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1952 High Noon (director: Fred Zinnemann). Seven-year contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
1953 Mogambo (director: John Ford). Nomination for an Oscar and a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actress. June: first meeting with Alfred Hitchcock.
1954 The busiest year in her career. Dial M for Murder (director: Alfred Hitchcock). Rear Window (director: Alfred Hitchcock). The Bridges at Toko-Ri (director: Mark Robson). The Country Girl (director: George Seaton). Green Fire (director: Andrew Marton). Met the Russian-Italian fashion designer Oleg Cassini.
1955 March 30: Oscar for her leading role in The Country Girl. To Catch a Thief (director: Alfred Hitchcock). May 6: arranged meeting between Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco through Paris Match magazine during her attendance at the Cannes Film Festival. Christmas: first meeting since May, Prince Rainier visited Philadelphia and New York.
1956 January: Grace Kelly's final parting with Oleg Cassini. January 5: Official engagement announcement for Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco. April 4: Transatlantic crossing on the Constitution from New York to Monaco. April 19: Wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III in St. Nicholas Cathedral, Monaco. Henrietta Award by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as favorite actress. The Swan (director: Charles Vidor). High Society (director: Charles Walters), her final film. October 15: official visit to President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the White House in Washington, D.C.
1957 January 23: birth of daughter Caroline Louise Marguerite. April: official visit to Pope Pius XII.
1958 March 14: birth of son Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre. May: Grace Kelly becomes lifelong president of the Monegasque Red Cross organization.
1959 Between 1959 and 1964, Grace Kelly suffered three miscarriages. June: official visit to Pope John XXIII. October: official visit to France. November: official visit to Italy.
1960 October 23: official visit by General Charles de Galle in Monaco. November: official visit to Switzerland.
1961 May 24: lunch with President John F. Kennedy in the White House. June: official visit to Ireland. July: pilgrimage to Lourdes.
1962 March 18: Announcement of involvement in Alfred Hitchcock's next film, Marnie. June 18: Grace Kelly's letter to Alfred Hitchcock informing him of her decision not to act in Marnie. October 12: Charles de Gaulle orders border policemen and customs officials to surround the principality.
1963 May 18: French-Monegasque accord. June: founding of the charitable children's organization, AMADE (Association Mondiale des Amis de l'Enfance).
1964 November 10: death of Prince Pierre.
1965 February 1: birth of daughter Stéphanie Marie Elisabeth. April 27: reception of the Monegasque royal couple by General Charles de Gaulle at the Élysée Palace in Paris. Founding of the Fondation Princesse Grace.
1966 Celebration of the centennial of Monte Carlo's founding.
1967 Official visit to Canada.
1968 Grace Kelly established the Garden-Club de Monaco.
1969 November 12: celebration of her 40th birthday with a large party. December 4: Chair of the UNICEF gala.
1970 January 13: reception of the Monegasque royal couple by Prsident George Pompidou in the Élysée Palace.
1971 Participation in Frank Sinatra's theater farewell in Los Angeles (this only lasted for two years). Took part in the anniversary celebration in Persepolis of Persia's 2,500-year existence.
1972 May: the principality's national museum was dedicated.
1974 Celebration of Rainier III's 25th anniversary as regent. April 29: guest at New York's Lincoln Center for the gala honoring Alfred Hitchcock.
1975 Became international chair of the Irish American Cultural Institute.
1976 Member of the 20th Century-Fox Board of Directors. September 6: first poetry reading in Edinburgh. First meeting with Robert Dornhelm.
1977 Voiced the narration for Robert Dornhelm's documentary film The Children of Theatre Street. Exhibition of her dried flower arrangements in Paris.
1978 Participation in the Aldeburgh Festival. Tour through the U.S. Made two recordings. June 29: Wedding of daughter Caroline to Philippe Junot.
1979 November 12: large gala at St. James Palace, London, in honor of her 50th birthday.
1980 June: second exhibition in Paris. Publication of her book, My Book of Flowers, in the U.S. Announcement of the separation of Caroline and Philippe Junot.
1981 March 16: appearance at the Chichester Festival. April: celebration of 25th wedding anniversary. Participated in Night of 1000 Stars in New York.
1982 Rearranged (director: Robert Dornhelm), until today the film is only an incomplete fragment of 33 minutes. September 13: accident shortly after 10:00 am. September 14: Gracia Patricia died at 10:35 pm in Hôpital Princesse Grace. September 18: burial in St. Nicholas Cathedral, Monaco.
