Grace kelly

Born in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) on November 12, 1929, Grace Patricia Kelly was the daughter of a businessman who had won three gold medals in rowing at the Olympics, and who belonged to a family of Irish roots. She dreamed of being an actress since she was little, but her parents were radically opposed to her dedicating herself to this profession.

Despite everything, she escaped to New York, where she earned a little money working as a model, which she used to study acting at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 1949 she began working in Broadway theaters, and later in numerous television series of the time.

But she had a passion to succeed on the big screen, which was the first division, so she moved to California where she managed to get Henry Hathaway to give her a supporting role in Fourteen Hours , where she was a girl who is kicked out of her house by a policeman. cab. She filled the screen so much that she was offered the lead role in her second film, the legendary western High Noon , where she married the sheriff of a small town, but he couldn’t go with her because some dangerous outlaws were approaching. she.

She worked with teacher John Ford in Mogambo , where she was a woman who, along with her husband, enlists the services of an older hunter ( Clark Gable ) who organizes safaris, and is in a relationship with an attractive woman ( Ava Gardner ). For the film, Grace Kelly earned an Oscar nomination for Best Secondary. She would later win it, as the lead actress for Life’s Anguish , where she nailed the role of the wife of an alcoholic ( Bing Crosby ).

Apparently Alfred Hitchcock was not too convinced with what he had seen of her in the cinema when he called her for a test to play the wife whose husband plans to murder in Perfect Crime . Anyway, he wanted to meet her in person and when he met her, he was overwhelmed. Apparently he was fascinated by her gestures, the way she moved… Everything about her seemed unique to him, and he knew that he could get a lot out of her at the movies. During filming, she had an affair with her co-star De Ella Ray Milland , who was married, but even considered divorcing her.

The British director was so satisfied with his work that he did not hesitate to give him the role of the glamorous fashion editor of Rear Window , along with another of the director’s favorites, James Stewart . With Stewart, a man faithful to his wife, there was no idyll, but he allowed himself to joke about Kelly’s irresistible charm: “Just because he’s married doesn’t mean he’s dead!” Said the actor.

His third and final film with Hitchcock was To Catch a Thief , with the other actor adored by the British filmmaker, none other than Cary Grant . Some authors say that Prince Rainier of Monaco, who already occupied the throne of Monaco, made an official visit to the filming where he met the actress, although according to other testimonies he had seen her for the first time when she went to the Cannes Film Festival promoting The anguish of living The fact is that Rainier fell in love with her and made several trips to the United States to win her over, while she was filming The Swan , where she played a princess, in a paradoxical anticipation of what awaited her in her future life, and High society,again with Bing Crosby, which would be his last film. In this musical version of The Philadelphia Story , the actress even wore the ring with which Rainier had asked her to marry him.

In April 1956, the actress married Rainier, wearing a spectacular American Helen Rose wedding dress. Converted into Her Serene Highness, Princess Grace of Monaco boosted tourism in Monaco, as well as the arrival of investors and spendthrifts in search of casinos. The two hundred hectares that the small country measures have never been so in vogue. They had three children, Carolina, Alberto –current sovereign– and Estefanía.

Hitchcock tried to rescue her for the movies once more. It was even published in the press that the princess would star at her command From her Marnie, the thief . The master of suspense was willing to do anything, she would choose the shooting dates, she could veto the cast, whatever she wanted in order to have her as a muse again. The princess was very enthusiastic about the project and the idea of ​​returning to the screen. But then what did she fail? Rainier was radically opposed to making the film. Hitchcock had no choice but to find another blonde, the prodigious Tippi Hedren . The director would look for other blonde replacements, but they say he never recovered the magic he felt when he directed Kelly.

An accident, on the same road where one of the key sequences of To Catch a Thief was filmed , cut short the princess’s life prematurely, at the age of 52, on September 13, 1982. Her daughter Estefanía was with her in the car. , who escaped unharmed. Doctors at the Monaco hospital named after her tried to revive her to no avail.