See Photos of Grace Kelly, the Princess of Monaco
Though Her Film Career Lasted Only a Few Year's, Philadelphia-Born Grace Kelly Rose to the Ranks of Hollywood Royalty Before She Became Actual Royalty Herself...
Though her film career lasted only a few years, Philadelphia-born Grace Kelly rose to the ranks of Hollywood royalty before she became actual royalty herself.
An Academy Award winner for 1954's The Country Girl, her first trip to the Cannes Film Festival in 1955 would change her life: She met a prince at Cannes, they got engaged in the winter and married the following April.
In what seemed like a whirlwind romance, Kelly traded Hollywood for Monaco, a small country on the French Riviera, where she lived out her days as Princess Grace. Though she quit acting, her enchantment followed her off-screen as she and her husband raised a family and fulfilled royal duties until her death on Sept. 14, 1982. (Kelly suffered a stroke after a tragic car crash.)
Still, her legacy has endured and continued to live on in service (her Princess Grace Foundation provides grants to emerging performing artists) and fashion. Widely considered a style icon, museums — including London's Victoria and Albert Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art — have exhibited her designer clothing.
Ahead, take a look at some of Princess Grace's most glamorous photos.
Grace Kelly headshot from the 1950s
Before marrying into royalty and becoming the Princess of Monaco, Kelly was a star on-screen and onstage during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1949 and got her start in theater and television before making her film debut in 1951's Fourteen Hours.
Grace Kelly portrait, circa 1950
After appearing as pacifist Amy Fowler Kane in 1952's High Noon, Kelly earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Mogambo, starring opposite Clark Gable. One of Alfred Hitchcock's blondes, she also co-starred in several thrillers from the Master of Suspense, including the 1954 films Dial M for Murder and Rear Window and 1955's To Catch a Thief.
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