#rupert allan

[graceandfamily]

Grace Kelly, Gordon White, chairman of Hanson Industries (left) and Rupert Allan. Cannes Film Festival gala evening. Cannes 1955.

[blythegilbert]

Milo Ventimiglia as Rupert Allan

Grace of Monaco (2014) dir. Olivier Dahan

[gracie-bird]

Grace Kelly and Rupert Allan dancing at the Beverly Hilton Hotel during the Annual Audience awards ceremony for best actors in 1955.

[hollyjacks]

Grace,Ava Gardner,Frank Sinatra and Rupert Allan on a background during “Mogambo”/1952-1953/

[princessgracekelly1956]

Louella Parsons’ Good News (Modern Screen - December 1957)

If the new baby expected by Princess Grace and Prince Rainier isn’t a boy, I bet she keeps on having children until a son is born, heaven willing.

When she married the Prince, Grace said she wanted a big family. You can bet your piggy-bank that she has no intention of returning to motion pictures.

This she affirmed personally to her good friend and mine, Rupert Allan. He’s the charming public relations man at MGM, who had been summoned to Europe by Grace several weeks ago. When I learned Rupert was making the trip I had a strong hunch that Grace wanted him there to make the public announcement that she and Rainier were ‘expecting’ again. And, sure enough, that was true.

Rupert had joined Their Serene Highnesses in Switzerland just previous to the time they returned to the palace at Monaco for the official announcement, and he wrote me a long letter:

‘Both Grace and the Prince have profited by their Swiss vacation here in these beautiful Alps near where the Prince went to school as a boy. They are so rested and happy. Of course, little Princess Caroline is the apple of their eye and there is big excitement over her cutting her first teeth.

“As for Grace, I have never known her to be more glowing or contented. Certainly, there is no thought in her mind of returning to films. She is far too busy and content in her greatest role, that of wife, mother and helpmeet to the Prince. We had a long conversation recently and she told me that she is definitely not interested in any phase of movie making and that reports of a studio being built in Monaco are completely false. This is a happy woman if I have ever seen one, believe me.”

[anothergracekellyblog]

HSH Princess Grace of Monaco and actress Loretta Young photographed together in Beverly Hills on April 24, 1981.

Billed as a Gala Evening in Monaco, the former film star lent her sparkling presence to the benefit which raised funds for the Dubnoff Center, a school for learning disabled children based in North Hollywood, California. 

Grace’s longtime friend and press guru Rupert Allan can be seen behind her in the first photo. The lauded Hollywood costume designer Jean Louis appears between the two ladies, while his wife, Margaret Fisher, features between Grace and Loretta in the bottom picture. 

Interestingly, four years after Fisher’s death in 1988, Miss Young would become Jean Louis' last wife. He died in 1997; she in 2000.  

SOURCE: The Loretta Young fan group on Facebook with credit to group member Salvador. (1), (2)

[graceandfamily]

Grace Kelly with the original Kelly Bag arriving at Cannes station in early May 1955. With her is Rupert Allan. Photos by Edward Quinn.

[graceandfamily]

Grace Kelly at lunch with Rupert Allan during the Cannes Film Festival in the early May 1955. Photo by Jack Garofalo and Michou Simon.

Grace Kelly at lunch with Rupert Allan during the Cannes Film Festival in the early May 1955. by Photo Edward Quinn.