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it was born into a prosperous

Philadelphia family though she was a shy

child she would live her life in the

public eye don't try to be a hero you

don't have to be here enough for me I'm

not trying to be by the age of 23 her

beauty and talent took her to Hollywood

he made 11 films in three and a half

years and became one of the most

sought-after stars of her time

she worked with Hollywood's most

important directors main opposite its

top leading man

there's nothing quite so mysterious and

silent as a dark laser then at 26 she

turned her back on make believes

but make-believe came true a fairytale

shared by the entire world

her name was Grace Kelly it became her

serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco

I don't think grace really believed that

she was going to give up acting when she

became Princess Grace of Monaco I think

that the reality of that probably struck

her someplace in the middle of the

Mediterranean after the honeymoon began

she took everything so much in her

stride

nothing nothing seems to to be too much

for a very named grace could not have

been more fitting and even a death

tragic early death Mayda enter even more

into legend Monaco a principality of

less than 500 acres on the French

Riviera for centuries the Monegasque s--

had held on to their distinctive

character and their pride but to the

world this place was known as a

playground for the wealthy came to enjoy

its beauty and its gambling Monaco

became the home of the young American

actress who arrived in 1956 to be its

princess she brought her fame her cool

beauty her intelligence and she brought

a sense of purpose for this storybook

princess was firmly anchored in reality

a reality that had its origins back in

Philadelphia competition came easily to

the Kelly's here along Kelly Drive named

after Grace's father John B Kelly they

still race in a sport for which Jack

Kelly won an Olympic medal a statue

erected by the citizens of Philadelphia

commemorates that achievement

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Jack Kelly's father was a bricklayer

from Ireland who went on to make a

fortune

young Jack soon joined the family

business construction and brick making

he started his own business and made his

own fortune but he always professed

pride in his family's humble origins

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Jack Kelly believed the world was what

you made it

Margaret major who married Jack had been

a model as well as a champion swimmer

and athlete Margaret and Jack were

determined to raise their children their

own way if you're good enough they're

sure to reach the top it was drilled

into the Kelly children from their

earliest years

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as a family we were always very close

four of us Peggy my sister is the oldest

my brother Jack grace and then myself

she was the baby for three and a half

years and loved every minute of it grace

when she was young was very shy and a

momma's baby there are many times that

we have pictures taken that mother had

to lean back away from the camera so

grace would not cry to be taken away

from her mother she was very sweet and

soft and loved to be hope held and

cuddled and kissed and loved I on the

other hand and I think my brother an

older sister were more don't let you

know don't let me don't get around me we

want to do our own thing we always had a

place at the shore and when we were

young and at that time I think we had

our best times together we just had a

marvelous time and grace all her life

loved to be by the ocean and the sea

Grace and all the family were a

competitive family I think we got that I

know we got that from our mother and my

father they instilled into a deep sense

of competition and the love of sports

the thrill of winning that also taught

us how to lose gracefully but the

Kelly's didn't intend to lose and there

never was a better drill master than

Jack Kelly it was fun family fun and it

left a special kind of determination

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the distr mination didn't manifest

itself in grace as much in the sporting

field a her determination so that took

another turn she loved to sit by the

hours and pretend and create situations

and say busy you do this and I'll be

this and I'll be the mother and you be

the baby and of course I gave her a hard

time a lot of times because I did not

want to play her game for grace growing

up well theme and winter sport in Lake

Placid it also meant the best private

schools working for causes you believed

in started young modeling it's society

fashion benefits

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but for grace these shows meant more

