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Grace Kelly Wiki Biography

Grace Patricia Kelly, also known as Grace, Princess of Monaco, was an awarded actress and later the Princess of Monaco, born on 12th November 1929, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA She was one of the most popular Hollywood divas from the 1950s who appeared in New York City theaters and more than 40 episodes of live drama productions during the Golden Age of Television. Some of her most notable appearances include the films “Mogambo”(1953), “The Country Girl” (1954), “High Noon”(1952), “Rear Window”(1954), “High Society”(1956) and many others. She passed away in 1982.

Have you ever wondered how rich Grace Kelly was? According to sources it has been estimated that Grace Kelly’s net worth was $40 million, accumulated initially through an outstandingly successful acting career, with roles that raised her to stardom, and her later marriage to Prince Rainier III significantly added to her fortune.

Grace was born into a rich family; her father, John Brendan “Jack” Kelly, won three Olympic gold medals with the U.S. rowing team, but was also the owner one of the most successful brick businesses on the East Coast, and a self-made millionaire. Grace was the third of four children -.from her mother’s side Grace was of German descent as her grandparents were German immigrants, and from her father’s she had Irish ancestry. She showed interest in acting and performing from an early age, and participated in school plays while occasionally modeling with her sister and mother. Grace went to the prestigious Ravenhill Academy, a Catholic girls’ school, and then attended Stevens private high school. Kelly wanted to enroll at the Bennington College, but was rejected due to low scores in mathematics. This, however, encouraged her to pursue a career in acting, which she had always preferred. Grace’s uncles were also accomplished actors and had made an impact in cinema – George Kelly had won the Pulitzer Prize for his comedy drama “The Show Off”, and Walter Kelly had been a successful actor.

Finally, in 1947 Grace was admitted to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, and fully committed herself to acting studies. To support herself through studies, due to her parents lack of support, she did modeling and was in frequent demand due to her good looks which eventually made her one of the highest paid models in New York at the time. Her Broadway debut came when she was 19, which then attracted the attention of TV producers who featured her often in various TV productions. Naturally, this led to offers of roles in films, and her first was in “Fourteen Hours” (1951) next to Gary Cooper, after which he recommended Kelly as his partner in the iconic 1952 movie “High Noon”. The same year, she signed a seven year contract with director John Ford, who then cast her in his movie “Mogambo” (1953), a role which brought her a Golden Globe Award and her first Academy nomination. Grace also collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock and appeared in several of his movies including “Dial M for Murder” and “Rear Window”. Her other notable roles were in “The Country Girl”(1954) – for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress – “To Catch a Thief”(1955) and “High Society”(1956).

At the Cannes Film Festival in 1955, Grace met Prince of Monaco – Prince Rainer III, who then visited America that year, and after spending just three days with her, decided to propose. The couple married in April 1956, and Kelly was given 142 titles, among them Princess Grace of Monaco. Grace gave up her acting career, although she had second thoughts. She then founded several organizations, including AMADE Mondiale, a non-governmental organization which promoted the spiritual well-being of children, and the Princess Grace Foundation which supported local artists.

Despite all of her royal duties, directors tried to tempt Kelly out of retirement, but never succeeded. Many years later, in September 1982, after having a stroke while driving, Grace died on 14th September 1982 in Monaco. She was buried in the Grimaldi family vault, and James Stewart read an eulogy at the funeral.

Kelly and Prince Rainer had three children, among them is Albert, current ruler of the Principality of Monaco.

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Grace Kelly Quick Info

Grace Kelly Trademarks

1. Often cast as the love interest of the leading man who is over 20 years older.
2. Her poised, calm, cool and collected demeanor and blond hair often coiffed in a bun

