6/7/2023 0 Comments Grace Kelly by Robert Lacey![]() ![]() He liked the look of Kelly, all the more so because, in his view, the look was that of a plain Jane. It was a combination that appealed to the director of “Taxi,” Gregory Ratoff. There is both hesitancy and force in this woman you can picture her, faced with a decision, flitting back and forth, and yet, once decided, becoming quite fiery and sure. ![]() Her eyes keep moving across the man, as if he were a passage of verse. “It ain’t that I’m not fond of you,” she says, in words that have weighed like lead, throughout history, on the hearts of disappointed guys. We can also make out a mild Irish accent-not much of a stretch, for one of the Kelly clan. Kelly wears a soft sweater and, beneath it, a white blouse, whose demure collar is just discernible. In the barn, she did a screen test, for a movie called “Taxi,” opposite Robert Alda: the fair young maid and the darker, troubled fellow, each pleading with the other. ![]() One spring day in 1952, Miss Grace Kelly, of Philadelphia, now resident in New York, went across to “a barn-like studio on the far West Side of Manhattan.” That is how she later described it, as if recalling a foreign trip. Kelly in 1955, in the gown she wore when she won the Oscar for best actress. ![]()
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