1 00:00:04,979 --> 00:00:10,860 (Music) 2 00:00:10,860 --> 00:00:12,749 She was born into a prosperous 3 00:00:12,749 --> 00:00:14,229 Philadelphia family. 4 00:00:14,946 --> 00:00:17,096 Though she was a shy child, 5 00:00:17,096 --> 00:00:19,156 she would live her life in the public eye. 6 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:21,320 "Don't try to be a hero! 7 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:23,470 You don't have to be a hero, not for me!" 8 00:00:23,470 --> 00:00:26,159 "I'm not trying to be a hero..." - By the age of 23, 9 00:00:26,159 --> 00:00:27,340 her beauty and talent 10 00:00:27,570 --> 00:00:28,780 took her to Hollywood. 11 00:00:32,889 --> 00:00:35,644 She made eleven films in three and a half years 12 00:00:36,464 --> 00:00:39,714 and became one of the most sought-after stars of her time. 13 00:00:42,212 --> 00:00:44,860 She worked with Hollywood's most important directors, 14 00:00:46,809 --> 00:00:49,039 played opposite its top leading men. 15 00:00:56,813 --> 00:00:58,533 "There's nothing quite so mysterious 16 00:00:58,533 --> 00:01:00,733 and silent as a dark theater..." 17 00:01:00,733 --> 00:01:05,093 Then, at 26, she turned her back on make-believe. 18 00:01:07,889 --> 00:01:09,999 But make-believe came true, 19 00:01:09,999 --> 00:01:12,989 in a fairy tale shared by the entire world. 20 00:01:14,006 --> 00:01:15,776 Her name was Grace Kelly. 21 00:01:16,854 --> 00:01:19,217 It became: Her Serene Highness, 22 00:01:19,217 --> 00:01:21,404 Princess Grace of Monaco. 23 00:01:33,642 --> 00:01:37,288 I don't think Grace really believed that she was going to give up acting when 24 00:01:37,288 --> 00:01:39,278 she became Princess Grace of Monaco. 25 00:01:40,203 --> 00:01:44,253 I think that the reality of that probably 26 00:01:44,253 --> 00:01:46,083 struck her some place in the middle of 27 00:01:46,083 --> 00:01:48,513 the Mediterranean after the honeymoon began. 28 00:01:48,977 --> 00:01:52,977 She took everything so much in her stride, 29 00:01:52,977 --> 00:01:58,248 nothing seemed to be too much for her. 30 00:01:58,248 --> 00:02:01,592 Of any name, Grace, could not have been 31 00:02:01,592 --> 00:02:03,402 more fitting, 32 00:02:03,402 --> 00:02:08,175 and even her death, her tragic early death 33 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:13,604 made her enter even more into legend. 34 00:02:15,624 --> 00:02:17,529 (Band plays) 35 00:02:18,382 --> 00:02:21,722 Monaco, a principality of less than 36 00:02:21,722 --> 00:02:24,850 five hundred acres on the French Riviera. 37 00:02:25,922 --> 00:02:27,888 For centuries, the Monégasques 38 00:02:27,888 --> 00:02:30,506 held on to their distinctive character, 39 00:02:30,506 --> 00:02:31,820 and their pride. 40 00:02:33,745 --> 00:02:35,757 But, to the world, this place was known as 41 00:02:35,757 --> 00:02:37,657 a "playground for the wealthy" 42 00:02:37,657 --> 00:02:41,067 who came to enjoy its beauty and its gambling. 43 00:02:42,152 --> 00:02:44,822 Monaco became a home of a young American actress 44 00:02:44,822 --> 00:02:47,778 who arrived in 1956 to be its Princess. 45 00:02:48,867 --> 00:02:51,045 She brought her fame, her cool beauty, 46 00:02:51,345 --> 00:02:52,530 her intelligence. 47 00:02:53,050 --> 00:02:54,655 And she brought war, 48 00:02:54,655 --> 00:02:55,935 a sense of purpose. 49 00:02:56,742 --> 00:03:00,472 Well, this story of a Princess was firmly anchored in reality. 50 00:03:02,205 --> 00:03:03,925 A reality that had its origins 51 00:03:03,925 --> 00:03:05,701 back in Philadelphia. 52 00:03:07,011 --> 00:03:10,101 Competition came easily to the Kellys. 53 00:03:10,101 --> 00:03:11,671 Here along Kelly Drive 54 00:03:11,671 --> 00:03:14,681 named after Grace's father, John B. Kelly, 55 00:03:14,681 --> 00:03:16,711 they still race in the sport for which 56 00:03:16,711 --> 00:03:19,260 Jack Kelly won an Olympic medal. 57 00:03:21,786 --> 00:03:24,636 A statue erected by the citizens of Philadelphia 58 00:03:24,636 --> 00:03:26,801 commemorates that achievement. 59 00:03:31,239 --> 00:03:33,369 Jack Kelly's father was a bricklayer from 60 00:03:33,369 --> 00:03:36,199 Ireland who went on to make a fortune. 61 00:03:37,319 --> 00:03:39,819 Young Jack soon joined the family business: 62 00:03:40,269 --> 00:03:42,461 construction and brick making. 63 00:03:44,238 --> 00:03:45,667 He started his own business 64 00:03:46,158 --> 00:03:47,778 and made his own fortune. 65 00:03:48,388 --> 00:03:50,418 But he always professed pride in 66 00:03:50,418 --> 00:03:52,568 his family's humble origins. 67 00:03:54,776 --> 00:03:56,356 Jack Kelly believed the world 68 00:03:56,356 --> 00:03:58,196 was what you made it. 69 00:03:59,258 --> 00:04:01,438 Margaret Majer, who married Jack, had been 70 00:04:01,438 --> 00:04:04,098 a model as well as a champion swimmer and athlete. 71 00:04:06,047 --> 00:04:07,687 Margaret and Jack were determined 72 00:04:07,687 --> 00:04:10,402 to raise their children their own way. 73 00:04:10,792 --> 00:04:12,067 (Music) 74 00:04:16,218 --> 00:04:19,632 If you're good enough, you're sure to reach the top. 75 00:04:20,302 --> 00:04:23,760 It was drilled into the Kelly children from their earliest years. 76 00:04:23,935 --> 00:04:25,178 (Music) 77 00:04:31,263 --> 00:04:33,839 As a family, we were always very close. 78 00:04:34,913 --> 00:04:38,128 Four of us; Peggy, my sister, the oldest, 79 00:04:38,726 --> 00:04:41,396 my brother Jack, Grace and then myself. 80 00:04:42,166 --> 00:04:44,229 She was the baby for three and a half years 81 00:04:44,229 --> 00:04:45,676 and loved every minute of it. 82 00:04:46,012 --> 00:04:48,462 Grace, when she was young, was very shy 83 00:04:48,462 --> 00:04:50,032 and a mama's baby. 84 00:04:50,810 --> 00:04:53,190 There were many times were we had pictures taken 85 00:04:53,190 --> 00:04:54,833 that mother had to lean back 86 00:04:54,833 --> 00:04:57,955 away from the camera so Grace would not cry 87 00:04:58,243 --> 00:04:59,815 to be taken away from her mother, 88 00:04:59,903 --> 00:05:03,918 she was very sweet and soft, and loved to be held 89 00:05:03,918 --> 00:05:06,184 and cuddled and kissed, and loved. 90 00:05:07,498 --> 00:05:09,258 I, on the other hand, and my brother 91 00:05:09,258 --> 00:05:10,734 and older sister, were more 92 00:05:11,573 --> 00:05:13,411 "don't get around me," 93 00:05:13,626 --> 00:05:15,076 we wanted to do our own things. 94 00:05:15,847 --> 00:05:20,217 We always had a place at the shore when we were young, 95 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,967 and, at that time, I think we had our best times together. 96 00:05:23,967 --> 00:05:25,447 We just had a marvellous time, 97 00:05:25,447 --> 00:05:30,704 and Grace, all her life, loved being by the ocean and the sea. 98 00:05:32,632 --> 00:05:36,268 Grace and all the family, we were a competitive family. 99 00:05:37,028 --> 00:05:38,908 I think we got that, I know we got that 100 00:05:38,908 --> 00:05:40,788 from our mother and our father. 101 00:05:40,894 --> 00:05:46,004 They instilled into us a deep sense of competition 102 00:05:46,004 --> 00:05:49,864 and the love of sports, 103 00:05:50,283 --> 00:05:52,743 the will of winning, 104 00:05:52,743 --> 00:05:56,613 but also taught us how to lose gracefully. 105 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,810 But the Kellys didn't intend to lose, and there never was a better 106 00:06:01,810 --> 00:06:04,215 drillmaster than Jack Kelly. 107 00:06:04,740 --> 00:06:10,800 It was fun, family fun, and it left a special kind of determination. 108 00:06:13,862 --> 00:06:17,073 This determination didn't manifest itself in Grace 109 00:06:17,073 --> 00:06:19,871 as much in the sporting field. 110 00:06:20,083 --> 00:06:23,022 But her determination sooner took another turn. 111 00:06:24,083 --> 00:06:27,029 She loved to sit by the hours and pretend 112 00:06:27,029 --> 00:06:31,549 and create situations and say: 113 00:06:31,549 --> 00:06:33,513 "Lizzie, you do this, and I'll be this," 114 00:06:33,513 --> 00:06:36,435 and, "I'll be the mother and you'll be the baby," 115 00:06:36,435 --> 00:06:39,055 of course, I gave her a hard time a lot of times because 116 00:06:39,055 --> 00:06:41,015 I did not want to play her games. 