WEBVTT 00:00:04.979 --> 00:00:10.860 (Music) 00:00:10.860 --> 00:00:12.749 She was born into a prosperous 00:00:12.749 --> 00:00:14.229 Philadelphia family. 00:00:14.946 --> 00:00:17.096 Though she was a shy child, 00:00:17.096 --> 00:00:19.156 she would live her life in the public eye. 00:00:19.900 --> 00:00:21.320 "Don't try to be a hero! 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:23.470 You don't have to be a hero, not for me!" 00:00:23.470 --> 00:00:26.159 "I'm not trying to be a hero..." - By the age of 23, 00:00:26.159 --> 00:00:27.340 her beauty and talent 00:00:27.570 --> 00:00:28.780 took her to Hollywood. 00:00:32.889 --> 00:00:35.644 She made eleven films in three and a half years 00:00:36.464 --> 00:00:39.714 and became one of the most sought-after stars of her time. 00:00:42.212 --> 00:00:44.860 She worked with Hollywood's most important directors, 00:00:46.809 --> 00:00:49.039 played opposite its top leading men. 00:00:56.813 --> 00:00:58.533 "There's nothing quite so mysterious 00:00:58.533 --> 00:01:00.733 and silent as a dark theater..." 00:01:00.733 --> 00:01:05.093 Then, at 26, she turned her back on make-believe. 00:01:07.889 --> 00:01:09.999 But make-believe came true, 00:01:09.999 --> 00:01:12.989 in a fairy tale shared by the entire world. 00:01:14.006 --> 00:01:15.776 Her name was Grace Kelly. 00:01:16.854 --> 00:01:19.217 It became: Her Serene Highness, 00:01:19.217 --> 00:01:21.404 Princess Grace of Monaco. 00:01:33.642 --> 00:01:37.288 I don't think Grace really believed that she was going to give up acting when 00:01:37.288 --> 00:01:39.278 she became Princess Grace of Monaco. 00:01:40.203 --> 00:01:44.253 I think that the reality of that probably 00:01:44.253 --> 00:01:46.083 struck her some place in the middle of 00:01:46.083 --> 00:01:48.513 the Mediterranean after the honeymoon began. 00:01:48.977 --> 00:01:52.977 She took everything so much in her stride, 00:01:52.977 --> 00:01:58.248 nothing seemed to be too much for her. 00:01:58.248 --> 00:02:01.592 Of any name, Grace, could not have been 00:02:01.592 --> 00:02:03.402 more fitting, 00:02:03.402 --> 00:02:08.175 and even her death, her tragic early death 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:13.604 made her enter even more into legend. 00:02:15.624 --> 00:02:17.529 (Band plays) 00:02:18.382 --> 00:02:21.722 Monaco, a principality of less than 00:02:21.722 --> 00:02:24.850 five hundred acres on the French Riviera. 00:02:25.922 --> 00:02:27.888 For centuries, the Monégasques 00:02:27.888 --> 00:02:30.506 held on to their distinctive character, 00:02:30.506 --> 00:02:31.820 and their pride. 00:02:33.745 --> 00:02:35.757 But, to the world, this place was known as 00:02:35.757 --> 00:02:37.657 a "playground for the wealthy" 00:02:37.657 --> 00:02:41.067 who came to enjoy its beauty and its gambling. 00:02:42.152 --> 00:02:44.822 Monaco became a home of a young American actress 00:02:44.822 --> 00:02:47.778 who arrived in 1956 to be its Princess. 00:02:48.867 --> 00:02:51.045 She brought her fame, her cool beauty, 00:02:51.345 --> 00:02:52.530 her intelligence. 00:02:53.050 --> 00:02:54.655 And she brought war, 00:02:54.655 --> 00:02:55.935 a sense of purpose. 00:02:56.742 --> 00:03:00.472 Well, this story of a Princess was firmly anchored in reality. 00:03:02.205 --> 00:03:03.925 A reality that had its origins 00:03:03.925 --> 00:03:05.701 back in Philadelphia. 00:03:07.011 --> 00:03:10.101 Competition came easily to the Kellys. 00:03:10.101 --> 00:03:11.671 Here along Kelly Drive 00:03:11.671 --> 00:03:14.681 named after Grace's father, John B. Kelly, 00:03:14.681 --> 00:03:16.711 they still race in the sport for which 00:03:16.711 --> 00:03:19.260 Jack Kelly won an Olympic medal. 00:03:21.786 --> 00:03:24.636 A statue erected by the citizens of Philadelphia 00:03:24.636 --> 00:03:26.801 commemorates that achievement. 00:03:31.239 --> 00:03:33.369 Jack Kelly's father was a bricklayer from 00:03:33.369 --> 00:03:36.199 Ireland who went on to make a fortune. 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:39.819 Young Jack soon joined the family business: 00:03:40.269 --> 00:03:42.461 construction and brick making. 00:03:44.238 --> 00:03:45.667 He started his own business 00:03:46.158 --> 00:03:47.778 and made his own fortune. 00:03:48.388 --> 00:03:50.418 But he always professed pride in 00:03:50.418 --> 00:03:52.568 his family's humble origins. 00:03:54.776 --> 00:03:56.356 Jack Kelly believed the world 00:03:56.356 --> 00:03:58.196 was what you made it. 00:03:59.258 --> 00:04:01.438 Margaret Majer, who married Jack, had been 00:04:01.438 --> 00:04:04.098 a model as well as a champion swimmer and athlete. 00:04:06.047 --> 00:04:07.687 Margaret and Jack were determined 00:04:07.687 --> 00:04:10.402 to raise their children their own way. 00:04:10.792 --> 00:04:12.067 (Music) 00:04:16.218 --> 00:04:19.632 If you're good enough, you're sure to reach the top. 00:04:20.302 --> 00:04:23.760 It was drilled into the Kelly children from their earliest years. 00:04:23.935 --> 00:04:25.178 (Music) 00:04:31.263 --> 00:04:33.839 As a family, we were always very close. 00:04:34.913 --> 00:04:38.128 Four of us; Peggy, my sister, the oldest, 00:04:38.726 --> 00:04:41.396 my brother Jack, Grace and then myself. 00:04:42.166 --> 00:04:44.229 She was the baby for three and a half years 00:04:44.229 --> 00:04:45.676 and loved every minute of it. 00:04:46.012 --> 00:04:48.462 Grace, when she was young, was very shy 00:04:48.462 --> 00:04:50.032 and a mama's baby. 00:04:50.810 --> 00:04:53.190 There were many times were we had pictures taken 00:04:53.190 --> 00:04:54.833 that mother had to lean back 00:04:54.833 --> 00:04:57.955 away from the camera so Grace would not cry 00:04:58.243 --> 00:04:59.815 to be taken away from her mother, 00:04:59.903 --> 00:05:03.918 she was very sweet and soft, and loved to be held 00:05:03.918 --> 00:05:06.184 and cuddled and kissed, and loved. 00:05:07.498 --> 00:05:09.258 I, on the other hand, and my brother 00:05:09.258 --> 00:05:10.734 and older sister, were more 00:05:11.573 --> 00:05:13.411 "don't get around me," 00:05:13.626 --> 00:05:15.076 we wanted to do our own things. 00:05:15.847 --> 00:05:20.217 We always had a place at the shore when we were young, 00:05:20.520 --> 00:05:23.967 and, at that time, I think we had our best times together. 00:05:23.967 --> 00:05:25.447 We just had a marvellous time, 00:05:25.447 --> 00:05:30.704 and Grace, all her life, loved being by the ocean and the sea. 00:05:32.632 --> 00:05:36.268 Grace and all the family, we were a competitive family. 00:05:37.028 --> 00:05:38.908 I think we got that, I know we got that 00:05:38.908 --> 00:05:40.788 from our mother and our father. 00:05:40.894 --> 00:05:46.004 They instilled into us a deep sense of competition 00:05:46.004 --> 00:05:49.864 and the love of sports, 00:05:50.283 --> 00:05:52.743 the will of winning, 00:05:52.743 --> 00:05:56.613 but also taught us how to lose gracefully. 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:01.810 But the Kellys didn't intend to lose, and there never was a better 00:06:01.810 --> 00:06:04.215 drillmaster than Jack Kelly. 00:06:04.740 --> 00:06:10.800 It was fun, family fun, and it left a special kind of determination. 00:06:13.862 --> 00:06:17.073 This determination didn't manifest itself in Grace 00:06:17.073 --> 00:06:19.871 as much in the sporting field. 00:06:20.083 --> 00:06:23.022 But her determination sooner took another turn. 00:06:24.083 --> 00:06:27.029 She loved to sit by the hours and pretend 00:06:27.029 --> 00:06:31.549 and create situations and say: 00:06:31.549 --> 00:06:33.513 "Lizzie, you do this, and I'll be this," 00:06:33.513 --> 00:06:36.435 and, "I'll be the mother and you'll be the baby," 00:06:36.435 --> 00:06:39.055 of course, I gave her a hard time a lot of times because 00:06:39.055 --> 00:06:41.015 I did not want to play her games. 00:06:41.888 --> 00:06:43.718 For Grace, growing up wealthy 00:06:43.718 --> 00:06:46.011 meant winter sport in Lake Placid. 00:06:48.980 --> 00:06:51.760 It also meant the best private schools. 00:06:55.777 --> 00:06:58.702 Working for causes you believed in started young. 00:06:59.307 --> 00:07:01.710 With modeling, it's society fashion benefits. 00:07:03.860 --> 00:07:07.012 But for Grace, these shows meant more than fundraising; 00:07:07.751 --> 00:07:09.169 They were theater. 