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[princessgracekelly1956]

I just didn’t show what I was supposed to be thinking. I’ve seen that picture, and I’m amazed at my own lack of expression. It taught me a lesson about my own inadequacies and helped me learn how to make thoughts reflect themselves in my face.

Grace Kelly on her role in High Noon (during an interview with William Leonard of the Chicago Tribune - May 12, 1955) [x]

[princessgracekelly1956]

I’m a slow reader. It takes me days and days to finish a book. If I like it, I savor it, digesting it and not wishing to have it end too soon. I’m the same way about clothes and foods and colors. I stick with one until I’ve worn it out. I wear one color almost to death, then take up another and do the same thing.

Grace Kelly during an interview with William Leonard (The Chicago Tribune - May 12, 1955) [x]

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The Chicago Tribune Magazine - May 12, 1955

Meet the Real Grace KelIy!

Her Reputation of Being ‘Tough' to Interview Isn’t Earned, Writer Finds; She's Just a Girl Who Likes the Quiet Sort of Life

By William Leonard

THERE ARE MORE ways than one in which a Hollywood movie star can attract attention - and there are more kinds of attention than one. A few seasons ago, about the time Marilyn Monroe was becoming a household word because of her lack of costuming in a piece of calendar art, Grace Kelly was virtually an unknown. Last year the headlines went, for one reason or another, to Marilyn Monroe, but the acting roles and the honors all went to Grace Kelly, who never in her life posed a la September Morn or gave out statements decrying the wearing of women’s intimate apparel.

Miss Kelly is that Hollywood rarity, a young beauty who act. She learned to act by attending in acting and by working at the trade in school plays, summer stock, and on Broadway, instead of being "discovered" while sipping a soda at a drug store counter or while wearing shorts and riding a bicycle past a casting director’s office window. None of that corn for Grace.

None of the typical Hollywood hokum for Grace, in fact. She doesn't have a swimming pool in her back yard. She doesn't even have a back yard. She doesn't live in Hollywood territory any more than she has to, and when she does she rents an apartment or shares one with an old friend, Prudence Wise, with whom she roomed when both girls were attending classes in New York at the outset of their careers.

Grace Kelly was Philadelphia born and bred, and has plenty of breeding altho she never, despite the repeated assertions of publicists and careless columnists, was of "main line" society. Now her home is in New York, in the heart of Manhattan, and she journeys out to the land of the orange and the cheesecake only when an acting job demands it.

For the last four years Grace lived in a three-room apartment on New York's East 66th street. She decorated it herself, and it took her the whole of those four years to do it. Recently she moved into more spacious quarters on Fifth avenue, directly opposite the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and this time she called in a designer and decorator.

Her own favorite spot in her new home is the library and television room, and Grace favors books above TV as a means of spending an evening.

"I'm a slow reader," she confesses. "It takes me days and days to finish a book. If I like it, I savor it, digesting it and not wishing to have it end too soon. I'm the same way about clothes and foods and colors. I stick with one until I've worn it out. I wear one color almost to death, then take up another and do the same thing.

Most recent book on her reading list was "The Silent World," descriptive of skin diving in the waters around Jamaica. Miss Kelly, who comes of an athletic family and has kept in training all her 26 years, is an expert horseback rider, swimmer, and tennis player, and the new-fangled pastime of prowling the ocean bottom in bathing costume and diving mask appeals to her.

Jane Russell may have had the first "Underwater" publicity on a national scale, but quiet Grace Kelly is likely to be the first Hollywood star actually proficient at the sport.

As for television, she doesn't care for studio programs but is somewhat addicted to old movies, particularly if any of her friends appear in them. Least of all, on TV, she cares for the commercials she made in the late '40s, as a huckster for beer, toothpaste, and cigarets. She sums up her television sales pitches: “I was terrible."

There are two of her many movie roles Grace is going to try never to see, too. One was in "Fourteen Hours," a small part in her first film, back in 1950, of which she says, "I wasn't ready." The other was opposite Gary Cooper in "High Noon." Of that one Grace declares: "I just didn't show what I was supposed to be thinking. I've seen that picture, and I'm amazed at my own lack of expression. It taught me a lesson about my own inadequacies and helped me learn how to make thoughts reflect themselves in my face." 

Grace has no favorite role among the many she has played in films. It would be difficult to remember them all - acting feats opposite Clark Gable in "Mogambo," Ray Milland in "Dial M for Murder," James Stewart in "Rear Window," William Holden in "The Bridges at Toko-Ri," Bing Crosby in "The Country Girl," Stewart Granger in "Green Fire," and Cary Grant in "To Catch a Thief."

Last year the star made six films. It took an average of six weeks to shoot each picture, which meant she was grinding away for 36 of the 52 weeks in 1954, starting each day at 6 a.m. and finishing goodness knows when.

Such a schedule explains, in part, why Grace Kelly isn't afraid of trying a legitimate play on Broadway - a task so strenuous the mere thought of it terrifies the average Hollywood star. She plans to do one next season and has narrowed her choice to two or three vehicles.

The legitimate stage will be familiar territory to this girl, who studied acting for two years at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, in New York, and first appeared on Broadway as Raymond Massey's daughter in a revival of Strindberg's "The Father." The show ran only three months, but her work led to her first screen role, in the aforementioned "Fourteen Hours," in 1951. Grace's only other Broadway play, "To Be Continued," was a turkey which wasn't continued beyond the third week.

Grace Kelly is one of the few Hollywood stars who, when she sees her name on a marquee, actually sees her own name, instead of a fancy monicker dreamed up by a promotion department bent on glamor, poesy, and the eradication of the slightest hint of any specific nationality.

Miss Kelly, whose grandfather came from County Mayo, and whose father started life as a bricklayer and built one of the biggest brickwork construction companies in the East, was raised in East Falls, Pa, which is close to Philadelphia's "Main Line" without actually being a part of it. She attended St. Bridget's Roman Catholic church, then Ravenhill convent school nearby, and Stevens school in the Germantown sector of Philadelphia.

She had ambitions of becoming an actress from the time she appeared in a local amateur dramatic show at the age of 11, and tried to enroll at Bennington university, the Vermont school famed for its histrionic courses, before entering the American academy in New York. Her family, which had been more interested in athletics than in the stage, gave her no encouragement at all in a theatrical career.

Grace and her two sisters, Peggy and Lizanne, worked out at the Penn Athletic club when they were kids and never lost the habit of exercising.

When Grace won the Academy award for the best acting job of 1954 she was not the only Kelly to win honors that week. A few days earlier her brother Jack won the single sculls championship at the Pan-American games in Mexico.

Amid the volatile and voluptuous damsels of Hollywood, Miss Kelly has acquired a reputation as a clean cut, ladylike, cool, and serene person of quiet elegance. Being described as a "lady" is perfectly all right with her, but Grace dislikes the connotation of coolness.

She's supposed to be difficult to talk to, because she won’t open up. This chat started with the interviewer asking, impertinently: "Is it true you re tough to interview?" It ended with Grace Kelly asking, pertinently: " Well, now, was I tough?" The interviewer said, "No."

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