Overview
Born : November 12, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died : September 14, 1982 in Monaco (car accident)
Birth Name : Grace Patricia Kelly
Nicknames : Graciebird, Gracie
Height : 5' 6½" (1.69 m)
On November 12, 1929, Grace Patricia Kelly was brought into the world in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to well off guardians. Her girlhood was ordinary generally, however something she wanted was to turn into an entertainer which she had settled on at an early age. After her secondary school graduation in 1947, Grace struck out all alone, making a beeline for New York's splendid lights to take a shot there. Beauty worked some as a model and made her introduction on Broadway in 1949. She likewise made a concise introduction to the newborn child vehicle of TV. Not happy with the work in New York, Grace moved to Southern California for the more renowned piece of acting - - movies. In 1951, she showed up in her first film entitled Fourteen Hours (1951) when she was 22. It was a little part, yet a beginning in any case. The next year she handled the job of Amy Kane in High Noon (1952), a western featuring Gary Cooper and Lloyd Bridges which ended up being extremely well known. In 1953, Grace showed up in just one film, yet it was another famous one. The film was Mogambo (1953) where Grace played Linda Nordley. The film was a wilderness show in which individual cast individuals, Clark Gable and Ava Gardner turned in astonishing exhibitions. It was likewise probably the best film at any point delivered by MGM. Despite the fact that she got seen with High Noon, her work with chief Alfred Hitchcock, which started with Dial M for Murder (1954) made her a star. Her champion exhibition in Rear Window (1954) carried her to noticeable quality. As Lisa Fremont, she was projected inverse James Stewart, who played an injured photographic artist who observes a homicide in the following loft from his wheelchair. Beauty remained occupied in 1954 showing up in five movies. Beauty would perpetually be deified by winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her depiction of Georgie Elgin inverse Bing Crosby in The Country Girl (1954). In 1955, Grace indeed cooperated with Hitchcock in To Catch a Thief (1955) co-featuring Cary Grant. In 1956, she played Tracy Lord in the melodic satire High Society (1956) which likewise featured Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. The eccentric story finished with her re-wedding her previous spouse, played by Crosby. The film was generally welcomed. It likewise ended up being her last acting presentation. Effortlessness had as of late met and hitched Prince Rainier of the little realm of Monaco. By turning into a princess, she surrendered her profession. For the remainder of her life, she was to stay in the news with her marriage and her three youngsters. On September 14, 1982, Grace was killed in a car crash in her receptive home country. She was only 52 years of age.
Picked by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#5). [1995]
Positioned #51 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Expected to get back to acting in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964), however individuals of Monaco didn't need their princess playing a criminal and romancing Sean Connery.
Had three youngsters with Prince Rainier of Monaco: Princess Caroline of Monaco (1957), Prince Albert of Monaco (1958) and Princess Stéphanie of Monaco (1965).
Her motion pictures were prohibited in Monaco by request of Prince Rainier of Monaco.
The engraving at her internment site in Monaco's house of God doesn't allude to her as a princess. It utilizes the title "uxor principis" (sovereign's significant other), which is customary in the House of Grimaldi.
Following her awkward passing, she was entombed at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Monaco.
Aided the pre-creation status of Grace Kelly (1983) featuring Cheryl Ladd as Grace Kelly.
Entertainer Rita Gam was among her bridesmaids.
In 1993, the United States and Monaco all the while delivered a dedicatory postage stamp regarding her. Nonetheless, United States government law prohibits postage stamps portraying unfamiliar heads of state, so the United States stamp recorded her as "Elegance Kelly", while the Monaco stamp recorded her as "Princess Grace".
Part of Prince Rainier of Monaco's appreciation for wedding a celebrity was to expand the travel industry in his small, cash-helpless realm, and the Kelly family was switched off by his requests that a significant share go with Grace to Monaco. A figure of $2,000,000 was at last settled upon, which was redirected from Grace's legacy so her sibling and two sisters would not be duped.
Kelly's wedding outfit was the most costly article of clothing that MGM planner Helen Rose had made. It utilized 25 yards of silk fabric and 100 yards of silk net. Its kid rose point ribbon was bought from an exhibition hall and great many little pearls were sewn on the shroud.
She was considered for the job of Maggie the Cat in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), which at last went to Elizabeth Taylor.
The purported "rich" family Grace was naturally introduced to was really a foreigner group of bricklayers who had scarcely an age of newly discovered business achievement. Beauty's dad and sibling were both Olympic gold-decoration scullers. Beauty's cousin, previous US Secy of Navy John Lehman, Jr. presently seats the Princess Grace Foundation, which upholds youthful performing ability.
