High Society: Grace Kelly and Hollywood (37 page)

had talent and attractiveness
Taves, “The Seven Graces.” 50.
Everyone in the production company
Herbert Coleman to the author, August 1, 1981.

On the factual basis of
Fourteen Hours
, see Joel Sayre, “The Man on the Ledge,”
The New Yorker
, April 16, 1949.

Those movie people
Martin, “The Luckiest Girl”; see also Taves, “The Seven Graces.”

In two senses
Cary Grant to the author, March 4, 1979.

We’ve got a new girl Time
, January 31, 1955.

The living room
Quine, p. 36.

THREE

that it would
Gaither, p. 17.

If she had been raven-haired
Ibid.

The friendship between Grace and Josephine Baker is well documented and was known to her family and friends. Her cousin, John Lehman, spoke of it on
Larry King Live
, CNN (TV), September 3, 2003.

The film is to be shown
Robyns, p. 28.

In the 1950s
Quine, p. 81.

The quotations from Stanley Kramer are excerpted from interviews I conducted with him in 1977, when I was preparing a book about him and his career
—Stanley Kramer Film Maker
(1977).

We still needed
Fred Zinnemann and I discussed his films several times in person during 1977, 1978 and 1979, and I was fortunate to maintain a lively correspondence with him. On January 24, 1978, Zinnemann sent me a long and courteous letter, responding in detail to my questions about
High Noon.
We spoke further in person in New York in November 1982, at a reception following a private, prerelease screening of his last film,
Five Days One Summer.

He and Grace
Feldman/Winter. 77.
This movie was
Ibid.

When I watched
HSH Prince Albert of Monaco, interviewed for the 2008 Lionsgate DVD
of High Noon.

Grace was not self-confident
Duncan, p. 30.

seems to mean
Zinnemann, pp. 96–97.

Less is more
The quotations from Meisner and about his technique are cited on the website of the Neighborhood Playhouse
School of the Theatre:
www.neighborhoodplayhouse.org/meisner/html.

living truthfully
Silverberg, p. 9.

Are you still in love
Kinsella and Kinsella, p. 62.

I thought Grace’s voice A&E Biography.

For background on
Mogambo
, see, e.g., Schary, pp. 260ff., and Sinden, pp. 204–28.

This dame has
Schary, p. 260.

FOUR

It was a lush
Dore Schary, “Who Made Miss Kelly?”
Saturday Review
, October 20, 1956.

We had trouble
Ibid.

Grace proceeded
Sinden, pp. 204–5.

Clark’s eyes
Gardner, p. 183.

When I was younger
Curtis Bill Pepper, “Princess Grace of Monaco,”
Vogue
, December 1971.

On the difficulties of filming
Mogambo
, see Morgan Hudgins, “Bivouac on the Trail of ‘Mogambo’ in Africa,”
New York Times
, January 4, 1953.

He had by instinct
For Henry Fonda’s remarks, see, e.g., his entry on the website IMDB, the Internet Movie Database.

the meanest man
Server, p. 254. 100.
Clark, whose chest
Sinden, p. 210.

Grace Kelly’s blond beauty Time
, October 12, 1953.

tyrant
Harris, p. 329.

Grace Kelly is all right
Bosley Crowther, in the
New York
Times
, October 2, 1953.

Ava and I
Ibid.

You shouldn’t criticize
Kinsella and Kinsella, p. 73.

You know, the girl
Taves, “The Seven Graces.”

She was pretty much
Schary, “Who Made Miss Kelly?”

FIVE

The best way to do it
This was Hitchcock’s sole comment at the conclusion of the Lincoln Center Film Society’s tribute to
him in New York on April 29, 1974. Grace was at his side that evening, and I was in the audience.

All I had to do
Martin, “The Luckiest Girl.”

she disappeared
Aljean Harmetz, “Hollywood’s Lovely But Lonely Lady,”
New York Times
, September 16, 1982.

On November 12
Oleg Cassini’s 1953 telegram to Grace was publicly exhibited by her family at the exhibition in her memory held at the Grimaldi Forum, Monte-Carlo, in August 2007. Cassini’s autobiography is important for an account of his relationship with Grace, but the dates noted therein are very often inaccurate (and some of the events clearly fabricated). He claims, for example, that they first met in 1954—an error that the telegram, for one thing, contradicts.

I saw her only in profile
Cassini, pp. 238–39.

make her look
Head and Calistro, pp. 107–9.

but in fact
Quine, p. 295.

symmetry
Truffaut, p. 216.

Everybody wants a new
Martin, “The Luckiest Girl.”

fascinating
Bosley Crowther, in
New York Times
, August 5, 1954.

I don’t understand
Ibid.

There hasn’t been
Ibid.

had to be accepted
Thomas Harris, “The Building of Popular Images—Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe,”
Studies in Public Communication
1 (1957), reprinted in Gledhill, pp. 40–44. I am indebted to Harris’s brief but provocative essay.

There’s Grace Kelly Vogue
, October 1954.

I think, it’s nobody’s business
“The Girl in White Gloves,”
Time.
January 31, 1955.

She was anything but cold
Dewey, p. 373.

SIX

Twenty four—and aging
Grace Kelly to Hedda Hopper, May 1954; see the Hopper Papers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library, Beverly Hills.

I don’t know
Mitterrand, p. 78.

