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Life As A Princess

Cassandra Sutton
English 10- 3rd hour
March 14, 2007

Life as A Princess

Even before Grace Kelly married a prince, she had the characteristics of a princess. Frank Sinatra once commented, "Grace was a princess from the moment she was born." She had remarkable elegance and sophistication that made her different from other Hollywood actresses. Some say she had a bit of fire beneath her charm. Alfred Hitchcock, who directed her in three films, called her "a snow-covered volcano". Grace was born into a family of fame and success. Her father was a wealthy bricklayer, her brother was a champion sculler, and her uncle, George Kelly was a famous playwright. They set a hard example to follow and Grace sometimes felt pressured by her family's reputation for prosperity. She lived up to and even surpassed the fame of her family members. Grace served many roles in her life as an actress, princess and mother.
Grace had a rather interesting past. In Grace's early years, she went to Catholic Ravenhill Academy in East Falls, Pennsylvania and unfortunately switched to Stevens School, a worldly academy. She was very quiet and "to herself" as a teenager, but also very popular with other people her age in school. After graduating in 1949, it was a dream of Grace's to perform on a live stage, not to star in movies or make television appearances, In New York and Colorado, Grace worked in theater and starred in "The Father" with Raymond Massey before signing with agent Edith Van Cleve. Some theater experts, including actress Helen Hayes, believed Grace wasn't suitable for performing on a live stage because of her low voice. In spite of that, Grace Kelly was determined to become successful and to move further with her career ("American Decades" 1).
Kelly's family did not agree with her becoming an actress. Even though her family had opposed her becoming an actress, Kelly became a fashion model and appeared in her first film, Fourteen Hours, in 1951 when she was 22. The...