00:07:10.423 --> 00:07:14.423 She got most of her love from the theater my uncle George. 00:07:14.793 --> 00:07:18.043 He was a playwright and he directed plays. 00:07:18.127 --> 00:07:23.669 Very gracious, highly educated person, well-read, and very witty. 00:07:24.097 --> 00:07:26.267 And she just was fascinated with 00:07:26.267 --> 00:07:29.481 all the tales of the stage and the theater. 00:07:30.065 --> 00:07:33.795 Her uncle George Kelly was a great example to her. 00:07:34.566 --> 00:07:38.838 He was sensitive and kind, and talented, 00:07:38.838 --> 00:07:41.445 and I think of all the men she ever knew, 00:07:41.445 --> 00:07:44.180 rather than going for the "athletic macho type," 00:07:44.180 --> 00:07:47.402 I think her ideal man was her uncle George. 00:07:48.789 --> 00:07:53.091 My recollections with her father, John B, Jack Kelly 00:07:53.091 --> 00:07:56.181 were of an enormous man with 00:07:56.181 --> 00:07:59.181 a tremendous amount of gusto, everything up front, 00:07:59.181 --> 00:08:01.545 everything in the open, move ahead. 00:08:01.941 --> 00:08:06.902 A nice man, but not a tremendous amount of internal sensitivity. 00:08:07.540 --> 00:08:11.178 Her father believed absolutely that Peggy, 00:08:11.178 --> 00:08:12.756 the elder sister, was gonna be 00:08:12.756 --> 00:08:16.431 the big star of the family and succeed, 00:08:17.414 --> 00:08:19.002 and he never paid any attention 00:08:19.002 --> 00:08:22.372 to basically the middle of the family and his four children, 00:08:22.372 --> 00:08:25.322 and she was quiet, observant of 00:08:25.322 --> 00:08:29.860 the others and adored her older brother too Kell, 00:08:29.860 --> 00:08:35.407 John B. Kelly Jr., an also an athletic star, great racer, 00:08:35.407 --> 00:08:36.997 her father thought he was great, 00:08:36.997 --> 00:08:40.549 but Grace, he just accepted, and I don't think 00:08:40.549 --> 00:08:42.623 he understood her at all, 00:08:42.623 --> 00:08:44.053 but she adored him. 00:08:44.191 --> 00:08:46.611 And yet, one wonders, when you don't 00:08:46.611 --> 00:08:49.851 get from a parent, what it is 00:08:49.851 --> 00:08:51.881 perhaps what you need, if that isn't what 00:08:51.881 --> 00:08:54.541 creates a great deal of the drive in you 00:08:54.541 --> 00:08:57.961 to go out and become the fullest part of yourself. 00:08:58.475 --> 00:09:02.219 She decided to go to New York, and my 00:09:02.227 --> 00:09:06.650 mother and father were especially surprised 00:09:06.987 --> 00:09:10.797 because she was a shy and retiring girl. 00:09:11.327 --> 00:09:16.010 My mother and father were a little wary of New York and on her own, 00:09:16.010 --> 00:09:19.085 but mother said: "Jack, it's not as if 00:09:19.085 --> 00:09:23.330 she is going to Hollywood or to California." 00:09:23.580 --> 00:09:28.574 Grace knew that her father didn't think much of an acting career. 00:09:28.676 --> 00:09:31.126 They allowed her to go, to get it out of her system. 00:09:31.126 --> 00:09:33.097 "Let her go, it won't amount to anything." 00:09:34.012 --> 00:09:35.442 Grace was accepted into the 00:09:35.442 --> 00:09:37.792 American Academy of Dramatic Arts 00:09:37.792 --> 00:09:40.552 and then housed in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. 00:09:41.107 --> 00:09:46.607 It was 1947 and Grace Kelly was 18 years old. 00:09:48.294 --> 00:09:51.029 She supported herself by modelling. 00:09:54.502 --> 00:09:57.838 She got her portfolio, and little by little, 00:09:57.838 --> 00:09:59.528 she started getting jobs. 00:10:00.669 --> 00:10:03.768 So that she didn't have to ask for the favor of being supported 00:10:03.768 --> 00:10:04.706 in her efforts 00:10:04.706 --> 00:10:08.056 so that she could justify her own existence 00:10:08.266 --> 00:10:10.874 by her own earning power. 00:10:12.169 --> 00:10:14.219 Grace also appeared in commercials. 00:10:15.619 --> 00:10:17.531 She was the girl-next-door, 00:10:17.869 --> 00:10:19.898 the girl a man hoped they could marry. 00:10:24.035 --> 00:10:26.375 After graduating from the American Academy, 00:10:26.375 --> 00:10:28.372 Grace found parts in stock companies 00:10:28.829 --> 00:10:31.213 and her first professional role 00:10:31.393 --> 00:10:34.769 in her uncle George Kelly's play: "The Torch-Bearers". 00:10:36.465 --> 00:10:38.741 Then, came her first Broadway role 00:10:39.065 --> 00:10:40.565 in a Strindberg play. 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:46.070 We all went up to Philadelphia to see the opening night, 00:10:46.070 --> 00:10:48.912 and dad did not know that Raymond Massey was in the play. 00:10:49.763 --> 00:10:52.145 Grace introduced her father to Raymond and he said: 00:10:52.145 --> 00:10:54.135 "Oh! Jack! How are you?" And he said: 00:10:54.135 --> 00:10:56.275 "Is this your daughter? I did not know that!" 00:10:56.475 --> 00:11:01.936 So she did everything on her own and did not want any help 00:11:02.189 --> 00:11:03.940 from any of the family 00:11:04.070 --> 00:11:06.119 because she said: "If I don't do it myself, 00:11:07.499 --> 00:11:09.349 I don't want to do it at all." 00:11:09.580 --> 00:11:12.060 I was very taken by the way she looked, 00:11:12.060 --> 00:11:13.650 and the way she walked, 00:11:13.650 --> 00:11:15.731 and specially her lovely voice. 00:11:16.304 --> 00:11:18.234 She had a beautiful voice. 00:11:18.483 --> 00:11:20.534 Except for the speech was not yet 00:11:20.534 --> 00:11:24.654 as an actress, blended with her posture 00:11:24.654 --> 00:11:28.554 with that stately figure that she projected. 00:11:28.554 --> 00:11:29.734 She studied, 00:11:29.734 --> 00:11:33.011 she really applied herself to the characters 00:11:33.011 --> 00:11:35.761 that she was working on. 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:38.539 I met Grace Kelly early in her career 00:11:38.539 --> 00:11:43.099 back in 1950 when I was directing "Danger" for CBS Television. 00:11:43.548 --> 00:11:46.033 Her mother came up, and I think her brother 00:11:46.203 --> 00:11:47.759 came up to watch her rehearsal, 00:11:47.959 --> 00:11:50.579 and when the rehearsal was over, 00:11:50.579 --> 00:11:52.139 I heard her mother say: 00:11:52.139 --> 00:11:56.759 "Darling, your speech is affected a little bit, can you, kind of, make it 00:11:56.759 --> 00:11:58.229 more natural?" 00:11:58.229 --> 00:12:00.168 and she said "Mother, I'm working on it." 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:02.403 "Your city is full of sounds, listen..." 00:12:03.019 --> 00:12:04.199 "I don't hear a thing." 00:12:04.199 --> 00:12:06.660 "There is an automobile going past, and a horse 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:08.730 and a boat in the harbor..." 00:12:09.090 --> 00:12:12.119 She played the lead in the "Rich Boy" for me. 00:12:13.139 --> 00:12:14.209 "I'll take you." 00:12:14.209 --> 00:12:14.939 "Will you?..." 00:12:14.939 --> 00:12:18.332 Under the pressures of live television, 00:12:18.332 --> 00:12:19.342 no retakes, 00:12:19.342 --> 00:12:21.362 no ability to go back and change. 00:12:21.501 --> 00:12:24.911 Television when they had flats fall down on tea tables 00:12:24.911 --> 00:12:28.119 and everybody was out there improvising. 00:12:28.219 --> 00:12:30.829 She performed absolutely brillantly 00:12:30.829 --> 00:12:33.759 and very quickly became one of the 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:35.869 leading members of the so-called 00:12:36.432 --> 00:12:37.498 "stock company," 00:12:37.498 --> 00:12:41.168 those actors that we would tend to cast 00:12:41.168 --> 00:12:42.409 over and over again. 00:12:42.833 --> 00:12:45.593 "... basic I would say. 00:12:45.593 --> 00:12:48.153 Oh, I must sound very snobbish about the west." 00:12:48.153 --> 00:12:49.435 "Oh! No! I'm interested, 00:12:49.435 --> 00:12:51.409 I just never thought about it that way." 00:12:52.144 --> 00:12:54.579 "Well, people in the west are more open." 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:55.474 "I'm open." 00:12:55.863 --> 00:12:57.854 "That's because you've had a lot to drink. 00:12:57.903 --> 00:12:59.273 You drink a lot, don't you?" 00:12:59.273 --> 00:13:00.093 "No!" 00:13:00.093 --> 00:13:03.203 "I was watching you across the room, you kept filling your glass." 00:13:03.203 --> 00:13:04.488 "You were watching me?" 00:13:05.363 --> 00:13:07.409 "And so were the other girls. 