117 00:06:41,888 --> 00:06:43,718 For Grace, growing up wealthy 118 00:06:43,718 --> 00:06:46,011 meant winter sport in Lake Placid. 119 00:06:48,980 --> 00:06:51,760 It also meant the best private schools. 120 00:06:55,777 --> 00:06:58,702 Working for causes you believed in started young. 121 00:06:59,307 --> 00:07:01,710 With modeling, it's society fashion benefits. 122 00:07:03,860 --> 00:07:07,012 But for Grace, these shows meant more than fundraising; 123 00:07:07,751 --> 00:07:09,169 They were theater. 124 00:07:10,423 --> 00:07:14,423 She got most of her love from the theater my uncle George. 125 00:07:14,793 --> 00:07:18,043 He was a playwright and he directed plays. 126 00:07:18,127 --> 00:07:23,669 Very gracious, highly educated person, well-read, and very witty. 127 00:07:24,097 --> 00:07:26,267 And she just was fascinated with 128 00:07:26,267 --> 00:07:29,481 all the tales of the stage and the theater. 129 00:07:30,065 --> 00:07:33,795 Her uncle George Kelly was a great example to her. 130 00:07:34,566 --> 00:07:38,838 He was sensitive and kind, and talented, 131 00:07:38,838 --> 00:07:41,445 and I think of all the men she ever knew, 132 00:07:41,445 --> 00:07:44,180 rather than going for the "athletic macho type," 133 00:07:44,180 --> 00:07:47,402 I think her ideal man was her uncle George. 134 00:07:48,789 --> 00:07:53,091 My recollections with her father, John B, Jack Kelly 135 00:07:53,091 --> 00:07:56,181 were of an enormous man with 136 00:07:56,181 --> 00:07:59,181 a tremendous amount of gusto, everything up front, 137 00:07:59,181 --> 00:08:01,545 everything in the open, move ahead. 138 00:08:01,941 --> 00:08:06,902 A nice man, but not a tremendous amount of internal sensitivity. 139 00:08:07,540 --> 00:08:11,178 Her father believed absolutely that Peggy, 140 00:08:11,178 --> 00:08:12,756 the elder sister, was gonna be 141 00:08:12,756 --> 00:08:16,431 the big star of the family and succeed, 142 00:08:17,414 --> 00:08:19,002 and he never paid any attention 143 00:08:19,002 --> 00:08:22,372 to basically the middle of the family and his four children, 144 00:08:22,372 --> 00:08:25,322 and she was quiet, observant of 145 00:08:25,322 --> 00:08:29,860 the others and adored her older brother too Kell, 146 00:08:29,860 --> 00:08:35,407 John B. Kelly Jr., an also an athletic star, great racer, 147 00:08:35,407 --> 00:08:36,997 her father thought he was great, 148 00:08:36,997 --> 00:08:40,549 but Grace, he just accepted, and I don't think 149 00:08:40,549 --> 00:08:42,623 he understood her at all, 150 00:08:42,623 --> 00:08:44,053 but she adored him. 151 00:08:44,191 --> 00:08:46,611 And yet, one wonders, when you don't 152 00:08:46,611 --> 00:08:49,851 get from a parent, what it is 153 00:08:49,851 --> 00:08:51,881 perhaps what you need, if that isn't what 154 00:08:51,881 --> 00:08:54,541 creates a great deal of the drive in you 155 00:08:54,541 --> 00:08:57,961 to go out and become the fullest part of yourself. 156 00:08:58,475 --> 00:09:02,219 She decided to go to New York, and my 157 00:09:02,227 --> 00:09:06,650 mother and father were especially surprised 158 00:09:06,987 --> 00:09:10,797 because she was a shy and retiring girl. 159 00:09:11,327 --> 00:09:16,010 My mother and father were a little wary of New York and on her own, 160 00:09:16,010 --> 00:09:19,085 but mother said: "Jack, it's not as if 161 00:09:19,085 --> 00:09:23,330 she is going to Hollywood or to California." 162 00:09:23,580 --> 00:09:28,574 Grace knew that her father didn't think much of an acting career. 163 00:09:28,676 --> 00:09:31,126 They allowed her to go, to get it out of her system. 164 00:09:31,126 --> 00:09:33,097 "Let her go, it won't amount to anything." 165 00:09:34,012 --> 00:09:35,442 Grace was accepted into the 166 00:09:35,442 --> 00:09:37,792 American Academy of Dramatic Arts 167 00:09:37,792 --> 00:09:40,552 and then housed in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. 168 00:09:41,107 --> 00:09:46,607 It was 1947 and Grace Kelly was 18 years old. 169 00:09:48,294 --> 00:09:51,029 She supported herself by modelling. 170 00:09:54,502 --> 00:09:57,838 She got her portfolio, and little by little, 171 00:09:57,838 --> 00:09:59,528 she started getting jobs. 172 00:10:00,669 --> 00:10:03,768 So that she didn't have to ask for the favor of being supported 173 00:10:03,768 --> 00:10:04,706 in her efforts 174 00:10:04,706 --> 00:10:08,056 so that she could justify her own existence 175 00:10:08,266 --> 00:10:10,874 by her own earning power. 176 00:10:12,169 --> 00:10:14,219 Grace also appeared in commercials. 177 00:10:15,619 --> 00:10:17,531 She was the girl-next-door, 178 00:10:17,869 --> 00:10:19,898 the girl a man hoped they could marry. 179 00:10:24,035 --> 00:10:26,375 After graduating from the American Academy, 180 00:10:26,375 --> 00:10:28,372 Grace found parts in stock companies 181 00:10:28,829 --> 00:10:31,213 and her first professional role 182 00:10:31,393 --> 00:10:34,769 in her uncle George Kelly's play: "The Torch-Bearers". 183 00:10:36,465 --> 00:10:38,741 Then, came her first Broadway role 184 00:10:39,065 --> 00:10:40,565 in a Strindberg play. 185 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,070 We all went up to Philadelphia to see the opening night, 186 00:10:46,070 --> 00:10:48,912 and dad did not know that Raymond Massey was in the play. 187 00:10:49,763 --> 00:10:52,145 Grace introduced her father to Raymond and he said: 188 00:10:52,145 --> 00:10:54,135 "Oh! Jack! How are you?" And he said: 189 00:10:54,135 --> 00:10:56,275 "Is this your daughter? I did not know that!" 190 00:10:56,475 --> 00:11:01,936 So she did everything on her own and did not want any help 191 00:11:02,189 --> 00:11:03,940 from any of the family 192 00:11:04,070 --> 00:11:06,119 because she said: "If I don't do it myself, 193 00:11:07,499 --> 00:11:09,349 I don't want to do it at all." 194 00:11:09,580 --> 00:11:12,060 I was very taken by the way she looked, 195 00:11:12,060 --> 00:11:13,650 and the way she walked, 196 00:11:13,650 --> 00:11:15,731 and specially her lovely voice. 197 00:11:16,304 --> 00:11:18,234 She had a beautiful voice. 198 00:11:18,483 --> 00:11:20,534 Except for the speech was not yet 199 00:11:20,534 --> 00:11:24,654 as an actress, blended with her posture 200 00:11:24,654 --> 00:11:28,554 with that stately figure that she projected. 201 00:11:28,554 --> 00:11:29,734 She studied, 202 00:11:29,734 --> 00:11:33,011 she really applied herself to the characters 203 00:11:33,011 --> 00:11:35,761 that she was working on. 204 00:11:35,879 --> 00:11:38,539 I met Grace Kelly early in her career 205 00:11:38,539 --> 00:11:43,099 back in 1950 when I was directing "Danger" for CBS Television. 206 00:11:43,548 --> 00:11:46,033 Her mother came up, and I think her brother 207 00:11:46,203 --> 00:11:47,759 came up to watch her rehearsal, 208 00:11:47,959 --> 00:11:50,579 and when the rehearsal was over, 209 00:11:50,579 --> 00:11:52,139 I heard her mother say: 210 00:11:52,139 --> 00:11:56,759 "Darling, your speech is affected a little bit, can you, kind of, make it 211 00:11:56,759 --> 00:11:58,229 more natural?" 212 00:11:58,229 --> 00:12:00,168 and she said "Mother, I'm working on it." 213 00:12:00,279 --> 00:12:02,403 "Your city is full of sounds, listen..." 214 00:12:03,019 --> 00:12:04,199 "I don't hear a thing." 215 00:12:04,199 --> 00:12:06,660 "There is an automobile going past, and a horse 216 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:08,730 and a boat in the harbor..." 217 00:12:09,090 --> 00:12:12,119 She played the lead in the "Rich Boy" for me. 218 00:12:13,139 --> 00:12:14,209 "I'll take you." 219 00:12:14,209 --> 00:12:14,939 "Will you?..." 220 00:12:14,939 --> 00:12:18,332 Under the pressures of live television, 221 00:12:18,332 --> 00:12:19,342 no retakes, 222 00:12:19,342 --> 00:12:21,362 no ability to go back and change. 223 00:12:21,501 --> 00:12:24,911 Television when they had flats fall down on tea tables 224 00:12:24,911 --> 00:12:28,119 and everybody was out there improvising. 225 00:12:28,219 --> 00:12:30,829 She performed absolutely brillantly 226 00:12:30,829 --> 00:12:33,759 and very quickly became one of the 227 00:12:33,759 --> 00:12:35,869 leading members of the so-called 228 00:12:36,432 --> 00:12:37,498 "stock company," 229 00:12:37,498 --> 00:12:41,168 those actors that we would tend to cast 230 00:12:41,168 --> 00:12:42,409 over and over again. 