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Grace Kelly e Jay Kanter allo Stork Club di New York City nel 1954
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Grace Kelly e Jay Kanter allo Stork Club di New York City nel 1954
En route to the Riviera, Grace was met in New York by the author (left), her agent Jay Kanter (centre), and a swarm of newsmen and photographers. Photo by Ed Sullivan.
Grace Kelly pleads for a better clue from agent Jay Kanter during a game of charades, on board the SS Constitution bound for Monaco, 1956. (photo by Howell Conant)
“Grace was an avid charades buff. We split into teams, wrote our charades and began to play. The teams were running neck and neck, midway through the first round, when it was Jay’s turn at bat. For a good part of the charade his team managed to get what he was doing, but then he began to act out something that none of them could understand. Frustration turned to frenzy. Grace cajoled, pleaded and screamed for Jay to give her and his other teammates something they could understand. Try as he might, nothing was getting through - and the clock was ticking. Grace was tearing her hair, jumping up and down, waving her arms, shrieking for a better clue. Finally she threw herself to her knees directly at Jay’s feet, her eyeglasses skewed across the bridge of her nose, her arms raised in prayer, mouth agape in a cry of anguish, looking for all the world like a cockeyed supplicant at Lourdes. For those who devoured by the hundreds photos of a woman believed to be the world’s coolest cucumber, this picture (which I hold even now in my mind’s eye) belied the publicized self-containment. The truth was that just like the rest of us, Grace wanted desperately to win the game. Perhaps more than the rest of us.” - Judith Balaban Quine (The Bridesmaids: Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco and Six Intimate Friends, 1989)
Grace Kelly on the cover of Star Weekly (April 21, 1956).
R.I.P JAY KANTER (December 12, 1926 – August 6, 2024) agent of Grace Kelly during her career as an actress in Hollywood and, in 1987, produced, the biographical documentary "Grace Kelly: The American Princess".
He got the relative newcomer Grace Kelly $750 a week for a guaranteed six weeks of work in 1951 on High Noon - according to Donald Spoto’s 2010 book, "High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly" - and repped her when she signed a seven-year deal with MGM in 1952.
Moreover, Kanter married Judith Balaban from 1953 to 1961, one of Grace Kelly's bridesmaids and author of the bestselling book "The Bridesmaids: Grace Kelly and Six Intimate Friends".
He greenlighted British films for Universal, produced other movies and worked alongside Alan Ladd Jr. for years. And Jack Lemmon’s character
Grace Kelly with her agent Jay Kanter
Judith Balaban Wedding Attended by Celebrities By NANCY RANDOLPH
A brilliant wedding here yesterday united Judith Rose Balaban, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Balaban of New York and Rye, to Jay Ira Kanter. The ceremony in the Terrace Room of the Plaza Hotel was attended by many celebrities on stage, screen and president of Paramount Pictures At the 6:30 rites, the bride wore a dress of white organza over Italian satin and embroidered in seed pearls. She wore a crown of pearls holding a long tulle veil.
Her bouquet was of white orchids with streamers of lilies of the valley. Notable Attendants. Six attendants - among them singer Rosemary Clooney and screen actress Peggy Ann Garner -wore bouffant dresses of champagne-colored organza, with matching hats and carried orchids in the same hue. Famed actor Marion Brando was best man. After the ceremony, performed by the Rev.
Dr. Norman Gertstenfeld of the Washington Hebrew Congregation of Washington, D. C., a reception, followed by a dinner, took place in the grand ballroom of the Plaza. Ted Straeter's orchestra played for dancing. The bride, a graduate of Rye Country Day School, studied at Bradford Junior College in Haverhill, Mass.
The bridegroom, the son of Mrs. Sidney Genser of Beverly Hills, Calif., and the late Harry H. Kanter, went to the University of Southern California and served with the U.S. Naval Air Arm. He is now with Music Corporation of America Artists, Ltd.
The couple radio. The bride's father is Corp. (By Bradford Bachrach) Mrs Jay Ira Kanter She's the former Judith Rose Balaban. will live in New York following a honeymoon in Mexico and California.
Grace Kelly with MCA agent Jay Kanter at the Stork Club, 1954