Grace Kelly Quotes

• (On Gary Cooper) He’s the one who taught me to relax during a scene and let the camera do some of the work. On the stage you have to emote not only for the front rows, but for the balcony too, and I’m afraid I overdid it. He taught me the camera is always in front row, and how to take it easy…
• Before my marriage, I didn’t think about all the obligations there were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think that I have a natural propensity to feel compassion for people and their problems.
• The studios are tenacious. When they want someone or something, they always get it in the end. I ended up signing a contract with MGM. I signed because they offered me the chance of shooting in Africa, but I signed it at the desk of the airport, when the engines of the plane were already turning.
• I’m basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.
• I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.
• It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother.
• If there is one thing that is foreign to me it is shopping for pleasure. On the other hand, I believe that it is right to honour all those who create beautiful things and give satisfaction to those who see me wearing them.
• Fairy tales tell imaginary stories. Me, I’m a living person. I exist. If the story of my life as a real woman were to be told one day, people would at last discover the real being that I am.
• When Ava Gardner gets in a taxi, the driver knows at once she’s Ava Gardner. It’s the same for Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor, but not for me. I’m never Grace Kelly. I’m always someone who looks like Grace Kelly.
• Although, I’ve played a wide variety of roles, I’ve never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me. It’s a pity as they are the only stories that really let you reveal your personality.
• My love of flowers opened a lot of doors for me. I’ve made many friends because of their passion of flowers and their vast knowledge in this field.
• I would like to say to my future fellow citizens that the Prince, my fiance, has taught me to love them. I already know a lot about them from the way he has described them to me, and my dearest desire today is to find a little place in their hearts.
• When I married Prince Rainier, I married the man and not what he represented or what he was. I fell in love with him without giving a thought to anything else.
• I’ve always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely.
• My parents, despite their serious attitude toward life in general, and that of their children in particular, were very broadminded people. There was no such thing as a bad profession for them. As I was their daughter, they knew that, whatever profession I chose, I would do it well. That was enough for them. There was always trust among the Kellys.
• Of course, I think about marriage, but my career is still the most important thing for me. If I interrupt it now to get married, because I don’t believe in a part-time family life, I would risk passing the rest of my existence wondering whether or not I would have been able to become a great actress.
• Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.
• My real difficulty was to become a normal person again, after having been a movie actress for so long. For me, at the time I was living in New York and Hollywood, a normal person was someone who made movies.
• My father had a very simple view of life: you don’t get anything for nothing. Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence and honesty. My father also had a deep charm, the gift of winning our trust. He was the kind of man with whom many people dream of spending an evening.
• I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others.
• I came to success very quickly. Perhaps too quickly to value its importance.
• At times, I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends.
• Mogambo (1953) had three things that interested me. John Ford, Clark Gable, and a trip to Africa with expenses paid. If Mogambo had been made in Arizona, I wouldn’t have done it.
• I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns, where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics, and so much unhappiness.
• I’ll tell you one of the reasons I’m ready to leave. When I first came to Hollywood five years ago, my makeup call was at eight in the morning. On this movie it’s been put back to seven-thirty. Every day I see Joan Crawford, who’s been in makeup since five, and Loretta Young, who’s been there since four in the morning. I’ll be god-damned if I’m going to stay in a business where I have to get up earlier and earlier and it takes longer and longer for me to get in front of a camera.
• Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality.