than fundraising they were theater she

got most of her love from the theater

for my uncle George he was a playwright

and he directed plays very gracious

highly educated person well-read and

very witty and she just was fascinated

with all the tales of the stage and the

theater her uncle George Kelly was was a

great example to her he he was sensitive

and kind and talented and I think of all

the men she ever knew rather than going

for the athletic macho type I think her

her ideal man was was her uncle George

my recollections is her father John B

Jack Kelly were of an enormous man with

tremendous amount of gusto everything up

front everything in the open move ahead

nice man but not a tremendous amount of

internal sensitivity the father believed

absolutely the Peggy the older sister

was going to be make the big star of the

family and succeed and you never paid

any attention to grace it was the middle

of the families for children and she was

quiet observer to the others and adored

her older brother to also GL zombie

Kelly jr. and also analytic star great

racers the father thought he's great but

Gracie just accepted and I don't think

he understood her at all but she adored

him and yet one wonders when you don't

get from a parent of what it is perhaps

you need if that isn't what creates a

great deal of the drive in you to go out

and become the fullest part of yourself

she decided to go to New York and my

mother and father especially surprised

because she was a shy and retiring girl

my mother and father were a little leery

out of New York and on her own

but mother said if Jack it's not as if

she's going to Hollywood or the

California race knew that her father

didn't think very much of an acting

career

they allowed her to go to get it out of

her system let her go

it won't mount to anything Grace was

accepted into the American Academy of

Dramatic Arts then housed in Manhattan's

Carnegie Hall it was 1947 at Grace Kelly

was 18 years old she I support herself

by modeling she got her portfolio and

little by little she started getting job

so that she didn't have to act for the

favor of being supported in her efforts

so that she could justify her own

existence by her own earning power grace

also appeared in commercials

she was the girl next door the girl men

hoped they could marry after graduating

from the American Academy grace found

parts in stock companies and her first

professional role in her uncle George

Kelly's play the torchbearers then came

her first Broadway role in a string

Burak play

and we all went up and Philadelphia to

see the opening night and dad did not

know that rain and Massie was in the

play

grace introduced her father to Raymond

and he said Oh Jack how are you and he

said is this your daughter I did not

know that so she did everything on her

own and did not want any help from any

of the family because she said if I

don't do it myself I don't want to do it

at all I was very taken with the way she

looked and the way she walked and

especially her lovely voice she had a

beautiful voice except where the speech

was not yet as an actress blended with

her posture with that stately figure

that she projected she studied she

really applied herself to the characters

that that she was working on

I met Grace Kelly early in the career

back in 1950 when I was directing danger

for CBS television her mother came up

and I think her brother came up to watch

a rehearsal and when the rehearsal was

over I heard a mother say darling your

speech is affected a little bit can you

uh can you kind of make it more natural

and she said mother I'm working on it

your city is full of sound listen I

don't hear a thing

so there's no to 'mobile going past and

a horse and a boat in the harbor she

played the lead in the rich boy for me

Leviathan I'll take him

under the pressures of live television

no retakes no ability to go back and

change television when they had flat

fall down on on tea tables and everybody

was out there improvising she performed

absolutely brilliantly and very quickly

became one of the leading members of the

so-called stock company those actors

that we would tend to cast over and over

again my vase now that should that's the

way oh no III I'm interested I just

never thought about it that way

well people in the West immoral I'm open

that's because you've had a lot to drink

you drink a lot don't you

know what I was watching you from across

the room you kept filling your glass

every few maybe you were watching me so

it was the other girl some in I like

that they compel attention I didn't even

see you until just a few minutes ago and

I couldn't wait to be introduced come on

I like that the first time I saw grace I

would be hard-pressed to describe her as

glamour queen of the world during the

rehearsal she had a pair of glasses on

and they were just a little bit down her

nose and she had a terrible cold and she

was quite quite withdrawn

I remember we shook hands but it wasn't

a very hearty handshake it was it was

the handshake of a little girl and I

thought oh what a nice schoolteacher

she's from Philadelphia and that was my

first impression of grace grace was

given a small part in the movie 14 hours

in which she was hardly noticed she

returned to television and to stock

theater

her big break came almost by chance I

met grace

in 1953 actually going through the

receiving line of my wedding to my

then-husband jkhanner who was her agent

I was intrigued by her looks in the

photographs that Edie sent me by her

background and probably more by the fact

that she absolutely would not accept the

long term studio contract it was a young

agent I was a young producer and he had

brought to me Marlon Brando then he sent

me a photograph of Grace Kelly at the

time we were casting high noon now I

wanted an unknown girl I asked to see

her she came in from Denver for an

interview for an interview for a part in

a Western with white gloves no less that

goes way back when we were children my

mother insisted every time we went into

town you wore hat and gloves that not

only my mother we were brought up as in

a convent and the nuns insisted that you

wore white gloves on special occasions I

went overboard because she had that

lading like quality that kind of dignity

which was in contrast to the Western

scene which worked so well these are the

Cooper's your lawful wedded husband to

have and to hold from this day forward

the reason I think she was miscast is

that Cooper was much older than Grace

Kelly he was too old for Kelly actually

in the role she didn't believe that she

did well in the film I didn't think so

either there was a girl in the film

named Katey hirato who played a Mexican

gal in the town Carrie Hirata was

dynamic and overpowering and yet Kelly

wasn't swallowed even in her miscast

because this ladylike thing came through

they were on the right side but that

didn't help the many when the shooting

started

my brother was 19 I watched him for

Grace Kelly was her first big break and

for me was my first American picture

making here in Hollywood I am was two

years old she was I have seven years

making pictures in Mexico and there was

something so different between Grace and

I we cannot really explain that we could

not be very close but I could see a girl

with a lot of dignity and a lot of

character because she wants to be

somebody in movies and she were very

hard in that picture

she looked weak between very tiny but

she was very strong person I believe

they she was one of the strongest movie

star I work with she knew what what you

want and she did it

Gary Cooper went on to win an Academy

Award for best actor of 1952 but there

were no laurels for grace and she

promptly headed back to New York for

more study she was a Kelly and she had

to do better we've all probably read

that thing where she says that you can

see everything and in Gary Cooper's eyes

but that her eyes were flat and dull and

dead and that she didn't like them she

couldn't tell what the character was

feeling she began to work harder on

concentrating on her objective in other

words that would have that would

eventually be the cure for the way she

attacked her characters to make them

come alive to make her eyeballs shine

with meaning she always had this image

in her image of being oh no fashioned

actress actress with the kind of glamour

that you have on Broadway grace was

eager for a lead role in a New York

production of Cyrano de Bergerac I

wanted to have grace as Roxanne I wanted

her not because of her great acting

ability but because of that discipline

that she appeared to have unfortunately

she never did realize that every part

she went up for on Broadway with the

exception of the father she lost and

when she didn't get it there were

mentions of it in the columns and so

forth and so on she was really very very

distressed and she picked herself up and

went on

Mogambo was a picture that grace

apparently wanted to do very badly

because she was willing to sign a

long-term contract with MGM to do the

picture I bet all you're going to do for

him what do you expect me to do business

nordley crawl in bed with him and hold

his hand

the thought of playing opposite of star

like Clark Gable being directed by John

Ford a fellow Irishman and I I also

think she was intrigued with the idea of

going to Africa

on location for Mogambo Clark Gable

described an incident to Rupert Allan

and Look magazine correspondent Grace

was alone and was discovered by cable

she turned to him she saw that she was

crying and he said well are you crying

grace she says so beautiful I'm reading

the snows of Kilimanjaro by Hemingway

and I looked up and I was just reading

about this frozen leopard I think they

found away having the snows of this high

mountain highest mountain in Africa and

I looked up for my book thinking about

what a beautiful picture it was inside

Hemingway and I saw a lion walking along

with the seashore it was just too

beautiful

she gave human personalities too to her

animals very often she gave animal

personalities to humans she used to call

some of her close friends bird everyone

she called Rita bird a bird this bird

that bird I mean people and animals

became interchangeable with grace

Grace's role in Mogambo earned her an

Academy Award nomination as Best

Supporting Actress of 1953 you're drunk

you know how it is on Safari

it's in all the books the woman always

falls for the white hunter and when guys

make the most of it they're blamers when

you come along with that look in your

eye

some critics called her a star in the

making few realized how luminous that

star would become and in how short a

time

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Hollywood as far as Jack and Margaret

