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Grace Kelly’s Prenups

Posted in Grace Kelly, PEOPLE, Princess Grace (Grace Kelly), ROYALTY/NOBILITY, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 8, 2011| 9 Comments »

On January 6, 1956, the long leading story on page one of the New York Times read:    PRINCE OF MONACO TO WED GRACE KELLY Prince Rainier of Monaco and Grace Kelly of Philadelphia announce their engagement on January 5, 1956. The fairytale romance was front page news! It had captured the public imagination “to the […]

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Grace Kelly and the Bust Inspector

Posted in Grace Kelly, PEOPLE, Princess Grace (Grace Kelly), STAGE & SCREEN, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on October 13, 2010| 6 Comments »

  American movie actress Grace Kelly (1929-1982) had an encounter with a “Bust Inspector” during the production of the 1954 film Rear Window. However, this “BI” was not a censor dispatched by the Motion Pictures Production Code crew (See “Elizabeth Taylor and the Bust Inspector.”) The person attempting to meddle with Grace’s bust was none other than the film’s director: Alfred […]

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Bling-Bling! Bang-Bang! Liz Taylor Attends Grace Kelly’s Scorpio Ball

Posted in Edith Head, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, PEOPLE, Princess Grace (Grace Kelly), tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 2, 2010| 13 Comments »

Since they began their affair on the movie set of “Cleopatra” in January, 1962, Richard Burton delighted in giving bride Elizabeth Taylor extravagant jewels. One of the most famous pieces Burton gave Taylor is the pear-shaped, 69.42 carat Taylor-Burton Diamond. Fifth husband Richard Burton bought the diamond from Cartier in 1969 after a Sotheby’s auction, paying over […]

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Grace Kelly: Floating on Chiffon

Posted in Edith Head, Grace Kelly, PEOPLE, Princess Grace (Grace Kelly), tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 27, 2010| 8 Comments »

I was so excited to read in Vanity Fair that London’s Victoria & Albert Museum was featuring an exhibition of Grace Kelly‘s clothes. What a treat! I thought. Imagine all those beautiful 1950s dresses designed for actress Grace Kelly (1929-1982) together in one place. Of course I couldn’t get to London, I knew; I was recovering from […]

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Edith Head: The Dress Doctor is In

Posted in ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, FASHION, & DESIGN, Audrey Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Edith Head, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Paul Newman, PEOPLE, Robert Redford, STAGE & SCREEN, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 11, 2014| 6 Comments »

It was summer vacation of 1924 and Edith Head, 27, wanted a new job. She was tired of making peanuts – $1500 a year – teaching French and art at the Hollywood School for Girls. She did have a husband but he was a heavy drinker. If Edith wanted to improve her quality of life, it was up to her […]

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Prince Albert II of Monaco: Baby Shots

Posted in Grace Kelly, PEOPLE, Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene, Princess Grace (Grace Kelly), ROYALTY/NOBILITY, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 2, 2011| 7 Comments »

Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi, born March 14, 1958, at the Prince’s Palace in Monaco, is the second child born to Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace.On April 6, 2005, Prince Rainier III died and Hereditary Prince Albert became Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco.   READERS: For more on the Grimaldis of Monaco and […]

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Prince Albert of Monaco: A THIRD Love Child? Really?

Posted in Carla Bruni & Nicolas Sarkozy, Grace Kelly, PEOPLE, POLITICS & GOV'T, Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene, Prince William & Catherine, Duke & Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Grace (Grace Kelly), ROYALTY/NOBILITY, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 1, 2011| 2 Comments »

Prince Albert of Monaco and Charlene Wittstock of South Africa are scheduled to wed today in Monte Carlo despite revelations in the French Press earlier in the week that the never-before-married Prince Albert, 53, may have fathered a third love child. Upon learning of the Le Monde article, Miss Wittstock, 20 years Albert’s junior, reportedly tried to flee the tiny Riviera […]

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Finally! Prince Albert of Monaco is Engaged!

Posted in Grace Kelly, PEOPLE, Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene, Princess Grace (Grace Kelly), tagged , , , , , on June 23, 2010| 9 Comments »

Prince Albert of Monaco is engaged to Charlene Wittstock, a former Olympic swimmer from South Africa. He is 52, she, 32. Ms. Wittstock will become the first crown princess since the 1982 death of Prince Albert’s mother, Princess Grace of Monaco. Princess Grace was the former American film star, Grace Patricia Kelly. Perez Hilton calls the announcement a Pretty […]

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I Love Lucy: Lucy Meets Bill Holden, Part 1

Posted in PEOPLE, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 13, 2009| 5 Comments »

Everybody has a favorite “I Love Lucy” episode and this is mine: “L.A. at Last!”* Lucy’s husband Ricky Ricardo is filming a picture out in L.A. and has taken Lucy and the Mertzes out to California with him. This scene opens with Lucy, Fred, and Ethel out star hunting. They are having lunch at the Brown Derby, a popular haunt […]

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Princess Diana: The Shrine at Harrods

Posted in PEOPLE, Prince Charles of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Princess Diana, ROYALTY/NOBILITY, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 4, 2010| 22 Comments »

“The more I hear and read and think about Diana’s and Dodi’s deaths in the Pont d’Alma tunnel, in Paris, on August 31, 1997, in what is possibly the world’s most famous car crash, the more I doubt the truth of their great romance. If it was anything at all, it was a flirt, a fling…. […]

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