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She was born in a prosper

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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,
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
three and a half years

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

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She worked with Hollywood's
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
on make-believe.

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But make-believe came true,

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in a fairy tale shared
by the entire world.

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Her name was Grace Kelly.

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It became Her Serene Highness,
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
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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, 
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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 
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Monaco became a home of young 
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 
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 
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 
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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 believed that the world

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was what you made it.

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Margaret Majer, who married Jack, had been

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a model as well as a champion 
swimmer and athlete.

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Margaret and Jack were determined

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to raise their children their own way.

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If you are good enough, you're sure 
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It was drilled into the Kelly children 
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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 
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and loved every minute of it.

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Grace, when she was young,
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and a mama's baby.

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There were many times
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that our mother had to lean back

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away from the camera so Grace
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and taken away from her mother,

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she was very sweet and soft, and
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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
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We always had a place
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and, at that time, I think we had
our best times together,

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we just had a marvelous time,

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

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Grace and all the family were 
a competitive family.

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I think we got that, I know we got

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that from our mother
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They instilled into us a deep sense 
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 
how to lose gracefully.

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But the Kellys didn't intend to lose 
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 
special kind of determination.

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This determination didn't
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as much in the sporting field.

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But her determination sooner took 
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She loved to 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
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of course, I gave her a hard time
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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
in started young.

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With modeling, it's
society fashion benefits.

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But for Grace, these shows meant
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They were theater.

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

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He was a playwright and
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Very gracious, highly educated
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
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Her uncle George Kelly was a 
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He was sensitive and kind, and talented,

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and I think of all the men she ever
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rather than going for the 
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I think her ideal man was
her uncle George.

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My recollections with her father,
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were of an enormous man with

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a tremendous amount of gusto, 
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everything in the open, moved ahead.

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A nice man, but not a tremendous
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Her father believed absolutely that Peggy,

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the elder sister, was gonna be

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the big star of the family and
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and he never paid any attention

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to basically the middle of the
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and she was quiet, observant of

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the others and adored
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John B. Kelly Jr., an also athletic
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her father thought he was great,

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but Gracie just accepted, and I
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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, when you
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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
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you to go out and become the
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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
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but mother said: "Jack, it's not as if

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she is going to Hollywood or to
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Grace knew that her father didn't
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They allowed her to go, to get it
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"Let her go, it won't mount to
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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 
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It was 1947 and Grace Kelly was 18
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She supported herself by modeling.

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She got her round portfolio, and
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she started getting jobs.

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So that she didn't have to ask 
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in her efforts

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so that she could justify her own
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by her own earning power.

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Grace also appeared in
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She was the girl-next-door,

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the girl a man hoped they could
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After graduating from the
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Grace found parts in stock
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and her first professional role

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in her uncle George Kelly's play:
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Then, came her first Broadway role

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in a Strindberg play.

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And we all went up to Philadelphia
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and dad did not know that 
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Grace introduced her father to
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"Oh! Jack! How are you?" And he said:

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"Is this your daughter? 
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So she did everything on her own
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from any of the family

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because she said: "If I don't do it
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I don't want to do it at all."

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I was very taken away for the way 
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and the way she walked,

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and specially her lovely voice.

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She had a beautiful voice.

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Except for the speech was not
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as an actress blended with her
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with that stately figure that 
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She studied,

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she really applied herself to the
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that she was working on.

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I met Grace Kelly early in her career

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back in 1950 when I was directing 
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Her mother came up, and I think
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came up to watch her rehearsal,

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and when the rehearsal was over,

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I heard her mother say:

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"Darling, your speech was affected 
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more natural?"

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and she said
"Mother, I'm working on it."

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"Your city is full of sounds, listen..."

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"I don't hear a thing."

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"Because there is no automobile
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and the boat in the harbor..."

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She played the lead in the "Rich
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"I'll take you."

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"Will you?..."

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Under the pressures of live television,

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no retakes,

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no ability to go back and get
changed.

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Television when they had to flat 
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and everybody was out there
improvising.

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She performed absolutely
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and very quickly became one of
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leading members of the so-called

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"stock company,"

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those actors that we would tend
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over and over again.

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"... basic I would say.

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Oh, I must sound very snobbish
about the west."

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"Oh! No! I'm interested,

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I just never thought about that
way."

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"Well, people in the west are more open."

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"I'm open."

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"That's because you've had a lot to
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You drink a lot, don't you?"

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"No!"

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"When I was watching you from
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you kept filling your glass 
every few minutes."

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"You were watching me?"

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"And so were the other girls.

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Some men are like that,

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they compel attention.

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"I didn't even see you until just a
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and I couldn't wait to be introduced."

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"Some men are like that..."

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The first time I saw Grace, I would
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to describe her as the glamour
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During the rehearsal, she had a
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and they were just a little bit down
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and she had a terrible cold.

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And she was quite withdrawn.

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I remember we shook hands, but it
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it was the handshake of a little girl.

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And I thought: "Ooh, what a nice
schoolteacher!"

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She's from Philadelphia, and that's
my first impression of Grace.

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Grace was given a small part in
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in which she was hardly noticed.

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She returned to television and to
stock theater.

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Her big break came almost by
chance.

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I met Grace in 1953 actually going
through the receiving line

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at my wedding to my then-
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who was her agent.