Kelly were concerned was no place for a

girl on her own on funding many times we

used to go to church and then uncle

George who lived in Southern California

but come pick us up and take us for a

ride around and had lunch take us to

lunch and she enjoyed those rides with

George so much that the two of them

would talk I would sit in the backseat

and maybe take a little nap but the two

of them would talk theater and books and

poetry some of the people in town the

studio heads were quite mystified by

heard they didn't understand why she

didn't want to go to their dinner

parties and be seated next to orally a

people that young actresses should want

to be seated next to she didn't rush out

effusively and reach forward to make

lots and lots and lots of friends she

got up five o'clock in the morning went

on the set came home and grab something

to eat usually a hamburger which was

Gracie's favorite food and then went to

bed

she was always charming she was never

cold she was never icy to anybody on the

on the set she could give that

appearance of coolness of being sort of

above at all at all times but inside she

was a very often seizing and she was a

she was a volatile person but always

under control Alfred Hitchcock used to

say about Grace Kelly with his usual wit

that her apparent rigidity was like a

mountain covered with snow but that the

mountain was a volcano

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in 1953 director Hitchcock found in

grace His perfect heroine there was a

scene in the dial M for murder where he

wanted her to answer the phone by

putting on her bathrobe and she said

there was no reason for her to add to

put a bathrobe on just to answer a

telephone with no one else in the house

but her and he says what would you wear

he said I read a nightgown

she so he said all right and it worked

out very well hello

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she seemed to know the movements before

Hitchcock had anything to say about and

I think I think Hitchcock like that

I think everybody liked it and the

picture of rear windows Hitchcock said

now - grace now you're going to have to

go across and go get into the room and

grace with with without any direction

she just went over climbed up the fire

escape climbed in one of the windows and

sneaked into the door and then looked

over across the across the way to

Hitchcock and said is that what you mean

well everybody everybody applauded and

she deserved it because this was exactly

what Albert Hitchcock wanted what grace

brought as an actress was grace brought

the actual young woman of the 50s into a

vision of glamour was a very proper era

in a way very Primera underneath that of

course there was always the sense of

flirtatiousness of young women and the

sense of fun

grace had truly arrived she appeared on

the covers of national magazines but

success meant more time we spent in

Hollywood she was really a family person

she doesn't like to be alone I remember

when she first went to California to

make films she lived alone and suddenly

she asked to eat again to come and live

with her and grace let me in and there

she was she was wearing the same

Philadelphia skirt same sensible shoes

the same tied back hair except now she

was becoming a very valuable property

and I had no idea that her background

was one of opulence I thought of her as

a co-worker an actress then out of the

clear blue sky and very directly openly

and warmly she said would you like to

share the flat how would that fit in

with your schedule I said oh I have to

get up at five in the morning said I

have to get up at five - I said but good

sleep at 9:00 said terrific that's it I

think the thing that most people forget

is that when all of this was happening

to grace this extraordinary excitement

about her career being generated and and

he rolls with the world's most famous

leading man and the world's most

respected directors she was just a girl

in her early 20s one time in Hollywood

Grace and I were invited to what turned

out to be a rather sticky dinner party

with two bachelors we had thought it was

going to be this grand party with an

awful lot of people and there we were

and the lights were getting lower and

the wine was getting heavier and I was

getting very nervous and I nudged grace

under the table Grace had her glasses on

I think that was her protection mine was

just a sort of chatter nervously and say

let's go let's go grace and she

whispered back that's right until after

dessert it might be good the bridges at

toko-ri gave grace the opportunity to

play opposite an actor she admired

William Holden Harry you've got to tell

me about these bridges the kind of

concentration that a good actor was

capable of would definitely infect her

they know we're not trying to fly above

the mountains we're gonna fly between

them it would make her respond and and

that way you could see to that she had a

nervous system that was similar to

litmus paper she reacted immediately

didn't want to tell me because she

didn't want me to worry what I don't

want you to worry either about me I mean

I know what the Admiral was trying to

tell me I had to face those register

director George Seaton was impressed by

Grace's performance and wanted her for

the demanding role of the wife and the

country girl but before releasing her

MGM insisted she appear in green fire

which wasn't one of her favorite films

she was tired when she started she had

done about six pictures in a row and she

went had to go to South America film

like green fire that absolutely made her

blazing mad I'm use you really what she

said this is not what I wanted to be an

actress for but she did do it in order

to get the part in a country girl at the

moment all I want is for you to get

dressed so we can get out of here who's

in the yard

Frank I'm warning you I'm going to hit

you with the first thing I pick up the

greatest expression of courage that

grace demonstrated was the throwing away

of her mask of beauty and however our

elegance nobody understood at all I mean

why would this gorgeous creature

want to be seen in an old tacky sweater

with her hair pulled back in a bun and

looking Haggard she desperately wanted

to be this great actress he'll be in the

strong sober hand a Bernie Dodd can you

stand him up on his feet again because

that's where all my prayers of God to

see that one hole

they are when he can stand alone again

and I might forgive even you mr. Dodd if

you can keep him up long enough for me

to get out from under all I wonders my

own name and a modest job to buy sugar

for my coffee would you believe that can

you you can't believe that a woman is

crazy out of a mind and live alone in

one room by herself listen to me listen

to me why are you holding me I said

you're holding me

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angry in a single year 1954 she had

completed four major films for the

country and won an Academy Award

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he was pronounced one of Hollywood's

