Grace Kelly

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You're welcome!

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26 years today R.I.P

 

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14th september of 1982...reast in peace dear Grace.

 

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Rest in Heavenly Peace

 

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I have no doubt she is resting in peace. Have fun up there Grace!

 

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Yes, have fun with your dear friends Ava, Hitch, Cary, David Niven. You all must be having one hell of a party!

 

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From the exhibit

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Again from the exhibit

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Synopsis

Grace Kelly--whose cool, blond beauty defined the aloof sexiness of the classic Hitchcock heroine--left a lasting impression on Hollywood and the world. Although her career was brief, she lit up the screen in films like High Society, Rear Window, and The Country Girl, for which she won an Oscar. She was not only a fine actress, great beauty, and icon of American style, but she was also a passionate philanthropist, known for her generosity and kindness. Published on the 25th anniversary of her death, Grace Kelly: A Life in Pictures is the definitive photographic portrait--160 images capturing the early years, film career, royal marriage, and private life of this remarkable woman.
Stephen Rees - Library Journal


Actress Grace Kelly enjoyed one of the most dramatic ascents in the history of American motion pictures. Born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, she made her debut in a small, local playhouse in 1949. Soon, she was the toast of Hollywood, going on to win an Oscar in 1956 before leaving town for good. Featuring a foreword by clothing designer Tommy Hilfiger, this book marks the 25th anniversary of Kelly's death with a treasury of images of the actress that span her childhood and adolescence, her early modeling career, her television appearances, and her film roles. Readers will revisit the well-known tale of how she met her future husband, Monaco's Prince Rainier III, while filming Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thiefin the south of France. Kelly's wedding-one of the premier social events of the 1950s-is generously pictured, and publicity shots and movie stills are also included. The book would be improved by a more knowing text (inaccuracies may be from the French editors' lack of insight into American culture). However, Kelly's class and beauty are worth admiring at leisure and seem highly appropriate for the coffee-table format. Recommended for public library browsing collections.

 

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Janson Commemorates 25th Anniversary of Grace Kelly’s Passing

September 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Today, September 14th, 2007, marks the 25th anniversary of the passing of the legendary actress, Grace Kelly. A beautiful queen of the silver screen, Grace Kelly was once one of the most sought-after movie stars Hollywood. Twenty-five years after her death, Grace Kelly still remains an icon of glamour, style, and class. She was born on November 12, 1929, in Philadelphia. Her father was a wealthy industrialist, her mother a onetime cover girl. Her uncle, George Kelly, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist. But the life of well-brought up society held little appeal for this acclaimed beauty. In her late teens she moved to New York, where she worked as a model while attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Then she was discovered by Hollywood. In less than four years she was acknowledged as one of Hollywood’s most sought after stars, an Academy-Award winner, playing opposite some of the greatest leading men of her time. Suddenly, like a modern-day fairy tale, Grace Kelly turned her back on it all — to become Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco.
Janson Media’s Grace Kelly: The American Princess, produced in 1986, was the first title to be released on DVD from the company’s HOLLYWOOD COLLECTION. Her story is told in home movies and clips from films like High Noon, Dial M For Murder, Rear Window, To Catch A Thief, and High Society. Actors Jimmy Stewart, Louis Jourdan, Alec Guinness, Katy Jurado, with directors, producers, friends and Grace’s sister, Lizanne, tell of the beautiful star who made the world her stage. Grace Kelly: The American Princess is available from all major distributors at a suggested retail price of $24.95. “There is room for exposes in this world, but also room for glowing tributes. This is what this hour is about,” said the New York Daily News about the film. In addiction to one-hour biography, the DVD also includes a Grace Kelly photo gallery, an interview with filmmaker Gene Feldman, and trailers of other HOLLYWOOD COLLECTION DVDs soon to become available.

 

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The Independent
The golden memory of Grace Kelly



When Grace Kelly announced she was turning her back on Hollywood to marry a prince, the actress's recording studio demanded it be present to film what it predicted would be the wedding of the century. Only then, said MGM, would it free her from the film contract that she was breaking to begin her new life as Grace, Princess of Monaco. The video recording from 19 April 1956 was the last time Kelly's fans saw her appear as the quintessential film starlet whose every move, word and gesture, on and off camera, was directed by the film industry. For decades afterwards, until she died in 1982, the life of the actress turned princess was shrouded in mystery. When she was killed in a car accident while driving with her daughter through the mountains of Monaco, her death was surrounded by the same intrigue as followed her throughout the final years of her life.

