CELEBRITY QUOTES АBOUT GRACE
«SHE’S TOO EVERYTHING»:
Princess Grace
In The Eyes of The Famous
«ОНА СЛИШКОМ
ВСЁ»:
Grace Kelly's acclaimed role in «The Country Girl» brought her an «Oscar» as Best
Actress at the Awards in 1955.
I
t is very interesting to look at Princess
Grace through the eyes of people who
had the privilege of working with her or
knew her. Whether famous actors or directors
or the best stylists or photographers they all
were moved to voice their praise.
It is indeed revealing how the effect of hard
work added to her natural qualities and cre-
ated layer upon layer of perfection. Grace Kelly
worked first in theatre, then in television and
finally, of course, as an enduring icon in film
in Hollywood.
She had started her acting career in Broad-
way in New York as she honed her skills in the
theatre. The critics seeing her for the first time
commented: «She has a naturalness that owes
nothing to artifice. No airs, a simply charming
freshness».
Dozens of television episodes and myriads
of TV commercials were part of the almost
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forgotten journey where Grace perfected her
acting skills. We all remember her as a famous
star. But stardom like genius is 99 % perspira-
tion and 1 % inspiration.
GRACE IN THE WORLD
OF CINEMA AND
CULTURE — PUTTING
THE FINAL TOUCHES
ON THE SWAN
I
n an adapted version of Ferenc Molnár’s
«The Swan» (1956), Grace as a princess
must decide between young love and a
destiny tied to duty, a future where she will
«glide like a dream on the smooth surface of
the lake and never go on the shore… There she
must stay, out on the lake, silent, white, ma-
jestic». An uncanny glimpse into her destiny!
Director of film and television Ted Post: «Her
beauty alone was spellbinding… but Grace
Grace Kelly is listed 13th among the American
Film Institute's 25 Greatest Female Stars of Clas-
sical Hollywood Cinema.
was also very determined and worked hard.
She listened to you and applied what you said».
Cary Grant marvelled at Grace’s sang-froid
when confronted with pages of dialogue on
the set of «To Catch a Thief». But Grace had
spent hundreds and hundreds of hours in ear-
lier years working with scripts to develop that
assurance.
Given his turn, film director John Ford who cast
her for «Mogambo» (1953) said with Ameri-
can bluntness: «This dame has breeding, qual-
ity and class».
Photographer Howell Conant would observe
her as a very good dancer: «She had a dancer’s
awareness of her body; in her every gesture».