major stars he was 24 and it seemed she

had it all it was after grace that had

enormous success in films and bought a

very big posh apartment and I have an

image of her father walking through the

lobby and Grace sort of peering out

saying Darius there he's coming

it was as if this fictional character

The Great Gatsby come down to earth and

was going to look at her apartment and

she really wanted to to prove to him

that she had accomplished a great deal

and that was the first time I got a

sense of an undercurrent of something

other than this picture book family

Grace dated but no one really seriously

until a latter part of her career there

were so many people that have were in

love with her most men were she had that

quality of I don't know turning metal

and he said she was gonna be my maid of

honor and when I the baby sister is

getting married that she's not to think

about you know

right well I want to get married - well

I was married in June and I think I

broke the news that I was pregnant I'm

gonna have a baby in May to her and she

certainly is you are going to have a

baby

oh I'm with a babe I'm missing things in

1955 grace would appear in a film that

would change her life location worked

for to catch a thief took place near the

ancient Principality of Monaco her

co-star would be Cary Grant once again

she was directed by Alfred Hitchcock

what he extracted from her in that

combination of the the cool Beauty who

held it all back and then just gave up

just enough to be tantalizing and just

enough to make the leading man and the

audience want a little more never had a

better off in your whole life was

everything I've never had a crazier one

as long as you're satisfied know as well

as I do this necklace is imitation and

I'm not

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I mean she had a lot of bows and

boyfriends who were actors and human

beings and dress designers than this and

that but there wasn't this one person

who could fulfill this childhood image

that great many of us have about wanting

that one man in our life to be special

and really to be the old prince on the

white charger a French magazine had

decided the palace in Monaco would be a

perfect background for grace or a

publicity layout then Prince Renier

indicated he was willing to meet the

beautiful star though he was known as a

shy and modest man when Sueno the third

was called europe's most eligible

bachelor at his meeting the grace

immediately provoked interest rumors

linking you with virtually everybody and

the latest one is with Grace Kelly would

you comment on that fourth no I just

read Grace Kelly she came to Paris when

she was a can for the festival and

that's all of a little any story that

you're actively seeking a wife would you

care to comment on that no I'm not what

if you did meet a girl that you like

here with all the publicity about it

prevent you from doing about it no I

shouldn't I don't think anything if you

were to marry what kind of a girl do you

have in mind I don't know being the best

as a lesson Jack Kelly had drilled into

his children Grace had excelled she had

reached the top of her profession but

for Grace Kelly there had to be more

MGM had no idea of graces future when it

cast her in a film that was oddly

prophetic the Swan it is based on a play

by Moana and the story was very simply

the story of a princess I want to be

good to you

I went a hundred I want to tell you

everything that's in my heart all my

secret

I adore Napoleon to her I want to hear

you call me by Renny

Alexandra

Alexandra there was an innate

aristocracy elegance about her not only

in comportment and manners but also in

in thinking in being

it has been a cliche to say that the

Grace Kelly looked like a princess but

she did

there was another element in Grace Kelly

that was all important

she had this extraordinary sense of

humor not only and first of all about

herself never taking herself seriously

during filming of The Swan Alec Guinness

had an Indian tomahawk smuggled into

Grace's bed and she quickly returned the

common joke would continue for years

they never spoke about finding it know

her passing alone he just disappeared

went from one to the other I get back

home one night I'm playing in the show

get into bed and I say to my wife for

God's sake

why on earth do we need a cold hot water

book why we need to hold about football

and should I've been what you're talking

about

and it was this identical tomahawk

somehow Alec Guinness got it into the

palace at least once into the Grace's

bed so while she was downstairs

the tomahawk was put under the Covenant

so she end up at the time out she read

in two papers in Europe that he was

being honored by the Academy of Motion

Picture Arts and Sciences I stayed at

the Beverly Wilshire hotel clasping my

art Oscar got back three in the morning

on it it was and there in my bed Beverly

Wilshire hotel it was phenomenal

analysis extraordinarily withdrawn

glamorous glacial personality poured

forth this sense of the ridiculous that

only the British could appreciate or a

five-year-old child ever said of that

finishing school I think the finished

are there come on mother

Jesse boys Landis played the Grace

Kelly's mother in two films and when

grace married Prince Rainier she said

I'm the one who advised her to marry him

and told her that would be your greatest

role and one Monday morning she came

into lb mayor's office and said mr.

