#lenore weaver

[gracie-bird]

Grace Kelly behind the scenes of Country Girl (1954) with Paramount hairdresser Lenore Weaver who touches up her hairstyle before going on stage. Mrs Weaver became good friends with Grace and kept in touch even after her wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco.

[gracie-bird]

Grace Kelly and Alfred Hitchcock at the Intercontinental Carlton Hotel's private beach while filming a scene of "To Catch a Thief" in the summer of 1954. Paramount's hairstylist, Lenore Weaver, is wearing sunglasses in a hammock just behind both looking at Grace.

[gracie-bird]

Handwritten note dated in 1957. In it, she thanks her close friends "Nellie" and "Weaver" for the "adorable pearl chain" they sent the newborn. It continues, "Caroline is simply divine and much sweeter than her photographs," "You are often in my thoughts & I kiss you both," closed simply with "Grace." Penned entirely in black fountain pen.

[gracie-bird]

A small group of documents saved by Alice Lenore Weaver, a longtime hairdresser at Paramount Studios from the 1930s to the 1970s who had a close friendship with Grace Kelly for many years; including a “Cast List” from the 1955 Paramount film directed by Alfred Hitchcock that both Kelly and Weaver worked on, a 1958 Western Union telegram (trimmed in half) from Kelly to Weaver, some newspaper and magazine clippings related to the star, postcards from Monaco, canceled stamps from Monaco, and some Cunard Line tags from when Weaver sailed to France to film To Catch a Thief. Consigned directly by Weaver’s granddaughter. 

[gracie-bird]

A 1963 handwritten postcard of Granada (Spain) from Princess Grace of Monaco to Lenore Weaver who worked in the makeup department at Paramount Pictures and whom she had become good friends with during her time at Paramount making Rear Window.  This postcard was sent by Princess Grace from Spain to Miss Weaver at Paramount Studios, and she signed it "Fondest & thoughts, Gracie".