Joined in and moved on from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan, New York City.
The Country Girl (1954), the film that won Kelly an Oscar, was first proposed to Jennifer Jones, who needed to turn It down in view of pregnancy.
At the point when she left Hollywood, a few jobs she was scheduled to play were ultimately filled by Lauren Bacall (Designing Woman (1957) and The Cobweb (1955)). Chief George Stevens likewise needed her for Giant (1956).
Niece of writer George Kelly.
Kelly was the girl of John Brendan Kelly, Sr. (1889-1960), the child of Irish foreigners, and his significant other Margaret Katherine (Majer), whose guardians were German. She had three kin: Peggy, John Jr. what's more Lizzane.
In January 1959, the Austrian government granted her a decoration of legitimacy for help to Hungarian evacuees getting away from Russian intrusion, given through Monaco's Red Cross.
She was one of numerous well known inhabitants of the Barbizon Hotel for Women when she lived in New York. Different inhabitants included Kim Basinger, Candice Bergen, Liza Minnelli, Cloris Leachman, Ali MacGraw, and Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale.
She was casted a ballot the 27th Greatest Movie Star ever by Entertainment Weekly.
Referred to in the tunes "Elegance Kelly" by Die Ärzte; "Beauty Kelly Blues" by Eels (Mark Oliver Everett),"Grace Kelly with Wings" by Piebald; and "Effortlessness Kelly" by Mika.
She was granted a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6329 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. [February 1960]
Hedda Hopper revealed that Judy Garland's deficiency of the Academy Award to Grace for The Country Girl (1954) was the aftereffect of the nearest Oscar vote up till that time that didn't end in a tie, with only six votes isolating the two. Regardless, it was such a shock from which Judy Garland never recuperated from, intellectually. Judy Garland was selected for her job in A Star Is Born (1954) and which has stayed an issue of some contention.
Brought Sydney Guilaroff, the central hairdresser at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to style her hair for her union with Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956.
She was casted a ballot the twelfth Greatest Movie Star ever by Premiere magazine.
Was named #13 Actress on The American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends
The street mishap which prompted her passing was evidently brought about by a stroke she endured while driving.
Was sincerely engaged with style architect Oleg Cassini.
Is depicted by Christina Applegate and Cheryl Ladd in Grace Kelly (1983).
Is one of the numerous celebrities referenced in Madonna's tune "Vogue".
Severed her commitment to Oleg Cassini to wed Prince Rainier of Monaco.
Purchased a silver edge as a wedding present to Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981.
While pregnant with Princess Caroline of Monaco, Grace regularly utilized her Hermès pack to protect her gut from prying paparazzi. The organization nicknamed that tote "the Kelly pack".
Her cherished blossoms were roses. After her passing, Prince Rainier of Monaco opened a public rose nursery in Monaco.
Account in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 447-450. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.In Italy, an immense number of her movies were named by Fiorella Betti. She was additionally named by Miranda Bonansea, Dhia Cristiani and Rina Morelli, separately in High Noon (1952), Dial M for Murder (1954) and To Catch a Thief (1955).
Was proposed to do a job in 11-time Oscar-named The Turning Point (1977).
In her childhood, her cherished entertainers were Joseph Cotten and Ingrid Bergman.
(April 19, 1956) Her wedding's congregation function at Monaco's Saint Nicholas Cathedral was only shot by MGM and made into the narrative The Wedding in Monaco (1956). The 600 visitors included David Niven, Gloria Swanson, Ava Gardner and Conrad Hilton.
On the day she died in an auto collision, she was supposedly driving a British Rover 3500.
Cary Grant named her as his cherished co-star. His loved ones said Kelly's demise hit him a lot harder than the passings of Louis Mountbatten, Alfred Hitchcock and even Ingrid Bergman.
She and her better half Prince Rainier of Monaco, were at the kickoff of Expo '58 in Brussels.
Grandma of: Andrea, Charlotte, and Pierre Casiraghi, Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Louis and Pauline Ducruet, Camille Gottlieb, Jazmin Grace Grimaldi and Alexandre Coste.
She was considered for the job of Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls (1955), but Jean Simmons was projected all things being equal.
Was purportedly sincerely engaged with every last bit of her driving men separated from James Stewart. She was likewise connected to Marlon Brando, David Niven and Jean-Pierre Aumont.
Her dad assembled an ocean side house at the edge of 26th and Wesley in Ocean City, New Jersey in 1929. It turned into a famous family excursion objective, and facilitated big name visitors like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Beauty's sister, Lizanne, resided in the house until it was sold in 2001.
