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| 1 | MGM studios offered 70 000 dollars for the weeding of Grace Kelly, in gowns and bonus. |
| 2 | It has been alleged that as member of the Twentieth Century Fox board of directors, Kelly was responsible for closing down Russ Meyer's uncompleted "Who Killed Bambi?". |
| 3 | Portrayed by Nicole Kidman in the fictionalized and critically ravished Grace of Monaco (2014). Kidman, however, was nominated for a SAG Award for her performance. |
| 4 | Grace Kelly passed away on September 14, 1982, two months away from what would have been her 53rd birthday on November 12. |
| 5 | Had appeared in three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Window (1954), Dial M for Murder (1954) and To Catch a Thief (1955). |
| 6 | She turned down the female lead in On the Waterfront (1954) in order to make Rear Window (1954) instead. |
| 7 | Was the 42nd actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Country Girl (1954) at The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955) on March 30, 1955. |
| 8 | Was a Girl Scout. |
| 9 | She was a registered Democrat and her family was close friends with Franklin D. Roosevelt during his administration. |
| 10 | Her first date, Harper Davis, died in 1953 after contracting multiple sclerosis when he returned from World War II and whose funeral was attended by Grace Kelly. |
| 11 | She graduated from Stevens School in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 5, 1947; her classmates predicted, in her senior yearbook, that she was certain "to become a stage and screen star". |
| 12 | The very first actress to appear on a postage stamp in 1993. |
| 13 | Ranked #86 in Men's Health magazine's 100 Hottest Women of all Time (2011). |
| 14 | She and her husband Prince Rainier of Monaco became pregnant twice in 1962; on both occasions she suffered miscarriages. |
| 15 | Was good friends with actress Maureen O'Hara. |
| 16 | Former mother-in-law of Stefano Casiraghi (1983-1990) and mother-in-law of Daniel Ducruet (1995-1996). She was also the future mother-in-law of Princess Charlene of Monaco. |
| 17 | All of her leading men were old enough to be her father (with the exception of William Holden, who was 11 years older than her and Louis Jourdan, who was only 8 years older). |
| 18 | Her father built a beach house at the corner of 26th and Wesley in Ocean City, New Jersey in 1929. It became a popular family vacation destination, and hosted celebrity guests such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Grace's sister, Lizanne, lived in the house until it was sold in 2001. |
| 19 | Was allegedly romantically involved with all of her leading men apart from James Stewart. She was also linked to Marlon Brando, David Niven and Jean-Pierre Aumont. |
| 20 | Was considered for the role of Sarah in Guys and Dolls (1955), however Jean Simmons was cast instead. |
| 21 | Grandmother of: Andrea, Charlotte, and Pierre Casiraghi, Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Louis and Pauline Ducruet, Camille Gottlieb, Jazmin Grace Grimaldi and Alexandre Coste. |
| 22 | She and her husband Prince Rainier of Monaco, were at the opening of Expo '58 in Brussels. |
| 23 | Cary Grant named her as his favorite co-star. His friends and family said Kelly's death hit him much harder than the deaths of Louis Mountbatten, Alfred Hitchcock and even Ingrid Bergman. |
| 24 | On the day she perished in a car accident, she was allegedly driving a British Rover 3500. |
| 25 | Attended and graduated from Stevens School in Germantown, Philadelphia in 1947. |
| 26 | (April 19, 1956) Her wedding's church ceremony at Monaco's Saint Nicholas Cathedral was exclusively filmed by MGM and made into the documentary The Wedding in Monaco (1956). The 600 guests included David Niven, Gloria Swanson, Ava Gardner and Conrad Hilton. |
| 27 | In her youth, her favorite actors were Joseph Cotten and Ingrid Bergman. |
| 28 | Was offered to do a role in 11-time Oscar-nominated The Turning Point (1977). |
| 29 | In Italy, a vast number of her films were dubbed by Fiorella Betti. She was also dubbed by Miranda Bonansea, Dhia Cristiani and Rina Morelli, respectively in High Noon (1952), Dial M for Murder (1954) and To Catch a Thief (1955). |
| 30 | Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 447-450. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. |
| 31 | Her favorite flowers were roses. After her death, Prince Rainier of Monaco opened a public rose garden in Monaco. |
| 32 | While pregnant with Princess Caroline of Monaco, Grace often used her Hermès bag to shield her belly from prying paparazzi. The company nicknamed that purse "the Kelly bag". |
| 33 | Bought a silver frame as a wedding gift to Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981. |
| 34 | Broke off her engagement to Oleg Cassini to marry Prince Rainier of Monaco. |
| 35 | Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna's song "Vogue". |
| 36 | Is portrayed by Christina Applegate and Cheryl Ladd in Grace Kelly (1983). |