231 00:12:42,833 --> 00:12:45,593 "... basic I would say. 232 00:12:45,593 --> 00:12:48,153 Oh, I must sound very snobbish about the west." 233 00:12:48,153 --> 00:12:49,435 "Oh! No! I'm interested, 234 00:12:49,435 --> 00:12:51,409 I just never thought about it that way." 235 00:12:52,144 --> 00:12:54,579 "Well, people in the west are more open." 236 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:55,474 "I'm open." 237 00:12:55,863 --> 00:12:57,854 "That's because you've had a lot to drink. 238 00:12:57,903 --> 00:12:59,273 You drink a lot, don't you?" 239 00:12:59,273 --> 00:13:00,093 "No!" 240 00:13:00,093 --> 00:13:03,203 "I was watching you across the room, you kept filling your glass." 241 00:13:03,203 --> 00:13:04,488 "You were watching me?" 242 00:13:05,363 --> 00:13:07,409 "And so were the other girls. 243 00:13:07,621 --> 00:13:08,878 "Some men are like that, 244 00:13:09,156 --> 00:13:10,458 they compel attention." 245 00:13:10,745 --> 00:13:13,565 "I didn't even see you until just a few minutes ago, 246 00:13:13,874 --> 00:13:15,717 and I couldn't wait to be introduced." 247 00:13:15,954 --> 00:13:17,524 "Some men are like that..." 248 00:13:18,179 --> 00:13:21,439 The first time I saw Grace, I would be hard-pressed 249 00:13:21,439 --> 00:13:24,316 to describe her as the glamour queen of the world. 250 00:13:24,499 --> 00:13:28,059 During the rehearsal, she had a pair of glasses on, 251 00:13:28,059 --> 00:13:31,849 and they were just a little bit down her nose, 252 00:13:31,849 --> 00:13:34,367 and she had a terrible cold. 253 00:13:34,719 --> 00:13:39,279 And she was quite withdrawn. 254 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:43,829 I remember we shook hands, but it wasn't a very hearty handshake, 255 00:13:43,829 --> 00:13:46,497 it was the handshake of a little girl. 256 00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:49,575 And I thought: "Ooh, what a nice school teacher!" 257 00:13:50,199 --> 00:13:53,597 She's from Philadelphia, and that was my first impression of Grace. 258 00:13:54,548 --> 00:13:58,104 Grace was given a small part in the movie "Fourteen Hours" 259 00:13:58,398 --> 00:14:00,528 in which she was hardly noticed. 260 00:14:01,242 --> 00:14:03,886 She returned to television and to stock theater. 261 00:14:05,751 --> 00:14:09,331 Her big break came almost by chance. 262 00:14:10,092 --> 00:14:16,072 I met Grace in 1953 actually, going through the receiving line 263 00:14:16,072 --> 00:14:20,922 of my wedding to my then- husband Jay Kanter, 264 00:14:20,922 --> 00:14:22,252 who was her agent. 265 00:14:22,658 --> 00:14:26,538 I was intrigued by her looks in the photographs that Edie sent me 266 00:14:26,538 --> 00:14:30,598 by her background, and probably more by the fact that 267 00:14:30,598 --> 00:14:35,028 she absolutely would not accept the long- term studio contract. 268 00:14:35,443 --> 00:14:38,826 He was a young agent, I was a young producer, 269 00:14:39,363 --> 00:14:41,878 and he brought to me Marlon Brando, 270 00:14:42,573 --> 00:14:44,833 then he sent me a photograph of Grace Kelly 271 00:14:44,833 --> 00:14:46,878 at the time we were casting "High Noon". 272 00:14:47,393 --> 00:14:51,633 Now, I wanted an unknown girl. I asked to see her. 273 00:14:51,633 --> 00:14:54,244 She came in from Denver for an interview. 274 00:14:55,263 --> 00:14:58,393 For an interview for a part in a Western with white gloves 275 00:14:58,393 --> 00:14:59,173 no less. 276 00:14:59,491 --> 00:15:02,001 That goes way back when we were children. 277 00:15:02,001 --> 00:15:05,541 My mother insisted every time we went into town: 278 00:15:05,541 --> 00:15:07,726 "You wore hats and gloves." 279 00:15:08,231 --> 00:15:11,619 That's not only my mother, we were brought up at a convent, 280 00:15:11,619 --> 00:15:15,109 and the nuns insisted that you wore white gloves 281 00:15:15,109 --> 00:15:16,269 on special occasions. 282 00:15:16,269 --> 00:15:21,269 I went overboard because she had that lady-like quality, 283 00:15:21,269 --> 00:15:25,699 that kind of dignity, which was in contrast to the Western scene, 284 00:15:25,699 --> 00:15:28,469 which works so well. These are the corporate. 285 00:15:28,469 --> 00:15:30,033 "... Your lawful wedded husband, 286 00:15:30,033 --> 00:15:32,222 to have and to hold, from this day forward." 287 00:15:32,403 --> 00:15:34,433 The reason I think she was miscast is that 288 00:15:34,533 --> 00:15:36,423 Cooper was much older than Grace Kelly, 289 00:15:36,423 --> 00:15:39,155 he was too old for Kelly, actually, in the role. 290 00:15:39,495 --> 00:15:43,142 She didn't believe that she did well in the film, 291 00:15:43,665 --> 00:15:45,337 I didn't think so either. 292 00:15:45,632 --> 00:15:48,114 There was a girl in the film named Katy Jurado, 293 00:15:48,217 --> 00:15:50,337 who played the Mexican gal in the town, 294 00:15:50,437 --> 00:15:53,268 Katy Jurado was dynamic and overpowering, 295 00:15:53,732 --> 00:15:57,570 and yet, Kelly wasn't swallowed even in her miscast 296 00:15:57,909 --> 00:16:00,898 because this lady-like thing came through. 297 00:16:02,708 --> 00:16:05,244 "... they were on the right side, but that didn't help 298 00:16:05,244 --> 00:16:06,500 when the shooting started. 299 00:16:07,143 --> 00:16:10,421 My brother was 19. I watched him die..." 300 00:16:11,199 --> 00:16:14,587 For Grace Kelly was her first big break, 301 00:16:15,247 --> 00:16:17,913 and for me, it was my first American picture 302 00:16:18,187 --> 00:16:19,514 making here in Hollywood. 303 00:16:20,060 --> 00:16:22,946 I was two years older than she was, 304 00:16:23,380 --> 00:16:25,582 I have seven years making pictures 305 00:16:25,582 --> 00:16:29,301 in Mexico, but there was something 306 00:16:29,660 --> 00:16:33,279 so different between Grace and I, 307 00:16:33,517 --> 00:16:36,633 we could not really explain that we could not be very close, 308 00:16:37,057 --> 00:16:42,414 but I could see a girl with a lot of dignity, and a lot of character 309 00:16:42,576 --> 00:16:46,586 because she wants to be somebody in movies 310 00:16:47,113 --> 00:16:49,227 and she worked very hard in that picture. 311 00:16:49,433 --> 00:16:55,633 She looked weak and very tiny, but she was a very strong person. 312 00:16:55,633 --> 00:17:00,233 I believe she was one of the strongest movie stars I worked with. 313 00:17:00,591 --> 00:17:04,729 She knew what you want, and she did it. 314 00:17:04,959 --> 00:17:06,377 (Music) 315 00:17:09,597 --> 00:17:14,117 Gary Cooper went on to win an Academy Award for Best Actor of 1952, 316 00:17:15,117 --> 00:17:17,006 but there were no laurels for Grace, 317 00:17:17,717 --> 00:17:20,635 and she promptly headed back to New York for more study. 318 00:17:21,837 --> 00:17:24,697 She was a Kelly, and she had to do better. 319 00:17:25,218 --> 00:17:28,048 We both probably read the thing where she says that 320 00:17:28,048 --> 00:17:29,886 "You can see everything in Gary 321 00:17:29,886 --> 00:17:31,976 Cooper's eyes" but that her eyes were 322 00:17:31,976 --> 00:17:34,624 "flat and dull, and dead" and that she didn't like them 323 00:17:34,624 --> 00:17:37,009 she couldn't tell what the character was feeling. 324 00:17:37,009 --> 00:17:40,375 She began to work harder on concentrating on her objective. 325 00:17:40,375 --> 00:17:43,432 In other words, that would've 326 00:17:43,432 --> 00:17:46,416 eventually be the cure for the way she 327 00:17:46,416 --> 00:17:49,732 attacked her characters, to make them come alive 328 00:17:49,732 --> 00:17:52,472 to make her eyeballs shine with meaning. 329 00:17:52,974 --> 00:17:59,790 She always had this inner image of being an old-fashioned actress 330 00:17:59,790 --> 00:18:02,179 with the kind of glamour that you have on Broadway. 331 00:18:03,011 --> 00:18:04,885 Grace was eager for a lead role in 332 00:18:04,885 --> 00:18:08,040 a New York production of "Cyrano de Bergerac". 