mayor I'm going to get married

well he said gene that's wonderful I'll

have a big reception for you upstairs

what above everybody in all of it no she

said mr. Maron you don't quite

understand

Grace Kelly had been newsworthy as a

movie actress but now her important

sword well I think you can't interfere

with love with each other well II

reporters hung on every word and will

alert to every move made by grace or

Prince Rainier will you continue with

your career after your marriage what

that decision will be made by the friend

there's miss Kelly trying to make any

more more movies as far as you know I

don't think he did come to the house

that Christmas and dawn and I were at

our only little apartment and we asked

him over for dinner and he fit in very

well I even helped with the dishes

Renier when we first met him I think

might have been a little shocked with us

when we think come on Renny you know but

he just fit into the family beautifully

in 1956 grace made her last Hollywood

film high society in it she proudly wore

her new engagement ring

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the sense of style

how do I'm high comedy performance that

she gave in high society vastly

different from anything that she had

ever done before did you did not find

the other no no not at all we had good

direction good I do hope you don't mind

our being here for your wedding oh but

I'm delighted we have so much cake what

is your name dear grace a sense of fun

would never again be as publicly

revealed my name is Elizabeth imbrie

Elizabeth oh it sounds like a medieval

Saint to was burned to death

thank you she had made this

extraordinary luminous climb to the

absolute top apex of the industry there

are lot of people that have just quality

and have no electricity she combined

them she could have called the shots

from then on I mean then she was finally

in a position not to have to argue about

the film she wanted to do not two people

would have bought things for her people

would have would plan productions around

her they would have done anything and

she fell in love and she said bye I'm

going off to be mrs. in this case and

the Princess of Monaco and before we all

knew what she was she was gone

Grace Kelly had never really enjoyed the

publicity that came with stardom now she

would feel the burden of true

international celebrity I don't know how

she's able to protect that small core

that is so necessary that keeps you sane

but she did she was evil under the much

extraordinary

barrage of different pressing and

personal need that people had I mean

people just I don't know how they do it

but they seem to want to get inside

particularly press a person soul and

grace had the extraordinary ability of

not rising above it separating herself

from her there was almost a mystical

kind of ability she had to be the quiet

eye in the middle of a horrendous

Kartika and there she was just very

mature and very exciting so I kind of

there's a sad to be told but I hope to

be that quite awful she chose as any

average young woman would her six best

friends and her sister to was to attend

her at her wedding to the prince Grace

Kelly of Philadelphia but most of her

family and many of her closest friends

sailed away to become a princess

Vence Phineas yachts bears his betrothed

in triumph into the harbor at Monaco a

few hours earlier grayscale once we

arrived in Monaco it was of course all

the madness that one has seen in over

the years of what went on they came by

the thousands who welcomed and to judge

she was rich she was beautiful but she

was an American and to some of them just

an actress

I think grace had a tough job being

movie star from America moving into the

life of the symbol of a southern country

the constant round of parties and being

part of this glamorous and mythological

event and and just simply being around

royalty was new to all of us

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as Greece took up a totally new role

some who did not know her watched and

waited for her to fail at the PDE at

spirited donkey it was like a fairy tale

all of it and that's the part that we

got to be part of

it was not a fairy tale

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grace relaxed at her husband's side but

you knew to the Monegasque s-- she now

had to prove herself worthy of being the

wife of their ruler

please Renier the third

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the last time I saw grace was in my own

imagination when she was on the yacht

chug chug chugging away into the

Mediterranean after the wedding was over

and I realized that there was no more

Grace Kelly

Grace Kelly was a memory Grace Kelly was

histories and fill me please grace of

monoco and then we all went home and she

stayed there this was a very hard

challenge for her because not only the

language barrier brought the foreign

world a foreign customer and the

Principality the formal way of doing

things

she kept studying things that would

enforce her her position as as princess

she utilized everything around her she

improvised on being a princess the way a

really good actress will improvise on a

part for example she always tried to

simplify things

Alexander is a hairdresser in Paris

fixed for her a number of special pieces

of hair attachment so when she would

travel with all these French aristocrats

and while they were busy making

appointments with hairdressers they were

whirling that race was always ready

there was a lot of these hair pieces

which is you make it into some kind of a

wonderful hairdo never took extra time

since she was fundamentally a working

woman she did everything with with a

great seriousness a surface with a great

sense of responsibility

on cultural or diplomatic occasions with

presidents or with popes she was

expected to be perfect in bearing and

often in her newly acquired language

notes revisited kind of a uh it was

something that I am amazed that she

could could handle I wondered so many

times oh I don't know I know I could

never do that

but she was determined to make it this

of it either opposed to explain what

will happen in the event twins are born

a boy second and a girl first who would

be the ruling monarch the normal

successor would be the elders the

children he visits a girl but that

doesn't mean that she will rule because

she can always design or abdicate in

favor of a younger brother and he would

then rule our twins expected not that I

know of Princess Grace is your life her

there the princess what you imagined it

would be before you became a princess

well I I said of games princess before I

had much time to imagine what it would

be with a birth of a daughter Caroline

on January 23rd 1957 a line of

succession was secured just fifteen

months later a male heir albert arrived

to even greater celebration

I think the meteor thing came was when

she had the children and they did come

very quickly she wanted the children

she'd love to love them and we had so

much fun

roughhousing together her children of my

children our children of the same age

and they've gone to camp together done

I've been over to Monaco several times

with the children and they've come here

in Ocean City their leaves were the same

for closeness and for family in addition

to her own children grace would always

have the kelly's prince Renier soon

found himself an accepted part of that

family grace always adored children I'd

she almost / adored her own children

she was the typical loving sometimes too

disciplining but always giving mother

private time was essential for them both

family life was a retreat from the

formalities of state grace was

determined to keep her family a success

no matter how demanding her official

schedule there was always time for her

children

there were the trips home often with

Prince Renier

there was the anniversary for Margaret

Kelly and her growing brood of

grandchildren

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or prints Renier cruises on his yacht

meant he could indulge his passion for

fishing

then there was the time set aside for

enjoying the palace pool children and

friends I think she held on to her old

friend in those beginning years because

they were her reality is Grace Kelly and

she didn't want to lose Grace Kelly

there was never any loss of the sense

that she was Gracie from Philadelphia

she was a girl with an American soul and

heart and she brought that to Monaco

with her and she never she never chipped

away at that at all in the back of

Grace's mind was always the possibility

of going back to being a film star I

think she kept it there for those rainy

nights I would occasionally read a

script that would intrigue me call her

and send it on when the opportunity

arose to do Marni I think she left at it

I could understand what why she would

want to do it even why Hitchcock would

want to do it Damona gasps were

absolutely completely undone because

they thought that she'd abandoned them I

think that the thing that convinced her

that she couldn't do it was that she was

a princess about the church and once she

believed that dignity at being the

princess of the Catholic Church was more

important than being an actress she

accepted it but I think it took a long

time

in 1965 seven years after the birth of

Albert Stephanie was born once Grace's

life as a performing artist seemed to

come to a close as she became for

instance of Monaco

she didn't discard her feeling for the

arts any any part of them I got a letter

from Grace saying that she was going

around doing poetry readings for theater

in London that was being built

so basically grace was an artist and she

did it through poetry she wanted very

much to have Monaco be a cultural center

Grace established a foundation to

further her goals ramada gasps had been

without a playhouse for many years a new

one was built today this theater draws

drama companies from around the world

once the famous Ballet Russe of Monte

Carlo danced here grace was determined

to bring those great days back a ballet

company must have a school through the

Princess Grace Foundation a small school

run by one of ballets foremost teachers

has been transformed into a world-class

Academy both Caroline and Stephanie had

studied here as small children

grace was frequently more than an

onlooker I remember a particular general

rehearsal when she asked me the other

thing I could made them up and all the

little children gathered around through

all the faces turned towards the

princess and she was putting a little

bit of food on their cheeks and a little

bit of lipstick on the lid it was love

of children and a ballet that led to one

of Graces few returns to film the 1979

Earl Mac documentary the children of

theater Street about young dancers in

Leningrad they are the protagonist but

as their predecessors have demonstrated

perhaps the greater protagonist is the

school they gave to Angelina has

practiced these movements hundreds and

hundreds of times in the next six years

she will repeat them thousands of times

what makes it worth it is bid

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grace knew the demands of great

