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Grace Patricia Kelly (later Grace, Princess of Monaco; November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an Acaemy Award-winning American film and stage actress. Upon marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, she became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess Grace of Monaco. Princess Grace maintained dual American and Monegasque citizenship after her marriage. The principality's current Sovereign Prince, Albert II is the son of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. The American Film Institute ranked Kelly #13 amongst the Greatest Female Stars of All Time.

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  • Her 1956 wedding attracted more than 1,500 news reporters to a country with just 20,000 citizens at the time
  • "The Bridesmaids" is a memoir about this actress' 1956 royal wedding by one of her bridesmaids
  • Hermes named a popular bag after this '50s film star turned princess
  • Kelly Drive is named for this princess' brother & father, both Olympic rowing medalists
  • This "regal" blonde stabs Anthony Dawson to death with a pair of scissors in "Dial M For Murder"
  • She retired from the screen after her 1956 marriage to Prince Rainier
  • This actress is buried in Monaco at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, where she was married in 1956
  • In the 1920s this princess' father, John, won 3 Olympic gold medals for the U.S. in rowing
  • In 1956, this Pennsylvanian became a princess
  • Almost one year after receiving her Oscar for Best Actress, she became a real-life princess
  • Before dialing M for Monaco, she was born in Philadelphia on Nov. 12, 1929
  • After her 1956 wedding, she & her prince drove through the streets of Monte Carlo in an open-top car
  • In 1956, one year after winning an Oscar, she quit the business to move to Monaco
  • Her first film was the 1951 drama "Fourteen Hours"; her second was another "timely" movie, "High Noon"
  • This Philadelphia-born ex-actress brunched on one of the last runs of the original train, from Nice to Monte Carlo
  • The mother of princesses Stephanie & Caroline
  • Guinness says this star of "Rear Window" was Eisenhower's favorite actress
  • In 1954 she was nominated for an Oscar for "Mogambo"; in 1956 she was celebrated in Monaco
  • Oscar winner for 1954's "The Country Girl"
  • In a 1983 TV movie, Cheryl Ladd played this regal beauty who knew her way around "High Society"

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