Grace Kelly: A Life from Beginning to End

by Hourly History

Grace Kelly * * *Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside!* * * Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet. Grace Kelly. The name itself still conjures up images of beauty, talent and the extraordinary life of one of America’s hottest Hollywood talents of the 1950s. Of course she is equally well known for then marrying into the royal family of Monaco and for the circumstances surrounding her untimely death at the age of just 52. Inside you will read about... ✓ Early Modeling Career ✓ Parental Problems ✓ Work with Hitchcock ✓ To Catch a Prince ✓ Princess or Prisoner And much more! Now, in this new book, Grace A Life From Beginning to End, the days of this true superstar of the modern age are told in breath-taking clarity and with an eye for detail that leaves no stone unturned. From her early modelling career and her work with the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, through to her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco and moving in high society circles, each step taken is portrayed with honesty and sensitivity, right up until her last days. For anyone who grew up with Grace Kelly’s name on film credits, or those who still appreciate her beauty and talent, Grace A Life From Beginning to End, is the ‘must read’ book of the year!

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, History, Classics, Ebooks

107 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 13, 2017

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Reviews

[Bronwyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is about princess Grace from her birth as Grace kelly, her life as an actress and finally her life as princess Grace of monaco until her death in an auto accident in 1981, it is a good read for people who enjoy autobiographies

[Victoria Beige · Rating 5 out of 5]

I saw a story about Grace Kelly and her spirit, soul has been with me since, here as I write this I feel them. The physical aspect of the movie: ( The Grace Kelly's Story, 1983) I watched about Grace Kelly boiled down to Grace Kelly having a car accident and her death. That is what I remember from that movie. It is easy to miss Grace Kelly's career as an Actress when people are so recognize Ingrid Bergman, Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth etc. What did she do in Hollywood? Grace Kelly, what did she do in Hollywood? My pre life life when, Grace Kelly, was not known in my consciousness, I was never bothered about her issues, and her " mysterious" death.

Grace Kelly's beautiful aura, her soft nature, and angelic quality on screen in offers layers of experiences that are her trademark! The ability to be and know what is important, her truth makes Grace Kelly a great candidate to be written about, her soul, spirit makes movies that are about her. Grace Kelly's dealing with life and it's challenging presentation of difficult problems made it difficult to deal with with her: An Angel has flaws and to be great is to be able to fall when life is hard.

Grace Kelly: A Life From Beginning To End: the minute we see Grace Kelly as a Famous, Actress, Princess stepped to a world unknown to us is the moment we also fall, This book of her life is just right because we need to read and get to know her!

[Suzanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have loved Grace Kelly films for many, many years and still watch them to this day .. Magumbo, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief & High Society .. So I was delighted to see this short Bio available on kindle. I know the outline of her life, and found this provided a little more background information without being too in depth. A great little read about a very beautiful but ultimately troubled woman who sadly left us too soon ..

[Julian Orozco, Jr. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Princess Grace Rinaldi: Our First American Princess

Great read about Grace Kelly, from her strict Irish upbringing through her magnificent modeling and acting career. And of course to her best performance as a princess, mother and a royal.
Princess Meghan will be as great or greater. She sure seems like she's going down the right path.

[Ciaran Mills · Rating 4 out of 5]

After reading this, I'm not sure what to feel towards Grace Kelly. I, perhaps, feel sorry for her isolation later in life, but also feel that she got what she wanted in the end.

Another good read from Hourly History, this book whips along at a good pace and introduces you briefly to the main characters in Kelly's life

