She is beautiful, noble, and has an outstanding temperament, and she is at the top of the list of legendary female stars in Hollywood.
She is Grace Kelly, who combines beauty and glory.
People magazine commented on her, "Winning the Oscar is the most shining moment in Grace's life, and becoming the Princess of Monaco makes her shine even more." ”
For Hollywood female stars, she has found the best home for herself.
"I never wanted to marry a husband, I was looking for someone to be the wife of someone, someone with charisma, and a reputation that rivaled my extraordinary personality," she said. ”
She probably didn't expect that many years later, the crown of the princess would become her shackles and shackles, making her unable to be free, and even losing her life in the end.
She was born into an Irish immigrant family, her father, John M. B. Kelly was a rower in his early years and won the gold medal in the single sculls at the 7th Summer Olympics in 1920.
After her father retired, he became a successful businessman and served as a senator.
Her mother, Grace Maggie, was the first female physical education teacher at the University of Pennsylvania and Women's Medical School.
She had two uncles, one who was a musical and musical theater actor and the other who was a playwright, and his play "The Crere Wife" won the Pulitzer Prize for play.
She is the third oldest in the family, and her parents have strictly demanded of their sisters by the standards of famous ladies since childhood, and in the eyes of her parents, the most proud is her eldest sister Margaret.
Her parents wanted to train her to be a professional athlete, but she was ill and sick as a child, and she didn't like sports at all.
At the age of six, she attended a monastic school, where she began to enjoy swimming.
In high school, she joined the choir, ice hockey team and swimming team, and she loved sports, and her figure was always thin and slim.
Compared with her stern father, she prefers her two uncles who are engaged in literature and art, and under the influence of her uncles, she likes drama and participates in the drama society at school.
Her first stage performance was in the one-act comedy No Animals, in which she played a major role.
After the performance, she couldn't calm down for a long time, and the performance was really interesting.
After graduating from high school, she wanted to apply for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, but her parents did not agree with her to enroll and did not want her to enter the show business in the future.
She felt that she was 18 years old and could independently choose her future development direction, and she insisted on applying to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts despite her parents' objections.
After a series of interviews, she was successfully admitted to the Academy of Arts.
Her parents were annoyed by her disobedience, especially her father, who imposed financial constraints on her, so she worked part-time as a fashion model in her spare time while studying at art college.
After graduating from art college in 1949, her first performance was her uncle George Kelly's theatrical production The Torchbearer, which was then performed at the Buckston Playhouse.
This year, she was 20 years old and officially debuted in the entertainment industry.
In the same year, the Broadway drama "Father" recruited a heroine, and when she learned the news, she immediately rushed to New York for an interview, and she stood out among dozens of candidates.
On November 16, 1949, she began her first performance on the stage of Broadway, and her beauty and gentleness left a deep impression on the audience.
After the Broadway show, she gained some popularity and began to be approached by directors to star in TV series.
In 1950, she starred in the TV series "Roddingham Tea Set", in which she played a carecort Ma Ping, who was suspected of killing patients, a role that was challenging for her new to the screen, and her performance was liked by the audience.
Subsequently, ABC also invited her to star in the TV series "Apple Tree", in which she was beautiful and made the audience remember her beautiful name - Grace Kelly.
In 1950, Theater World magazine selected "the twelve most promising actors on the Broadway stage of the year", and she was successfully selected.
In the same year, she starred in the film "Fourteen Hours" directed by Henry Hathaway, although she only played a small supporting role in the film, her beauty and dignification were impressive.
In 1951, she starred in the western film "High Noon" directed by Fred Kinneman, in which she played the heroine for the first time.
She plays the girlfriend of the small town sheriff in the film, her beauty is eye-catching, but as the heroine, her performance is slightly inadequate.
She was aware of the problem herself, so during filming, she studied acting at Sanford Messner School.
About only young and beautiful girls have this privilege, their acting skills are immature, and the director has not replaced her.
In the following year, she took on TV series and participated in Broadway stage plays, honing her acting skills and increasing exposure, and gradually building her popularity.
In 1953, she starred in the love adventure film "Red Dust" directed by John Ford, in which the heroes and heroines were Clark Gable and Ava Gardner, which made her quite stressed.
Grace Kelly and Clark Gable
Compared with Ava Gardner, who is full of wild charm, her beauty is much more restrained and calm, the male protagonist is gradually attracted to her, and the audience is also moved by the gentle beauty.
With the wonderful performance of the film, she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 11th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards, which is her first nomination for a professional award, she is excited and happy, happy like a child.
Time magazine said of her: she was born a radiant star.
When filming the movie "Red Dust", she was very excited, because it was her idol, Clark, who played against her. Gable, Gable is humorous and humorous, and when filming, it made her relax a lot.
Facing her young and beautiful, Gable had a good impression, and the staff said that Gable often read love poems to her in addition to filming.
