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  Grace Kelly Biography
Grace Patricia Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 12 November 1929 to John and Margaret Kelly.
Grace debuted in the film 14 Hours, in a minor supporting role, but then starred in High Noon, in which she played a "mousey" Quaker bride.
Grace went against Hitchcock's vision of her for the film The Country Girl, which won her the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role of 1954.
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  Grace Kelly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an Academy Award-winning American film actress who, upon marriage to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco on April 19, 1956, became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco.
Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John Brendan Kelly, Sr.
Alfred Hitchcock wanted to cast Kelly in the title role of his motion picture Marnie, but the people of Monaco were not happy with the idea of their princess taking on the role of such a character.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Grace Kelly   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an Oscar-winning American film actress who, as a result of marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco, became Her Serene Highness, Princess Grace of Monaco.
Grace Kelly was required to renounce her American citizenship upon her marriage.
Kelly's father's Irish Catholic family (originally from Kidney Lake, Co. Mayo, Ireland) were new but prominent figures in Philadelphia society.
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 obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Grace Kelly   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Grace Kelly was not without allies in her family, her uncle, George Kelly was a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, and another, Walter C. Kelly had been a famed vaudeville star.
Kelly was called away from MGM as a loan to Paramount for an against type role in "The Country Girl" with Bing Crosby, her portrayal of the wife of an alcoholic earning her a second Oscar.
Princess Grace (Kelly) Grimaldi of Monaco was interred at the Cathedral of Monaco, and survived at her death by her husband Rainier III and her children.
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 Talk:Grace Kelly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
User:Arkady Rose wanted to let us know: "Grace Kelly is a gay icon, whether you like it or not." I think we all agree that it doesn't matter whether we "like it or not".
I have changed several times, the opening style from Grace Patricia Kelly to Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco, as she predeceased her husband it should be HSH princess Grace of Monaco, it should not be opened under her maiden name.
I think that Grace was probably officially The Princess of Monaco, however Monaco has never been big on "official things", and I believe she was almost always styled as Princess Grace.
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 Grace Kelly Bio - Grace Kelly Biography - Grace Kelly Stories
Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia into a remarkable family of Irish Catholics from the wrong side of the tracks.
In 1959, Grace was awarded with a medal of merit by the Austrian government for her aid to Hungarian refugees escaping Russian invasion.
Grace was portrayed by Christina Applegate and Cheryl Ladd.
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 Grace Kelly
Grace, Princess of Monaco, born Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was an Academy Award-winning American film actress who, upon marriage to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco on April 19, 1956, became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco.
Grace Kelly was born in the East Falls section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the third of four children to John Brendan Kelly, Sr., also known as Jack Kelly, and Margaret Katherine Majer Kelly.
Kelly appeared in a small role in Fourteen Hours (1951) when she was 22, which led to many offers, all of which she turned down for independence and another chance at the theater.
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 CD Baby: GRACE KELLY: Times Too
Grace is also drawn to vocal jazz, and the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Billy Holiday, Betty Carter, Dianna Krall and Ann Hampton Callaway has greatly influenced her.
Grace composed her first song at age seven, and from then on songwriting became one of her great passions along with singing and playing the saxophone.
Grace already has a well-rounded approach to making music and improves rapidly in her saxophone playing due to the teachings of some of the best in the business.
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 Grace Kelly pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers.
Grace worked some as a model and made her debut on Broadway in 1949.
Grace had recently met and married Prince Rainier III of the little principality of Monaco.
And Kelly thought it was time for her to select a husband, one who would finally meet with her parents' approval.
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 AmericanHeritage.com / America’s Own Princess
Her father, Jack Kelly, had made his fortune in brick contracting after winning a gold medal in rowing at the 1920 Olympics; her brother, John “Kell” Kelly, would win a bronze medal for rowing at the 1956 games; and her uncle Walter Kelly was a famed vaudeville star who had appeared in films.
Grace Kelly’s legendary looks gained her a throng of suitors, including the actors Ray Milland, William Holden, and Bing Crosby.
Grace Kelly’s marriage to Rainier would last 26 years, until September 13, 1982, when her remarkable life was cut short.
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 Grace Kelly: A Philadelphian at Heart
Kelly was an athletic coach for coeds at the University of Pennsylvania and was taking part in a recreational swim at the pool.
Grace and Alice, both age 6 at the time, played angels in a production that was written and directed by their older sisters.
Dignitaries and Kelly family members, who were unable to make the trek to Monaco, as well as members of the Philadelphia community, came to pay their respects to the cherished icon.
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 Grace Kelly News
Watching Grace Kelly, playing the beautiful Frances Stevens in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, zoom along a curvy Riveria highway with a white-knuckling Cary Grant at her side is truly an unnerving experience.
It is the golden anniversary of a real-life fairy tale, Philadelphia's Grace Kelly, first a Hollywood movie star and then a princess and that was 50 years ago this month.
Grace ascended from Hollywood royalty to the throne of Monaco when she married Prince Rainier III in what was then billed as "the wedding of the century," eclipsing even the nuptials of Queen Elizabeth II in...
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 Grace Kelly St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
Born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, Grace Kelly was raised in a household that valued achievement.
In April 1957,; Grace Kelly wed Prince Rainier in a ceremony which her biographer, Robert Lacey, wrote, was "the first modern event to generate media overkill." Guests included Ava Gardner and Aristotle Onassis.
Although her status as a cultural icon is certainly enhanced by her marriage into royalty, her image as one of the most beautiful women ever to grace the silver screen can never be tarnished, even by rumors of her unhappiness or the knowledge that she did not remain the unsullied beauty she once was.