Every last bit of her driving men were terribly more seasoned than her except for William Holden, who was just 11 years more established and Louis Jourdan, who was just 8 years more seasoned.
Previous relative of Stefano Casiraghi (1983-1990) and mother by marriage of Daniel Ducruet (1995-1996). She was additionally the future mother by marriage of Princess Charlene of Monaco.
Was old buddies with entertainer Maureen O'Hara.
Had a fetus removal in 1955 (affirmed by then-beau Oleg Cassini a long time sometime later) and two unsuccessful labors in 1962.
Positioned #86 in Men's Health magazine's 100 Hottest Women ever. [2011]
She was the absolute first entertainer to show up on a postage stamp. [1993]
She moved on from Stevens School in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 5, 1947; her schoolmates anticipated, in her senior yearbook, that she was sure "to turn into a phase and screen star".
Her first date, Harper Davis, kicked the bucket in 1953 in the wake of getting different sclerosis when he got back from World War II and whose memorial service was gone to by Grace Kelly.
She was an enlisted Democrat and her family was dear companions with Franklin D. Roosevelt during his organization.
Was the 42nd entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Country Girl (1954) at The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955) on March 30, 1955.
She turned down the female lead in On the Waterfront (1954) to make Rear Window (1954) all things considered. The job went to Eva Marie Saint.
Had showed up in three movies coordinated by Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Window (1954), Dial M for Murder (1954) and To Catch a Thief (1955).
Elegance Kelly died on September 14, 1982, two months from what might have been her 53rd birthday on November 12.
Depicted by Nicole Kidman in the fictionalized and basically violated Grace of Monaco (2014). In any case, Kidman was named for a SAG Award for her presentation.
It has been claimed that as individual from the Twentieth Century Fox top managerial staff, Kelly was answerable for shutting down Russ Meyer's uncompleted "Who Killed Bambi?".
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios offered $70,000 dollars for the wedding of Grace Kelly, in outfits and reward.
She is raised in Billy Joel's melody "We Didn't Start The Fire".
Had a not-really secret illicit relationship with Robert Dornhelm, 2 years before her demise.
Of the eleven motion pictures she made her most un-most loved was Green Fire (1954).
Was involved with Gene Lyons from May 1951 to November 1952.
Her first expert acting task was In July 1949 when she co-featured with Mary Wickes in The Torch Bearers at the Bucks County (Pennsylvania) Playhouse.
On 14 September 1982, Grace Kelly was killed in a car crash in Monaco, evidently on the Moyenne Corniche which was a similar street as her popular pursue scene in the film To Catch a Thief (1955) and not a long way from where she had an excursion scene with Cary Grant.
Cecil B. DeMille needed to project her in the job of Sephora, Moses' better half, in The Ten Commandments (1956). MGM wouldn't advance her out to Paramount, and DeMille gave the job to Yvonne De Carlo. Kelly did, be that as it may, visit the set during the recording of Nefretiri's first scene; an exposure photo shows Kelly warmly greeting Anne Baxter.
She has showed up in two movies that have been chosen for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "socially, all things considered or stylishly" critical: High Noon (1952) and Rear Window (1954).
Ms. Kelly made just ten dramatic movies, yet six of the entertainers who played her better half or love interest in them were over 20 years more seasoned than she: Gary Cooper and Clark Gable (both 28 years her senior); Bing Crosby (26 years); Cary Grant (25 years); Ray Milland (22 years); and James Stewart (21 years). A seventh, Robert Cummings, was 19 years more seasoned than she.
Alumna of the AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Class of 1949.
List of Grace Kelly Movies
- High Society
- The Swan
- To Catch a Thief
- The Bridges at Toko-Ri
- Green Fire
- The Country Girl
- Rear Window
- Dial M for Murder
- Kraft Theatre (TV Series)
- Mogambo
- The Philco Television Playhouse (TV Series)
- Lux Video Theatre (TV Series)
- Little Women (TV Series)
- Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series)
- Goodyear Playhouse (TV Series)
- Suspense (TV Series)
- Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series)
- High Noon
- Lights Out (TV Series)
- Danger (TV Series)
- The Big Build Up (TV Movie)
- CBS Television Workshop (TV Series)
- Nash Airflyte Theatre (TV Series)
- The Prudential Family Playhouse (TV Series)
- Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (TV Series)
- The Clock (TV Series)
- Big Town (TV Series)
- Actor's Studio (TV Series)
- Believe It or Not (TV Series) & Many more.....
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