Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly was serenely beautiful and supremely
talented. Her humour in the classic High Society, unfortunately,
her last film, is simply delicious to watch and and in Alfred
Hitchock's Rear Window with James Stewart she showed us what
a naturally gifted actress she was. But we can't forget other
classics like High Noon where she played the pacifist Quaker
wife of Gary Cooper and Country Girl, for which she won the
1954 Oscar for best actress.
Grace Kelly worked with Alfred Hitchcock for
three films: Dial M For Murder, Rear Window and To Catch A
Thief with Cary Grant and it is a toss-up between High Society
and To Catch A Thief for which is my favourite Grace Kelly
film...
Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco
and she was not allowed, as a Royal, apparently, to act in
films again. What a loss. I would love to carry on writing
here of the Grace Kelly classics after High Society, but,
alas! Ther are none... But the classics she did make are true
classics and, although I have watched High Society, High Noon
and To Catch A Thief many, many times now, I still look forward
to seeing them again. Great stories with a wonderful cast
and one stunning actress in particular...
Tim Rees
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