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Show While attending the Academy, she insisted on grace kelly broke into tears after supporting herself, even though her family was receiving the Academy Award for her performance in "The Country Girl," almost everyone willing to keep her in elegant comfort. She bewas taken by surprise. Grace was generally came a photographer's model and earned, more believed to be far too reserved, too aloof, for than enough to pay for her studies and keep. After finishing her course at the Academy, such an emotional outburst. But some of her and before coming to Hollywood, she played in knew better. more than 80 dramatic shows on television, and Alfred Hitchcock, who directed Grace in three appeared in two Broadway plays. 61ms "Dial M for Murder," "Rear Window" Ironically, she got her chance to star in a and her latest, Paramount's calls her "a rmovie"mrougfi ''"test lorTole" shedlcmH' get. "To Catch a In the test, made in New York for a film called volcano." More .than once, when a scene didn't 'Taxi," she played an Irish girl who had just go right, he had seen her break into tears. ar in 'The Country come to the United States, The producer decided Bing Crosby, her she wasn't suitable for the part, but her agents Girl," recognized how nervous she was from showed the test around Hollywood, where her constant picking at her fingernails Just beeventually it won her the role of Ava Gardner's fore she went into a scene. rival for Clark Gable's affections in "Mogambo." Yet this nervousness fell short of being disFrom the very beginning of. her screen career, turbing to those working with her. Grace has been reticent about publicity. This Much more dominant is what Hitchcock refers to as her "professional attitude toward her was due partly to her upbringing, and partly to in work," her ability to concentrate on one thing the fact that she doesn't consider it necessary at a time, which has enabled her within two order to get ahead although she's had more of -- demand young it in the past two years than any other actress. years to become the most-i- n She was not pleased about the publicity given actress in theNU. S. And hot" just by producers her romance" with dress designer Oleg Cassini. too. and directors, but by her co-work- ers soon-to-be-relea- sed snow-cover- ed 0 r (flu .( . co-st- " A a t co-sta- rs, (i 1 r f 1 . V v- A- f - - 7K ACE ) LLY toCa fr ila lito l.Tl TO- - m WmA When Hollywood's top female star received her Oscar, she made liars of those who've been labeling her "cold" and "aloof' by Peer J. Oppenheimer To quote Cary Grant, who appears with her in "To Catch a Thief": "If I were offered a script and no actress had been cast opposite me, no matter what charac- terization was called for I'd want Grace for the part provided, of course, she was the right age." This is doubly amazing because the young woman from Philadelphia is not easy to know. took Crosby a week to get acquainted with Grace, and Bing has no trouble making friends. It Glamorous Grace Kelly poses with her Oscar, awarded for her fine performance in Paramount' "The Country Girl." She told me that the only man with whom she was ever seriously in love was a young who died about two years ago. Because she honestly desires privacy, she resented the fact that a New York columnist published her local address. By the time she reached Hollywood for the Academy Award ceremonies, she wouldn't even return the many phone calls from her studio's publicity department Thus, it has become mcreasihgTy difficult .to get a true, picture of Grace, and the public has been led to think of her as "cool, "composed," and "aloof." That's why her tears, in public, came as such a shock to onlookers. Phila-delphi- an introversion signs of which are obvious in her attitude toward publicity and other phases of her career is the direct result of her early environment. Actually, when not under observation or Grace is the daughter of a wealthy and prominent Philadelphian, John B. Kelly, one of the pressure, Grace can relax lland have fun like any other working girl. One afternoon in the foremost athletes of his day and a well-to-Paramount portrait gallery, for instance, when contractor who is also active in civic and political affairs. Her uncle is George Kelly, Pulitzers-priz- e the photographer asked her to "put on someof her dressing playwright who wrote "Craig's Wife," "The thing different" she came out Show-off- ," "The Torch Bearers" and other hits. room with a lampshade on her head. Bing Crosby claims he never heard her laugh Grace herself was educated in two exclusive harder than when he pasted this sign on the girls' schodls. Curiously enough, it was her failure to gain admission to a third school that got door of her dressing room: "Molly Picon of the Main Line." (Miss Picon is one of the best-knoher seriously started in show business. Jewish actresses.) And Cary Grant inshe fl was never any good at mathematics," told me one day at lunch. "When I 'flunked my sists that when Grace and his wife, the former entrance examination at Bennington because of Betsy Drake, get together, they giggle like two class. it, I decided I had had enough schooling and schoolgirls on their way home from Which all seems to prove, if proof were persuaded my parents to let me study at the needed, that Grace Kelly is human after all! American Academy of Arts instead." j Grace's up-to-d- ate do V J 2 wn Grace will co-st- ar with Cary Grant in "To Catch a Thief JUNE 26. )95j FAMILY WttKlY MAGAZINE |