The Most Beautiful Actress Ever
Posted: Monday, December 03, 2007
by Andrew Conway
Grace Patricia Kelly was born on November 12, 1929, in Philadelphia where she grew up in the East Falls section, While attending the prestigious Ravenhill Academy, Grace modeled fashions at local social events with her mother and sisters. She gained her first acting experience at the age of 12, when she played a lead role in Don't Feed the Animals, a play produced by the Old Academy Players in East Falls. Eventually she would be named the most beautiful actress in the world.
Kelly made her film debut in a small role in the 1951 film Fourteen Hours. The small role led to many offers, all of which she turned down for independence and another chance at the theater. She was performing in Colorado’s notable Elitch Gardens when she received a telegram from Hollywood producer Stanley Kramer, offering her the starring role opposite Gary Cooper in High Noon. According to biographer Wendy Leigh, at age 22 Kelly had an off-set romance with both Cooper and director Fred Zinnemann.
In 1952 she auditioned for the studio production of Mogambo and won the role along with a 7 year contract with certain conditions that she insisted on. The role garnered her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
She then went on to star in a TV play The Way of an Eagel and then was cast in the film version of the broadway hit "Dial M For Murder"--another Alfred Hitchcock directed film. She then stared in various other films while she was gaining more and more recognition. She appeared in another Hitchcock film called "Rear Window" along side James Steward. Some would argue that this was Hitchcock's best film.
Next came Country Girl, which was shot in black and white.
The following March, Kelly would be honored with the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Though her film career lasted just five years and eleven films, [not all are mentioned here]Kelly is remembered as a premier actress in American film.
In April 1955, Grace Kelly was asked to head the U.S.
delegation 'at the Cannes Film Festival. While there, she was invited to participate in a photo session at the Palace of Monaco with Prince Rainier III, the ruling sovereign of the principality. They would end up marrying each other on April 19, 1956 and the press would label it "the Wedding Of The Century" How many women could ever state that they had a real life fairy tale type princess wedding!
The whole ironic thing about Grace Kelly was that she had a real life fear of driving and her inability to properly function an automobile, would one day call her to her death, on a long spiraling strip of road on September 14th,
1982, at the age of 52.
She was voted 13th on the American Film Institutes's list of the greatest actresses of the classic era, and two of those 11 films -- High Noon and Rear Window -- are considered by AFI voters to be among the 50 best films ever made. She won a Best Actress Oscar for a third film, The Country Girl, and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Mogambo. A fair number of film fans believe that she was the most beautiful actress ever to appear on film.
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