Grace Kelly

In Philadelphia, in the year 1929, an actress was born that had a career that was fine. Grace Kelly, the daughter of Jack and Margaret Kelly, came from quite a distinguished Irish Catholic family. Her father was successful as a self-made millionaire; her brother, an Olympian and town councilman there. Grace’s uncle Walter Kelly was a vaudeville actor, and Uncle George Kelly, a Pulitzer-winning writer. Any film critic would tell you her acting was quite good. She was one of the beautiful women in Hollywood. Among her films were, “Fourteen Hours”, “High Noon”, and “Mogambo”, and Alfred Hitchcock’s “Dial M for Murder” and “Rear Window”. For “The Country Girl”, she won the Oscar for Best Actress. In several other major films, Grace made great progress. Included with “The Swan”, her other great pictures would be “To Catch a Thief“, “Green Fire” and “The Bridges at Toko-Ri” Her last film would be with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. This was the Cole Porter musical “High Society”. Later that year, Grace would marry Monaco’s Prince Rainier. She retired from the screen and became a princess that day. Grace had three children, Albert, Caroline, and Stephanie. With her husband, she ruled the tiny principality. Grace’s life ended abruptly when she was fifty-two. Her life was like a storybook fairy tale dream come true.