Film actress who became Princess of Monaco — Mogambo, The Country Girl and a fashion icon's legacy
Grace, Princess of Monaco (née Grace Patricia Kelly, 12 November 1929 – 14 September 1982) was an American film actress and wife of Prince Rainier III of Monaco, and Princess Consort of Monaco from 1956 until her death in 1982. After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of 20, she appeared in New York City theatrical productions as well as in more than forty episodes of live drama productions broadcast during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television. In October 1953, with the release of Mogambo, she became a movie star, a status confirmed in 1954 with a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nomination as well as leading roles in five films, including The Country Girl, in which she gave a deglamorized, Academy Award-winning performance. She retired from acting at 26 to enter upon her duties in Monaco, had three children — Caroline, Albert, and Stéphanie — retained dual US and Monégasque citizenships, and died after suffering a stroke on 14 September 1982, when she lost control of her automobile and crashed.
Grace, Princess of Monaco (née Grace Patricia Kelly,
12 November 1929 – 14 September 1982) was an American film actress and wife
of Prince Rainier III of Monaco. She was the Princess Consort of Monaco
from 1956 until her death in 1982. After embarking on an acting career in
1950, at the age of 20, Grace Kelly appeared in New York City theatrical
productions as well as in more than forty episodes of live drama productions
broadcast during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television. In October 1953,
with the release of Mogambo, she became a movie star, a status confirmed
in 1954 with a
Golden Globe Award and
Academy Award nomination as well as leading roles in five films, including
The Country Girl, in which she gave a deglamorized, Academy Award-winning
performance. She retired from acting at 26 to enter upon her duties in Monaco.
She and Prince Rainier had three children: Caroline, Albert, and Stéphanie.
She also retained her American roots, maintaining dual US and Monégasque
citizenships. She died after suffering a stroke on 14 September 1982, when
she lost control of her automobile and crashed.
Kelly's acting career was short and dense: New York theatre and more than forty live television drama episodes from 1950, movie stardom with Mogambo in October 1953, and an Academy Award-winning performance in The Country Girl within a year of that breakthrough. Retiring at 26 to marry Prince Rainier III and take up duties in Monaco closed the film career but opened the second act that defines her fashion standing — a princess whose public wardrobe was watched as closely as any film costume, for the remaining 26 years of her life.
Kelly is filed here as a fashion icon celebrity, not simply a fashion celebrity — the same standing given to Audrey Hepburn and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the two names this page points readers toward. The three careers rhyme: a film star whose screen image hardened into a public style, carried for decades after the films ended. This page gathers Grace Kelly search results, news, photos, videos, blog posts and images, and the G-letter directory places her between Gisele Bundchen and Gwyneth Paltrow.
In October 1953, with the release of Mogambo, Grace Kelly became a movie star — a status confirmed in 1954 with a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nomination as well as leading roles in five films.
She retired from acting at 26 to enter upon her duties in Monaco, where she became Princess Consort in 1956 and remained so until her death in 1982.
The page links readers onward to other fashion icons such as Jackie Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn, the classic Hollywood and royal counterparts to Kelly's own icon status.
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