performance

but for the Monegasque s-- grace herself

had gone beyond performance through the

years by her diligence her constancy she

truly was her serene Highness Princess

Grace of Monaco you know I don't wake up

in the morning thinking of living a

fairy tale I have the job to get done

and children to to raise and a lot of

responsibilities an obligation I like to

think that they would consider me a

professional at my job no matter what it

would be if I take on something I like

to do it well and I like to do it

completely

some people often say that the grace

made a great sacrifice of her career in

becoming the Princess of Monaco I don't

think she ever felt that way they all

say she me she made it as she made as

good a princess as she was a movie

actress even better you know in fairy

tales one has to invent the prince and

the princess but here we happen we had

them it was in the rugged hills along

the border with plants that places

places car went out of control at a

curve that has been mini accident

according to the official version

Princess Grace was driving her 17 year

old daughter Stephanie from the brakes

fail a young man Agathe woman her

feelings about fences race this way

she was never a problem for us there

were no potential in throats Campbell

who was after all a lady

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I think she won the heart and the love

of the Monegasque people because when

she died I've never seen such true

sorrow

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for me just to have a great sister and

have a loving sister

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before she was a princess she was an

actress and before that a girl from

Philadelphia a family girl

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you

from any of the family because she said

if I don't do it myself I don't want to

do it at all I was very taken with the

way she looked and the way she walked

and especially her lovely voice she had

a beautiful voice

after the speech was not yet as an

actress blended with her posture with

that stately figure that she projected

she studied she really applied herself

to the characters that that she was

working on

I met Grace Kelly early in her career

back in 1950 when I was directing danger

for CBS television her mother came up I

think her brother came up to watch a

rehearsal and when the rehearsal was

over I heard a mother say darling your

speech is affected a little bit can you

uh can you kind of make it more natural

and she said mother I'm working on it

yes city is full of sounds I don't hear

a thing

there's no two 'mobile going packed and

home and a boat in the harbor she played

the lead in the rich boy for me

Leviathan

I'll take him under the pressures of

live television no retakes no ability to

go back and change television when they

had flat fall down on on tea tables and

everybody was out there improvising she

performed absolutely brilliantly and

very quickly became one of the leading

members of the so-called stock company

those actors that we would tend to cast

over and over again I might have a

snobbish about the way oh no III I'm

interested I just never thought about it

that way well people in the Western

moral

I'm opening that's because you've had a

lot to drink you drink a lot don't you

know what I was watching you from across

the room you kept filling your glass

every few maybe you were watching me so

most of the other girls some in I like

that they compel attention I didn't even

see you until just a few minutes ago

and I couldn't wait to be introduced

something I like that the first time I

saw a grace I would be hard-pressed to

describe her as glamour queen of the

world during the rehearsal she had a

pair of glasses on and they were just a

little bit down her nose and she had a

terrible cold and she was quite quite

withdrawn

I remember we shook hands but it wasn't

a very hearty handshake it was it was

the handshake of a little girl and I

thought oh what a nice schoolteacher

she's from Philadelphia and that was my

first impression of grace grace was

given a small part in the movie 14 hours

in which she was hardly noticed she

returned television and to stock theater

her big break came almost by chance I

met grace

in 1953 actually going through the

receiving line of my wedding to my

then-husband jkhanner who was her agent

I was intrigued by her looks in the

photographs that he sent me by her

background and probably more by the fact

that she absolutely would not accept the

long term studio contract it was a young

agent I was a young producer and he had

brought to me Marlon Brando then he sent

me a photograph of Grace Kelly at the

time we were casting high noon now I

wanted an unknown girl I asked to see

her she came in from Denver for an

interview for an interview for a part in

a Western with white gloves no less that

goes way back when we were children my

mother insisted every time we went into

town you wore hat and gloves that not

only my mother we were brought up as in

a convent and the nuns insisted that you

wore white gloves on special occasions I

went overboard because she had that

ladylike quality that kind of dignity

which was in contrast to the Western

scene which works so well these are the

Cooper's your lawful wedded husband to

have and to hold from this day forward

the reason I think she was miscast is

that Cooper was much older than Grace

Kelly he was too old for Kelly actually

in the role she didn't believe that she

did well in the film I didn't think so

either

there was a girl in the film named Katey

hirato who played a Mexican gal in the

town kadhi Hirata was dynamic and

overpowering and yet Kelly wasn't

swallowed even in her miscast because

this ladylike thing came through they

were on the right side but that didn't

help them any when the shooting started

my brother was 19 I watched for Grace

Kelly was her first big break and for me

was my first American picture making

here in Hollywood I am was two years old

she was I have seven years making

pictures in Mexico and there was

something so different between Grayson

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it was born into a prosperous