This week, for the first time, the palace of Monaco has opened up its archive of the princess's personal belongings. The exhibition, opening this week in Monaco's Grimaldi Forum, marks the 25th anniversary of her death.
The collection includes her final reel of MGM video tape, a host of revelatory video recordings that show a relaxed Kelly as a mother and wife, and grainy behind-the-scenes footage she took after her friend, the director Alfred Hitchcock, taught her how to use a camera.
Some home videos feature Kelly reading a map to her children, Princesses Caroline and Stephanie and Prince Albert, while her husband, Prince Rainier, drives the car on a family holiday. Others show her children dressed as Native Americans, and Kelly peering out of a window in a chalet in the Swiss Alps.
The material reveals Kelly to be an avid letter writer whose personal correspondence included letters from Hitchcock planning visits to Monaco, and from Jackie Kennedy, thanking Kelly for her support in her husband's political campaign.
Popular Hollywood legend holds that Hitchcock felt "abandoned" when she decided to marry a royal, and that that was the reason he did not attend their wedding. But the archive reveals that her friendship with Hitchcock did not become frosty after she left acting, and that he continued to write and visit.
Until now, the archive has been locked away by the royal family following Kelly's untimely death on 13 September 1982. Then aged 52, Kelly had a long-standing fear of driving, and is said to have suffered a stroke that led her to veer off the road, causing her car to plunge down the mountainside.
Rumours that mother and daughter were arguing heatedly over Princess Stephanie's apparently unsuitable boyfriend when the accident occurred have persisted over the years in spite of repeated denials.
The decision was made to show the collection of personal items, which had before been deemed too "raw" to bring to an adoring local public, who were gravely shocked when she died.
Kelly, who was born in Philadelphia in 1929, was one of the most popular actresses in the world in 1954, when she appeared on the front cover of Time magazine and won an Oscar for her performance in Country Girl.
Her collaboration with Hitchcock further elevated her to legendary status. She starred in Dial M for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief, where she discovered the principality of Monaco during shooting. The film is believed to include a scene where she drives down the very section of road where she died decades later.
In 1954, she met Prince Rainier on a visit to the palace of Monaco, during the Cannes Film Festival. The meeting changed the course of her life and, following the Prince's visit to the Kelly family that Christmas, the announcement of her engagement generated a media tornado. Implicit in her decision to marry the Prince, who was famously private, was a rejection of the acting industry.
The exhibition's curator, Frederic Mitterrand, the nephew of former French president François Mitterrand, said her story was being told with honesty.
"I am addressing this experience with the greatest candour. I think we all have an idea of what a wonderful person Princess Grace was, but at the same time that idea has been frozen for 25 years and is limited to a few powerful, beautiful, moving images that perhaps do not sufficiently express her diverse and complex personality," he said.
"The paramount idea behind this exhibition is to illustrate the best-known facets of her life, but also to show all the parts of it we no longer think about but that make her even more engaging and human."
Prince Albert II of Monaco added that the show would "revive happy memories we shared with our mother". "This is a very emotional and proud moment for me, knowing that a tribute is being paid to our mother," he said.

 

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Suite 101
Monaco Honors Princess Grace

Grimaldi Forum exhibition focuses on Grace Kelly's life

© Bridget Lux
May 2, 2007

Grace Kelly brought glamour, beauty and class to her role as Princess of Monaco. The Principality is marking the 25th anniversary of her death with a special exhibition.


This summer, in recognition of the 25th anniversary of her death, the Grimaldi Forum Monaco will present a special, unprecedented exhibition to honor Princess Grace.
Award-winning film producer and writer Frédéric Mitterrand will be the curator for the exhibition, while Nathalie Crinière is in charge of design.
"Princess Grace's premature death 25 years ago wrote her into the tragic lineage of ill-fated legends and imbued her with the timeless fascination of fairy tales. We have long been aware that fairy tales are not solely written for children but tell the truth and interest everyone. But the fairy tale of which Princess Grace is the heroine is undoubtedly one of the most moving, for it is the last of days gone by and the first of modern times," says Mitterrand.
The exhibit features 15 “rooms” that follow Grace Kelly’s life from her childhood in Philadelphia to her life as a star in Hollywood, the fateful meeting with Prince Rainier that led to their wedding and her role as a mother, philanthropist and fashion icon.

• Philadelphia Room highlights Grace Kelly’s early childhood and includes an overview of World War II and the Roosevelt years.
• The New York Room dives into Kelly’s early career as a struggling actress.
• The Hollywood Room, exuding the glamour of old Hollywood, takes visitors on a trip through her years in the movie industry. Kelly won a Best Actress Academy Award in 1955 for her role in “The Country Girl.”
• The Hitchcock Room focuses on the three films Kelly made with Alfred Hitchcock: “Rear Window,” “Dial M for Murder” and “To Catch a Thief,” which is set on the Cote d’Azur.
• The First Meeting Room takes Kelly from her life in the U.S. to her move to Monaco. A film captures the Prince and Kelly’s first meeting and another film shows Kelly crossing the Atlantic to join the Prince.
• The Wedding Room celebrates the April 19, 1956 wedding of Kelly and Prince Rainier. It features the Rolls Royce the couple used that day along with the Princess’ wedding gown.
• The Ball Room captures the Princess’ public life and features a number of formal gowns she wore to events.
• The Chamber of Love offers a rare peek into the Princess’ private life and includes letters, gifts and photos of the couple.
• The Family Room explores the private life of the Grimaldi family. It includes the children’s toys, clothing, furnishings, photographs, documents and more.
• The Private Garden Room is a replication of The Princess’s art studio at Roc Agel with displays of her paintings.
• The Friends Room features tapes of The Princess’s friends as they recall memories of her.
• The Princess Room, designed as an enormous dressing room, and the Glamour Room both feature a number of pieces from the fashionable Princess’s wardrobe. The Glamour Room also includes descriptions of the accessories that The Princess made popular.
• The Fans Room showcases the many gifts and letters The Princess received from fans.
• The Official Room features a display of Her official regalia and explores The Princess’s role as Her Serene Highness.

"Princess Grace has bequeathed us an image of immutable elegance. We may never have seen any of her films or visited the Principality of Monaco, yet this image remains present in all our minds like a necessary antidote to the harshness of the world we live in," Mitterrand says.

 

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September 14, anniversary of the death of Princess Grace

From the biography "THE GRACE KELLY YEARS" EXHIBITION in Monaco - From July 12th to September 23rd, 2007 "


'Her premature death, after a car accident, on September 14, 1982, generated unprecedented emotion and caused such a deep pain to the Prince's family and Monegasques, that twenty five years later, her memory still remains as vivid as ever in everyone's heart. In a century affected by collective tragedies, the life and personality of Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, stands as a example for all her admirers.'

Photo: H.S.H. Princess Grace of Monaco painted by Ralph Cowan in 1956.

 

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