Grace Kelly Important Facts

• $14,000
• MGM studios offered 70 000 dollars for the weeding of Grace Kelly, in gowns and bonus.
• It has been alleged that as member of the Twentieth Century Fox board of directors, Kelly was responsible for closing down Russ Meyer’s uncompleted “Who Killed Bambi?”.
• Portrayed by Nicole Kidman in the fictionalized and critically ravished Grace of Monaco (2014). Kidman, however, was nominated for a SAG Award for her performance.
• Grace Kelly passed away on September 14, 1982, two months away from what would have been her 53rd birthday on November 12.
• Had appeared in three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Window (1954), Dial M for Murder (1954) and To Catch a Thief (1955).
• She turned down the female lead in On the Waterfront (1954) in order to make Rear Window (1954) instead.
• Was the 42nd actress to receive 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.
• Was a Girl Scout.
• She was a registered Democrat and her family was close friends with Franklin D. Roosevelt during his administration.
• Her first date, Harper Davis, died in 1953 after contracting multiple sclerosis when he returned from World War II and whose funeral was attended by Grace Kelly.
• She graduated from Stevens School in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 5, 1947; her classmates predicted, in her senior yearbook, that she was certain “to become a stage and screen star”.
• The very first actress to appear on a postage stamp in 1993.
• Ranked #86 in Men’s Health magazine’s 100 Hottest Women of all Time (2011).
• She and her husband Prince Rainier of Monaco became pregnant twice in 1962; on both occasions she suffered miscarriages.
• Was good friends with actress Maureen O’Hara.
• Former mother-in-law of Stefano Casiraghi (1983-1990) and mother-in-law of Daniel Ducruet (1995-1996). She was also the future mother-in-law of Princess Charlene of Monaco.
• All of her leading men were old enough to be her father (with the exception of William Holden, who was 11 years older than her and Louis Jourdan, who was only 8 years older).
• Her father built a beach house at the corner of 26th and Wesley in Ocean City, New Jersey in 1929. It became a popular family vacation destination, and hosted celebrity guests such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Grace’s sister, Lizanne, lived in the house until it was sold in 2001.
• Was allegedly romantically involved with all of her leading men apart from James Stewart. She was also linked to Marlon Brando, David Niven and Jean-Pierre Aumont.
• Was considered for the role of Sarah in Guys and Dolls (1955), however Jean Simmons was cast instead.
• Grandmother 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 and her husband Prince Rainier of Monaco, were at the opening of Expo ’58 in Brussels.
• Cary Grant named her as his favorite co-star. His friends and family said Kelly’s death hit him much harder than the deaths of Louis Mountbatten, Alfred Hitchcock and even Ingrid Bergman.
• On the day she perished in a car accident, she was allegedly driving a British Rover 3500.
• Attended and graduated from Stevens School in Germantown, Philadelphia in 1947.
• (April 19, 1956) Her wedding’s church ceremony at Monaco’s Saint Nicholas Cathedral was exclusively filmed by MGM and made into the documentary The Wedding in Monaco (1956). The 600 guests included David Niven, Gloria Swanson, Ava Gardner and Conrad Hilton.
• In her youth, her favorite actors were Joseph Cotten and Ingrid Bergman.
• Was offered to do a role in 11-time Oscar-nominated The Turning Point (1977).
• In Italy, a vast number of her films were dubbed by Fiorella Betti. She was also dubbed by Miranda Bonansea, Dhia Cristiani and Rina Morelli, respectively in High Noon (1952), Dial M for Murder (1954) and To Catch a Thief (1955).
• Biography in: “The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives”. Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 447-450. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1998.
• Her favorite flowers were roses. After her death, Prince Rainier of Monaco opened a public rose garden in Monaco.
• While pregnant with Princess Caroline of Monaco, Grace often used her Hermès bag to shield her belly from prying paparazzi. The company nicknamed that purse “the Kelly bag”.
• Bought a silver frame as a wedding gift to Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981.
• Broke off her engagement to Oleg Cassini to marry Prince Rainier of Monaco.
• Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna’s song “Vogue”.
• Is portrayed by Christina Applegate and Cheryl Ladd in Grace Kelly (1983).
• Was romantically involved with fashion designer Oleg Cassini.
• The road accident which led to her death was apparently caused by a stroke she suffered while driving.
• Was named #13 Actress on The American Film Institute’s 50 Greatest Screen Legends
• She was voted the 12th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere magazine.
• Summoned Sydney Guilaroff, the chief hairstylist at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to style her hair for her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956.
• Hedda Hopper reported that Judy Garland’s loss of the Academy Award to Grace for The Country Girl (1954) was the result of the closest Oscar vote up till that time that did not end in a tie, with just six votes separating the two. In any event, it was such a heartbreak from which Judy Garland never recovered from, mentally. Judy Garland was nominated for her role in A Star Is Born (1954) and which has remained a matter of some controversy.
• She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6329 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
• Referenced in the songs “Grace Kelly”, by Die Ärzte; “Grace Kelly Blues” by Eels (Mark Oliver Everett),”Grace Kelly with Wings” by Piebald; and “Grace Kelly” by Mika.
• She was voted the 27th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
• She was one of many famous tenants of the Barbizon Hotel for Women when she lived in New York. Other tenants included Candice Bergen, Liza Minnelli, Cloris Leachman, Ali MacGraw, and Edith ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale.
• On January 1959, the Austrian government awarded her a medal of merit for aid to Hungarian refugees escaping Russian invasion, given through Monaco’s Red Cross.
• Kelly was the daughter of John Brendan Kelly, Sr. (1889-1960), the son of Irish immigrants, and his wife Margaret Katherine (Majer), whose parents were German. She had three siblings: Peggy, John Jr. and Lizzane.
• Niece of playwright George Kelly.
• When she left Hollywood, several roles she was slated to play were eventually filled by Lauren Bacall (Designing Woman (1957) and The Cobweb (1955)). Director George Stevens also wanted her for Giant (1956).
• The Country Girl (1954), the film that won Kelly an Oscar, was first offered to Jennifer Jones, who had to turn it down due to pregnancy.
• Attended and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York.
• The so-called “wealthy” family Grace was born into was actually an immigrant family of bricklayers who had barely a generation of newfound business success. Grace’s father and brother were both Olympic gold-medal scullers. Grace’s cousin, former US Secy of Navy John Lehman, Jr. now chairs the Princess Grace Foundation, which supports young performing talent.
• Was considered for the role of Maggie the Cat in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) that was eventually played by Elizabeth Taylor.
• Kelly’s wedding gown was the most expensive garment that MGM designer Helen Rose had ever made. It used twenty-five yards of silk taffeta and one hundred yards of silk net. Its 125-year-old rose point lace was purchased from a museum and thousands of tiny pearls were sewn on the veil.
• Part of Prince Rainier of Monaco’s attraction to marrying a movie star was to increase tourism in his tiny, cash-poor principality, and the Kelly family was turned off by his demands that a substantial dowry accompany Grace to Monaco. A figure of $2,000,000 was finally agreed upon, which was diverted from Grace’s inheritance so that her brother and two sisters would not be shortchanged.
• In 1993, the United States and Monaco simultaneously released a commemorative postage stamp honoring her. However, United States federal law forbids postage stamps depicting foreign heads of state, so the United States stamp listed her as “Grace Kelly”, while the Monaco stamp listed her as “Princess Grace”.
• Born at 5:31 AM EST.
• Actress Rita Gam was among her bridesmaids.
• Assisted in the pre-production status of Grace Kelly (1983) starring Cheryl Ladd as Grace Kelly.
• Following her untimely death, she was interred at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Monaco.
• The inscription at her burial site in Monaco’s cathedral does not refer to her as a princess. It uses the title “uxor principis” (prince’s wife), which is traditional in the House of Grimaldi.
• Her movies were banned in Monaco by order of Prince Rainier of Monaco.
• Had three children with Prince Rainier of Monaco: Princess Caroline of Monaco (1957), Prince Albert of Monaco (1958) and Princess Stéphanie of Monaco (1965).
• Hoped to return to acting in Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie (1964), but the people of Monaco did not want their princess playing a thief and romancing Sean Connery.
• Ranked #51 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list. [October 1997]
• Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#5) (1995).

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