Who is the real Grace Kelly
See also Taves, “The Seven Graces.”

Grace had taken
Rita Gam to the author, May 5, 2007. See also Gam, pp. 17–26, and her essay “That Special Grace,”
Mc-Call’s
, January 1983. Rita was also interviewed for Feldman/Winter; and she spoke about Grace on
Larry King Live
, September 3, 2003.

She was a weak
Quine, p. 39.

She had an ability
Feldman/Winter.

She succumbed
Dherbier and Verlhac, p. 11.

Grace doesn’t throw Time
, January 31, 1955.

rocked to the core
Quine, p. 48.

I’ll never open
Martin, “The Luckiest Girl”; see also Schulberg, “The Other Princess Grace.”

Grace called me up Larry King Live
, September 3, 2003.

I was happy
Head and Calistro, p. 108.

A lot of actresses would say Time
, January 31, 1955.

On the background for
The Country Girl
, see, e.g., the Turner Classic Movies Database.

Miss Kelly will get her share New York Times
, December 16, 1954.

The amusing seven-point summary of
Green Fire
may be found in
Time
, January 10, 1955.

It was a dog
Lewis, p. 262.

Hitchcock wanted
Granger, p. 305.

They’re doing the same
Grace Kelly to Hedda Hopper, in the Hopper Collection at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills.

Grace had always been
John Ericson to the author, May 18, 2008.

I had the misfortune New York Times
, September 16, 1982.

I finished
Green Fire Oscar Godbout, “Star on the Ascendant,”
New York Times
, November 7, 1954.

SEVEN

Alfred Hitchcock fell in love
Mitterrand, p. 275.

My observations on Hitchcock’s complex attitude to Grace are
found, in a slightly different form, in Spoto,
Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies
, pp. 203–13.

She is cool
Bosley Crowther, in the
New York Times
, August 5, 1955.

Grace can play
Martin, “The Luckiest Girl.”

Those were the most
Oleg Cassini,
A&E Biography.

My work
Cassini treated the affair with Grace in his book, pp. 237–68.

We have lunch and dinner
Grace to Prudy Wise, quoted in Kinsella and Kinsella, p. 131.

Hitch, of course
Ibid.

You know how much
Roderick Mann, “Princess Grace: How a Royal Beauty Stays Beautiful,”
Ladies Home Journal
, May 1970.

Oleg drives me
Kinsella and Kinsella, pp. 135–36.

I don’t approve Time
, January 31, 1955.

The situation with Cassini
Kelly/Gehman, January 21 and January 15, 1956, installments.

If she had really
Lizanne Kelly LeVine, on
Larry King Live
, September 3, 2003.

in casting
Truffaut, p. 327.

EIGHT

For details of Grace’s visit to John F. Kennedy’s sickroom, see Spoto,
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life
, pp. 109–110.

Grace was mature
Quine, p. 50.

Still don’t know
Kinsella and Kinsella, p. 142.

The letter from Grace to Oleg is reproduced in Cassini, p. 263.

physically exhausted
Laurence Aiach, in Dherbier and Verlhac, p. 12.

At that time
Christy, “I Remember …”

I love this apartment
Quine, p. 98.

I am reliably told
Undated handwritten letter from Edna Ferber to Henry Ginsberg, in Folder 596 (the casting folder for
Giant)
in Collection 1343, the Hedda Hopper Papers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills.

Soap never touches Time
, March 7, 1955.

You trusted Grace’s beauty
Conant, p. 25.

I can’t believe it
McCallum, p. 211.

No, not at all
Quoted many times—e.g., in Conant, p. 84.

I was unhappy
Schulberg, “The Other Princess Grace.”

because of my terrible
Cassini, p. 265. Grace’s letter is reproduced on the same page of his book.

I must explain
Ibid., p. 266.

Pierre Galante’s account of May 1955 was documented in his article “The Day Grace Kelly Met Prince Rainier,”
Good Housekeeping
, May 1983.

They spent their days
Dherbier and Verlhac, p. 12.

She is an adorable Time
, May 23, 1955.

I had not yet visited
Prince Rainier, with Peter Hawkins, “Prince Rainier Tells of ‘Our Life Together,’”
Good House keeping
, March 1967—an extract from the Hawkins book.

She thought she was missing
Feldman/Winter.

the wedding was so sweet
Quine, pp. 107, 109.

No, … but it was a very
Englund, p. 180n.

My son and I Time
, August 1, 1955.

NINE

revealed more and more
Quoted in Robinson, pp. 73ff. Robinson’s book, published in 1989, is both important and trustworthy, for it was based on extended interviews with Rainier, Caroline, Albert and Stéphanie. All subsequent quotations attributed to Rainier and the children derived from the Robinson interviews unless otherwise noted. For summaries of Rainier’s life before Grace, there are many sources. Among the books, those by Hawkins and Robinson were written with the prince’s cooperation and authorization. The periodical literature is vast—e.g., David Schoenbrun, “Where Will the Prince Find His Princess?”
Collier’s
, December 9, 1955; “Peppery Ruler: Prince Rainier,”
New York Times
, March 18, 1967; Maurice Zolotow, “Grace of Monaco,”
Cosmopolitan
, December 1961; Peter Carlson, “Living with the Memories,”
People
(USA), November 15, 1982.