us not merely of their beauty and regal bearing, but also of the ways unrelated to royal duty in which they touched our lives.

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Just two weeks ago marked a decade since the world lost Princess Diana, who was killed in an automobile accident in Paris.

Twenty-five years ago today, Grace Kelly, princess of Monaco, died in a car crash on a winding road in her Mediterranean principality.
Perhaps because Diana lived and died amid an unrelenting media frenzy, her accidental death has eclipsed Princess Grace's in memory and in history.
But make no mistake, the loss of Grace Kelly was – and is – an unbearable one.
I'm reminded just how much as I peruse my copy of “Remembering Grace: 25 Years Later.” Part of Life magazine's “Great Photographers Series,” it's an entire booklet of photographs of Grace Kelly taken over the course of three decades by Howell Conant.
Still photos of Kelly, stunning as they are, scarcely do justice to the way the princess-to-be photographed on screen. Like that slow-motion close-up of her face, as she draws near to kiss James Stewart in “Rear Window.” Or, when she's stretched out on the beach in Cannes in her black one-piece and designer sunglasses in “To Catch a Thief.”
The elegant sex appeal of Grace Kelly, movie star, makes it easy to forget that, though she made only 10 films, she trained for her craft at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, appeared on Broadway and even won an Oscar (for “The Country Girl” in '54). Whether her looks nonetheless precluded her from being taken seriously as an actress, we can't be sure. Her career, which she sacrificed for her fairy tale, spanned only four years.
There would be no fairy-tale ending. Revisionist biographers have painted a picture of a princess devoting herself to her children and to charities to keep loneliness at bay. She was only 52 when she died on that mountain road.
You look at her on the cover of “Remembering Grace,” supremely glamorous and sophisticated, and the fairy tale still lives: the Philly girl who became a movie star; the movie star who become a princess.
When I think of Grace Kelly, I think of these words from a song called “A Pillow of Winds”: Now wakes the hour / Now sleeps the swan / Behold the dream / The dream is gone.

 

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Urban Dictionary
Grace Kelly even till this day symbolizes the perfect women, more beautiful than a thousand Jessica Albas, Keira Knightleys, or Sharon Stones all timed up together, but still grounded enough to convey one of the most elegant, sincerest, and enchanting personalities to have ever graced Hollywood, if not the world in our time...

And to add to all that, she lived the perfect every American girls dream, born a humbled Philadelphia Girl, she was so perfect she just had to become a Princess, and she did...and unlike Princess Diana, she did not have a rocky royal marriage.

In slang, Grace Kelly still holds up to all that, and today it conveys a message to every other beautiful women out there, especially all the conceded and stuck up ones out there, that compared to Grace Kelly they're nothing more than a stupid b*tch that ain't worth your time...=P
Who the **** do you think you are girl acting up like that in front of my friends like your **** don't stink.....Grace Kelly??
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Grace, Princess of Monaco, born Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an Academy Award-winning American film actress who, upon marriage to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco on April 19, 1956, became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco. She is the mother of the principality's current Sovereign Prince, Albert II. Princess Grace maintained dual American and Monegasque citizenship after her marriage. Her ‘fairy tale’ life made Kelly one of the most popular and beloved Americans of the 20th century. Is fine as hell.

 

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Lockergnome
Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia, on November 12, 1929 into a
wealthy family. With two sisters
and a brother, she spent her childhood in the Kelly
home on the hill above East Falls, 3901 Henry Avenue.

She started school in the autumn of 1934,
at the Academy of the Assumption, Ravenhill, Philadelphia, in
the parish of St. Bridget's, and attended it in the
next nine years. In 1943 she transferred to the Stevens School
in Germantown, where she completed her high school
education and graduated in May 1947. Then she left for
New York City where she was attending American
Academy of Dramatic Arts and worked as a model and
TV player.

Grace Kelly made her stage debut in 1949 in
the Broadway production of The Father by A.Strindberg.
Her first film appearance was in 1951 in Fourteen
Hours. The following year she played Gary Cooper's wife
in the classic western High Noon. In 1953 MGM signed
her and gave her the second lead in Mogambo. She
received an Academy Award nomination as Best
Supporting Actress for the role.

Dial M for Murder , an excellent thriller
set in a claustrophobic London apartment and shot in 1953,
was the beginning of the fascinating co-operation
with the best director of all time - Alfred Hitchcock. Grace
Kelly personified the essence of his cool blonde and
he made the most brilliant use of her regal, sophisticated
and aristocratic beauty.

