The most wanted actress… and woman.
Produced by Rupert Allan
Leading stars and directors scramble for acting services of a 24-year-old who has become a new Hollywood star.
Grace Kelly is getting ahead in pictures without resembling either siren Marilyn Monroe or pixy Audrey Hepburn. In a quiet way, she has established herself as a new personality, sharply different from anyone now on the screen. In quick succession, she has acted in six prestige pictures with top stars Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, James Stewart, Bing Crosby and William Holden. Even though three of her films are still unreleased, she is already a star. Reasons given for Grace’s rise: She has a quality of maturity that flatters middle-aged stars who usually shy away from too-young leading ladies, and an inner warmth and aura of sex that suggest the early Ingrid Bergman.
Grace’s interests: painting, four godchildren, a gypsy fortuneteller
Unmarried Grace Kelly lives alone in a Hollywood sublet apartment. While she gives much attention to self-improvement as an actress, she pays little heed to her natural good looks. She uses no make-up except lipstick and makes no secret of her glasses, worn for nearsightedness. Her chief diversions are painting water colors (which she hides), knitting socks for her co-stars and buying gifts for four godchildren. When in New York, she frequently visits a gypsy fortuneteller.
Two famous uncles showed Grace her way
Grace comes of a vital family. Her father, John Kelly, twice won Olympic championships in sculling, is now a well-to-do building contractor in Philadelphia. But Grace’s interests lean toward those of her uncles, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright George Kelly (Craig’s Wife) and the late Walter C. Kelly, the Virginia Judge of vaudeville. Grace made her Broadway debut in The Father at 20, and acted in television before her first movie in 1951, a small part in 14 Hours.
She’s setting a movie employment record
With no days off after finishing the films shown on these pages, Grace flew to Colombia for jungle scenes in Green Fire, an adventure story with Stewart Granger. This picture marks her return to her contract studio, MGM, for which she is scheduled to make three films a year. Grace is setting a Hollywood record for consistent employment in 1953-54, a parlous time for other actresses who feel fortunate to make even one film a year. “I seem to be the fad with the studios just now,” Grace says. “I couldn’t be working any harder to make it stick.”
“I don’t think I’m terribly interesting”, says Grace, who will talk about anything except herself. 
“She preserves an actor’s sanity”, William Holden says. “Some idiots I’ve known come to the set unprepared but Grace always knows what she’s doing”. 
Alfred Hitchcock has directed Grace in two suspense films (“Dial M for Murder” and “Rear Window”), will star her in a third. 
Grace gets set for glamour photographs, recalls that, when she was a New York model, her face appeared in three beer ads published simultaneously. 
Grace gets set for glamour photographs, recalls that, when she was a New York model, her face appeared in three beer ads published simultaneously. 
Friend Prudence Wise and Grace share a New York flat, go on one-day diets together, date each other’s men friends. 
In “Dial M for Murder” for Warner Bros., Grace is the only woman in film adapted from stage hit, plays opposite Robert Cummings, Ray Milland. 
Bing Crosby, on “The Country Girl” set, has his ears tweaked by Grace and Prudence Wise. In this, Grace plays unhappy wife to Crosby’s has-been singer. 
James Stewart and Grace, in Paramount’s “Rear Window”, get involved in a murder. Director Hitchcock aimed to make love scenes his most sensational. 
Clark Gable and Grace, on “Mogambo” location in Africa, went on safari, have stayed friends in Hollywood. Gable is her occasional escort about town. 
Black coffer warms her during all-day session in a pool while filming bathhouse scene in “The Bridges at Toko-Ri”. 
In this film, based on a story by James Michener, Grace plays the wife of a Navy jet pilot (William Holden), on vacation in Japan with her children
Look (June 15, 1954)
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