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In quick succession, she made three films with legendary English director Alfred Hitchcock, Dial M for Murder and Rear Window in 1954, and To Catch a Thief in 1955. These years also marked roles in Green Fire, The Bridges at Toko-Ri and The Country Girl for which she won, in 1955, the Academy Award for Best Actress.
As well as this remarkable roster of films, Grace Kelly had both starring and “bit” roles in numerous episodes of made-for-TV series like the Kraft Television Theatre, the Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse, Robert Montgomery Presents, Studio One and the Lux Video Theatre between 1948-1954. Though her film career spanned just five years and only eleven films, Grace Kelly has become one of the most famous and admired actresses of all times.
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In
1951, at age 22, the beautiful fashion model from Philadelphia,
a graduate from the American Academy of Dramatic Art - and Broadway
stages - Grace Patricia Kelly, appeared in her first film, Fourteen
Hours. She was given a supporting role opposite Hollywood
tough guy, Gary Cooper in the much lauded High Noon
the following year, and her career continued in an upward swing
with Mogambo in 1953 with co-stars Clark Gable and
Ava Gardner – for which she received her first Academy Award
nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category.
In
1956 she played a Princess in the art-imitates-life film, The
Swan followed by a musical comedy, High Society
which would mark her retirement from the Hollywood screen. She lent
her voice to a short film, The Nativity in 1982 and was
also to be featured in Rearranged with Edward Meeks but
passed away before the movie’s completion.