00:13:07.621 --> 00:13:08.878 "Some men are like that, 00:13:09.156 --> 00:13:10.458 they compel attention." 00:13:10.745 --> 00:13:13.565 "I didn't even see you until just a few minutes ago, 00:13:13.874 --> 00:13:15.717 and I couldn't wait to be introduced." 00:13:15.954 --> 00:13:17.524 "Some men are like that..." 00:13:18.179 --> 00:13:21.439 The first time I saw Grace, I would be hard-pressed 00:13:21.439 --> 00:13:24.316 to describe her as the glamour queen of the world. 00:13:24.499 --> 00:13:28.059 During the rehearsal, she had a pair of glasses on, 00:13:28.059 --> 00:13:31.849 and they were just a little bit down her nose, 00:13:31.849 --> 00:13:34.367 and she had a terrible cold. 00:13:34.719 --> 00:13:39.279 And she was quite withdrawn. 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:43.829 I remember we shook hands, but it wasn't a very hearty handshake, 00:13:43.829 --> 00:13:46.497 it was the handshake of a little girl. 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:49.575 And I thought: "Ooh, what a nice school teacher!" 00:13:50.199 --> 00:13:53.597 She's from Philadelphia, and that was my first impression of Grace. 00:13:54.548 --> 00:13:58.104 Grace was given a small part in the movie "Fourteen Hours" 00:13:58.398 --> 00:14:00.528 in which she was hardly noticed. 00:14:01.242 --> 00:14:03.886 She returned to television and to stock theater. 00:14:05.751 --> 00:14:09.331 Her big break came almost by chance. 00:14:10.092 --> 00:14:16.072 I met Grace in 1953 actually, going through the receiving line 00:14:16.072 --> 00:14:20.922 of my wedding to my then- husband Jay Kanter, 00:14:20.922 --> 00:14:22.252 who was her agent. 00:14:22.658 --> 00:14:26.538 I was intrigued by her looks in the photographs that Edie sent me 00:14:26.538 --> 00:14:30.598 by her background, and probably more by the fact that 00:14:30.598 --> 00:14:35.028 she absolutely would not accept the long- term studio contract. 00:14:35.443 --> 00:14:38.826 He was a young agent, I was a young producer, 00:14:39.363 --> 00:14:41.878 and he brought to me Marlon Brando, 00:14:42.573 --> 00:14:44.833 then he sent me a photograph of Grace Kelly 00:14:44.833 --> 00:14:46.878 at the time we were casting "High Noon". 00:14:47.393 --> 00:14:51.633 Now, I wanted an unknown girl. I asked to see her. 00:14:51.633 --> 00:14:54.244 She came in from Denver for an interview. 00:14:55.263 --> 00:14:58.393 For an interview for a part in a Western with white gloves 00:14:58.393 --> 00:14:59.173 no less. 00:14:59.491 --> 00:15:02.001 That goes way back when we were children. 00:15:02.001 --> 00:15:05.541 My mother insisted every time we went into town: 00:15:05.541 --> 00:15:07.726 "You wore hats and gloves." 00:15:08.231 --> 00:15:11.619 That's not only my mother, we were brought up at a convent, 00:15:11.619 --> 00:15:15.109 and the nuns insisted that you wore white gloves 00:15:15.109 --> 00:15:16.269 on special occasions. 00:15:16.269 --> 00:15:21.269 I went overboard because she had that lady-like quality, 00:15:21.269 --> 00:15:25.699 that kind of dignity, which was in contrast to the Western scene, 00:15:25.699 --> 00:15:28.469 which works so well. These are the corporate. 00:15:28.469 --> 00:15:30.033 "... Your lawful wedded husband, 00:15:30.033 --> 00:15:32.222 to have and to hold, from this day forward." 00:15:32.403 --> 00:15:34.433 The reason I think she was miscast is that 00:15:34.533 --> 00:15:36.423 Cooper was much older than Grace Kelly, 00:15:36.423 --> 00:15:39.155 he was too old for Kelly, actually, in the role. 00:15:39.495 --> 00:15:43.142 She didn't believe that she did well in the film, 00:15:43.665 --> 00:15:45.337 I didn't think so either. 00:15:45.632 --> 00:15:48.114 There was a girl in the film named Katy Jurado, 00:15:48.217 --> 00:15:50.337 who played the Mexican gal in the town, 00:15:50.437 --> 00:15:53.268 Katy Jurado was dynamic and overpowering, 00:15:53.732 --> 00:15:57.570 and yet, Kelly wasn't swallowed even in her miscast 00:15:57.909 --> 00:16:00.898 because this lady-like thing came through. 00:16:02.708 --> 00:16:05.244 "... they were on the right side, but that didn't help 00:16:05.244 --> 00:16:06.500 when the shooting started. 00:16:07.143 --> 00:16:10.421 My brother was 19. I watched him die..." 00:16:11.199 --> 00:16:14.587 For Grace Kelly was her first big break, 00:16:15.247 --> 00:16:17.913 and for me, it was my first American picture 00:16:18.187 --> 00:16:19.514 making here in Hollywood. 00:16:20.060 --> 00:16:22.946 I was two years older than she was, 00:16:23.380 --> 00:16:25.582 I have seven years making pictures 00:16:25.582 --> 00:16:29.301 in Mexico, but there was something 00:16:29.660 --> 00:16:33.279 so different between Grace and I, 00:16:33.517 --> 00:16:36.633 we could not really explain that we could not be very close, 00:16:37.057 --> 00:16:42.414 but I could see a girl with a lot of dignity, and a lot of character 00:16:42.576 --> 00:16:46.586 because she wants to be somebody in movies 00:16:47.113 --> 00:16:49.227 and she worked very hard in that picture. 00:16:49.433 --> 00:16:55.633 She looked weak and very tiny, but she was a very strong person. 00:16:55.633 --> 00:17:00.233 I believe she was one of the strongest movie stars I worked with. 00:17:00.591 --> 00:17:04.729 She knew what you want, and she did it. 00:17:04.959 --> 00:17:06.377 (Music) 00:17:09.597 --> 00:17:14.117 Gary Cooper went on to win an Academy Award for Best Actor of 1952, 00:17:15.117 --> 00:17:17.006 but there were no laurels for Grace, 00:17:17.717 --> 00:17:20.635 and she promptly headed back to New York for more study. 00:17:21.837 --> 00:17:24.697 She was a Kelly, and she had to do better. 00:17:25.218 --> 00:17:28.048 We both probably read the thing where she says that 00:17:28.048 --> 00:17:29.886 "You can see everything in Gary 00:17:29.886 --> 00:17:31.976 Cooper's eyes" but that her eyes were 00:17:31.976 --> 00:17:34.624 "flat and dull, and dead" and that she didn't like them 00:17:34.624 --> 00:17:37.009 she couldn't tell what the character was feeling. 00:17:37.009 --> 00:17:40.375 She began to work harder on concentrating on her objective. 00:17:40.375 --> 00:17:43.432 In other words, that would've 00:17:43.432 --> 00:17:46.416 eventually be the cure for the way she 00:17:46.416 --> 00:17:49.732 attacked her characters, to make them come alive 00:17:49.732 --> 00:17:52.472 to make her eyeballs shine with meaning. 00:17:52.974 --> 00:17:59.790 She always had this inner image of being an old-fashioned actress 00:17:59.790 --> 00:18:02.179 with the kind of glamour that you have on Broadway. 00:18:03.011 --> 00:18:04.885 Grace was eager for a lead role in 00:18:04.885 --> 00:18:08.040 a New York production of "Cyrano de Bergerac". 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:11.599 I wanted to have Grace as Roxanne, 00:18:11.952 --> 00:18:15.691 I wanted her, not because of her great acting ability, but 00:18:15.691 --> 00:18:19.214 because of that discipline that she appeared to have. 00:18:19.465 --> 00:18:22.445 Unfortunately, she never did realize that 00:18:22.945 --> 00:18:25.385 every part she went up for on Broadway, 00:18:25.735 --> 00:18:29.025 with the exception of "The Father", she lost. 00:18:29.761 --> 00:18:31.749 And when she didn't get it, there 00:18:31.749 --> 00:18:35.109 were mentions of it in the columns and so on. 00:18:35.109 --> 00:18:37.865 She was very, very distressed 00:18:38.199 --> 00:18:41.292 and she picked herself up, and went on. 00:18:41.882 --> 00:18:44.582 "Mogambo" was a picture that Grace apparently 00:18:44.582 --> 00:18:49.242 wanted to do very badly because she was willing to 00:18:50.792 --> 00:18:55.251 sign a long-term contract with MGM to do the picture. 00:18:55.702 --> 00:18:57.746 "Is that all you're going to do for him?!" 00:18:58.998 --> 00:19:01.028 "What do you expect me to do, Mrs. Nordley, 00:19:01.028 --> 00:19:02.977 crawl in bed with him and hold his hand?" 00:19:03.789 --> 00:19:07.999 The thought of playing opposite of star-like Clark Gable 00:19:07.999 --> 00:19:12.299 being directed by John Ford, a fellow Irishman. 00:19:13.059 --> 00:19:18.593 And I also think she was intrigued with the idea of going to Africa. 00:19:19.469 --> 00:19:23.329 On location for "Mogambo," Clark Gable described an incident 00:19:23.329 --> 00:19:26.623 to Rupert Allan - then Look magazine correspondent. 