| 37 | Was romantically involved with fashion designer Oleg Cassini. |
| 38 | The road accident which led to her death was apparently caused by a stroke she suffered while driving. |
| 39 | Was named #13 Actress on The American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends |
| 40 | She was voted the 12th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere magazine. |
| 41 | Summoned Sydney Guilaroff, the chief hairstylist at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to style her hair for her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956. |
| 42 | Hedda Hopper reported that Judy Garland's loss of the Academy Award to Grace for The Country Girl (1954) was the result of the closest Oscar vote up till that time that did not end in a tie, with just six votes separating the two. In any event, it was such a heartbreak from which Judy Garland never recovered from, mentally. Judy Garland was nominated for her role in A Star Is Born (1954) and which has remained a matter of some controversy. |
| 43 | She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6329 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960. |
| 44 | Referenced in the songs "Grace Kelly", by Die Ärzte; "Grace Kelly Blues" by Eels (Mark Oliver Everett),"Grace Kelly with Wings" by Piebald; and "Grace Kelly" by Mika. |
| 45 | She was voted the 27th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly. |
| 46 | She was one of many famous tenants of the Barbizon Hotel for Women when she lived in New York. Other tenants included Candice Bergen, Liza Minnelli, Cloris Leachman, Ali MacGraw, and Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale. |
| 47 | On January 1959, the Austrian government awarded her a medal of merit for aid to Hungarian refugees escaping Russian invasion, given through Monaco's Red Cross. |
| 48 | Kelly was the daughter of John Brendan Kelly, Sr. (1889-1960), the son of Irish immigrants, and his wife Margaret Katherine (Majer), whose parents were German. She had three siblings: Peggy, John Jr. and Lizzane. |
| 49 | Niece of playwright George Kelly. |
| 50 | When she left Hollywood, several roles she was slated to play were eventually filled by Lauren Bacall (Designing Woman (1957) and The Cobweb (1955)). Director George Stevens also wanted her for Giant (1956). |
| 51 | The Country Girl (1954), the film that won Kelly an Oscar, was first offered to Jennifer Jones, who had to turn it down due to pregnancy. |
| 52 | Attended and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York. |
| 53 | The so-called "wealthy" family Grace was born into was actually an immigrant family of bricklayers who had barely a generation of newfound business success. Grace's father and brother were both Olympic gold-medal scullers. Grace's cousin, former US Secy of Navy John Lehman, Jr. now chairs the Princess Grace Foundation, which supports young performing talent. |
| 54 | Was considered for the role of Maggie the Cat in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) that was eventually played by Elizabeth Taylor. |
| 55 | Kelly's wedding gown was the most expensive garment that MGM designer Helen Rose had ever made. It used twenty-five yards of silk taffeta and one hundred yards of silk net. Its 125-year-old rose point lace was purchased from a museum and thousands of tiny pearls were sewn on the veil. |
| 56 | Part of Prince Rainier of Monaco'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. A figure of $2,000,000 was finally agreed upon, which was diverted from Grace's inheritance so that her brother and two sisters would not be shortchanged. |
| 57 | In 1993, the United States and Monaco simultaneously released a commemorative postage stamp honoring her. However, United States federal law forbids postage stamps depicting foreign heads of state, so the United States stamp listed her as "Grace Kelly", while the Monaco stamp listed her as "Princess Grace". |
| 58 | Born at 5:31 AM EST. |
| 59 | Actress Rita Gam was among her bridesmaids. |
| 60 | Assisted in the pre-production status of Grace Kelly (1983) starring Cheryl Ladd as Grace Kelly. |
| 61 | Following her untimely death, she was interred at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Monaco. |
| 62 | The inscription at her burial site in Monaco's cathedral does not refer to her as a princess. It uses the title "uxor principis" (prince's wife), which is traditional in the House of Grimaldi. |
| 63 | Her movies were banned in Monaco by order of Prince Rainier of Monaco. |
| 64 | Had three children with Prince Rainier of Monaco: Princess Caroline of Monaco (1957), Prince Albert of Monaco (1958) and Princess Stéphanie of Monaco (1965). |
| 65 | Hoped to return to acting in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964), but the people of Monaco did not want their princess playing a thief and romancing Sean Connery. |
| 66 | Ranked #51 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997] |
| 67 | Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#5) (1995). |
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