Grace Kelly

Grace Patricia Kelly or ostentatiously known as Grace Kelly was a former American actress known for her roles in Mogambo, The Country Girl, High Noon, Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, High Society, and To Catch A Thief, among many others. Kelly was crowned as the Princess of Monaco after tying the knot with Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Kelly has also been nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. The decade of the 50s saw Kelly feature in over 40 episodes of stage plays.

Kelly comes from a family of cognoscenti, and was born to parents, John B. Kelly, and Margaret Katherine Majer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kelly’s father was a three-time Olympic Gold medalist in Sculling, and her mother was the first female at the University of Pennsylvania to coach the women’s athletics team. The Pulitzer Prize winner, George Kelly, and the popular vaudeville artist, Walter C. Kelly, were Grace’s uncles. Kelly pursued her education at the Ravenhill Academy, and later on, attended the Stevens School in Philadelphia. Kelly relocated to New York Click to look into! >> Read More... in search of movie roles. Kelly pocketed work as a model, and later on, in 1949, made her Broadway debut. At the age of 22, Kelly’s movie career began with a brief role in the Henry Hathaway-directed Fourteen Hours. The year of 1952 saw Kelly feature alongside Thomas Mitchell and Gary Cooper Gary Cooper is an English actor who was born in Mo >> Read More... in the Fred Zinnemann Fred Zinnemann was a distinguished and an extraord >> Read More... classic, High Noon. But it was in 1953 that Kelly started gaining recognition for her role of Linda Nordley in the Clarke Gable starrer Mogambo. Ava Gardner Ava Lavinia Gardner was an eminent American actres >> Read More... too managed to produce a wonderful performance in the film, and the production company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer reaped the benefits as critics, as well as audiences praised the movie. 1954 saw Kelly start to work with the legendary, Alfred Hitchcock in Dial M For Murder. In the same year, Kelly was cast alongside James Stewart James Maitland Stewart was an American General in >> Read More... in Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Rear Window. During the same time, Kelly was presented with an Academy Award for her role of Georgie Elgin in the George Seaton-direction called, The Country Girl. The following year saw Kelly alongside Cary Grant Cary Grant was a British-American actor, one from >> Read More... in Hitchcock’s thriller, To Catch a Thief. In 1956, Kelly featured in the Charles Walters-directed musical, High Society, which also starred Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.

 Kelly was given an invitation to the Cannes Film Festival in 1955, where she met her to-be husband, Prince Rainier III of Monaco at the Palace of Monaco, during a photo shoot. Kelly tied the knot with Rainier III in a ceremony described as the wedding of the century. In 1962, Kelly was offered a lead female role in the Alfred Hitchcock-directed Marnie, but she turned it down following an outcry in Monaco among the masses. A few years later, Kelly served as the narrator for the ABC Network-produced television film, The Poppy Is Also A Flower.

 Unfortunately in 1982, Kelly met with a fatal accident after having suffered a stroke while driving. September 14^th, 1982 marked Kelly’s funeral at the Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Monaco.