00:19:27.581 --> 00:19:31.075 Grace was alone and was discovered by Gable. 00:19:31.419 --> 00:19:33.777 She turned to him and he saw that she was crying, 00:19:34.209 --> 00:19:36.137 and he said: "Why are you crying, Grace?" 00:19:36.439 --> 00:19:39.639 She says, "So beautiful. I'm reading 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' 00:19:40.049 --> 00:19:44.069 by Hemingway, and I looked up and I was just reading about this 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:48.838 frozen leopard I think they found way up in the snows 00:19:48.838 --> 00:19:51.388 of this highest mountain in Africa, 00:19:51.388 --> 00:19:53.818 and I looked up from my book thinking about 00:19:53.818 --> 00:19:56.398 what a beautiful picture it was inside Hemingway, 00:19:56.848 --> 00:20:00.028 and then I saw a lion walking along the seashore. 00:20:00.758 --> 00:20:02.078 It's just too beautiful." 00:20:02.758 --> 00:20:06.451 She gave human personalities to her animals 00:20:06.608 --> 00:20:10.028 and very often she gave animal personalities to humans. 00:20:10.538 --> 00:20:13.888 She used to call some of her close friends bird and she called 00:20:13.888 --> 00:20:16.428 Rita bird, Jay bird, this bird, that bird. 00:20:16.428 --> 00:20:18.168 I mean, people and animals 00:20:18.168 --> 00:20:20.140 became interchangeable with Grace. 00:20:24.937 --> 00:20:26.905 Grace's role in "Mogambo" earned 00:20:26.905 --> 00:20:30.015 her an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting 00:20:30.015 --> 00:20:31.876 Actress of 1953. 00:20:32.515 --> 00:20:34.978 "What are you saying? You're drunk!" 00:20:36.785 --> 00:20:38.745 "You know how it is on safari. 00:20:39.385 --> 00:20:42.815 It's in all of us, a woman always falls for the White Hunter 00:20:42.815 --> 00:20:45.557 and we guys make the most of it, can you blame us? 00:20:46.510 --> 00:20:49.200 Oh, when you come along with that look in your eye..." 00:20:50.675 --> 00:20:53.215 Some critics called her a star in the making. 00:20:55.955 --> 00:20:58.985 Few realized how luminous that star would become, 00:20:59.665 --> 00:21:01.427 and in how short a time. 00:21:04.750 --> 00:21:07.820 Hollywood, as far as Jack and Margaret Kelly were concerned, 00:21:07.820 --> 00:21:10.400 was no place for a girl on her own. 00:21:11.043 --> 00:21:13.723 On Sundays many times, we used to go to church, 00:21:14.353 --> 00:21:17.268 and then uncle George who lived in Southern California 00:21:17.563 --> 00:21:18.798 would come pick us up 00:21:19.413 --> 00:21:22.871 and take us for a ride around and take us to lunch, 00:21:23.553 --> 00:21:26.434 and she enjoyed those rides with George so much. 00:21:27.140 --> 00:21:32.030 That I would sit in the backseat and maybe take a little nap, 00:21:32.030 --> 00:21:37.649 but the two of them would talk theater and books and poetry. 00:21:38.023 --> 00:21:40.875 Some of the people in town, the studio heads, 00:21:40.875 --> 00:21:43.606 were quite mystified by her, they didn't understand why 00:21:43.606 --> 00:21:45.513 she didn't wanna go their dinner parties 00:21:45.513 --> 00:21:49.487 and be seated next to all the 'A people' that young actresses 00:21:49.487 --> 00:21:51.080 should want to be seated next to. 00:21:51.080 --> 00:21:52.919 She didn't rush out effusively 00:21:53.949 --> 00:21:59.157 and reach forward to make lots and lots of friends. 00:21:59.710 --> 00:22:04.860 She got up five o'clock in the morning, went on set, came home 00:22:04.860 --> 00:22:07.000 and grabbed something to eat. 00:22:07.570 --> 00:22:10.210 Usually a hamburger which was Gracie's favorite food. 00:22:12.126 --> 00:22:13.136 And then went to bed. 00:22:13.516 --> 00:22:17.436 She was always charming, she was never cold, she was never icy to 00:22:17.436 --> 00:22:19.556 anybody on the set. 00:22:19.818 --> 00:22:23.718 She could give that appearance of coldness, of being sort of 00:22:23.718 --> 00:22:29.228 above it all at all times, but inside, she was a very often seething. 00:22:29.571 --> 00:22:34.149 And she was a volatile person but always under control. 00:22:34.278 --> 00:22:37.872 Alfred Hitchcock used to say about Grace Kelly 00:22:38.398 --> 00:22:46.118 with his usual wit that her apparent virginity was like 00:22:46.118 --> 00:22:48.298 a mountain covered with snow, 00:22:48.858 --> 00:22:51.348 but that the mountain was a volcano. 00:22:56.303 --> 00:23:01.253 In 1953, director Hitchcock found in Grace his perfect heroine 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 00:23:14.303 --> 00:23:16.223 by putting on her bathrobe 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 00:23:22.453 --> 00:23:25.153 a telephone, with no one else in the house but her" 00:23:25.866 --> 00:23:29.201 And he said: "What would you wear?" She said: "I'll wear a night gown" 00:23:29.366 --> 00:23:31.882 He said: "All right". And it worked out very well 00:23:32.156 --> 00:23:33.016 "Hello... 00:23:50.801 --> 00:23:58.285 She seemed to know the movements before Hitchcock 00:23:58.285 --> 00:24:00.031 had anything to say about it 00:24:03.631 --> 00:24:06.681 and I think Hitchcock liked that 00:24:07.833 --> 00:24:09.667 I think everybody liked it 00:24:10.384 --> 00:24:15.224 In the picture "Rear Window" Hitchcock said to Grace, 00:24:15.798 --> 00:24:21.853 "Now, you're going to go have to go across and get into the room" 00:24:23.058 --> 00:24:27.203 and Grace without any direction, she just went over, 00:24:28.543 --> 00:24:30.423 climbed up the fire escape 00:24:31.834 --> 00:24:36.924 climbed in one of the windows and sneaked in through the door 00:24:37.711 --> 00:24:43.681 and then, looked over across the way to Hitchcock and said: 00:24:44.859 --> 00:24:46.303 "Is that what you mean?" 00:24:47.055 --> 00:24:54.390 Well, everybody applauded, and she deserved it because 00:24:55.322 --> 00:24:59.202 this was exactly what Alfred Hitchcock wanted 00:24:59.202 --> 00:25:04.502 What Grace brought, as an actress, was, Grace brought the actual young 00:25:04.502 --> 00:25:09.349 women of the '50s into a vision of glamour 00:25:09.615 --> 00:25:12.755 It was a very proper era, in a way very premier 00:25:12.755 --> 00:25:17.321 Underneath that, of course, there was always the sense of flirtatiousness 00:25:17.321 --> 00:25:20.361 of young women, and the sense of fun 00:25:22.602 --> 00:25:24.432 Grace had trully arrived 00:25:25.667 --> 00:25:28.187 She appeared on the covers of national magazines 00:25:29.841 --> 00:25:32.952 But success meant more time spent in Hollywood 00:25:33.852 --> 00:25:37.492 She was really a family person, she didn't like to be alone 00:25:37.963 --> 00:25:41.393 I remember when she first went to California to make films 00:25:41.943 --> 00:25:46.313 she lived alone, and suddenly she asked Rita Gam to come and live with her 00:25:46.313 --> 00:25:50.801 and Grace let me in, and there she was wearing the same Philadelphia skirt 00:25:50.801 --> 00:25:55.801 same sensible shoes, the same tied back hair, except now, she was becoming 00:25:55.801 --> 00:26:04.599 a very valuable property, I had no idea that her background was one of opulence 00:26:05.312 --> 00:26:10.938 I thought of her as a coworker an actress 00:26:11.432 --> 00:26:17.572 Then, out of the clear blue sky, and very directly, openly and warmly 00:26:17.661 --> 00:26:21.502 she said: "Would you like to share the flat? 00:26:21.882 --> 00:26:23.891 How would that fit in with your schedule?" 