High Noon
1952
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Mar 31, 2019 · On September 13, 1982, Grace Kelly and her daughter, Princess Stephanie, were in a car crash. Due largely to a series of misleading communiques from the Monaco palace—the hospital's chief ...
The American Oscar winner, who was known as Grace Kelly before she became a princess after marrying Prince Rainier of Monaco, suffered a stroke driving home to Monaco with her then...
- The Plan to Rescue Monaco
- Grace Kelly: Her Path to Princess
- The Train Ride That Changed Everything
- The Almost-Disastrous Photo-Op
- The Engagement
- The Ex-Fiancée
- High Society
- The Wedding of The Century
- A Power Couple For The Ages
- A Tragic End
It’s hard to imagine, looking at Monaco now, that this magnificent cliff-side city of opulent casinos and grand hotels was teetering on the edge of financial ruin in the 1950s, and held precious little influence or renown on the world stage. As one of the smallest countries in Europe, World War II little more than a decade past, the country had lit...
At that time, Grace Kelly was already an icon and worldwide sensation. She was an American girl whose father had been born to poor, Irish-Catholic, immigrant parents, their home a cramped tenement row house on the banks of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father, Jack Kelly, survived the vicissitudes of his childhood to becom...
In the spring of 1955, some of the biggest names in cinema history were boarding an overnight train from Paris to Cannes to attend the Cannes Film Festival, an annual tradition since 1946. Two-time Oscar winner and Gone with the Wind actress Olivia de Havilland was on the luxury Le Train Bleu from Gare du Lyon with her newlywed husband, Pierre Gala...
And so it was that screen goddess Grace Kelly agreed to a meeting with the Prince at the palace during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, where they posed for photos in a carefully contrived ‘meet-cute’ in front of a lion cage in the palace grounds (see all the photos here). That day was a comedy of errors, from a power outage at her hotel that prevent...
The starlet was not immediately love-struck. But the Prince started writing her letters and it was through this correspondence, that gradually, she began to fall for the Prince’s charms. Not long after, he visited Grace’s childhood home in Philadelphia over the Christmas holidays. Her sister, Lizanne Kelly DeVine, remembers that the couple spent th...
Grace Kelly broke off her engagement to fashion designer Oleg Cassini because of Prince Rainier. “One of the reasons I believe you’re marrying this man is because this is the best script that you ever received in your life. You will be a star for years to come,” the jilted Oleg Cassini famously told her. But Oleg would never have been a suitable hu...
The 1956 movie musical High Society, starring her friends Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, was her last feature film. When the Prince heard that the film’s costume designer was going to source a fake ring for Grace’s character, he offered to buy her one instead, as a second engagement ring. Naturally, all parties involved swiftly accepted. The 10.48-...
As was the custom for European aristocracy, a hefty dowry was set for Grace to wed Prince Rainier III. Her father initially objected to the $2 million being requested, but eventually acquiesced when it seemed that the marriage was in jeopardy. Half of the sum was taken from her inheritance, and Grace covered the remaining half herself from her earn...
They honeymooned aboard Rainier’s yacht, the Deo Juvante II, cruising around the Mediterranean. It was during their honeymoon that she became pregnant with their first child, and Princess Caroline was born on Jan. 23, 1957. While pregnant with Caroline, the newly-crowned Princess Grace would often hold her Hermès bag in front of her stomach to hide...
Tragically, Princess Grace was killed in a car crash in 1982, driving on the same high, beautiful Corniche road along the coastthat she traveled with Cary Grant in Hitchcock’s ‘To Catch a Thief’, back when she was the most famous actress in the world. Her 17-year-old daughter, Stéphanie, was in the car as well. Although she obtained a hairline frac...
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Sep 13, 2022 · Princess Grace of Monaco died in Monte Carlo on Sept. 14, 1982, of injuries sustained in a car accident the day before. She was 52. Princess Grace, the former Grace Kelly, remains a timeless...
May 14, 2014 · Grace of Monaco. The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
Sep 5, 2023 · Grace Kelly is one of the most notable actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age, but soon after winning an Academy Award for best actress for her role in 1954's "The Country Girl," she left it all...
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