Philadelphia family though she was a shy

child she would live her life in the

public eye don't try to be a hero you

don't have to be here enough for me I'm

not trying to be by the age of 23 her

beauty and talent took her to Hollywood

he made 11 films in three and a half

years and became one of the most

sought-after stars of her time

she worked with Hollywood's most

important directors Wayne opposite its

top leading man

there's nothing quite so mysterious and

silent as a dark Theater then at 26 she

turned her back on make-believe

but make-believe came true in a

fairytale shared by the entire world

her name was Grace Kelly it became her

serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco

I don't think grace really believed that

she was going to give up acting when she

became Princess Grace of Monaco I think

that the reality of that probably struck

her someplace in the middle of the

Mediterranean after the honeymoon began

she took everything so much in her

stride

nothing nothing seemed to to be too much

for a very named grace could not have

been more fitting and even a death

tragic early death

Mayda enter even more into legend

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Monaco a principality of less than 500

acres on the French Riviera for

centuries the Monegasque s-- had held on

to their distinctive character and their

pride but to the world this place was

known as a playground for the wealthy

came to enjoy its beauty and its

gambling Monaco became the home of the

young American actress who arrived in

1956 to be its princess she brought her

fame her cool beauty her intelligence

and she brought a sense of purpose for

this storybook princess was firmly

anchored in reality

a reality that had its origins back in

Philadelphia competition came easily to

the Kelly's here along Kelly Drive named

after Grace's father John V Kelly they

still race in a sport for which Jack

Kelly won an Olympic medal a statue

erected by the citizens of Philadelphia

commemorates that achievement

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Jack Kelly's father was a bricklayer

from Ireland who went on to make a

fortune

young Jack soon joined the family

business construction and brick making

he started his own business and made his

own fortune but he always professed

pride in his family's humble origins

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Jack Kelly believed the world was what

you made it

Margaret major who married Jack had been

a model as well as a champion swimmer

and athlete Margaret and Jack were

determined to raise their children their

own way if you're good enough they're

sure to reach the top it was drilled

into the Kelly children from their

earliest years

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as a family we were always very close

four of us Peggy my sister is the oldest

my brother Jack grace and then myself

she was the baby for three and a half

years and loved every minute of it grace

when she was young was very shy and a

momma's baby there are many times that

we have pictures taken that mother had

to lean back away from the camera so

grace would not cry to be taken away

from her mother she was very sweet and

soft and loved to be hope held and

cuddled and kissed and loved I on the

other hand and I think my brother and

older sister were more don't let you

know don't let me don't get around me we

want to do our own thing we always had a

place at the shore and when we were

young and at that time I think we had

our best times together we just had a

marvelous time and grace all her life

loved to be by the ocean and the sea

9:00 we could not really explain that we

could not be very close but I could see

a girl with a lot of dignity and a lot

of character because she wants to be

somebody in movies and she were very

hard in that picture

she looked weak between very tiny but

she was very strong person I really been

she was one of the strongest movie star

I work with she knew what what you want

and she did it

Gary Cooper went on to win an Academy

Award for best actor of 1952 but there

were no laurels for grace and she

promptly headed back to New York for

more study she was a Kelly and she had

to do better we've all probably read

that thing where she says that you can

see everything and in Gary Cooper's eyes

but that her eyes were flat and dull and

dead and that she didn't like them she

couldn't tell what the character was

feeling she began to work harder on

concentrating on her objective in other

words that would have that would

eventually be the cure for the way she

attacked her characters to make them

come alive to make her eyeball shine

with meaning she always had this image

in her image of being oh no fashioned

actress actress with a kind of glamour

that you have on Broadway grace was

eager for a lead role in a New York

production of Cyrano de Bergerac I

wanted to have grace as Roxanne I wanted

her not because of her great acting

ability but because of that discipline

that she appeared to have unfortunately

she never did realize that every part

she went up for on Broadway with the

exception of the father she lost and

when she didn't get it there were

mentions of it in the columns and so

forth and so on she was really very very

distressed and she picked herself up and

went on Mogambo was a picture that grace

apparently wanted to do very badly

because she was willing to sign a

long-term contract with MGM to do the

picture I bet all you're going to do for

him what do you expect me to do business

nordley crawl in bed with him and hold

his hand

the thought of playing opposite of star

like Clark Gable being directed by John

Ford a fellow Irishman and I I also

think she was intrigued with the idea of

going to Africa

on location for Mogambo Clark Gable

described an incident to Rupert Allan

then look magazine correspondent grace

was alone and was discovered by cable

she turned to him she he saw that she

was crying and he said well are you

crying grace she says so beautiful I'm

reading the snows of Kilimanjaro by

Hemingway and I looked up and I was just

reading about this frozen leopard I

think they found they having the snows

of this high mountain highest mountain

in Africa and I looked up for my book

thinking about what a beautiful picture

it was inside anyway and I saw a lion

walking along with the seashore it was

just too beautiful

she gave human personalities too to her

animals very often she gave animal

personalities to humans she used to call

some of her close friends bird everyone

she called Rita bird a bird this bird

that bird I mean people and animals

became interchangeable with grace

Grace's role in Mogambo earned her an

Academy Award nomination as Best

Supporting Actress of 1953 you're drunk

you know how it is on Safari

it's in all of us the woman always falls

for the white hunter and when fires make

the most of it they blame us when you

come along with that look in your eye

some critics called her a star in the

making few realized how luminous that

star would become and in how short a

time

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Hollywood as far as Jack and Margaret

Kelly we're concerned was no place for a

girl on her own on funding many times we

used to go to church and then uncle

George who lived in Southern California

but come pick us up and take us for a

ride around and had lunch take us to

lunch and she enjoyed those rides with

George so much that the two of them

would talk I would sit in the backseat

and maybe take a little nap but the two

of them would talk theater and books and

poetry some of the people in town the

studio heads were quite mystified by her

they didn't understand why she didn't

want to go to their dinner parties and

be seated next to all the a people that

young actresses should want to be seated

next to she didn't rush out effusively

and reach forward to make lots and lots

and lots of friends she got up five

o'clock in the morning went on the set

came home and grab something to eat

usually a hamburger which was Gracie's

favorite food and then went to bed

she was always charming she was never

cold she was never icy to anybody on the

on the set she could give that

appearance of coolness of being sort of

above at all at all times but inside she

was a very often seizing and she was a

she was a volatile person but always

under control Alfred Hitchcock used to

say about Grace Kelly with his usual wit

that her apparent frigidity was like a

mountain covered with snow but that the

mountain was a volcano

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in 1953 director Hitchcock found in

grace His perfect heroine there was a

scene in the dial M for murder where he

wanted her to answer the phone by

putting on her bathrobe and she said

there was no reason for her to add to

put a bathrobe on just to answer a

telephone with no one else in the house

but her and he says what would you wear

he said I read a nightgown

she so he said all right and it worked

out very well hello

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she seemed to know the movements before