2005 April 6: death of Prince Rainier III at the age of 82.
2009 November 12: 80th birthday of Grace Kelly.
2011 July 1 and 2: official and church weddings of Prince Albert II of Monaco and the one-time Olympic swimmer, Charlene Wittstock in Monaco. Raised in South Africa, Charlene is of German heritage.
2012 September 14: 30th anniversary of Grace Kelly's death.
FILMOGRAPHY
Compiled by Hans-Michael Bock (Cinegraph):
Expanded by Thilo Wydra
This filmography includes the feature films in which Grace Kelly was involved, as well as the television programs in which her casting has been verified. Short appearances in various television shows, the Oscar Award ceremonies, and talk shows have not been included.
The second part of this filmography presents an array of biographical documentaries about Grace Kelly/Princess Gracia that were filmed and compiled after her death. In addition, a list of feature films in which she appears as a character is included.
Most of her television performances fell during the early years of the American television industry. Due to technical limitations, the studios could not broadcast live programs that were longer than thirty or sixty minutes in duration. A digital recording was not possible at this time; the only television programs that survive from this period entailed recordings taken directly from a monitor. Furthermore, newspapers and magazines commonly published very few details about cast and crew. Like the German networks, the American networks were little concerned with carefully documenting their broadcasts. Thus, despite the handbooks about American television and the now numerous websites and archives, the information about these broadcasts is quite fragmentary. Two television programs are documented in only one single source.
I would like to thank the following individuals for their support in this research: Vincent Vatrican (Les Archives Audiovisuelles de Monaco), Lothar Schröder (beta bande, Cologne), Doris Wetzel (Point du Jour International, Paris), Margaret Deriaz (BFI, London), Markku Salmi (London), and Lindsey Merrison (Avening/Berlin).
Besides the IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/) and rovi (http://www.allrovi.com/movies) databases, the following sources were consulted:
— AFI Catalog of Feature Films (http://www.afi.com/)
— bbfc – British Board of Film Classification (ex: Censors) (http://www.bbfc.co.uk/)
— BFI Film & TV Database (http://www.bfi.org.uk/)
— The Classic TV Archive (http://ctva.biz/index.htm)
— The Museum of Broadcast Communication (http://www.museum.tv/)
— epguides.com (http://epguides.com/)
— tv.com (http://www.tv.com/)
— Wikipedia (in various languages).
The following abbreviations are used:
DIR Direction, Director
ASST DIR Assistant Director
WRI Writer
CAM Camera
CAO Camera Operator
OEF Optical Effects
SPE Special Effects
ART Art Direction
SET Set Design
COS Costumes
MAK Make-up
HAIR Hair Design
MUS Music
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LYR Lyrics
MDI Music Direction
SON Songs
MT Music Titles
CHO Choreography
DAN Dancers
PCO Production Company
PRO Producer
EXP Executive Producer
ASP Associate Producer
FIL Filming Period
LOC Film Location
DUR Duration
FOR Format
© Copyright
BBFC British Board of Film Censors
FBR First Broadcast
WPR World Premiere
Unless otherwise noted, the following is true for the television programs:
Location: New York
Format: b/w, 1:1.33, sound
1948. Kraft Television Theatre: Old Lady Robbins.
WRI: Albert G. Miller.
Announcer: Ed Herlihy. CAST: Ethel Owen (Lady Robbins), Grace Kelly.
PCO: J. Walter Thompson Agency; for: National Broadcasting Company Inc. (NBC), New York. DUR: 60 min. FBR: November 3, 1948, NBC.
— Live TV Program, Series Kraft Television Theatre, Season 2, Episode 7.
— Sponsor: Kraft.
1950. The Philco Television Playhouse: Bethel Merriday.
DIR: Delbert Mann. WRI: William Kendall Clarke. Source: Bethel Merriday (1940), novel by Sinclair Lewis.
CAST: Grace Kelly (Bethel Merriday), Oliver Thorndike, Warren Stevens, Mary K. Wells, Frank Stephens, Katherine Meskill, Mary Patton.
PCO: Showcase Productions, Inc.; for: National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (NBC), New York. PRO: Fred Coe. DUR: 60 min. FBR: January 8, 1950, NBC.
— Live TV Program, Series The Philco Television Playhouse, Season 2, Episode 19.
— Sponsor: Philco (Philadelphia Storage Battery Company).
1950. Ripley’s Believe It or Not: The Voice of Obsession.
Cast: John Hudson, Hildy Parks, Grace Kelly.
PCO: National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (NBC), New York. DUR: 30 min. FBR: January 11, 1950, NBC.
— TV Program, Series Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Season 2, Episode 2.