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 Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Jack and Margaret Kelly.
For the rest of her life, she was to remain in the spotlight alongside her husband and three children.
On September 14, 1982, Grace was killed in an automobile accident in her adoptive home country.
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 Saxophonist, composer, singer jazz sensation Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly is one of the most talented young saxophonists to come along in many years.
Grace is also drawn to vocal jazz, and the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Billy Holiday, Betty Carter, Dianna Krall and Ann Hampton Callaway has greatly influenced her.
Grace already has a well-rounded approach to making music and improves rapidly in her saxophone playing due to the teachings of some of the best in the business.
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 Grace Kelly's sartorial splendour - Telegraph
Grace Kelly was both a modern-day princess and a fashion icon, who exuded an effortless glamour.
That was all to change the day Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco on April 19,1956, in what was called the "Wedding of the Century", wearing a bridal gown designed by Helen Rose, of MGM studios.
Her most famous accessory, the 'Kelly' bag, by Hermès, which became a cult which endures to this day, after Princess Grace was pictured carrying one on the cover of an American magazine in 1958, occupies an entire wall of exhibits.
www.telegraph.co.uk /fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2007/07/11/efgrace111.xml   (704 words)

  
 Grace Kelly @ Filmbug
Grace Patricia Kelly Grimaldi (November 12, 1929 - September 14, 1982) was an American actress and later became Princess Grace of Monaco.
At the age of 52, Princess Grace suffered a stroke while driving on the same stretch of highway in Monaco that had figured in To Catch a Thief, which caused an accident, and she died the next day without regaining consciousness.
Princess Grace is interred in the St. Nicholas Cathedral, (Monaco Cathedral) Monte Carlo, Monaco.
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 Grace Kelly | MDR.DE
Noch dazu: Sie heiratete einen Mann, den sie zuvor gerade mal für eine halbe Stunde auf einem Pressetermin gesehen hatte.
Grace Kelly hatte es zeitlebens geschafft, sich mit den Umständen zu arrangieren.
September 1982 starb Grace Kelly an den Folgen eines Autounfalls.
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 The Biography Channel - Grace Kelly Biography
As Princess Grace of Monaco, she served as head of a number of charitable and philanthropic organizations, and gave birth to three royal children.
In 1982, Princess Grace lost control of the vehicle in which she and her daughter were travelling.
Grace was born into an immigrant family of bricklayers; Grace's father and brother were both Olympic gold-medal scullers.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/254:326/Grace_Kelly.htm   (614 words)

  
 Grace Kelly Biography (1929 - 1982)
Grace Kelly was born on November 12, 1929, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Part of Prince Ranier'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.
Kelly's wedding gown was the most expensive garment that MGM designer Helen Rose had ever made.
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 Grace Kelly's grave
Grace Patricia Kelly was an Academy Award-winning American film actress who, upon marriage to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco on April 19, 1956, became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco.
Princess Grace was not required to renounce her American citizenship upon her marriage.
Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John Brendan Kelly, Sr., also known as Jack Kelly, and Margaret Katherine Majer Kelly, a Catholic convert from Lutheranism.
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 Grace Kelly - Overview - MSN Movies
Biography:Both literally and metaphorically, "Grace Kelly" was the cinema's fairy-tale princess; beautiful, elegant, and impossibly glamorous, she transcended the limits of Hollywood aristocracy to attain the power and glory of true royalty.
After turning down a Hollywood contract for fear of being typecast as a starlet, "Kelly" began to work in television, and in 1949 she made her Broadway debut in a revival of "August Strindberg"'s The Father.
Grace Kelly: A Portrait of the Universally Loved Leading Lady (1995) Legends of Love (1990) Hollywood Remembers [Video Series] (1990) The Hollywood Collection: Grace Kelly - The American Princess (1987) AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Jimmy Stewart (1980) The Children of Theatre Street (1977) The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966) High Society (1956)
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 Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly, a singer-songwriter-saxophonist whose talent and musical sophistication belie her age: 13 yrs.
In addition to her talents as a composer, singer, and saxophonist, Grace also acts, dances, and plays piano and clarinet (she’s studying the bass guitar).
Grace has been studying music at the New England Conservatory Preporatory School, Brookline Music School, and privately with some very distinguished teachers such as Lee Konitz, Jerry Bergonzi, Jeremy Udden, James Merenda, and Doug Johnson.
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 MySpace.com - Grace Kelly - 78 - Female - Monacoville - www.myspace.com/princessgrace26
Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia, on November 12, 1929 to John Brendan Kelly, Sr., also known as Jack Kelly, and Margaret Katherine Majer.
Grace Kelly personified the essence of his cool blonde and he made the most brilliant use of her regal, sophisticated and aristocratic beauty.
As Princess Grace of Monaco, she served as head of a number of charitable and philanthropic organizations, and gave birth to three royal children: Princess Caroline, Prince Albert and Princess Stephanie.
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 Grace Kelly still reigns as style icon, 25 years after her death
Grace Kelly managed to pull off both, earning as much applause for her role as Princess of Monaco as she did in her Oscar-winning film career.
But Rita Gam, an actress who roomed with Grace in Hollywood, told Fiori that the princess was also incredibly stable, which helped her deal with her drastically different life.
They include a blue satin dress and cloak that Grace wore to the 1955 Academy Awards, where she won the Best Actress Oscar for "The Country Girl," and the taffeta floral dress she had on when she first met Rainier.
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