Grace Kelly

[scriptgirl]

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[scriptgirl]

Kochie, could you answer this-why didn't Grace have Edith Head design her wedding gown instead of Helen Rose?

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[kochie332]

Kochie, could you answer this-why didn't Grace have Edith Head design her wedding gown instead of Helen Rose?
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Edith Head was up for being the designer but she was working for Parliament. Helen Rose was with MGM and MGM had agreed to pay for the dress

 

[scriptgirl]

Parliament who-the English Parliament?

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[kochie332]

i meant to write Paramount

 

[scriptgirl]

Oh, I was gonna say. Have Parliament on your mind, do you?

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[kochie332]

Oh, I was gonna say. Have Parliament on your mind, do you?
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i guess i did


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[kochie332]

looks like chocolate that shes eating, yum


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[Jeanne]

I have been away and am desperately trying to catch up. I love all the pictures, and the question scriptgirl raises about whose style we prefer, Audrey's or Grace's. That's a tough one. But didn't Grace wear some of what Audrey is famous for, the capri pants, or informal pants, informal top ? I know I've asked this before, but who, of Audrey, Grace and Brigitte (Bardot) wore it first, in chronology ? I tend to like Grace's style (certainly of the fifties) better, because it is more grown-up, more lady-like. I mean, you look at her and think "class", immediately. Maybe the lack of ambiguity, of mystery about that is a minus ? I don't know. I remember Faye Dunaway in Chinatown, and remember thinking the same thing. Of course, Julie Christie in The Go-Between. Did Grace lack mystery, either as an actress or as a woman ? That's a question for you....
Scriptgirl, I loved that picture of Grace and Caroline (as a teenager) together. I had never seen it before. Do you have any more ?
Another question : Did Grace ever really have long hair or is she wearing a wig in some pictures ? The reason I ask is that she is very rarely photographed with long hair, and you don't go from medium to long hair in a couple of months. So again, what would be the chronology ? (I am talking about the early pictures, I know she let her hair grow longer in the sixties.)
Thanks everyone !

 

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That is the only pic like that I have of Grace and Caroline. To me, Bardot's style was not classy at all and Audrey and Grace's style overlapped, although I don't think Grace would have worn anything Audrey wore

 

[kochie332]

Another question : Did Grace ever really have long hair or is she wearing a wig in some pictures ? The reason I ask is that she is very rarely photographed with long hair, and you don't go from medium to long hair in a couple of months. So again, what would be the chronology ? (I am talking about the early pictures, I know she let her hair grow longer in the sixties.)
Thanks everyone !

I think Grace did wear a lot of wigs, or rather hair pieces. I think the longest that her hair had ever been was a few inches below the shoulder


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[Jeanne]

I agree, Bardot's style was not classy. I was just referring to that "vacation by the sea" style, that Jackie also affected for a while. But if you have a great, lithesome, dancer's body (Bardot started out as a ballerina and it showed), it gave you that youthful look that was the coolest thing back then. It's just that the body language is not there. In terms of body language that fits that style, Audrey and Bardot had it. Grace didn't. It's not a criticism. Bardot certainly never had a "lady"'s body language, and she was an actress. When she tried, she made it into a parody of what it's supposed to be. I guess either you have it or you don't.

I just thought of something: did you know that (according to one of the most recent of Grace's biographies) Grace actually helped Rainier with government problems, based on her experience in Hollywood? I remember one time (allegedly), when he complained that he wished he could go around rules that prevented him from doing something, she replied "Do what the big bosses do in Hollywood. Change the rules, and you've solved your problem". Which he did, and as they say, it changed the course of history. (I exaggerate...)

 

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[kochie332]

I just thought of something: did you know that (according to one of the most recent of Grace's biographies) Grace actually helped Rainier with government problems, based on her experience in Hollywood? I remember one time (allegedly), when he complained that he wished he could go around rules that prevented him from doing something, she replied "Do what the big bosses do in Hollywood. Change the rules, and you've solved your problem". Which he did, and as they say, it changed the course of history. (I exaggerate...)

that is interesting, thanks for sharing

 

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[psiabeyl]

She was just breathtaking! I love that she made sure her children identified with their American roots and took trips to Philadelphia with them.

 

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I don't think exposing her kids to America worked, as they all seem very European, as do her grandkids