1950. Westinghouse Studio One: The Rockingham Tea Set.
DIR: Franklin J. Schaffner. WRI: Worthington Miner, Mathew Harlib. Story: Virginia Douglas Dawson.
Announcer: Paul Grenson. Cast: Louise Allbritton (Celia Arden), Judson Laire (Dr. Waller), Katherine Emmet (Mrs. Anna Gregory), Grace Kelly (Sara Mappin), Nell Harrison (Lizzie), Richard McMurray (David Barr), Catherine Willard (Mrs. Arden), Amanda Randolph (Maid).
PCO: CBS Television; for: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Inc., New York.
PRO: Worthington Miner. DUR: 60 min. EBR: January 23, 1950, CBS.
— Live TV Program, Series Westinghouse Studio One, Season 2, Episode 20.
— Sponsor: Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
1950. The Philco Television Playhouse: Ann Rutledge.
WRI: Joseph Liss. Source: radio play by Norman Corwin.
Cast: Stephen Courtleigh (Abraham Lincoln), Grace Kelly (Ann Rutledge).
PCO: Showcase Productions, Inc. for: National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (NBC), New York. PRO: Fred Coe. DUR: 60 min. FBR: February 12, 1950, NBC.
— Live TV Program, Series The Philco Television Playhouse, Season 2, Episode 24.
— Sponsor: Philco (Philadelphia Storage Battery Company).
1950. Actors Studio: The Apple Tree.
Host: Marc Connelly. Cast: Grace Kelly, John Merivale, Patricia Kirkland.
PCO: The Actors Studio; for: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Inc., New York. DUR: 60 min. FBR: March 3, 1950, CBS.
— Live TV Program, Series Actors Studio, Season 2, Episode 22.
1950. Cads, Scoundrels and Ladies: The Lovesick Robber.
Cast: Grace Kelly (in the one-act play, The Lovesick Robber).
PCO: National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (NBC), New York. DUR: 60 min. FBR: April 25. 1950, NBC.
— Live TV Program. Drama Special – composed of various one acts
[The only source for this program is the English-language Wikipedia site].
1950. The Play’s the Thing: The Token.
Host: Marc Connelly. Cast: Mark Roberts, Grace Kelly, Lucy Vines.
PCO: The Actors Studio; for: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Inc., New York. DUR: 60 min. FBR: May 26, 1950, CBS.
— Live TV Program, Series The Play’s the Thing (until March 1950, known as Actors Studio), Season 2, Episode 28.
1950. The Play’s the Thing: The Swan.
DIR: David Pressman. WRI: Melville C. Baker. Source: Play A hattyú
(1920) by Ferenc Molnár.
Host: Marc Connelly. Cast: Grace Kelly (Princess Alexandra), George Keane (Prince Albert), Alfred Ryder (Dr. Nicholas Agi), Dennis Hoey (Father Hyacinth), Leopoldine Konstantin (Princess Maria Dominica), Jane Hoffman (Princess Beatrix), Frances Ingalls, Gene Lyons, Richard Malek, David Rosen, Herbie Walsh.
PCO: The Actors Studio; for: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Inc., New York. PRO: Donald Davis. DUR: 60 min. FBR: June 9, 1950, CBS.
— Live TV Program, Series The Play’s the Thing (until March 1950, known as Actors Studio), Season 2, Episode 29.
— 1955/56 film remake with Grace Kelly in the same role.
1950. Comedy Theater: Summer Had Better Be Good.
Source: Story by Ruth McKenney.
Cast: Grace Kelly.
PCO: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Inc., New York. FBR: July 9, 1950, CBS. [p. 366]
— Live TV Program, Series Comedy Theater, Season 2, Episode 29.
[The only source on this program is the English-language Wikipedia site].
1950. Lights Out: The Devil to Pay.
DIR: William Corrigan. WRI: Frederick Lonsdale.
Host: Frank Gallop. Cast: Jonathan Harris, Grace Kelly, Theodore Marcuse.
PCO: National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (NBC), New York. PRO: Herbert B. Swope Jr. DUR: 30 min. FBR: July 17, 1950, NBC.
— Live TV Program, Series Lights Out, Season 1, Episode 45.
— Sponsor: Admiral Corporation.
1950. Big Town: The Pay-Off.
DIR: David Lowell Rich.
Cast: Patrick McVey (Steve Wilson), Mary K. Wells (Lorelei Kilbourne), Grace Kelly.
PCO: Gross-Krasne Inc., Hollywood; for: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Inc., New York. DUR: 30 min. FBR: October 5, 1950, CBS.
— Live TV Program, Series Big Town, Season 1, Episode 1.