333 00:18:08,759 --> 00:18:11,599 I wanted to have Grace as Roxanne, 334 00:18:11,952 --> 00:18:15,691 I wanted her, not because of her great acting ability, but 335 00:18:15,691 --> 00:18:19,214 because of that discipline that she appeared to have. 336 00:18:19,465 --> 00:18:22,445 Unfortunately, she never did realize that 337 00:18:22,945 --> 00:18:25,385 every part she went up for on Broadway, 338 00:18:25,735 --> 00:18:29,025 with the exception of "The Father", she lost. 339 00:18:29,761 --> 00:18:31,749 And when she didn't get it, there 340 00:18:31,749 --> 00:18:35,109 were mentions of it in the columns and so on. 341 00:18:35,109 --> 00:18:37,865 She was very, very distressed 342 00:18:38,199 --> 00:18:41,292 and she picked herself up, and went on. 343 00:18:41,882 --> 00:18:44,582 "Mogambo" was a picture that Grace apparently 344 00:18:44,582 --> 00:18:49,242 wanted to do very badly because she was willing to 345 00:18:50,792 --> 00:18:55,251 sign a long-term contract with MGM to do the picture. 346 00:18:55,702 --> 00:18:57,746 "Is that all you're going to do for him?!" 347 00:18:58,998 --> 00:19:01,028 "What do you expect me to do, Mrs. Nordley, 348 00:19:01,028 --> 00:19:02,977 crawl in bed with him and hold his hand?" 349 00:19:03,789 --> 00:19:07,999 The thought of playing opposite of star-like Clark Gable 350 00:19:07,999 --> 00:19:12,299 being directed by John Ford, a fellow Irishman. 351 00:19:13,059 --> 00:19:18,593 And I also think she was intrigued with the idea of going to Africa. 352 00:19:19,469 --> 00:19:23,329 On location for "Mogambo," Clark Gable described an incident 353 00:19:23,329 --> 00:19:26,623 to Rupert Allan - then Look magazine correspondent. 354 00:19:27,581 --> 00:19:31,075 Grace was alone and was discovered by Gable. 355 00:19:31,419 --> 00:19:33,777 She turned to him and he saw that she was crying, 356 00:19:34,209 --> 00:19:36,137 and he said: "Why are you crying, Grace?" 357 00:19:36,439 --> 00:19:39,639 She says, "So beautiful. I'm reading 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' 358 00:19:40,049 --> 00:19:44,069 by Hemingway, and I looked up and I was just reading about this 359 00:19:45,279 --> 00:19:48,838 frozen leopard I think they found way up in the snows 360 00:19:48,838 --> 00:19:51,388 of this highest mountain in Africa, 361 00:19:51,388 --> 00:19:53,818 and I looked up from my book thinking about 362 00:19:53,818 --> 00:19:56,398 what a beautiful picture it was inside Hemingway, 363 00:19:56,848 --> 00:20:00,028 and then I saw a lion walking along the seashore. 364 00:20:00,758 --> 00:20:02,078 It's just too beautiful." 365 00:20:02,758 --> 00:20:06,451 She gave human personalities to her animals 366 00:20:06,608 --> 00:20:10,028 and very often she gave animal personalities to humans. 367 00:20:10,538 --> 00:20:13,888 She used to call some of her close friends bird and she called 368 00:20:13,888 --> 00:20:16,428 Rita bird, Jay bird, this bird, that bird. 369 00:20:16,428 --> 00:20:18,168 I mean, people and animals 370 00:20:18,168 --> 00:20:20,140 became interchangeable with Grace. 371 00:20:24,937 --> 00:20:26,905 Grace's role in "Mogambo" earned 372 00:20:26,905 --> 00:20:30,015 her an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting 373 00:20:30,015 --> 00:20:31,876 Actress of 1953. 374 00:20:32,515 --> 00:20:34,978 "What are you saying? You're drunk!" 375 00:20:36,785 --> 00:20:38,745 "You know how it is on safari. 376 00:20:39,385 --> 00:20:42,815 It's in all of us, a woman always falls for the White Hunter 377 00:20:42,815 --> 00:20:45,557 and we guys make the most of it, can you blame us? 378 00:20:46,510 --> 00:20:49,200 Oh, when you come along with that look in your eye..." 379 00:20:50,675 --> 00:20:53,215 Some critics called her a star in the making. 380 00:20:55,955 --> 00:20:58,985 Few realized how luminous that star would become, 381 00:20:59,665 --> 00:21:01,427 and in how short a time. 382 00:21:04,750 --> 00:21:07,820 Hollywood, as far as Jack and Margaret Kelly were concerned, 383 00:21:07,820 --> 00:21:10,400 was no place for a girl on her own. 384 00:21:11,043 --> 00:21:13,723 On Sundays many times, we used to go to church, 385 00:21:14,353 --> 00:21:17,268 and then uncle George who lived in Southern California 386 00:21:17,563 --> 00:21:18,798 would come pick us up 387 00:21:19,413 --> 00:21:22,871 and take us for a ride around and take us to lunch, 388 00:21:23,553 --> 00:21:26,434 and she enjoyed those rides with George so much. 389 00:21:27,140 --> 00:21:32,030 That I would sit in the backseat and maybe take a little nap, 390 00:21:32,030 --> 00:21:37,649 but the two of them would talk theater and books and poetry. 391 00:21:38,023 --> 00:21:40,875 Some of the people in town, the studio heads, 392 00:21:40,875 --> 00:21:43,606 were quite mystified by her, they didn't understand why 393 00:21:43,606 --> 00:21:45,513 she didn't wanna go their dinner parties 394 00:21:45,513 --> 00:21:49,487 and be seated next to all the 'A people' that young actresses 395 00:21:49,487 --> 00:21:51,080 should want to be seated next to. 396 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:52,919 She didn't rush out effusively 397 00:21:53,949 --> 00:21:59,157 and reach forward to make lots and lots of friends. 398 00:21:59,710 --> 00:22:04,860 She got up five o'clock in the morning, went on set, came home 399 00:22:04,860 --> 00:22:07,000 and grabbed something to eat. 400 00:22:07,570 --> 00:22:10,210 Usually a hamburger which was Gracie's favorite food. 401 00:22:12,126 --> 00:22:13,136 And then went to bed. 402 00:22:13,516 --> 00:22:17,436 She was always charming, she was never cold, she was never icy to 403 00:22:17,436 --> 00:22:19,556 anybody on the set. 404 00:22:19,818 --> 00:22:23,718 She could give that appearance of coldness, of being sort of 405 00:22:23,718 --> 00:22:29,228 above it all at all times, but inside, she was a very often seething. 406 00:22:29,571 --> 00:22:34,149 And she was a volatile person but always under control. 407 00:22:34,278 --> 00:22:37,872 Alfred Hitchcock used to say about Grace Kelly 408 00:22:38,398 --> 00:22:46,118 with his usual wit that her apparent virginity was like 409 00:22:46,118 --> 00:22:48,298 a mountain covered with snow, 410 00:22:48,858 --> 00:22:51,348 but that the mountain was a volcano. 411 00:22:56,303 --> 00:23:01,253 In 1953, director Hitchcock found in Grace his perfect heroine 412 00:23:07,013 --> 00:23:14,303 It was a scene in "Dial M for Murder" where he wanted her to answer the phone 413 00:23:14,303 --> 00:23:16,223 by putting on her bathrobe 414 00:23:16,763 --> 00:23:22,453 and she said there was no reason for her to put a bathrobe on, just to answer 415 00:23:22,453 --> 00:23:25,153 a telephone, with no one else in the house but her" 416 00:23:25,866 --> 00:23:29,201 And he said: "What would you wear?" She said: "I'll wear a night gown" 417 00:23:29,366 --> 00:23:31,882 He said: "All right". And it worked out very well 418 00:23:32,156 --> 00:23:33,016 "Hello... 419 00:23:50,801 --> 00:23:58,285 She seemed to know the movements before Hitchcock 420 00:23:58,285 --> 00:24:00,031 had anything to say about it 421 00:24:03,631 --> 00:24:06,681 and I think Hitchcock liked that 422 00:24:07,833 --> 00:24:09,667 I think everybody liked it 423 00:24:10,384 --> 00:24:15,224 In the picture "Rear Window" Hitchcock said to Grace, 424 00:24:15,798 --> 00:24:21,853 "Now, you're going to go have to go across and get into the room" 425 00:24:23,058 --> 00:24:27,203 and Grace without any direction, she just went over, 426 00:24:28,543 --> 00:24:30,423 climbed up the fire escape 427 00:24:31,834 --> 00:24:36,924 climbed in one of the windows and sneaked in through the door 428 00:24:37,711 --> 00:24:43,681 and then, looked over across the way to Hitchcock and said: 429 00:24:44,859 --> 00:24:46,303 "Is that what you mean?" 430 00:24:47,055 --> 00:24:54,390 Well, everybody applauded, and she deserved it because 431 00:24:55,322 --> 00:24:59,202 this was exactly what Alfred Hitchcock wanted 432 00:24:59,202 --> 00:25:04,502 What Grace brought, as an actress, was, Grace brought the actual young 433 00:25:04,502 --> 00:25:09,349 women of the '50s into a vision of glamour 434 00:25:09,615 --> 00:25:12,755 It was a very proper era, in a way very premier 435 00:25:12,755 --> 00:25:17,321 Underneath that, of course, there was always the sense of flirtatiousness 436 00:25:17,321 --> 00:25:20,361 of young women, and the sense of fun 437 00:25:22,602 --> 00:25:24,432 Grace had trully arrived 438 00:25:25,667 --> 00:25:28,187 She appeared on the covers of national magazines 439 00:25:29,841 --> 00:25:32,952 But success meant more time spent in Hollywood 440 00:25:33,852 --> 00:25:37,492 She was really a family person, she didn't like to be alone 441 00:25:37,963 --> 00:25:41,393 I remember when she first went to California to make films 442 00:25:41,943 --> 00:25:46,313 she lived alone, and suddenly she asked Rita Gam to come and live with her 443 00:25:46,313 --> 00:25:50,801 and Grace let me in, and there she was wearing the same Philadelphia skirt 444 00:25:50,801 --> 00:25:55,801 same sensible shoes, the same tied back hair, except now, she was becoming 445 00:25:55,801 --> 00:26:04,599 a very valuable property, I had no idea that her background was one of opulence 446 00:26:05,312 --> 00:26:10,938 I thought of her as a coworker an actress 447 00:26:11,432 --> 00:26:17,572 Then, out of the clear blue sky, and very directly, openly and warmly 448 00:26:17,661 --> 00:26:21,502 she said: "Would you like to share the flat? 449 00:26:21,882 --> 00:26:23,891 How would that fit in with your schedule?" 