Once, the reporter came to visit the crew and saw her and Gable snuggling intimately on the grass, and the reporter took this photo, which appeared in the newspaper, and then there was an affair between the two.
"Are you dating Gable?" The reporter asked her during the interview.
She didn't answer the reporter head-on, saying only, "What can you do when you're filming in Africa and staying in a tent with Gable?" ”
The reporter ran to ask Gable again, and Gable said that the two were just communicating and filming together, and nothing else.
After she found out, her heart was cold, and she understood how silly it is for you to believe in feelings in Hollywood.
Since then, she has had a lot of boyfriends, talking about love, she speculates about men, but also tastes life, she is no longer the simple girl who can be seen at a glance before, she began to have the charm of a mature woman.
In 1954, the great director Alfred Hitchcock was planning to make the suspense movie "Telephone Murder", she was fortunate enough to participate in the audition, Hitchcock fell in love with her at a glance, beautiful and generous, making people's eyes shine.
Grace Kelly and Ray Millander
In the film, she plays a woman who has an extramarital affair with an old classmate, and the woman's husband has long known that his wife is cheating, and he finds a scoundrel who uses the phone as a signal to murder his wife, wanting to finally seize the family property.
Unexpectedly, the woman actually killed the scoundrel in the fight, and the woman's husband created a scene where the scoundrel blackmailed his wife and was killed by his wife before the police arrived.
For her wonderful performance in the film, she was nominated for Best Foreign Actress at the 8th British Academy Film Awards.
Hitchcock was very satisfied with her performance and invited her to shoot her new suspenseful film "Rear Window", in which she played a beautiful and brave girl who sneaked into the suspect's house alone to find evidence.
"I also want to have such a beautiful and intelligent girlfriend."
"It's just perfect."
Many men sighed after watching this film.
Hitchcock not only personally designed every costume in the film for her, but even the props used in her film were specially customized, which shows that the great director loves her beauty.
Hitchcock said of her, "She is a very beautiful actress without makeup, and under her frosty exterior, there is a passion like fire." ”
Grace Kelly and James Stewart
In 1955, she co-starred with Ping Crosby and William Holden in the feature film "Country Girl", in which she played the wife of a male star who ruined his career due to alcoholism.
She worked with the young doctor to help her husband make a comeback, but what she didn't expect was that in the day by day, she and the doctor developed feelings for each other.
Interestingly, in the film, she plays an entangled love triangle between Peace Clausby and William Holden, and outside the play, the two actors are also passionately pursuing her.
She cut this constant and chaotic feelings vividly expressed in the film.
With the film's wonderful performance, she won the 27th Academy Awards for Best Actress and the 12th Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, beating the actress popular Judy Garland.
"Country Girl" stills
When she heard that she had won the award, her tears instantly welled up, how lucky and happy she was.
She held the trophy and when she delivered her acceptance speech, she choked up for a long time and couldn't speak, "I'm so excited, I don't know what to say." ”
The host saw her so excited, so he connected to her father's phone on the spot and asked him how he felt after his daughter won the Oscar?
"Grace won the award? She is the least likely of the four children to support our children. Her father said.
Her father's words were like a plate of ice water poured on her head, and she shed two lines of clear tears, in order to avoid her gaffe, she quickly lowered her head and wiped away her tears.
She told her friend, "That night, I felt like the loneliest person in the world. ”
In her heart, she has always longed for her father's approval, but her father has never seen her efforts, and she only has an excellent eldest sister in her heart.
She was hurt, but over the years, she got used to it.
Although she dated many men, none of them could give her the security to settle down.
In 1955, she starred in the love suspense film "Catch the Thief" directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in which she played a beautiful girl who was quiet on the outside, but liked fresh and exciting life inside.
"Wow, that's so charming!" When she drove her car freely in the film, the audience couldn't help but marvel.
During the filming of "To Catch the Thief", the crew went to Monaco to shoot, after filming, she took the opportunity to visit the Monaco Royal Palace, Monaco Prince Rainier personally entertained her, stunned by her beauty, and the two got acquainted because of this.
In May 1955, she participated in the Cannes Film Festival and met Rainier again, who was already a prince at this time, and Rainier launched a passionate offensive against her.
After the end of World War II, the Greek ship king Onassis acquired many of Monaco's properties, including casinos, hotels and tourist attractions.
He is said to have suggested to Rainier, "Go to Hollywood and find yourself a beautiful and prestigious bride who can boost Monaco's economy and make Monaco a paradise for the rich." ”
After investigation and contact, Rainier's goal was locked on her, a beautiful and dignified actress from a good family and a new Oscar winner, so she had the previous pursuit and dedication.
Subsequently, Rainier came to visit the United States and took the opportunity to propose to her, and she agreed.
Maybe it was fate, she thought.
She took Rainier to visit her parents, who were happy to have a prince's son-in-law, and they readily agreed to the marriage.
The two held an engagement ceremony in the presence of relatives and friends.
