In May 1947, Grace graduated from the Stevens School. She was seventeen and a half, and she had no idea what she was going to do next. Ma Kelly set about organizing a tour of women’s college in the Northeast, and she set off with Grace at the beginning of August 1947. But they were far too late. Everywhere they went the entry rolls were full, and the middle of the month found mother and daughter taking gloomy stock in the New York apartment of Marie Magee, and old friend of Ma Kelly, who lived just off Broadway on the West Fifty-fifth Street. Marie asked Grace where she wanted to go to school and Grace told her that she wondered if she could get into the American Academy of Dramatic Arts? Marie had been an actress herself and her own daughter had been a student at the American Academy, w

Grace meet her future husband, Prince Rainier III of Monaco in May, 1955. She was their doing a photo shoot. She did not particularly want to go to Monaco, but she felt that she should. Frances electrical workers were on strike so Grace was unable to dry her hair or iron her dress before meeting the Prince. Rainer had taken to Grace from the moment she confided in him, soon after they met, that she had not really wanted to do the photo session that brought them together. Rainier himself had felt just the same. He had been a shy child, just as Grace had been, never feeling quite adequate in the duties place upon him by membership in a demanding and high profile family. As adult celebrities, neither the price nor the movie star had any intention of giving up their fame, but both were starting to betray naggings of unhappiness about it, as if they felt that their public faces did not do justice of their private selves. Grace stuck Rainier as steady, constant, honest and he also liked her sense of humor. She had the spontaneity of an American without the besetting American sin of brashness, and as she revealed more of herself to him in her letters, he came to feel he was in touch with someone very special.

Graces father did not think much of Hollywood and preferred Grace in theater. Grace took his lectures to heart. One of the keynotes of her Hollywood career was her ability to be intelligently choosy. She proved to have an instinct for landing work in the very best company, the best scripts, and finest direction, and the most glamorous costars and she hit upon all of these in the autumn of 1951, when she joined the cast of High Noon.

In Graces last year at the Academy the students were organized into acting companies under the supervision of professional directors. In Graces group the director was Don Richardson, a thirty-year-old protégé of Jelinger’s who had been a student at the Academy, and who had several grounds breaking professional productions to his credit. Grace got involved with Richardson who was married at the time and when her parents found out they were furious. They told Grace she was never allowed to she Richardson again. They even made her move home and drive 35 minutes from home to the academy everyday for the remainder of the year. After Grace moved back to New York she got in

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