00:26:23.891 --> 00:26:25.711 I said, "Well I get up at 5am" 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" 00:26:28.888 --> 00:26:30.488 She said "Terrific! that's it" 00:26:30.488 --> 00:26:34.658 I think, the thing that most people forget is that when all of this was happening 00:26:34.658 --> 00:26:38.868 to Grace, this extraordinary excitement about her career being generated 00:26:40.348 --> 00:26:43.458 and roles with the world's most famous leading men 00:26:43.848 --> 00:26:46.768 and the world's most respected directors, 00:26:47.208 --> 00:26:49.278 she was just a girl in her early 20s 00:26:49.428 --> 00:26:52.470 One time in Hollywood, we were invited to what turned out to be 00:26:52.470 --> 00:26:55.190 a dinner party with two bachelors 00:26:55.190 --> 00:26:58.840 We thought it was going to be this grand party with a lot of people 00:26:58.840 --> 00:27:01.410 and, there we were, and the lights were getting lower 00:27:01.410 --> 00:27:06.400 and the wine was getting heavier, and I was getting very nervous 00:27:06.827 --> 00:27:10.155 and I knudged Grace under the table 00:27:10.764 --> 00:27:13.609 Grace had her glasses on, I think that was her protection 00:27:13.609 --> 00:27:18.204 mine, was sort of chatting nervously and say "let's go, let's go Grace" 00:27:18.204 --> 00:27:22.134 and she whispered back "Let's wait until after dessert, it might be good" 00:27:23.003 --> 00:27:26.723 'The bridges at took a reek' gave Grace the opportunity to play opposite 00:27:26.723 --> 00:27:30.091 an actor she admired: William Holden 00:27:31.448 --> 00:27:34.309 "Harry, you've got to tell me about those bridges" 00:27:37.096 --> 00:27:40.286 The kind of concentration that a good actor was capable of 00:27:40.826 --> 00:27:42.466 would definitely infect her 00:27:45.477 --> 00:27:47.897 "I know we're not going to fly above the mountains" 00:27:50.190 --> 00:27:51.763 "We're going to fly between them" 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 00:27:56.123 --> 00:27:58.225 system that was similar to lookness paper 00:27:58.225 --> 00:27:59.527 She reacted immediately 00:27:59.527 --> 00:28:02.546 "You didn't want to tell me because you didn't want me to worry 00:28:04.597 --> 00:28:08.467 well, I don't want you to worry either about me, I mean" 00:28:12.256 --> 00:28:14.560 "I know what the admiral was trying to tell me, 00:28:16.388 --> 00:28:18.302 I had to face those bridges too" 00:28:19.813 --> 00:28:23.373 Director George Seaton was impressed by Grace's performance 00:28:23.733 --> 00:28:27.533 and wanted her for the demanding role of the wife in "The Country Girl" 00:28:28.796 --> 00:28:33.447 But, before releasing her, MGM insisted she appear in "Green Fire" 00:28:35.196 --> 00:28:40.503 Which, wasn't one of her favorites films she was tired when she started 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 00:28:44.247 --> 00:28:48.817 Some, like "Green Fire" that absolutely made her blazing mad 00:28:48.817 --> 00:28:52.947 I mean, she said: "This is not what I wanted to be an actress for" 00:28:52.947 --> 00:28:58.871 But she did do it in order to get the part in "The Country Girl" 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" 00:29:04.586 --> 00:29:05.866 "Who is in New York?" 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" 00:29:10.339 --> 00:29:14.339 The greatest expression of her that Grace demonstrated was the throwing 00:29:14.339 --> 00:29:18.339 away of her mask of beauty and of her elegance 00:29:18.695 --> 00:29:22.120 Nobody understood at all, I mean why would this gorgeous creature 00:29:22.120 --> 00:29:25.742 wanted to be seen in an old tacky sweater with her hair pulled back 00:29:25.742 --> 00:29:27.520 in a bun, looking haggarded 00:29:27.477 --> 00:29:30.177 She desperately wanted to be this great actress 00:29:30.618 --> 00:29:34.618 "You'll be in the strong, so behind of Bernie Dodd" 00:29:34.618 --> 00:29:37.828 "Can you stend him up on his feet again? Because that's where all my 00:29:37.828 --> 00:29:42.871 praires have gone; to see that one holy owl when he can stand alone again" 00:29:43.181 --> 00:29:47.408 "And I may have forgiven you Mr. Dodd, if you can keeping me long 00:29:47.408 --> 00:29:49.348 enough for me to get up from under" 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" 00:29:54.105 --> 00:29:55.235 "Would you listen..." 00:29:55.235 --> 00:29:59.475 "You can't belive that, can you? You can't believe that a woman is crazy 00:29:59.475 --> 00:30:03.700 out of her mind to live alone, in one room by herself" 00:30:03.700 --> 00:30:04.487 "Listen to me, listen to me" 00:30:04.487 --> 00:30:07.839 "Why are you holding me? I said you're holding me!" 00:30:26.185 --> 00:30:31.500 "How could you be so angry, someone who didn't even know? 00:30:32.691 --> 00:30:37.731 In the single year of 1954, she had completed 4 major films 00:30:37.731 --> 00:30:39.629 "Grace Kelly for "The Country Girl"" 00:30:39.629 --> 00:30:40.849 and won an Academy award 00:30:46.257 --> 00:30:49.397 She was pronounced one of Hollywood's major stars 00:30:50.511 --> 00:30:53.982 She was 24, but it semmed that she had it all 00:30:55.143 --> 00:30:58.983 "This is after Grace had an enourmous success in films and what a very big 00:30:58.983 --> 00:31:03.543 posh apartment, and I have an image of her father walking through the lobby 00:31:03.543 --> 00:31:06.564 and Grace appearing out saying: 00:31:06.564 --> 00:31:10.187 "There he is, there he is coming" and it was as if this fictional character 00:31:10.187 --> 00:31:14.370 the Great Gatsby, came down to look at her apartment 00:31:14.347 --> 00:31:19.207 and she really wanted to prove to him that she had accomplished a 00:31:19.207 --> 00:31:24.187 great deal, and that was the first time I got a sense of an undercurrent 00:31:24.187 --> 00:31:27.807 of something other than this picture of family 00:31:29.187 --> 00:31:36.227 Grace dated, but no one really seriously until the later part of her career 00:31:38.449 --> 00:31:43.581 There were so many poeple that have fall in love with her, most men were 00:31:44.780 --> 00:31:50.428 She had that quality of, I don't know, turning men on 00:31:50.649 --> 00:31:55.220 She was going to be my maid of honour and when I, baby sister 00:31:55.220 --> 00:31:59.110 was getting married she had that to think about now 00:32:01.210 --> 00:32:03.110 "Well, I want to get married too" 00:32:03.110 --> 00:32:07.240 I was married in June, and I think I booked the news that I was pregnant 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 00:32:11.180 --> 00:32:15.502 have a baby! Oh! I want a baby I'm missing things 00:32:16.241 --> 00:32:20.926 In 1955, Grace would appear in a film that would change her life 00:32:21.494 --> 00:32:26.344 Location worked for "To Catch a Thief" to a place near the ancient principality 00:32:26.344 --> 00:32:27.179 of Monaco 00:32:27.745 --> 00:32:32.310 Her co star would be Cary Grant, once again, she was directed 00:32:32.310 --> 00:32:33.791 by Alfred Hitchcock 00:32:35.753 --> 00:32:43.110 What he extracted from her combination was the cool beauty 00:32:43.475 --> 00:32:49.150 who helded it all back and then just gave that just enough to be gentelizing 00:32:49.656 --> 00:32:54.141 and just enough to make the leading man and the audience want a little more 00:32:59.681 --> 00:33:02.291 "Ever had a better offer in your whole life?" 00:33:02.746 --> 00:33:04.496 "One worth everything?" 00:33:07.288 --> 00:33:09.198 "I never had a crazier one" 00:33:10.809 --> 00:33:13.279 "Just as long as you are satisfied" 00:33:16.620 --> 00:33:19.920 "You know as well as I do that this neckless is an invitation" 00:33:21.890 --> 00:33:22.489 "Well, I'm not" 00:33:31.938 --> 00:33:35.558 And she had a lot of boys and boyfriends who were actors and 00:33:35.558 --> 00:33:39.558 human beings, and dress designers, and this and that but there wasn't 00:33:39.558 --> 00:33:45.315 this one person who could fulfill this childhood image that quite many 00:33:45.315 --> 00:33:49.315 of us have about wanting that one man in our lives to be special and 00:33:49.752 --> 00:33:52.230 really, to be old prince on the white chariot 00:33:54.954 --> 00:33:59.342 A French magazine had decided the palace in Monaco would be the perfect 00:33:59.342 --> 00:34:02.202 background for Grace or publicity layout 00:34:04.196 --> 00:34:08.526 And then, Prince Rainier indicated that he was willing to meet the beautiful star 00:34:10.346 --> 00:34:15.446 Though he was know as a shy and modest man, Prince Rainier III was called 00:34:15.446 --> 00:34:17.346 Europe's most eligible bachelor 00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:21.258 And his meeting with Grace immediately provoked interest 00:34:21.529 --> 00:34:24.899 "Rumors linking you with, virtually everybody, and the latest one is 00:34:24.899 --> 00:34:28.250 with Grace Kelly, would you coment on that for us?" 00:34:28.250 --> 00:34:31.920 "No, I just met Grace Kelly, she came to the palace when she was 00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:34.480 at Canne's, for the festival, and that's all of it" 00:34:34.700 --> 