1925-1982
Actress and Princess

Fairy Tale.

During the 1950s Grace Kelly was a socialite, a movie star, and, finally, a princess. To many Americans her life represented the closest thing to a fairy tale the country had ever produced. She was one of the Kellys of Germantown, Pennsylvania, a family that numbered noted playwrights, athletes, and entrepreneurs among them. Grace's father, John Kelly, made his wealth with Kelly for Bricks, an inherited business that he developed into a major industry of Philadelphia. Grace was a young woman with an independent spirit and a desire to act on stage. While attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York in 1947, she supported herself by modeling. After graduating from the academy she found only a few small roles on stage and in films over the next several years.

Big Break.

Kelly's career took a giant step forward...