450 00:26:23,891 --> 00:26:25,711 I said, "Well I get up at 5am" 451 00:26:25,711 --> 00:26:28,888 She said "I get up at 5 too" I said: "We can both go to sleep at 9" 452 00:26:28,888 --> 00:26:30,488 She said "Terrific! that's it" 453 00:26:30,488 --> 00:26:34,658 I think, the thing that most people forget is that when all of this was happening 454 00:26:34,658 --> 00:26:38,868 to Grace, this extraordinary excitement about her career being generated 455 00:26:40,348 --> 00:26:43,458 and roles with the world's most famous leading men 456 00:26:43,848 --> 00:26:46,768 and the world's most respected directors, 457 00:26:47,208 --> 00:26:49,278 she was just a girl in her early 20s 458 00:26:49,428 --> 00:26:52,470 One time in Hollywood, we were invited to what turned out to be 459 00:26:52,470 --> 00:26:55,190 a dinner party with two bachelors 460 00:26:55,190 --> 00:26:58,840 We thought it was going to be this grand party with a lot of people 461 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,410 and, there we were, and the lights were getting lower 462 00:27:01,410 --> 00:27:06,400 and the wine was getting heavier, and I was getting very nervous 463 00:27:06,827 --> 00:27:10,155 and I knudged Grace under the table 464 00:27:10,764 --> 00:27:13,609 Grace had her glasses on, I think that was her protection 465 00:27:13,609 --> 00:27:18,204 mine, was sort of chatting nervously and say "let's go, let's go Grace" 466 00:27:18,204 --> 00:27:22,134 and she whispered back "Let's wait until after dessert, it might be good" 467 00:27:23,003 --> 00:27:26,723 'The bridges at took a reek' gave Grace the opportunity to play opposite 468 00:27:26,723 --> 00:27:30,091 an actor she admired: William Holden 469 00:27:31,448 --> 00:27:34,309 "Harry, you've got to tell me about those bridges" 470 00:27:37,096 --> 00:27:40,286 The kind of concentration that a good actor was capable of 471 00:27:40,826 --> 00:27:42,466 would definitely infect her 472 00:27:45,477 --> 00:27:47,897 "I know we're not going to fly above the mountains" 473 00:27:50,190 --> 00:27:51,763 "We're going to fly between them" 474 00:27:51,763 --> 00:27:56,123 It would make her respond, and in that way you could see to the chat of nervous 475 00:27:56,123 --> 00:27:58,225 system that was similar to lookness paper 476 00:27:58,225 --> 00:27:59,527 She reacted immediately 477 00:27:59,527 --> 00:28:02,546 "You didn't want to tell me because you didn't want me to worry 478 00:28:04,597 --> 00:28:08,467 well, I don't want you to worry either about me, I mean" 479 00:28:12,256 --> 00:28:14,560 "I know what the admiral was trying to tell me, 480 00:28:16,388 --> 00:28:18,302 I had to face those bridges too" 481 00:28:19,813 --> 00:28:23,373 Director George Seaton was impressed by Grace's performance 482 00:28:23,733 --> 00:28:27,533 and wanted her for the demanding role of the wife in "The Country Girl" 483 00:28:28,796 --> 00:28:33,447 But, before releasing her, MGM insisted she appear in "Green Fire" 484 00:28:35,196 --> 00:28:40,503 Which, wasn't one of her favorites films she was tired when she started 485 00:28:40,503 --> 00:28:44,247 She had done about 6 pictures in a row and she had to go to South America 486 00:28:44,247 --> 00:28:48,817 Some, like "Green Fire" that absolutely made her blazing mad 487 00:28:48,817 --> 00:28:52,947 I mean, she said: "This is not what I wanted to be an actress for" 488 00:28:52,947 --> 00:28:58,871 But she did do it in order to get the part in "The Country Girl" 489 00:28:59,168 --> 00:29:03,408 "At the moment all I want is for you to get dressed so we can get out of here" 490 00:29:04,586 --> 00:29:05,866 "Who is in New York?" 491 00:29:06,659 --> 00:29:10,339 "Frank, I am warning you, I'm going to hit you with the first thing I pick up" 492 00:29:10,339 --> 00:29:14,339 The greatest expression of her that Grace demonstrated was the throwing 493 00:29:14,339 --> 00:29:18,339 away of her mask of beauty and of her elegance 494 00:29:18,695 --> 00:29:22,120 Nobody understood at all, I mean why would this gorgeous creature 495 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,742 wanted to be seen in an old tacky sweater with her hair pulled back 496 00:29:25,742 --> 00:29:27,520 in a bun, looking haggarded 497 00:29:27,477 --> 00:29:30,177 She desperately wanted to be this great actress 498 00:29:30,618 --> 00:29:34,618 "You'll be in the strong, so behind of Bernie Dodd" 499 00:29:34,618 --> 00:29:37,828 "Can you stend him up on his feet again? Because that's where all my 500 00:29:37,828 --> 00:29:42,871 praires have gone; to see that one holy owl when he can stand alone again" 501 00:29:43,181 --> 00:29:47,408 "And I may have forgiven you Mr. Dodd, if you can keeping me long 502 00:29:47,408 --> 00:29:49,348 enough for me to get up from under" 503 00:29:49,795 --> 00:29:54,105 "All I want is my own name and a modest job to buy sugar for my coffee" 504 00:29:54,105 --> 00:29:55,235 "Would you listen..." 505 00:29:55,235 --> 00:29:59,475 "You can't belive that, can you? You can't believe that a woman is crazy 506 00:29:59,475 --> 00:30:03,700 out of her mind to live alone, in one room by herself" 507 00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:04,487 "Listen to me, listen to me" 508 00:30:04,487 --> 00:30:07,839 "Why are you holding me? I said you're holding me!" 509 00:30:26,185 --> 00:30:31,500 "How could you be so angry, someone who didn't even know? 510 00:30:32,691 --> 00:30:37,731 In the single year of 1954, she had completed 4 major films 511 00:30:37,731 --> 00:30:39,629 "Grace Kelly for "The Country Girl"" 512 00:30:39,629 --> 00:30:40,849 and won an Academy award 513 00:30:46,257 --> 00:30:49,397 She was pronounced one of Hollywood's major stars 514 00:30:50,511 --> 00:30:53,982 She was 24, but it semmed that she had it all 515 00:30:55,143 --> 00:30:58,983 "This is after Grace had an enourmous success in films and what a very big 516 00:30:58,983 --> 00:31:03,543 posh apartment, and I have an image of her father walking through the lobby 517 00:31:03,543 --> 00:31:06,564 and Grace appearing out saying: 518 00:31:06,564 --> 00:31:10,187 "There he is, there he is coming" and it was as if this fictional character 519 00:31:10,187 --> 00:31:14,370 the Great Gatsby, came down to look at her apartment 520 00:31:14,347 --> 00:31:19,207 and she really wanted to prove to him that she had accomplished a 521 00:31:19,207 --> 00:31:24,187 great deal, and that was the first time I got a sense of an undercurrent 522 00:31:24,187 --> 00:31:27,807 of something other than this picture of family 523 00:31:29,187 --> 00:31:36,227 Grace dated, but no one really seriously until the later part of her career 524 00:31:38,449 --> 00:31:43,581 There were so many poeple that have fall in love with her, most men were 525 00:31:44,780 --> 00:31:50,428 She had that quality of, I don't know, turning men on 526 00:31:50,649 --> 00:31:55,220 She was going to be my maid of honour and when I, baby sister 527 00:31:55,220 --> 00:31:59,110 was getting married she had that to think about now 528 00:32:01,210 --> 00:32:03,110 "Well, I want to get married too" 529 00:32:03,110 --> 00:32:07,240 I was married in June, and I think I booked the news that I was pregnant 530 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:11,180 and was going to have a baby in May and she said: "Lizzie, you are going to 531 00:32:11,180 --> 00:32:15,502 have a baby! Oh! I want a baby I'm missing things 532 00:32:16,241 --> 00:32:20,926 In 1955, Grace would appear in a film that would change her life 533 00:32:21,494 --> 00:32:26,344 Location worked for "To Catch a Thief" to a place near the ancient principality 534 00:32:26,344 --> 00:32:27,179 of Monaco 535 00:32:27,745 --> 00:32:32,310 Her co star would be Cary Grant, once again, she was directed 536 00:32:32,310 --> 00:32:33,791 by Alfred Hitchcock 537 00:32:35,753 --> 00:32:43,110 What he extracted from her combination was the cool beauty 538 00:32:43,475 --> 00:32:49,150 who helded it all back and then just gave that just enough to be gentelizing 539 00:32:49,656 --> 00:32:54,141 and just enough to make the leading man and the audience want a little more 540 00:32:59,681 --> 00:33:02,291 "Ever had a better offer in your whole life?" 541 00:33:02,746 --> 00:33:04,496 "One worth everything?" 