00:34:37.790 "Although, many stories say that you are actively seeking a wife 00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:41.800 would you care to comment on that?" "No, I'm not" 00:34:42.417 --> 00:34:46.197 "What if you did meet a girl that you like? Would the publicity about it 00:34:46.197 --> 00:34:50.346 prevent you from do anything about it?" "Oh! No, it shouldn't, and anything should 00:34:51.083 --> 00:34:54.507 "If you were to marry, what kind of girl do you have in mind?" 00:34:55.991 --> 00:34:58.475 "I don't know, the best" 00:34:59.681 --> 00:35:03.441 Being the best is a lesson that Jack Kelly had drilled into his children 00:35:04.152 --> 00:35:08.152 Grace had excelled, she had reached the top of her profession 00:35:08.661 --> 00:35:11.431 But, for Grace Kelly there had to be more 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 00:35:18.322 --> 00:35:19.622 oddly profetic 00:35:20.405 --> 00:35:21.305 "The Swan" 00:35:22.691 --> 00:35:28.775 It is based on a play by Molnár and the story was very simply the story 00:35:28.775 --> 00:35:29.775 of a princess 00:35:31.457 --> 00:35:33.917 "I want to be so good to you" 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 00:35:39.069 --> 00:35:42.379 all my secrets, I adore Napoleon too" 00:35:44.214 --> 00:35:45.474 "Yes, Princess" 00:35:48.059 --> 00:35:50.859 "I want to hear you call me by my name" 00:35:52.512 --> 00:35:53.612 "Alexandra" 00:35:55.856 --> 00:35:56.886 "Alexandra" 00:35:58.220 --> 00:36:03.251 There was an innate aristocracy, elegance about her 00:36:03.251 --> 00:36:09.046 not only in coportments, in manners but also in thinking, in being 00:36:10.857 --> 00:36:16.538 It has been a cliché to say that Grace Kelly looked like a Princess 00:36:16.538 --> 00:36:17.938 but, she did 00:36:21.204 --> 00:36:26.024 There was another element in Grace Kelly that was all important 00:36:26.710 --> 00:36:34.383 she had this extraordinary sense of human not only, and first of all 00:36:34.383 --> 00:36:35.263 about herself 00:36:35.804 --> 00:36:39.105 Never taking herself seriously 00:36:39.967 --> 00:36:43.967 During filming of "The Swan" Alec Guinness had an Indian tomahawk 00:36:43.967 --> 00:36:47.967 smuggled into Grace's bed, and she quickly returned the compliment 00:36:48.507 --> 00:36:51.097 the joke would continue for years 00:36:51.561 --> 00:36:55.857 They never spoke about finding it or passing it along 00:36:56.022 --> 00:36:58.392 It just dissapeared, it went from one to the other 00:36:58.392 --> 00:37:03.262 "I get back home one night, get into bed and I 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 00:37:09.298 --> 00:37:11.568 bottle? Why isn't it the hot bottle water for?" 00:37:11.568 --> 00:37:15.568 "I don't know what you are talking about" and it was his identical tomahawk" 00:37:16.393 --> 00:37:20.393 Somehow, Alec Guinness got it into the Palace, at least once into 00:37:20.393 --> 00:37:21.663 Grace's bed 00:37:22.030 --> 00:37:27.480 "So, while she was downstairs, the tomahawk was put under the cavinet" 00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:30.714 So, she ended with the tomahawk she read into paper in Europe 00:37:30.714 --> 00:37:34.234 that he was being alert by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences 00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:38.970 "I stayed at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel classy my housting 00:37:39.470 --> 00:37:43.470 got back at 3 in the morning or whatever it was, and there in my bed 00:37:43.470 --> 00:37:45.970 in the Wilshire Hotel was the tomahawk" 00:37:45.970 --> 00:37:51.500 A lot of extraordinary, withdrawn, glamorous glaciar personality 00:37:52.374 --> 00:37:56.666 put forward this sense of the ridiculous that only the British currently 00:37:56.666 --> 00:37:59.385 appreciate or a 5 year-old child 00:38:04.454 --> 00:38:09.654 Jessie Royce Landis played as Grace Kelly's mother in two films 00:38:10.152 --> 00:38:14.152 and when Grace married Prince Rainier she said: 00:38:14.152 --> 00:38:17.032 "I'm the one who advised her to marry him 00:38:17.215 --> 00:38:19.922 and told her that would be her greatest role" 00:38:20.311 --> 00:38:24.311 and one Monday morning she came into LB Mayors office 00:38:24.770 --> 00:38:26.230 and said: 00:38:27.824 --> 00:38:31.114 "Mr. Mayor I'm going to get married" 00:38:31.704 --> 00:38:35.704 Well I said: "Jeez, that's wonderful I'll have a big reception for you upstairs 00:38:36.109 --> 00:38:39.349 with everybody in Hollywood" "No" she says 00:38:39.349 --> 00:38:41.499 "Mr. Mayor, you don't quite understand" 00:38:43.066 --> 00:38:45.876 Grace Kelly had been news worthy as a movie actress 00:38:46.184 --> 00:38:48.474 but now, her important source 00:38:48.817 --> 00:38:51.307 "Grace Kelly, how are you feelling in this ocassion?" 00:38:52.081 --> 00:38:54.741 "All I need is to say that I am very very happy" 00:38:54.979 --> 00:38:56.699 "How about you Mr. Kelly?" 00:38:57.268 --> 00:39:00.598 "Well, I think you can't interfere with love if they are in love 00:39:00.598 --> 00:39:01.898 with eachother, will we?" 00:39:01.898 --> 00:39:03.378 "I gave my blessing" 00:39:04.332 --> 00:39:08.332 Reporters hung on every word and will alert to every move 00:39:08.332 --> 00:39:10.812 made by Grace or Prince Rainier 00:39:10.812 --> 00:39:13.652 "Will you continue with your career after you marriage?" 00:39:13.652 --> 00:39:16.852 "That decision will be made by the Prince" 00:39:16.852 --> 00:39:20.852 "Is Mrs. Kelly going to make any more movies as far as you know?" 00:39:20.852 --> 00:39:22.102 "I don't think so" 00:39:22.102 --> 00:39:26.856 He did come to the house that Christmas and Donald and I had 00:39:26.856 --> 00:39:30.114 our own little apartment, and we asked them to come over for dinner 00:39:30.114 --> 00:39:33.084 and he fit in very well even helped with the dishes 00:39:33.084 --> 00:39:36.722 Rainier, when we first met him I think he might have been a little shocked 00:39:36.722 --> 00:39:39.932 So we used to say: "Come on Raini" you know, but he 00:39:40.265 --> 00:39:42.325 just fitted into the family beautifully 00:39:42.325 --> 00:39:44.995 "George, lay down here please" 00:39:45.292 --> 00:39:46.092 "Crazy!" 00:39:46.235 --> 00:39:50.127 In 1956, Grace made her last Hollywood film 00:39:50.127 --> 00:39:51.447 "High Society" 00:39:52.049 --> 00:39:55.539 In it, she probably wore her new engagement ring 00:40:00.223 --> 00:40:03.073 The sense of style 00:40:03.386 --> 00:40:06.018 "How do you do? I'm Tracy Lord" 00:40:06.403 --> 00:40:09.813 High comedy performance is what she gave in "High Society" 00:40:10.731 --> 00:40:14.171 vastly different from anything that she had ever done before 00:40:14.488 --> 00:40:16.348 "Did you get lost finding us?" 00:40:16.348 --> 00:40:18.487 "No, no, not at all, we had good directions" 00:40:18.487 --> 00:40:20.698 "Good" "I do hope you don't mind me being here 00:40:20.698 --> 00:40:23.368 for your wedding" "Oh! But I'm delight to give more cake" 00:40:23.368 --> 00:40:24.638 "What is your name dear?" 00:40:24.638 --> 00:40:28.638 Grace's sense of fun would never again be as publicly revealed 00:40:28.988 --> 00:40:30.626 "My name is Elizabeth Imbrie" 00:40:31.575 --> 00:40:33.525 "Elizabeth Imbrie" 00:40:34.422 --> 00:40:38.531 "Oh! It sounds like a medieval saint who was burned to death" 00:40:39.191 --> 00:40:40.291 "And you?" 00:40:40.850 --> 00:40:45.620 She had made this extraordinary luminous climb to the absolute top 00:40:45.620 --> 00:40:46.980 of the industry 00:40:46.980 --> 00:40:50.420 There were a lot of people that had just quality and had no electricity 00:40:50.420 --> 00:40:51.718 She comined them 00:40:51.718 --> 00:40:54.198 She could have called the shots from then on, I mean 00:40:54.198 --> 00:40:58.760 then she was finally in a position where she didn't have to argue about the 00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:01.406 film she wanted to do, people would have bought things for her 00:41:01.406 --> 00:41:04.506 people would have planned productions around, they would have done 00:41:04.506 --> 00:41:05.226 anything 00:41:05.226 --> 00:41:11.177 and she fell in love, and she said: "Bye! I'm going off to be 00:41:11.177 --> 00:41:15.177 Mrs., in this case, the Princess of Monaco 00:41:15.411 --> 00:41:19.611 and, before we all knew it, she was gone 00:41:20.380 --> 00:41:25.450 Grace Kelly had never really enjoyed the publicity that came with stardom 00:41:25.747 --> 00:41:30.770 Now, she would feel the burden of true international celebrity 00:41:30.816 --> 00:41:35.416 I don't know how she was able to protect that small 00:41:35.870 --> 00:41:43.160 cord so necessary that keeps you sane but she did 00:41:46.383 --> 00:41:52.863 She was able under the most extraordinary mirage of the press 00:41:53.703 --> 00:41:58.580 and the personal need that people had, I mean, people just 00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:02.796 I don't know how they do it, but they seem to want to get inside 00:42:03.126 --> 00:42:08.756 particularly, the press, of a person's soul, and Grace had the extraordinary 00:42:08.756 --> 00:42:14.250 ability of not rising above it, separating herself from it 00:42:14.250 --> 00:42:20.595 It was almost a mystical kind of ability she had to be the quiet 00:42:20.595 --> 00:42:22.905 eye in the middle of the horrendous hurrican 00:42:22.905 --> 00:42:28.135 And, there she was, just firm and sure and calm 00:42:29.247 --> 00:42:33.247 "... an exciting thing and I am very very happy, sometimes a little sad 00:42:33.247 --> 00:42:36.927 to be away from home, but I hope to be back quite often" 00:42:37.560 --> 00:42:43.874 She chose as any average young woman would, her 6 best friends and her sister 00:42:44.490 --> 00:42:48.255 to attend at her wedding to the Prince 00:42:48.987 --> 00:42:53.847 And then, Grace Kelly of Philadelphia with most of her family, and many of 00:42:53.847 --> 00:42:58.979 her closest friends, sailed away to become a Princess 00:43:04.869 --> 00:43:09.184 Prince Rainiers yacht discloses into the harbour of Monaco 00:43:09.184 --> 00:43:10.925 a few hours earlier, Grace Kelly... 00:43:10.925 --> 00:43:14.925 Once we arrived in Monaco was, of course, all the madness that one has seen 00:43:14.925 --> 00:43:18.271 over the years of what went on 00:43:18.750 --> 00:43:22.660 They came by the thousands, to welcome and to judge 00:43:23.436 --> 00:43:28.860 She was witch, she was beautiful but, she was an American 00:43:28.250 --> 00:43:31.148 and, to some of them, just an actress 00:43:31.967 --> 00:43:36.457 I think Grace had tough job being a movie star from America 00:43:37.808 --> 00:43:43.226 moving into the life of the symbol of Southern countries 00:43:45.351 --> 00:43:52.008 Constant round of parties and being part of this glamorous and mithological 00:43:52.568 --> 00:43:57.758 and just simply being around royalty was new to all of us 00:44:02.387 --> 00:44:07.537 As Grace took up a totally new role, some who did not know her watched 00:44:08.041 --> 00:44:10.201 and waited for her to fail 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 00:44:30.600 --> 00:44:31.679 be part of 00:44:34.281 --> 00:44:36.891 It was not a fairytale 00:44:38.962 --> 00:44:41.329 Grace relaxed at her husband's side 00:44:42.829 --> 00:44:46.829 but she knew to the Monegasques she now had to prove herself worthy 00:44:47.070 --> 00:44:49.012 of being the wife or their ruler 00:44:49.369 --> 00:44:51.042 Prince Rainier III 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 00:45:06.942 --> 00:45:11.869 chug chug chugging away into the Mediterranean after the wedding was over 00:45:11.869 --> 00:45:14.849 and I realized that there was no more Grace Kelly 00:45:14.849 --> 00:45:17.939 Grace Kelly was a memory, Grace Kelly was history, there was only 00:45:17.939 --> 00:45:19.147 Princess Grace of Monaco 00:45:19.147 --> 00:45:21.407 Then we all went home and she stayed there 00:45:21.407 --> 00:45:26.511 This was a very hard challenge for her because, not only the language barrier 00:45:27.151 --> 00:45:32.261 but in foreign world, a foreign customs 00:45:33.730 --> 00:45:37.670 and the principality, the formal way of doing things 00:45:38.138 --> 00:45:44.042 She kept studying things that would impulse her position as Princess 00:45:44.376 --> 00:45:49.466 She knew the lines, everything around her, she improvised on being a Princess 00:45:49.466 --> 00:45:52.676 the way a really good actress would improvise on a part 00:45:52.676 --> 00:45:56.602 For example, she always tried to simplify things 00:45:57.022 --> 00:46:02.392 Alexandre, the hairdresser in Paris, fixed for her a number of special pieces of 00:46:02.392 --> 00:46:03.492 hair attachtment 00:46:03.492 --> 00:46:07.492 So, when she would travel with all these fancy aristocrats 00:46:07.940 --> 00:46:12.390 while they were making appointments with hairdressers, everywhere we went 00:46:12.390 --> 00:46:17.461 Grace was always ready with one of these hairpieces that she was making 00:46:17.742 --> 00:46:19.662 into some kind of a wonderful hair do 00:46:19.946 --> 00:46:21.336 Never took extra time 00:46:21.994 --> 00:46:25.233 Since she was, fundamentally a working woman 00:46:27.683 --> 00:46:33.263 She did everything with a great sense of responsibility 00:46:36.304 --> 00:46:39.064 On cultural or diplomatic occasions 00:46:40.390 --> 00:46:41.780 with presidents 00:46:42.720 --> 00:46:43.700 or with popes 00:46:44.530 --> 00:46:46.180 she was expected to be perfect 00:46:46.568 --> 00:46:47.488 in bearing, 00:46:47.711 --> 00:46:50.671 and often, in her newly acquired language 00:46:50.836 --> 00:46:56.926 (Speaking French) 00:46:57.081 --> 00:47:00.131 It was something that I am amazed that she 00:47:00.590 --> 00:47:01.350 could handle 00:47:01.710 --> 00:47:06.040 I wondered so many times, 'Oh, I could never do that' 00:47:06.620 --> 00:47:09.270 but she was determined to make the best of it 00:47:09.270 --> 00:47:13.681 "Can I ask you to explain what will happen in the event twins are born 00:47:13.801 --> 00:47:15.631 a boy second, and a girl first 00:47:15.730 --> 00:47:17.780 Who would be the ruling monarch?" 00:47:18.808 --> 00:47:22.296 "The successor would be the eldest child, even if it's a girl 00:47:22.537 --> 00:47:24.827 but that doesn't mean that she will rule, because 00:47:25.087 --> 00:47:28.347 she can always resign or abdicate in favour of her younger brother 00:47:28.428 --> 00:47:29.548 and he would then rule" 00:47:29.647 --> 00:47:30.957 "Are twins expected?" 00:47:31.148 --> 00:47:32.618 "Not that I know of" 00:47:33.198 --> 00:47:37.768 Princess Grace, is this how you imagined your life before you became a princess? 00:47:38.708 --> 00:47:45.018 Well I became Princess before I had much time to imagine what it would be 00:47:47.358 --> 00:47:52.628 With the birth of a daughter, Caroline, on January 23rd 1957 00:47:53.058 --> 00:47:55.998 The line of succession was secure 00:48:00.481 --> 00:48:03.751 Just 15 months later, a male heir, Albert 00:48:04.037 --> 00:48:06.652 arrived to even greater celebration 00:48:09.111 --> 00:48:11.891 I think the major came when she had the children 00:48:12.041 --> 00:48:14.141 and they did come very quickly 00:48:15.831 --> 00:48:18.841 She wanted the children, she loved them 00:48:18.881 --> 00:48:21.551 and we had so much fun rough-housing together 00:48:21.771 --> 00:48:24.521 Her children and mine are the same age 00:48:25.161 --> 00:48:27.881 and they've gone to camp together 00:48:29.301 --> 00:48:32.340 John and I have been to Monica's several times with the children 00:48:32.831 --> 00:48:34.821 and they've come here in Ocean City 00:48:39.414 --> 00:48:40.794 Their needs were the same 00:48:41.536 --> 00:48:43.526 for closeness, and for family 00:48:44.314 --> 00:48:46.144 In addition to her own children 00:48:46.434 --> 00:48:48.724 Grace would always have the Kelly's 00:48:50.854 --> 00:48:54.724 Prince Rainier soon found himself an accepted part of that family 00:48:56.314 --> 00:48:57.664 Grace always adored 00:48:58.534 --> 00:49:01.944 children, and she almost over-adored her own children 00:49:02.140 --> 00:49:05.030 she was the typical loving 00:49:05.434 --> 00:49:08.094 sometimes too disciplining 00:49:08.544 --> 00:49:10.664 but always giving mother 00:49:12.974 --> 00:49:15.284 Private time was essential for them both 00:49:16.454 --> 00:49:20.064 family life was a retreat from the formalities of state 00:49:21.936 --> 00:49:24.616 Grace was determined to keep her family a success 00:49:25.696 --> 00:49:28.036 No matter how demanding her