I have visited “The Grace Kelly Years” exhibition in Paris. There are pictures, excerpts from her films and also personal items: letters, gowns, fashion accessories, jewelry, pressed flower arrangements… This exhibition retraces her path from respectable girl to Hollywood actress and eventually to Princess of Monaco, always with elegance.
![]() Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn at the 1956 Academy Awards. photo by Alan Grant (c) Time Inc. |
![]() Grace de Monaco in 1964 (c) Archives du Palais princier. Monaco |
The exhibition reinforces the Grace Kelly myth. She is portrayed as a perfect woman: perfect actress, perfect wife and mother, perfect princess, perfect friend… It could nearly make my blood run cold.
But fortunately Grace sometimes wears big short-sighted glasses or a big kitsch wig. It makes her more human and closer.
Grace de Monaco in her office in 1960 (c) Archives du Palais princier. Monaco
It was a pleasant journey to the 50’s and 60’s. After Paris, the exhibition will travel to different places including London and the United States.
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many pictures of Grace on this forum
Other articles about Grace Kelly on this blog:
Grace Kelly’s halterneck top in Rear window
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