Grace Kelly
“The idea of my life as a fairy-tale, is a fairy-tale itself”
Fourteen Hours. High Noon. Dial M For Murder. The Bridge of Toko-Ri. High Society. Five of the fourteen films this brilliant actress starred in. Her leading men included Gary Cooper, Clarke Gable, James Stewart, Bing Crosby and Cary Grant. Her talent and persona influenced one of the greatest directors of all time — Alfred Hitchcock. Her greatest performance was as the Princess of Monaco. This is another article on Grace Kelly.
Her father was an Olympic champion and owned P.H.Kelly Building Company. Grace was born on 12th November, 1929, to Jack and Margaret. The family lived in the affluent Philadelphia suburb Germantown. They lived in a large 17 room mansion built entirely of Kelly bricks. Grace had everything she could want materially, but being more shy and timid than her three siblings, she felt ‘neglected’ emotionally. Grace preferred reading and the arts, very much like her uncle George, who was a famous screenwriter and who won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1926. It was partly through her uncle’s encouragement that Grace joined the East Falls Old Academy Players in 1941 when she was 12 years of age. This was the unofficial start of Grace’s acting career.
Grace ‘snagged’ the leading role in the production of “Don’t Feed the Animals”, and continued to pursue her…