542 00:33:07,288 --> 00:33:09,198 "I never had a crazier one" 543 00:33:10,809 --> 00:33:13,279 "Just as long as you are satisfied" 544 00:33:16,620 --> 00:33:19,920 "You know as well as I do that this neckless is an invitation" 545 00:33:21,890 --> 00:33:22,489 "Well, I'm not" 546 00:33:31,938 --> 00:33:35,558 And she had a lot of boys and boyfriends who were actors and 547 00:33:35,558 --> 00:33:39,558 human beings, and dress designers, and this and that but there wasn't 548 00:33:39,558 --> 00:33:45,315 this one person who could fulfill this childhood image that quite many 549 00:33:45,315 --> 00:33:49,315 of us have about wanting that one man in our lives to be special and 550 00:33:49,752 --> 00:33:52,230 really, to be old prince on the white chariot 551 00:33:54,954 --> 00:33:59,342 A French magazine had decided the palace in Monaco would be the perfect 552 00:33:59,342 --> 00:34:02,202 background for Grace or publicity layout 553 00:34:04,196 --> 00:34:08,526 And then, Prince Rainier indicated that he was willing to meet the beautiful star 554 00:34:10,346 --> 00:34:15,446 Though he was know as a shy and modest man, Prince Rainier III was called 555 00:34:15,446 --> 00:34:17,346 Europe's most eligible bachelor 556 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,258 And his meeting with Grace immediately provoked interest 557 00:34:21,529 --> 00:34:24,899 "Rumors linking you with, virtually everybody, and the latest one is 558 00:34:24,899 --> 00:34:28,250 with Grace Kelly, would you coment on that for us?" 559 00:34:28,250 --> 00:34:31,920 "No, I just met Grace Kelly, she came to the palace when she was 560 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,480 at Canne's, for the festival, and that's all of it" 561 00:34:34,700 --> 00:34:37,790 "Although, many stories say that you are actively seeking a wife 562 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:41,800 would you care to comment on that?" "No, I'm not" 563 00:34:42,417 --> 00:34:46,197 "What if you did meet a girl that you like? Would the publicity about it 564 00:34:46,197 --> 00:34:50,346 prevent you from do anything about it?" "Oh! No, it shouldn't, and anything should 565 00:34:51,083 --> 00:34:54,507 "If you were to marry, what kind of girl do you have in mind?" 566 00:34:55,991 --> 00:34:58,475 "I don't know, the best" 567 00:34:59,681 --> 00:35:03,441 Being the best is a lesson that Jack Kelly had drilled into his children 568 00:35:04,152 --> 00:35:08,152 Grace had excelled, she had reached the top of her profession 569 00:35:08,661 --> 00:35:11,431 But, for Grace Kelly there had to be more 570 00:35:13,382 --> 00:35:18,322 MGM had no idea of Grace's future when they cast her in the film that was 571 00:35:18,322 --> 00:35:19,622 oddly profetic 572 00:35:20,405 --> 00:35:21,305 "The Swan" 573 00:35:22,691 --> 00:35:28,775 It is based on a play by Molnár and the story was very simply the story 574 00:35:28,775 --> 00:35:29,775 of a princess 575 00:35:31,457 --> 00:35:33,917 "I want to be so good to you" 576 00:35:34,445 --> 00:35:39,069 "Oh, I want a hundred things, I want to tell you everything that it's in my heart 577 00:35:39,069 --> 00:35:42,379 all my secrets, I adore Napoleon too" 578 00:35:44,214 --> 00:35:45,474 "Yes, Princess" 579 00:35:48,059 --> 00:35:50,859 "I want to hear you call me by my name" 580 00:35:52,512 --> 00:35:53,612 "Alexandra" 581 00:35:55,856 --> 00:35:56,886 "Alexandra" 582 00:35:58,220 --> 00:36:03,251 There was an innate aristocracy, elegance about her 583 00:36:03,251 --> 00:36:09,046 not only in coportments, in manners but also in thinking, in being 584 00:36:10,857 --> 00:36:16,538 It has been a cliché to say that Grace Kelly looked like a Princess 585 00:36:16,538 --> 00:36:17,938 but, she did 586 00:36:21,204 --> 00:36:26,024 There was another element in Grace Kelly that was all important 587 00:36:26,710 --> 00:36:34,383 she had this extraordinary sense of human not only, and first of all 588 00:36:34,383 --> 00:36:35,263 about herself 589 00:36:35,804 --> 00:36:39,105 Never taking herself seriously 590 00:36:39,967 --> 00:36:43,967 During filming of "The Swan" Alec Guinness had an Indian tomahawk 591 00:36:43,967 --> 00:36:47,967 smuggled into Grace's bed, and she quickly returned the compliment 592 00:36:48,507 --> 00:36:51,097 the joke would continue for years 593 00:36:51,561 --> 00:36:55,857 They never spoke about finding it or passing it along 594 00:36:56,022 --> 00:36:58,392 It just dissapeared, it went from one to the other 595 00:36:58,392 --> 00:37:03,262 "I get back home one night, get into bed and I 596 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:09,298 say to my wife: "For God's sake, why on Earth do we need a cold hot water 597 00:37:09,298 --> 00:37:11,568 bottle? Why isn't it the hot bottle water for?" 598 00:37:11,568 --> 00:37:15,568 "I don't know what you are talking about" and it was his identical tomahawk" 599 00:37:16,393 --> 00:37:20,393 Somehow, Alec Guinness got it into the Palace, at least once into 600 00:37:20,393 --> 00:37:21,663 Grace's bed 601 00:37:22,030 --> 00:37:27,480 "So, while she was downstairs, the tomahawk was put under the cavinet" 602 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,714 So, she ended with the tomahawk she read into paper in Europe 603 00:37:30,714 --> 00:37:34,234 that he was being alert by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences 604 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,970 "I stayed at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel classy my housting 605 00:37:39,470 --> 00:37:43,470 got back at 3 in the morning or whatever it was, and there in my bed 606 00:37:43,470 --> 00:37:45,970 in the Wilshire Hotel was the tomahawk" 607 00:37:45,970 --> 00:37:51,500 A lot of extraordinary, withdrawn, glamorous glaciar personality 608 00:37:52,374 --> 00:37:56,666 put forward this sense of the ridiculous that only the British currently 609 00:37:56,666 --> 00:37:59,385 appreciate or a 5 year-old child 610 00:38:04,454 --> 00:38:09,654 Jessie Royce Landis played as Grace Kelly's mother in two films 611 00:38:10,152 --> 00:38:14,152 and when Grace married Prince Rainier she said: 612 00:38:14,152 --> 00:38:17,032 "I'm the one who advised her to marry him 613 00:38:17,215 --> 00:38:19,922 and told her that would be her greatest role" 614 00:38:20,311 --> 00:38:24,311 and one Monday morning she came into LB Mayors office 615 00:38:24,770 --> 00:38:26,230 and said: 616 00:38:27,824 --> 00:38:31,114 "Mr. Mayor I'm going to get married" 617 00:38:31,704 --> 00:38:35,704 Well I said: "Jeez, that's wonderful I'll have a big reception for you upstairs 618 00:38:36,109 --> 00:38:39,349 with everybody in Hollywood" "No" she says 619 00:38:39,349 --> 00:38:41,499 "Mr. Mayor, you don't quite understand" 620 00:38:43,066 --> 00:38:45,876 Grace Kelly had been news worthy as a movie actress 621 00:38:46,184 --> 00:38:48,474 but now, her important source 622 00:38:48,817 --> 00:38:51,307 "Grace Kelly, how are you feelling in this ocassion?" 