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She was born in a prospers

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Philadelphia family.

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Though she was a shy child,

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she will live her life in the public eye.

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"Don't try to be a hero!

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You don't have to be a hero,[br]not for me!"

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"I'm not trying to be a hero..."

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At the age of 23, her beauty and talent

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took her to Hollywood.

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She made eleven films in[br]three and a half years

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and became one of the most[br]sought-after stars of her time.

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She worked with Hollywood's[br]most important directors,

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played opposite its top leading men.

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"There's nothing quite so mysterious

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and silent as a dark theater..."

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Then, at 26, she turned her back[br]on make-believe.

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But make-believe came true,

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in a fairy tale shared[br]by the entire world.

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Her name was Grace Kelly.

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It became Her Serene Highness,[br]Princess Grace of Monaco.

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I don't think Grace really believed that

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she was going to give up acting when

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she became Princess Grace of Monaco.

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I think that the reallity of that probably

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struck her some place in the middle of

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the Mediterranean after[br]the honeymoon began.

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She took everything so much in her stride,

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nothing seemed to be too much for her.

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Of any name, Grace, could not have been

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more fitting,

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and even her death, her tragic early death

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made her enter even more into legend.

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Monaco, a principality of less than

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five hundred acres on the French Riviera.

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For centuries, the Monégasques had held on

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to their distinctive character, [br]and their pride.

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But, to this world, this place was known

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as a "playground for the wealthy"

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and came to enjoy its beauty [br]and its gambling.

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Monaco became a home of young [br]American actress

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who arrived in 1956 to be its Princess.

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She brought it fame, her cool beauty,

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her intelligence, and she brought war

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a sense of purpose.

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Well, this story about the Princess [br]was firmly anchored in reality.

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Reality had its origins

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back in Philadelphia.

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Competition came easily to the Kellys.

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Here along Kelly Drive

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named after Grace's father, John B. Kelly,

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they still race in the sport for which

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Jack Kelly won an Olympic medal.

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A statue elected by the citizens [br]of Philadelphia

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commemorates that achievement.

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Jack Kelly's father was a bricklayer from

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Ireland who went on to make a fortune.

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Young Jack soon joined [br]the family business:

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construction and brick making.

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He started his own business

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and made his own fortune.

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But he always professed pride in

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his family's humble origins.

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Jack Kelly belived that the world

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was what you made of.

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Margaret Majer, who married Jack, had been

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a model as well as a champion [br]swimmer athlete.

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Margaret and Jack were determined

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to raise their children in their own way.

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If you are good enough, you're sure [br]to reach the top.

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It was drilled into Kelly children [br]from their earliest years.

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As a family, we were always very close,

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four of us, Peggy, my sister, the oldest,

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our brother Jack, Grace and then myself.

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She was the baby for three and [br]a half years

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and loved every minute of it.

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Grace, when she was young, she [br]was very shy

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and a mama's baby.

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There were many times[br]were we had pictures taken

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that our mother had to lean back

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away from the camera so Grace[br]would not cry

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and taken away from her mother,

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she was very sweet and soft, and[br]loved to held

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and cuddled and kissed, and loved.

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I, on the other hand, and I think my

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brother and older sister, were more

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"don't let me," "don't get around me,"

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we wanted to do our[br]own things.

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We always had a place[br]at the shore when we were young,

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and, at that time, I think we had[br]our best times together,

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we just had a marvelous time,

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and Grace, all her life, loved [br]being by the ocean and the sea.

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Grace and all the family were [br]a competitive family.

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I think we got that, I know we got

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that from our mother[br]and our father.

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They stilled into us a deep sense [br]of competition

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and the love of sports,

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the will of winning,

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but also taught us [br]how to lose gracefully.

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But the Kellys didn't intend to lose [br]and there never was a better

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drillmaster than Jack Kelly.

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It was fun, family fun, and it left a [br]special kind of determination.

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This determination didn't[br]manifest itself in Grace

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as much in the sporting field.

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But her determination sooner took [br]another turn.

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She loved sit by the hours and pretend

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and create situations and say:

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"Lizzie, you do this, and I'll be this,"

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and, "I'll be the mother and[br]you'll be the baby,"

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of course, I gave her a hard time[br]a lot of times because I did not

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want to play her games.

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For Grace, growing up wealthy

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meant winter sports in Lake Placid.

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It also meant the best private schools.

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Working for causes you believed[br]in started young.

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With modeling, it's[br]society fashion benefits.

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But for Grace, these shows meant[br]more than fundraising;

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They were theater.

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She got most of her love from the [br]theater my uncle George.

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He was a playwright and[br]he directed plays.

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Very gracious, highly educated[br]person, well-read, and very witty.

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And she just was fascinated with

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all the tales of the[br]stage and the theater.

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Her uncle George Kelly was a [br]great example to her.

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He was sensitive and kind, and talented,

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and I think of all the men she ever[br]knew,

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rather than going for the [br]"athletic macho type,"

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I think her ideal man was[br]her uncle George.

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My recollections with her father,[br]Jack Kelly,

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were of an enormous man with

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a tremendous amount of gusto, [br]everything up front,

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everything in the open, moved ahead.

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A nice man, but not a tremendous[br]amount of internal sensitivity.

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Her father believed absolutely to Peggy,

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the elder sister was going to be

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like the big star of the family and[br]succeed,

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and he never payed any attention

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to basically the middle of the[br]family and his four children,

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and she was quiet, observant of

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the others and adored[br]her older brother Kell,

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John B. Kelly Jr., an also athletic[br]star, great racer,

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her father thought he was great,

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but Gracie just accepted, and I[br]don't think

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he understood her at all,

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but she adored him.

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And yet, one wonders what you[br]don't

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get from a parent, what it is

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perhaps what you need, if that isn't what

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creates a great deal of the[br]drive in you

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you to go out and become the[br]fullest part of yourself.

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She decided to go to New York, and my

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mother and father especially surprised

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because she was a shy and retiring girl.

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My mother and father were a little[br]wary of New York and on her own,

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but mother said: "Jack, it's not as if

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she is going to Hollywood or to[br]California."

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Grace knew that her father didn't[br]think much of an acting career.

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They allowed her to go, to get it[br]out of her system,

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"Let her go, it won't mount to[br]anything."

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Grace was accepted into the

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American Academy of Dramatic Arts

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and then housed in [br]Manhattan's Carnegie Hall.

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It was 1947 and Grace Kelly was 18[br]years old.