Grace Kelly and Hitchcock
Hitchcock was sad for a long time after learning the news of her engagement, and she chose to leave without mercy in her heyday, which is a big loss for the film industry.
It is said that at the time of her engagement, it was rumored that she would marry Rainier with a dowry of two million dollars.
Her father was upset and said, "My daughter doesn't spend money to get married." ”
It is said that she took part of the last two million dowries herself, and the other part was her share of the family inheritance, but she withdrew them in advance.
Grace Kelly and Rainier
On April 18, 1956, she and Rainier had a grand wedding at St. Nilas Cathedral in Monaco.
About 1,800 photographers and journalists from around the world gathered to follow the report, and through satellite broadcast, people around the world watched and witnessed this wedding of the century.
It is said that this wedding is the most famous wedding after the wedding of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, and Monaco, a little-known small country, has become famous.
MGM Pictures followed the wedding throughout the process, made a documentary to show the wedding to a global audience, and after deducting 30% of the distribution fee, MGM and the couple finally made a five-to-five split between MGM and the couple.
All congratulated her on fulfilling the ultimate dream of a girl and marrying a real-life prince.
She complained behind her back, "Fairy tales are untrue, and what I want is a simple and solemn wedding in a chapel." ”
As the Greek ship king Onassis planned, Monaco's popularity was greatly increased because of her marriage to the famous queen, and the huge dowry she brought and the income from the wedding documentary also greatly eased the financial situation of the Monegasque royal family.
"If it weren't for Princess Grace, it would probably take more than 100 years for Monaco to become famous all over the world." Many people sighed.
After marriage, she said in an interview with reporters, "I don't regret choosing to retreat at this time."
I don't live happily and happily in Hollywood, where everything is measured in money.
Of course, compared with many actresses, I am undoubtedly lucky, I have made a lot of excellent works, I have won the love of countless audiences, and I have won an Oscar.
These are very valuable experiences and treasures for my life.
What I want to say is that to survive in Hollywood, you have to have a strong heart and an indomitable spirit, otherwise, either you become an alcoholic or you become insane, and many of my fellow actors suffer from depression. ”
The year after marriage, she gave birth to her eldest daughter, Caroline, and a year later her son Albert was born.
As a new mother, she devoted all her thoughts to her young children, and at the same time, she was lonely except for her children, she did not know the local language in Monaco, and although the people loved her as a princess, she was always an outsider.
Her husband, Rainier, has a lot of work to do and doesn't have much time for her.
Until one day, she found that Rainier had a woman outside, and many people around knew that she was the only one in the dark.
She endured for the sake of her children, her husband was the ruler of the country, and her marriage was not an ordinary union of two people.
Six years after marriage, Hitchcock approached her to star in his new film, a role she liked after reading the script.
After leaving the entertainment industry for so long, she knows that she misses making movies in her heart, and the fascinating world of light and shadow makes her world fuller.
Hitchgok said, "Everyone is waiting for you to return." ”
She almost burst into tears when she listened.
The news that she wanted to return to filming soon reached Rainier's ears, he didn't want her to show her face to film again, she is now a princess, and what she wants to do well is the duties of a princess.
The British BBC published a biography of her, which described her life in the royal family of Monaco, and Prince Rainey had a handmaid watching her every day in order to control his princess and report it to Rainier.
It is said that when she returned to the United States, she consulted a lawyer about divorce.
The lawyer told her that if she wanted to divorce, the custody of the children would definitely not belong to her.
At this time, she was already the mother of three children, and she could not leave them there and come back herself, in which case she would be in pain for the rest of her life.
She made another choice to stay in Monaco and grow up with her three children.
She actively worked to improve medical conditions in Monaco, founded hospitals, held rose balls, raised funds, engaged in charitable work, and helped many poor people.
But Rainier disappointed her, the two quarreled many times because of women's problems, and finally she got tired of quarrels and separated from Rainier, and the two maintained a superficial marriage.
When she was filming "To Catch a Thief" in Monaco, there was a very winding and rough road, and she complained to the director, "Sooner or later there will be terrible car accidents here." ”
In a word.
Years later, she drove her daughter through this section of the road, when she and her youngest daughter, Stephanie, got into an argument over her boyfriend, and she was so emotional that the car lost control and fell into a cliff.
She suffered severe head injuries and has been in a coma since she was admitted to the hospital.
She was said to have been alive at the time, but Rainier pulled off her oxygen mask and watched her slowly swallow.
Her youngest daughter, Stephanie, spent some time in the hospital, recovered and returned home, and since then, she has been silent about her deceased mother.
Years later, Rainier said, "She was almost perfect as a wife and mother." ”
Before she died, she said, "If I hadn't chosen to get married so early, the name Grace Kelly would have been known all over the world, instead of becoming a princess and making herself famous." ”
There are no ifs in life, her life is forever fixed at the age of 52, but her beautiful figure will always remain in the minds of fans around the world.
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