623 00:38:52,081 --> 00:38:54,741 "All I need is to say that I am very very happy" 624 00:38:54,979 --> 00:38:56,699 "How about you Mr. Kelly?" 625 00:38:57,268 --> 00:39:00,598 "Well, I think you can't interfere with love if they are in love 626 00:39:00,598 --> 00:39:01,898 with eachother, will we?" 627 00:39:01,898 --> 00:39:03,378 "I gave my blessing" 628 00:39:04,332 --> 00:39:08,332 Reporters hung on every word and will alert to every move 629 00:39:08,332 --> 00:39:10,812 made by Grace or Prince Rainier 630 00:39:10,812 --> 00:39:13,652 "Will you continue with your career after you marriage?" 631 00:39:13,652 --> 00:39:16,852 "That decision will be made by the Prince" 632 00:39:16,852 --> 00:39:20,852 "Is Mrs. Kelly going to make any more movies as far as you know?" 633 00:39:20,852 --> 00:39:22,102 "I don't think so" 634 00:39:22,102 --> 00:39:26,856 He did come to the house that Christmas and Donald and I had 635 00:39:26,856 --> 00:39:30,114 our own little apartment, and we asked them to come over for dinner 636 00:39:30,114 --> 00:39:33,084 and he fit in very well even helped with the dishes 637 00:39:33,084 --> 00:39:36,722 Rainier, when we first met him I think he might have been a little shocked 638 00:39:36,722 --> 00:39:39,932 So we used to say: "Come on Raini" you know, but he 639 00:39:40,265 --> 00:39:42,325 just fitted into the family beautifully 640 00:39:42,325 --> 00:39:44,995 "George, lay down here please" 641 00:39:45,292 --> 00:39:46,092 "Crazy!" 642 00:39:46,235 --> 00:39:50,127 In 1956, Grace made her last Hollywood film 643 00:39:50,127 --> 00:39:51,447 "High Society" 644 00:39:52,049 --> 00:39:55,539 In it, she probably wore her new engagement ring 645 00:40:00,223 --> 00:40:03,073 The sense of style 646 00:40:03,386 --> 00:40:06,018 "How do you do? I'm Tracy Lord" 647 00:40:06,403 --> 00:40:09,813 High comedy performance is what she gave in "High Society" 648 00:40:10,731 --> 00:40:14,171 vastly different from anything that she had ever done before 649 00:40:14,488 --> 00:40:16,348 "Did you get lost finding us?" 650 00:40:16,348 --> 00:40:18,487 "No, no, not at all, we had good directions" 651 00:40:18,487 --> 00:40:20,698 "Good" "I do hope you don't mind me being here 652 00:40:20,698 --> 00:40:23,368 for your wedding" "Oh! But I'm delight to give more cake" 653 00:40:23,368 --> 00:40:24,638 "What is your name dear?" 654 00:40:24,638 --> 00:40:28,638 Grace's sense of fun would never again be as publicly revealed 655 00:40:28,988 --> 00:40:30,626 "My name is Elizabeth Imbrie" 656 00:40:31,575 --> 00:40:33,525 "Elizabeth Imbrie" 657 00:40:34,422 --> 00:40:38,531 "Oh! It sounds like a medieval saint who was burned to death" 658 00:40:39,191 --> 00:40:40,291 "And you?" 659 00:40:40,850 --> 00:40:45,620 She had made this extraordinary luminous climb to the absolute top 660 00:40:45,620 --> 00:40:46,980 of the industry 661 00:40:46,980 --> 00:40:50,420 There were a lot of people that had just quality and had no electricity 662 00:40:50,420 --> 00:40:51,718 She comined them 663 00:40:51,718 --> 00:40:54,198 She could have called the shots from then on, I mean 664 00:40:54,198 --> 00:40:58,760 then she was finally in a position where she didn't have to argue about the 665 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,406 film she wanted to do, people would have bought things for her 666 00:41:01,406 --> 00:41:04,506 people would have planned productions around, they would have done 667 00:41:04,506 --> 00:41:05,226 anything 668 00:41:05,226 --> 00:41:11,177 and she fell in love, and she said: "Bye! I'm going off to be 669 00:41:11,177 --> 00:41:15,177 Mrs., in this case, the Princess of Monaco 670 00:41:15,411 --> 00:41:19,611 and, before we all knew it, she was gone 671 00:41:20,380 --> 00:41:25,450 Grace Kelly had never really enjoyed the publicity that came with stardom 672 00:41:25,747 --> 00:41:30,770 Now, she would feel the burden of true international celebrity 673 00:41:30,816 --> 00:41:35,416 I don't know how she was able to protect that small 674 00:41:35,870 --> 00:41:43,160 cord so necessary that keeps you sane but she did 675 00:41:46,383 --> 00:41:52,863 She was able under the most extraordinary mirage of the press 676 00:41:53,703 --> 00:41:58,580 and the personal need that people had, I mean, people just 677 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,796 I don't know how they do it, but they seem to want to get inside 678 00:42:03,126 --> 00:42:08,756 particularly, the press, of a person's soul, and Grace had the extraordinary 679 00:42:08,756 --> 00:42:14,250 ability of not rising above it, separating herself from it 680 00:42:14,250 --> 00:42:20,595 It was almost a mystical kind of ability she had to be the quiet 681 00:42:20,595 --> 00:42:22,905 eye in the middle of the horrendous hurrican 682 00:42:22,905 --> 00:42:28,135 And, there she was, just firm and sure and calm 683 00:42:29,247 --> 00:42:33,247 "... an exciting thing and I am very very happy, sometimes a little sad 684 00:42:33,247 --> 00:42:36,927 to be away from home, but I hope to be back quite often" 685 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:43,874 She chose as any average young woman would, her 6 best friends and her sister 686 00:42:44,490 --> 00:42:48,255 to attend at her wedding to the Prince 687 00:42:48,987 --> 00:42:53,847 And then, Grace Kelly of Philadelphia with most of her family, and many of 688 00:42:53,847 --> 00:42:58,979 her closest friends, sailed away to become a Princess 689 00:43:04,869 --> 00:43:09,184 Prince Rainiers yacht discloses into the harbour of Monaco 690 00:43:09,184 --> 00:43:10,925 a few hours earlier, Grace Kelly... 691 00:43:10,925 --> 00:43:14,925 Once we arrived in Monaco was, of course, all the madness that one has seen 692 00:43:14,925 --> 00:43:18,271 over the years of what went on 693 00:43:18,750 --> 00:43:22,660 They came by the thousands, to welcome and to judge 694 00:43:23,436 --> 00:43:28,860 She was witch, she was beautiful but, she was an American 695 00:43:28,250 --> 00:43:31,148 and, to some of them, just an actress 696 00:43:31,967 --> 00:43:36,457 I think Grace had tough job being a movie star from America 697 00:43:37,808 --> 00:43:43,226 moving into the life of the symbol of Southern countries 698 00:43:45,351 --> 00:43:52,008 Constant round of parties and being part of this glamorous and mithological 699 00:43:52,568 --> 00:43:57,758 and just simply being around royalty was new to all of us 700 00:44:02,387 --> 00:44:07,537 As Grace took up a totally new role, some who did not know her watched 701 00:44:08,041 --> 00:44:10,201 and waited for her to fail 702 00:44:24,830 --> 00:44:30,600 It was like a fairytale all of it and that's the part that we got to 703 00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:31,679 be part of 704 00:44:34,281 --> 00:44:36,891 It was not a fairytale 705 00:44:38,962 --> 00:44:41,329 Grace relaxed at her husband's side 706 00:44:42,829 --> 00:44:46,829 but she knew to the Monegasques she now had to prove herself worthy 707 00:44:47,070 --> 00:44:49,012 of being the wife or their ruler 708 00:44:49,369 --> 00:44:51,042 Prince Rainier III 709 00:44:59,484 --> 00:45:06,504 The last time I saw Grace was in my own imagination when she was on the yacht 710 00:45:06,942 --> 00:45:11,869 chug chug chugging away into the Mediterranean after the wedding was over 711 00:45:11,869 --> 00:45:14,849 and I realized that there was no more Grace Kelly 712 00:45:14,849 --> 00:45:17,939 Grace Kelly was a memory, Grace Kelly was history, there was only 713 00:45:17,939 --> 00:45:19,147 Princess Grace of Monaco 714 00:45:19,147 --> 00:45:21,407 Then we all went home and she stayed there 715 00:45:21,407 --> 00:45:26,511 This was a very hard challenge for her because, not only the language barrier 716 00:45:27,151 --> 00:45:32,261 but in foreign world, a foreign customs 717 00:45:33,730 --> 00:45:37,670 and the principality, the formal way of doing things 718 00:45:38,138 --> 00:45:44,042 She kept studying things that would impulse her position as Princess 719 00:45:44,376 --> 00:45:49,466 She knew the lines, everything around her, she improvised on being a Princess 720 00:45:49,466 --> 00:45:52,676 the way a really good actress would improvise on a part 721 00:45:52,676 --> 00:45:56,602 