1950. The Clock: Vengeance.
DIR: Grey Lockwood. WRI: Phyllis Coe, Milton Subotsky. Source: Short Story by Honoré de Balzac.
Narrator: Larry Semon. Cast: Grace Kelly, Torin Thatcher.
PCO: National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (NBC), New York. PRO: Herbert B. Swope Jr. DUR: 30 min. FBR: October 20, 1950, NBC.
— Live TV Program, Series The Clock, Season 2, Episode 4.
1950. The Web: Mirror of Delusion.
Host: Jonathan Blake. Cast: Hugh Franklin, Grace Kelly, Anna Lee, Mary Stuart.
PCO: Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions; for: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Inc., New York. PRO: Mark Goodson, Bill Todman. DUR: 30 min.
FBR: November 1, 1950, CBS.
— Live TV Program, Series The Web, Season 1, Episode 18.
1950. Somerset Maugham TV Theatre: Episode 5.
Source: Story by W. Somerset Maugham.
Host: W. Somerset Maugham. Cast: Leo Penn (Fred Manson), Grace Kelly (Gracie Carter).
PCO: CBS Television; for: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Inc., New York.
DUR: 30 min. FBR: November, 15 1950.
— Live TV Program, Series Somerset Maugham TV Theatre, Season 1, Episode 5.
1950. Danger: The Sergeant and the Doll.
Host: Richard Stark. Cast: James Westerfield, Laura Weber, Grace Kelly, Bert Conway.
PCO: CBS Television; for: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Inc., New York.
DUR: 30 min. FBR: December 19, 1950, CBS.
— Live TV Program, S
eries Danger, Season 1, Episode 13.
1950. The Philco Television Playhouse: Leaf out of a Book.
Cast: Grace Kelly, Vicki Cummings, Lauren Gilbert, Claudia Morgan.
PCO: Showcase Productions Inc, for: National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (NBC), New York. PRO: Fred Coe. DUR: 60 min. FBR: December 31, 1950, NBC.
— Live TV Program, Series The Philco Television Playhouse, Season 3, Episode 17.
— Sponsor: Philco (Philadelphia Storage Battery Company).
1950/51. Fourteen Hours.
DIR: Henry Hathaway. WRI: John Paxton. Source: Story “The Man on the Ledge” (1949) by Joel Sayre. CAM: Joe MacDonald. OEF: Fred Sersen, Ray Kellog. ART: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; SET: Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode. COS: Edward Stevenson.
MAK: Ben Nye. Editor: Dorothy Spencer. Sound: W. D. Flick, Roger Heman.
MUS: Alfred Newman.
Cast: Paul Douglas (Charlie Dunnigan), Richard Basehart (Robert Cosick), Barbara Bel Geddes (Virginia Foster), Debra Paget (Ruth), Agnes Moorehead (Mrs. Cosick), Robert Keith (Mr. Cosick), Howard Da Silva (Deputy Chief Moksar), Jeffrey Hunter (Danny Klemptner), Martin Gabel (Dr. Strauss), Grace Kelly (Mrs. Louise Anne Fuller), Frank Faylen (Waiter), Jeff Corey (Sgt. Farley), James Millican (Sgt. Boyle), Donald Randolph (Dr. Benson).
— PCO: Twentieth Century-Fox Studios, Beverly Hills; for: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., New York. PRO: Sol C. Siegel. Filming Period: Early June – Early August 1950; Reshooting: Starting in early January 1951. Filming Location: 20th Century-Fox Studios;
AA: Manhattan (Broadway, Wall Street). DUR: 91 min, 8203 ft = 2500 m. FOR: 35mm, s/w, 1:1.33, Western Electric. (C): April 20, 1951, LP918. Premieres: March 5, 1951, New York (Astor); April 27, 1951, Los Angeles.
— Working Title: The Man on the Ledge.
— Academy Awards 1952: Oscar Nomination (Production Design, black and white) for Lyle R. Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode.
1951. The Prudential Family Playhouse: Berkeley Square.
DIR: Donald Davis. WRI: John L. Balderston. Source: Story by Henry James.
Cast: Richard Greene (Peter Standish), Grace Kelly (Helen Pettigrew) Rosalind Ivan (Lady Ann Pettigrew), Mary Scott (Kate Pettigrew), Augusta Dabney, Michael McAloney, Don McHenry, Richard Aherne, Cele McLaughlin.
PCO: CBS Television; for: Columbia Broadcasting System, (CBS) Inc., New York.
PRO: Donald Davis. DUR: 60 min. FBR: February 13, 1951, CBS.