Their next movie, Rear Window, with the
camera which almost didn't leave the New York apartment,
was the most successful experiment of the genious
director. Grace Kelly as Lisa Fremont was unique.
Magnificent. Unforgettable. She became a star.

In 1954 The Country Girl, with the
unglamorous, depressive and so opposite of Lisa Fremont role,
won her an Oscar.

In the spring Grace Kelly arrived to the
French Riviera to play Frances Stevens, the part Hitchcock
designed for her in the stylish To Catch a Thief .
This beautiful, elegant, wise, sparkling cool blonde, active
and ambiguous, was one of her best performances.

High Society, a musical adaptation of The
Philadelphia Story, was her last movie. The song
True Love, a beautiful duet with Bing Crosby, earned
Platinum record.

In 1956 Grace Kelly married Prince Raineir
III of Monaco, retired from film, became Princess Grace
of Monaco and the best ambassador of her new
country. She had three children.

In 1962 Alfred Hitchcock offered her the
leading role in Marnie but she had to refuse that. In 1977
she narrated a documentary The Children of Theatre
Street.

On September 13, 1982, Grace Kelly suffered a
stroke while driving and was killed.

 

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LA Times
Unlike Fergie, Sarah Jessica Parker and other celebrities determined to "brand" their image and endorse galore, Grace Kelly abhorred the thought of bottling her signature look for the masses. In the new book, "Grace Kelly: A Life in Pictures," the elegant beauty is quoted as saying: "The publicity created around my brand image, made exemplary above others, sometimes annoyed me enormously. It's tiresome to be always cited as an example."
Clearly, the notion of cashing in on celebrity was not Kelly's aim. (Okay, she was a princess and didn't need to augment her bank account.) But still, she also -- perhaps unconsciously -- encouraged women to seek out their own style in her reluctance to be a sartorial role model.
This month, expect a spate of new books to commemorate the premature death of the icon on Sept. 13, 1982, including never-before-seen photos in "Remembering Grace," which is published by Life magazine and available on newsstands. The paper doll book isn't new, but I included it just because it's fun, darling.

 

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Pashmina International
Perhaps no other fashion accessory recalls the classic, old Hollywood style glamour than the beautiful, luxurious silk scarves. Celebrities have used them time and time again, and not just in the movies, but in their equally exciting real lives as well.

One of the most famous Hollywood fashion icons ever to sport the scarf is Grace Kelly, actress-turned Princess of Monaco. In fact, so much was her influence on style that one method of tying scarves was named after her, the ever popular “Grace Kelly scarf.” This method of wearing scarves is used to protect the hairstyle and still look as elegant and alluring.
Women wanting to achieve this unique look will not go wrong with a square scarf. The first thing to do is take the square scarf and fold it diagonally from one end to its opposite end. Place the scarf over the head with the folded corner facing forward. Bring the folded edge down under the chin and cross them, while pushing the points back around the neck on each side at the same time.
Next, gather the folded corners at the back of your neck and tie them together. Make sure you catch the loose corners of the scarf under the knot that you are forming. Leave these ends loose, or you can tuck them under as you prefer. To complete this glamorous look, simply don a pair of tortoise-shell sunglasses and you’ll be ready to take on the paparazzi in no time.
Grace Kelly also elevated scarves to another level when she used the classic Hermes scarf as a sling for her broken arm. Hermes is an expensive designer brand whose upscale clientele also includes Catherine Deneuve, Queen Elizabeth, who posed for a portrait for a British postal stamp in the 1950s wearing a beautiful Hermes silk scarf, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy. More recently, stars and big-name personalities like Hillary Clinton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sharon Stone and Madonna have all been photographed wearing scarves and employing the Grace Kelly technique.
Truly an icon of grace and class, Grace Kelly made almost a dozen movies in Hollywood. Her first film was with Alfred Hitchcock, in Dial M for Murder in 1954. She also appeared with Jimmy Stewart in another Hitchcock classic, Rear Window. Grace Kelly was also rumored to have had an affair with Bing Crosby, her costar in the movie The Country Girl for she won an Oscar. In 1956, Grace Kelly married Prince Rainer III of Monaco and had three children. Tragically, on September 13, 1982, when Kelly was only 52 years old, she suffered a stroke while driving, crashed and eventually died the next day due to the injuries she sustained.
Today, more than two decades after her death, she is still remembered as a legend and a fashion icon. Her legacy surely lives on, not just through the movies, or her life as royalty, but also through the way she elevated style and fashion that may be unsurpassed to this day.

 

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Wow, that's high praise coming from you. Glad you like the pics!
Grace rehearsing the "Country Girl". She is on the left.

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