For example, she always tried to simplify things 722 00:45:57,022 --> 00:46:02,392 Alexandre, the hairdresser in Paris, fixed for her a number of special pieces of 723 00:46:02,392 --> 00:46:03,492 hair attachtment 724 00:46:03,492 --> 00:46:07,492 So, when she would travel with all these fancy aristocrats 725 00:46:07,940 --> 00:46:12,390 while they were making appointments with hairdressers, everywhere we went 726 00:46:12,390 --> 00:46:17,461 Grace was always ready with one of these hairpieces that she was making 727 00:46:17,742 --> 00:46:19,662 into some kind of a wonderful hair do 728 00:46:19,946 --> 00:46:21,336 Never took extra time 729 00:46:21,994 --> 00:46:25,233 Since she was, fundamentally a working woman 730 00:46:27,683 --> 00:46:33,263 She did everything with a great sense of responsibility 731 00:46:36,304 --> 00:46:39,064 On cultural or diplomatic occasions 732 00:46:40,390 --> 00:46:41,780 with presidents 733 00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:43,700 or with popes 734 00:46:44,530 --> 00:46:46,180 she was expected to be perfect 735 00:46:46,568 --> 00:46:47,488 in bearing, 736 00:46:47,711 --> 00:46:50,671 and often, in her newly acquired language 737 00:46:50,836 --> 00:46:56,926 (Speaking French) 738 00:46:57,081 --> 00:47:00,131 It was something that I am amazed that she 739 00:47:00,590 --> 00:47:01,350 could handle 740 00:47:01,710 --> 00:47:06,040 I wondered so many times, 'Oh, I could never do that' 741 00:47:06,620 --> 00:47:09,270 but she was determined to make the best of it 742 00:47:09,270 --> 00:47:13,681 "Can I ask you to explain what will happen in the event twins are born 743 00:47:13,801 --> 00:47:15,631 a boy second, and a girl first 744 00:47:15,730 --> 00:47:17,780 Who would be the ruling monarch?" 745 00:47:18,808 --> 00:47:22,296 "The successor would be the eldest child, even if it's a girl 746 00:47:22,537 --> 00:47:24,827 but that doesn't mean that she will rule, because 747 00:47:25,087 --> 00:47:28,347 she can always resign or abdicate in favour of her younger brother 748 00:47:28,428 --> 00:47:29,548 and he would then rule" 749 00:47:29,647 --> 00:47:30,957 "Are twins expected?" 750 00:47:31,148 --> 00:47:32,618 "Not that I know of" 751 00:47:33,198 --> 00:47:37,768 Princess Grace, is this how you imagined your life before you became a princess? 752 00:47:38,708 --> 00:47:45,018 Well I became Princess before I had much time to imagine what it would be 753 00:47:47,358 --> 00:47:52,628 With the birth of a daughter, Caroline, on January 23rd 1957 754 00:47:53,058 --> 00:47:55,998 The line of succession was secure 755 00:48:00,481 --> 00:48:03,751 Just 15 months later, a male heir, Albert 756 00:48:04,037 --> 00:48:06,652 arrived to even greater celebration 757 00:48:09,111 --> 00:48:11,891 I think the major came when she had the children 758 00:48:12,041 --> 00:48:14,141 and they did come very quickly 759 00:48:15,831 --> 00:48:18,841 She wanted the children, she loved them 760 00:48:18,881 --> 00:48:21,551 and we had so much fun rough-housing together 761 00:48:21,771 --> 00:48:24,521 Her children and mine are the same age 762 00:48:25,161 --> 00:48:27,881 and they've gone to camp together 763 00:48:29,301 --> 00:48:32,340 John and I have been to Monica's several times with the children 764 00:48:32,831 --> 00:48:34,821 and they've come here in Ocean City 765 00:48:39,414 --> 00:48:40,794 Their needs were the same 766 00:48:41,536 --> 00:48:43,526 for closeness, and for family 767 00:48:44,314 --> 00:48:46,144 In addition to her own children 768 00:48:46,434 --> 00:48:48,724 Grace would always have the Kelly's 769 00:48:50,854 --> 00:48:54,724 Prince Rainier soon found himself an accepted part of that family 770 00:48:56,314 --> 00:48:57,664 Grace always adored 771 00:48:58,534 --> 00:49:01,944 children, and she almost over-adored her own children 772 00:49:02,140 --> 00:49:05,030 she was the typical loving 773 00:49:05,434 --> 00:49:08,094 sometimes too disciplining 774 00:49:08,544 --> 00:49:10,664 but always giving mother 775 00:49:12,974 --> 00:49:15,284 Private time was essential for them both 776 00:49:16,454 --> 00:49:20,064 family life was a retreat from the formalities of state 777 00:49:21,936 --> 00:49:24,616 Grace was determined to keep her family a success 778 00:49:25,696 --> 00:49:28,036 No matter how demanding her official schedule 779 00:49:28,726 --> 00:49:30,976 there was always time for her children 780 00:49:33,837 --> 00:49:35,037 There were the trips home 781 00:49:35,446 --> 00:49:37,216 often with Prince Rainier 782 00:49:39,636 --> 00:49:41,926 There was the anniversary for Margaret Kelly 783 00:49:42,656 --> 00:49:44,636 and her growing brood of grandchildren 784 00:49:51,326 --> 00:49:53,866 For Prince Rainier, cruises on his yacht 785 00:49:53,996 --> 00:49:56,516 meant he could indulge his passion for fishing 786 00:50:02,910 --> 00:50:06,360 Then, there was the time set aside for enjoying the palace pool 787 00:50:06,580 --> 00:50:08,280 with children and friends 788 00:50:09,810 --> 00:50:11,870 I think she held on to her old friends 789 00:50:12,130 --> 00:50:14,180 in those beginning years because 790 00:50:14,590 --> 00:50:16,380 they were her reality as Grace Kelly 791 00:50:16,500 --> 00:50:18,570 and she didn't want to lose Grace Kelly 792 00:50:20,010 --> 00:50:24,130 There was never any loss of the sense that she was Gracie from Philadelphia 793 00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:25,940 She was 794 00:50:26,590 --> 00:50:28,250 a girl with an American soul 795 00:50:30,700 --> 00:50:34,750 and heart, and she brought that to Monaco with her, and she never 796 00:50:35,220 --> 00:50:37,380 she never chipped away at that at all 797 00:50:41,134 --> 00:50:45,904 In the back of Grace's mind was always the possibility of going back to being 798 00:50:45,904 --> 00:50:46,764 a film star 799 00:50:46,764 --> 00:50:49,254 I think she kept it there for those rainy nights 800 00:50:49,845 --> 00:50:52,846 I would occassionaly read a script of 801 00:50:53,629 --> 00:50:55,370 that would intrigued me 802 00:50:55,846 --> 00:50:57,556 that Kramer had sended on 803 00:50:57,804 --> 00:51:01,834 The opportunity arose to do "Marnie I think she ? at it 804 00:51:02,207 --> 00:51:05,517 I couldn't understand why she would want to do it, and why Hitchcock 805 00:51:05,517 --> 00:51:06,437 would want to do it 806 00:51:06,437 --> 00:51:10,157 The Monegasques were absolutely, completely undune because 807 00:51:10,157 --> 00:51:12,052 they thought that she had abandoned them 808 00:51:12,052 --> 00:51:16,052 I think, that the thing that convinced her that she couldn't do it was that she was 809 00:51:16,052 --> 00:51:17,312 the Princess of the Church 810 00:51:18,090 --> 00:51:19,911 once she believed that 811 00:51:20,611 --> 00:51:24,611 dignity of being the pricess of the capital Church was more important than 812 00:51:25,075 --> 00:51:26,435 being an actress 813 00:51:26,576 --> 00:51:29,226 as she accepted it, but I think it took a long time 814 00:51:31,810 --> 00:51:35,258 In 1965, seven years after the birth of Albert, 815 00:51:35,876 --> 00:51:37,066 Stephanie was born 816 00:51:38,001 --> 00:51:40,673 Once Grace's life as a performing artist 817 00:51:43,035 --> 00:51:46,375 seem to come to a close as she became Princess of Monaco 818 00:51:48,218 --> 00:51:53,098 She didn't discard her feelings for the arts, any parts of them 819 00:51:53,419 --> 00:51:57,049 I got a letter from Grace saying that she was going around doing poetry 820 00:51:57,049 --> 00:51:58,489 readings for 821 00:51:59,250 --> 00:52:01,572 theatre in London that was being built 822 00:52:01,572 --> 00:52:03,624 So, basically, Grace was an artist 823 00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:05,921 and she did it for poetry 824 00:52:06,130 --> 00:52:09,844 she wanted very much to have Monaco be a cultural center 825 00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,380 Grace established a foundation to further her goals 826 00:52:14,195 --> 00:52:17,455 The Monegasques had been without a playhouse for many years 827 00:52:18,285 --> 00:52:19,795 a new one was built 828 00:52:20,412 --> 00:52:23,972 Today, this theatre draws drama companies from around the world