Trivia of Grace Kelly

Trivia of Grace Kelly

*Kelly made only eleven theatrical films, but six of the actors who played her husband or love interest in them were more than 20 years older than she: Gary Cooper and Clark Gable (both 28 years her elder); Bing Crosby (26 years); Cary Grant (25 years); Ray Milland (22 years); and James Stewart (21 years). The rest were Robert Cummings (19 years older than she); James Warren and Stewart Granger (both 16 years Kelly's senior); Frank Sinatra (14 years); William Holden (11 years); and Louis Jourdan (8 years).

*Part of Prince Rainier of Monaco's attraction to marrying a movie star was to increase tourism in his tiny, cash-poor principality, and the Kelly family was turned off by his demands that a substantial dowry accompany Grace to Monaco. A figure of $2,000,000 was finally agreed upon, which was diverted from Grace's inheritance so that her brother and two sisters would not be shortchanged.

*Kelly's wedding gown was the most expensive garment that MGM designer Helen Rose had ever made. It used twenty-five yards of silk taffeta and one hundred yards of silk net. Its 125-year-old rose point lace was purchased from a museum and thousands of tiny pearls were sewn on the veil.

* Her movies were banned in Monaco by order of Prince Rainier of Monaco.

*On 14 September 1982, Grace Kelly was killed in an automobile accident in Monaco, supposedly on the Moyenne Corniche which was the same road as her famous chase scene in the film To Catch a Thief (1955) and not far from where she had a picnic scene with Cary Grant.

*Cary Grant named her as his favorite co-star. His friends and family said Kelly's death hit him much harder than the deaths Alfred Hitchcock and even Ingrid Bergman.

*Her favorite flowers were roses. After her death, Prince Rainier of Monaco opened a public rose garden in Monaco.