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I was intrigued by her looks in the
photographs that he sent me

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by her background, and probably
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she absolutely would not accept the long-
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He was a young agent, I was a
young producer,

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and he brought to me Marlon
Brando,

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then he sent me a photograph of
Grace Kelly

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at the time we were casting "High Noon".

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Now, I wanted an unknown girl. I
asked to see her.

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She came in from Denver for an
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For an interview for a part in a
Western with white gloves

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no less.

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That goes way back when we were
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My mother insisted every time we
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"You wore hats and gloves."

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That's not only my mother,
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and the nuns insisted that you
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on special occasions.

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I went overboard because she had
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that kind of dignity, which was in
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which works so well. These are the
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"... Your love and wedded husband,

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to love and to hold, from this day
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The reason I think she was miscast

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is that Cooper was much older
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he was too old for Kelly, actually, 
in the role.

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She didn't believe that she did well
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I didn't think so either.

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There was a girl in the film named
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who played the Mexican girl on the town,

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Katy Jurado was dynamic and overpowering,

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and yet, Kelly wasn't swallowed 
even in her miscast

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because this lady-like thing came through.

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"... they were on the right side, but

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that didn't help them anyway
when the

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shooting started.

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My brother was 19.
I watched him die..."

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For Grace Kelly was her big break,
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for me, it was my first American
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making here on Hollywood.

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I was two years older than she was,

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I have seven years making pictures

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in Mexico, but there was something

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so different between Grace and I,

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we could not really explain that we
could not be very close,

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but I could see a girl with a lot of 
dignity, and a lot of character

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because she wants to be
somebody in movies

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and she worked very hard in that picture.

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She looked weak and very tiny, but
she was a very strong person.

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I believe she was one of the 
strongest movie star I worked with.

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She knew what you want,
and she did it.

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Gary Cooper went on to win an

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Academy Award for Best Actor of 1952,

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but there were no more roles for
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and she promptly headed back to
New York for more study.

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She was a Kelly, and she had to do better.

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We both probably read the thing
when she says that

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"You can see everything in Gary

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Cooper's eye" but that her eyes
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"flat and dull, and dead" and
that she didn't like them

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she couldn't tell what the
character was feeling.

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She began to work harder on 
concentrating on her objective.

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In other words, that would've

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eventually be the cure for the way
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attacked her characters, to make
them come alive

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to make her eyeball shine with meaning.

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She always had this inner image of
being an old-fashioned actress

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with the kind of glamour that you
have on Broadway.

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Grace was eager for a lead role in

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a New York production of "Cyrano
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I wanted to have Grace as Roxanne,

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I wanted her, not because of her
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because of that discipline that she
appeared to have.

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Unfortunately, she never did
realize that

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every part she went up for in
Broadway,

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with the exception of "The Father",
she lost.

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And when she didn't get it, there

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were mentions of it in the columns
and so on.

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She was very, very, very distressed

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and she picked herself up, and went on.

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"Mogambo" was a picture that
Grace apparently

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wanted to do very badly because
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sign a long-term contract with
MGM to do the picture.

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"Is that all you're going to do for
him?!"

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"Well, what do you expect me to
do, Mrs. Nordley,

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crawl in bed with him and hold his
hand?"

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The thought of playing opposite of
star-like Clark Gable

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being directed by John Ford, a
fellow Irishman.

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And I also think she was intrigued
to the idea of going to Africa.

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On location for "Mogambo," Clark
Gable described an incident

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to Rupert Allan, then Look
magazine correspondent.

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Grace was alone and was
discovered by Gable.

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She turned to him and he saw that
she was crying,

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and he said: "Well, why are you
crying, Grace?"

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She says: "So beautiful. I'm reading
'The Snows of Kilimanjaro'

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by Hemingway, and I looked up
and I was just reading about

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frozen leopard I think they found
way up in the snows

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of this highest mountain in Africa,

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and I looked up in that book
thinking about

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what a beautiful picture it was
inside Hemingway,

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and then I saw a lion walking along
the seashore.

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It's just too beautiful."

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She gave human personalities to
her animals

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and very often she gave animal
personalities to humans.

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She used to call some of her close
friends bird and she called

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Rita bird, Jay bird, this bird, that
bird.

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I mean, people and animals

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became interchangeable with
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Grace's role in "Mogambo" earned

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her an Academy Award
nomination as Best Supporting

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Actress of 1953.

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"What are you saying? You're
drunk!"

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"You know how it is on Safari.

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It's in all of us, a woman
always falls for the White Hunter

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and we guys make the most of it,
can you blame us?

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Oh, when you get along with that
look in your eye..."

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Some critics called her a star in
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Few realized how luminous that
star would become,

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and in how short a time.

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Hollywood, as far as Jack and
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was no place for a girl on her own.

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On Sundays, many times we used
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and then uncle George who lived
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would come pick us up

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and take us for a ride around and
take us to lunch,

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and she enjoyed those rides with
George so much.

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That I would sit in the backseat
and maybe take a little nap,

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but the two of them would talk
theater and books and poetry.

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Some of the people in town, the studio,

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were quite mystified by her,
and they didn't understand why

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she didn't wanna go the parties

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and be sitting next to all the A people 
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actresses should wanna be seating next to.

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She didn't rush out effusively