Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more realism and bite than the usual run of TV's anti-Communist dramas. Climax! failed with its version of Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 novel. Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a story of love and loss in World War I. Dorothy McGuire, looking at moments remarkably like Grace Kelly, flung herself into the role of the lovelorn girl with more abandon than heartbreak, and John Forsythe as her man had the air of a man looking desperately for the nearest exit...
Prince Rainier cabled an order to Monaco to bar all journalists from the civil and religious ceremonies except for three "official" photographers (two Monegasques and U.S. Free Lancer Howell Conant a friend of Grace...
Flap in Manhattan. The press was also in a flap in Manhattan, from where Grace and her party (between 60 and 70) will sail April 4 on the American Export Lines' S.S. Constitution. Reported Herald Tribune Columnist Hy Gardner indignantly: "Miss Grace Kelly ordered the ship's officials to deny first-class privileges to the press and to keep them confined to cabin class . . . four to six to a cabin." The New York Post's Earl Wilson wrote that five reporters had canceled their bookings in a huff. Uneasily the line admitted that Grace had indeed requested...
...able to do it." Reason: Louella has not been able to wangle an invitation. Columnists Hedda Hopper and Sheilah Graham were also miffed to be off the list. The only invitation to a newsman went to Look Staffer Rupert Allan, but only because he is another of Grace's old friends. Not even Grace's M-G-M Studio Boss Dore Schary, who wears his pride on his sleeve, was slated to be a member of the wedding...
...Hollywood figures lucky enough to be among the 125 most intimate friends on Grace's own invitation list include the Alfred Hitchcocks, the Cary Grants, the David Nivens, Frank Sinatra. Ava Gardner, Bing Crosby. The palace at Monaco announced that invitations had gone to foreign royalty and heads of state, including President Eisenhower. But the crowned heads of Britain, Denmark and Sweden let it be known that they could not make it, and presidential assistants rummaged through the White House last week without finding an invitation. Prince Rainier also told newsmen that New York's Cardinal Spellman would...