An American actress who became the Princess of Monaco after marrying Prince Rainier III in 1956, Grace Kelly was born into a wealthy Irish Catholic family in Philadelphia in 1929.
Grace had an early dream to be an actor, and after graduating from high school, she moved to New York and attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts while also working as a model to pay for her studies.
In 1949 she made her Broadway debut in August Strindberg’s The Father. Two years later she had a minor role in Fourteen Hours, then she gave a breakthrough performance in High Noon.
In 1955, Grace traveled to France for the Cannes Film Festival where she met Prince Rainier of Monaco. After their meeting, Grace and Prince Rainier began a secret and long-distance relationship, and just eight months later, the prince proposed to her in Philadelphia.
In 1956 after The Swan and High Society, Kelly retired to marry Prince Rainier and became princess of Monaco.
Grace’s dress, a gift from MGM Studios, was a masterpiece. It used 125-year-old rose-point lace, 25 yards of silk taffeta, and thousands of tiny pearls. After the wedding, she famously gifted the gown to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The couple had three children and Princess Grace was active in charitable and cultural work.
“I don’t like definitive words like “never” or always ”. Playing, having a job and doing it well requires devoting yourself completely to it and I don’t have much time. I was proud to be an actress, but I am amazed to hear that since then my life has been less fulfilling to me. For me, the decision to marry Rainier was easy. From time to time I do poetry readings. Especially in the United States and Great Britain. I derive a lot of pleasure from it and, more often than not, I do it for an audience of students, much more sensitive to poetry than the people I meet at charity evenings,” she once said.
On September 13, 1982, Princess Grace suffered a stroke while driving at Cap-d’Ail in the Côte d’Azur region of France. She lost control of the car, and the following day Princess Grace died. Shortly after her death, The Grace Kelly Story aired on ABC as a TV movie.
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