official schedule 00:49:28.726 --> 00:49:30.976 there was always time for her children 00:49:33.837 --> 00:49:35.037 There were the trips home 00:49:35.446 --> 00:49:37.216 often with Prince Rainier 00:49:39.636 --> 00:49:41.926 There was the anniversary for Margaret Kelly 00:49:42.656 --> 00:49:44.636 and her growing brood of grandchildren 00:49:51.326 --> 00:49:53.866 For Prince Rainier, cruises on his yacht 00:49:53.996 --> 00:49:56.516 meant he could indulge his passion for fishing 00:50:02.910 --> 00:50:06.360 Then, there was the time set aside for enjoying the palace pool 00:50:06.580 --> 00:50:08.280 with children and friends 00:50:09.810 --> 00:50:11.870 I think she held on to her old friends 00:50:12.130 --> 00:50:14.180 in those beginning years because 00:50:14.590 --> 00:50:16.380 they were her reality as Grace Kelly 00:50:16.500 --> 00:50:18.570 and she didn't want to lose Grace Kelly 00:50:20.010 --> 00:50:24.130 There was never any loss of the sense that she was Gracie from Philadelphia 00:50:24.840 --> 00:50:25.940 She was 00:50:26.590 --> 00:50:28.250 a girl with an American soul 00:50:30.700 --> 00:50:34.750 and heart, and she brought that to Monaco with her, and she never 00:50:35.220 --> 00:50:37.380 she never chipped away at that at all 00:50:41.134 --> 00:50:45.904 In the back of Grace's mind was always the possibility of going back to being 00:50:45.904 --> 00:50:46.764 a film star 00:50:46.764 --> 00:50:49.254 I think she kept it there for those rainy nights 00:50:49.845 --> 00:50:52.846 I would occassionaly read a script of 00:50:53.629 --> 00:50:55.370 that would intrigued me 00:50:55.846 --> 00:50:57.556 that Kramer had sended on 00:50:57.804 --> 00:51:01.834 The opportunity arose to do "Marnie I think she ? at it 00:51:02.207 --> 00:51:05.517 I couldn't understand why she would want to do it, and why Hitchcock 00:51:05.517 --> 00:51:06.437 would want to do it 00:51:06.437 --> 00:51:10.157 The Monegasques were absolutely, completely undune because 00:51:10.157 --> 00:51:12.052 they thought that she had abandoned them 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 00:51:16.052 --> 00:51:17.312 the Princess of the Church 00:51:18.090 --> 00:51:19.911 once she believed that 00:51:20.611 --> 00:51:24.611 dignity of being the pricess of the capital Church was more important than 00:51:25.075 --> 00:51:26.435 being an actress 00:51:26.576 --> 00:51:29.226 as she accepted it, but I think it took a long time 00:51:31.810 --> 00:51:35.258 In 1965, seven years after the birth of Albert, 00:51:35.876 --> 00:51:37.066 Stephanie was born 00:51:38.001 --> 00:51:40.673 Once Grace's life as a performing artist 00:51:43.035 --> 00:51:46.375 seem to come to a close as she became Princess of Monaco 00:51:48.218 --> 00:51:53.098 She didn't discard her feelings for the arts, any parts of them 00:51:53.419 --> 00:51:57.049 I got a letter from Grace saying that she was going around doing poetry 00:51:57.049 --> 00:51:58.489 readings for 00:51:59.250 --> 00:52:01.572 theatre in London that was being built 00:52:01.572 --> 00:52:03.624 So, basically, Grace was an artist 00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:05.921 and she did it for poetry 00:52:06.130 --> 00:52:09.844 she wanted very much to have Monaco be a cultural center 00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:13.380 Grace established a foundation to further her goals 00:52:14.195 --> 00:52:17.455 The Monegasques had been without a playhouse for many years 00:52:18.285 --> 00:52:19.795 a new one was built 00:52:20.412 --> 00:52:23.972 Today, this theatre draws drama companies from around the world 00:52:27.541 --> 00:52:31.191 Once, the famous ballet room of Montecarlo danced here 00:52:32.372 --> 00:52:35.512 Grace was determined to bring those great days back 00:52:39.554 --> 00:52:41.854 A ballet company must have a school 00:52:42.908 --> 00:52:45.908 Through the Princess Grace foundation a small school 00:52:45.908 --> 00:52:48.336 run by one ballet foremost teachers 00:52:48.868 --> 00:52:52.188 has been transformed into a world-class academy 00:52:54.621 --> 00:52:57.911 Both Caroline and Stephanie had studied here as small children 00:53:00.208 --> 00:53:02.898 Grace was frecuently more of an onlooker 00:53:04.377 --> 00:53:06.967 I remember a particular 00:53:08.612 --> 00:53:13.022 dinner rehearsal when she asked me to do a thing I could make a mask 00:53:14.364 --> 00:53:17.854 and all the little children gathered around her 00:53:18.419 --> 00:53:21.409 all the faces stood towards the Princess 00:53:21.864 --> 00:53:24.734 and she was putting a little bit of rouge on the 00:53:25.761 --> 00:53:28.381 cheeks, and a little bit of lipstick on the lips 00:53:29.654 --> 00:53:33.654 It was love of children and a ballet that led to one of Grace's 00:53:33.654 --> 00:53:35.064 few returns to film 00:53:35.723 --> 00:53:40.867 The 1979, Earle Mack documentary "The Children of Thetre Street" 00:53:41.400 --> 00:53:43.644 about young dancers in Leningrad 00:53:45.486 --> 00:53:46.716 They are the protagonists 00:53:47.564 --> 00:53:50.124 but as their predecesors have demonstrated 00:53:50.822 --> 00:53:54.592 perhaps the greater protagonist is the school they go to 00:53:55.257 --> 00:53:59.257 Angelina has practised this movements hundreds and hundreds of times 00:54:00.249 --> 00:54:03.889 In the next 6 years, she will repeat them thousands of times 00:54:08.105 --> 00:54:11.015 What makes it worth it is this 00:54:15.047 --> 00:54:17.637 Grace knew that the mans of great performance 00:54:20.050 --> 00:54:24.527 but for the Monegasques Grace herself had gone beyond performance 00:54:26.201 --> 00:54:29.921 Through the years, by her diligence, her constancy 00:54:30.720 --> 00:54:36.420 she trully was her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco 00:54:37.993 --> 00:54:41.433 You know, I don't wake up in the morning thinking I'm living a fairytale 00:54:41.433 --> 00:54:45.603 I have a job to get done and children to raise 00:54:45.603 --> 00:54:49.303 and a lot of responsabilities and obligations 00:54:50.298 --> 00:54:54.708 I like to think that they would consider me a professional at my job 00:54:54.708 --> 00:54:56.028 no matter what it would be 00:54:57.386 --> 00:55:01.545 If I take on something, I do it well and I like to do it completely 00:55:06.152 --> 00:55:12.342 As some people often say tht Grace made a great sacrifice of her career 00:55:12.775 --> 00:55:15.025 and becoming the Princess of Monaco 00:55:15.397 --> 00:55:17.527 I don't think she ever felt that way 00:55:17.755 --> 00:55:18.735 Well, as I 00:55:21.152 --> 00:55:22.182 she made a 00:55:22.977 --> 00:55:25.737 she made as good as princess as if she was a movie actress 00:55:26.092 --> 00:55:27.382 even better 00:55:27.657 --> 00:55:29.307 You know, in fairytales 00:55:29.886 --> 00:55:32.616 one has to invent the prince and the princess 00:55:32.908 --> 00:55:34.218 but, here, we have trem 00:55:34.860 --> 00:55:35.910 we had them 00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:40.919 It was in the Rocket Hill along the border with land that Princess Grace's 00:55:40.919 --> 00:55:43.999 car went out of control in a curve that has seen many accidents 00:55:43.999 --> 00:55:46.945 According to the official version, princess Grace was driving with 00:55:46.945 --> 00:55:49.625 seventeen-year-old daughter Stephanie from the Roc Agel 00:55:50.128 --> 00:55:54.048 A young Monegasque woman put her feelings about princess Grace this way 00:55:54.283 --> 00:55:58.283 "She was not a problem for us, there were no potentials or scandals 00:55:58.283 --> 00:56:00.078 but she was, after all, a lady" 00:56:14.213 --> 00:56:15.893 I think she won the hearts 00:56:16.441 --> 00:56:18.611 and the love of the Monegasques people 00:56:19.805 --> 00:56:24.101 because, when she died I have never seen such true sorrow 00:56:33.186 --> 00:56:44.596 (Church music) 00:56:46.223 --> 00:56:48.573 For me, I just had a great sister 00:56:49.310 --> 00:56:50.810 and had a loving sister 00:56:51.592 --> 00:56:58.662 (Church music continues) 00:57:03.108 --> 00:57:04.708 Before she was a Princess 00:57:05.397 --> 00:57:06.467 she was an actress 00:57:08.161 --> 00:57:09.231 and before that 00:57:10.142 --> 00:57:11.822 a girl from Philadelphia 00:57:13.277 --> 00:57:14.647 a family girl