Hitchcock had anything to say about it

and I think I think Hitchcock liked that

I think everybody liked it in the

picture rear window

Hitchcock said now to grace now you're

going to have to go across and go get

into the room and grace with with

without any direction

she just went over climbed up the fire

escape climbed in one of the windows and

sneaked into the door and then looked

over across the across the way to

Hitchcock and said is that what you mean

well everybody everybody applauded and

she deserved it because this was exactly

what Albert Hitchcock wanted what grace

brought as an actress was grace brought

the actual young woman of the 50s into a

vision of glamour was a very proper era

in a way very Premera

underneath that of course there was

always the sense of flirtatiousness of

young women and the sense of fun grace

had truly arrived she appeared on the

covers of national magazines

but success meant more time we spent in

Hollywood she was really a family person

she doesn't like to be alone I remember

when she first went to California to

make films she lived alone and suddenly

she asked to eat again to come and live

with her and grace let me in and there

she was she was wearing the same

Philadelphia skirt same sensible shoes

the same tied back hair except now she

was becoming a very valuable property

and I had no idea that her background

was one of opulence I thought of her as

a co-worker an actress then out of the

clear blue sky and very directly openly

and warmly she said would you like to

share the flat how would that fit in

with your schedule I said oh I have to

get up at five in the morning said I

have to get up at five - I said but look

good sleep at 9:00 said terrific that's

it I think the thing that most people

forget is that when all of this was

happening to grace this extraordinary

excitement about her career being

generated and and he rolls with the

world's most famous leading man and the

world's most respected directors she was

just a girl in her early 20s one time in

Hollywood grace and I were invited to

what turned out to be a rather sticky

dinner party with two bachelors we had

thought it was going to be this grand

party with an awful lot of people and

there we were and the lights were

getting lower and the wine was getting

heavier and I was getting very nervous

and I nudged grace under the table Grace

had her glasses on I think that was her

protection mine was just a sort of

chatter nervously and say let's go let's

go grace and she whispered back that's

right until after dessert it might be

good the bridges at toko-ri gave grace

the opportunity to play opposite an

actor she admired

William Holden Harry you've got to tell

me about the speeches Grace and all the

family were a competitive family I think

we got that I know we got that from our

mother and my father they instilled into

a deep sense of competition and the love

of sports the thrill of winning that

also taught us how to lose gracefully

but the Kelley's didn't intend to lose

and there never was a better drill

master than Jack Kelly it was fun family

fun and it left a special kind of

determination the determination didn't

manifest itself in grace as much in the

sporting field a her determination sort

of took another turn she loved to sit by

the hours and pretend and create

situations and say Lizzie you do this

and I'll be this and I'll be the mother

and you be the baby and of course I gave

her a hard time a lot of times because I

did not want to play her game

for grace growing up well Fame and

winter sport in Lake Placid

it also meant the best private schools

working for causes you believed in

started young modeling it society

fashion benefits

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but for grace these shows meant more

than fundraising they were theater she

got most of her love from the theater

for my uncle George he was a playwright

and he directed plays very gracious

highly educated person well-read and

very witty and she just was fascinated

with all the tales of the stage and the

theater her uncle George Kelly was was a

great example to her he he was sensitive

and kind and talented and I think of all

the men she ever knew rather than going

for the athletic macho type I think her

her ideal man was was her uncle George

my recollections is her father John B

Jack Kelly were of an enormous man with

tremendous amount of gusto everything up

front everything in the open move ahead

nice man but not a tremendous amount of

internal sensitivity her father believed

absolutely the Peggy the older sister

was going to be make the big star of the

family and succeed and you never paid

any attention to race it was the middle

of the families for children and she was

quiet observant of the others and adored

her older brother too also Kel zombie

Kelly jr. and also analytic star great

racers the father thought he's great but

Gracie just accepted and I don't think

he understood her at all

but she adored him and yet one wonders

when you don't get from a parent of what

it is perhaps you need if that isn't

what creates a great deal of the drive

in you to go out and become the fullest

part of yourself she decided to go to

New York and my mother and father

especially surprised because she was a

shy and retiring girl my mother and

father were a little leery of the New

York and on her own

but mother said if Jack it's not as if

she's going to Hollywood or to

California Grace knew that her father

didn't think very much of an acting

career

they allowed her to go to get it out of

her system let her go

it won't mount to anything Grace was

accepted into the American Academy of

Dramatic Arts then housed in Manhattan's

Carnegie Hall

it was 1947 at Grace Kelly was 18 years

old she I support herself by modeling

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got her portfolio and little by little

she started getting job so that she

didn't have to act for the favor of

being supported in her efforts so that

she could justify her own existence by

her own earning power grace also

appeared in commercials

she was the girl next door the girl men

hoped they could marry after graduating

from the American Academy grace found

parts in stock companies and her first

professional role in her uncle George

Kelly's play the torchbearers then came

her first Broadway role in a string

Burak play

and we all went up and Philadelphia to

see the opening night and dad did not

know that rain and nasty was in the play

grace introduced her father to Raymond

he said Oh Jack how are you and he said

is this your daughter I did not know

that so she did everything on her own

and did not want any help