[Thom Swennes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many people believe that the American debutante from Philadelphia, Grace Kelly, lived the charmed and privileged life she was destined to lead. As with so many fairy tale stories, the truth is not so simple or so sweet and what the world sees, or wants to believe, isn’t the truth. It is true that Grace Kelly was born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth. In Grace’s case, as with many others with this particular dining table attribute lodged in her mouth, nearly strangled her. Not in the conventional sense but in a much more cruel and sinister way. Like most good daughters, Grace coveted parental love, respect, and approval. None of these were ever really afforded Grace. Her childhood dream of becoming an actress on the silver screen was realized but without the support or approval of her conservative and traditional Catholic family. Unlike the pure and wholesome characters she portrayed in her films, Grace Kelly had a spontaneous, romantic, and promiscuous side that disgusted her parents and, more often than not, left her heartbroken. She was clearly a woman in need.
Her introduction, romance, engagement, and eventual marriage to Prince Rainier Grimaldi of Monaco were the high points in her life. That her life would thereafter become stagnate and decline into a virtual prisoner in a gilded cage, is the story the society photographers and journalists missed. Her story adds light to the current ME TOO movement as her encounter with writer/director Al Cap will attest to.
I enjoyed this short history of an icon of the silver screen. It proves once more that not all fairy tales end happily ever after.

[Virginia O'Malley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grace Kelly: A Life From Beginning to End
Author: Hourly History
Publisher: KDP (Kindle Edition)

This is a beautifully written short read book on the life of Grace Kelly of Irish-Philadelphian heritage born to Jack and Margaret Kelly. Starting with her life as a child, and by the age of 18 years old, she was studying at the New York Academy of Dramatic Arts and soon after this, making her own money as a model at $7.50 an hour is a staggering salary for 1948.

Then in time, she became a famous movie star, and Alfred Hitchcock was one of her favorite movie Directors, Grace starred in many of his movies, and many more also brushing shoulders with the likes of Clark Gable, James Stewart, and Bing Crosby just to mention a few of her co-stars.

Grace played Princess Alexandra in her final movie and finally married Prince Rainier whom she had met at the Cannes Film Festival in 1955 and in April 1956 she became Princess Grace of Monaco. She led a very interesting life and this is a lovely look into the past and a highly recommended read.

The book contains some lovely quotes from the princess, three, in particular, that caught my eye,
"I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness - being happy - is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way." and another one of her quotes, "I never say 'never' and I never say 'always'" and finally, "The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale."
Grace Kelly - Princess Grace of Monaco -12.11.1929 to 13.09.1982

[Jerry Jares · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hourly History writes great film star biographies; I thought this one wasn't quite as good as most of the others.  The author told a great deal about Grace Kelly's early life and her shyness and feelings of inferiority.  She was from a wealthy Irish-Catholic family and was successful from a young age.  Grace certainly was very different from her chaste persona touted by the film production studios.

Where I think the book drops off is after Grace's marriage.  It seemed to jump from her immediate pregnancies to losing her life in a car wreck.  I wondered how well she was accepted by the citizens of Monaco since she was never successful in learning enough French to converse with the populace.  I would think that just that one issue (inability to converse in French) would put a serious damper on Grace's success as a royal.  After all, she had more than 20 years to learn the language.

I was also surprised that the book did not raise the issue that Stephanie was driving the day of the wreck.  It was widely reported; but not until well after the fact.  Overall, I learned a great deal about the star -- in about an hour.

[Donna Maguire · Rating 4 out of 5]

I downloaded this as a free book quite a while ago and it was not until I watched a recent documentary on the "Hollywood Princess" that I wanted to read a bit more about Grace herself.

I thought that the book was well laid out, it was informative and it was a great introduction to Grace, some of her films and her eventual departure from Hollywood to become the Princess of Monaco. It was written like a fiction book more than a biography and I enjoyed that style - it really suited this book as Grace's life for many was seen as a fairytale with her marrying her Prince.

I would have liked a bit more about the darker side of becoming Royalty but that is probably for a book that allows a bit more development of the book, after all this was really a book to be read in an hour!

I knew that she had died in a car crash but never really read much about it and the tragic events that would eventually take her life the following day in hospital when the sad decision was made to end her life support.

It is 4 stars from me, a great book for a free download - I was not disappointed at all!

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Despite her pristine image, she was a bit more scandalous than you might expect, running through a long list of paramours before getting together with the prince.

Also, I hadn't realized quite how young she was when she retired from acting (26) and how young she was when she died (52).

It makes it more impressive that she managed to have such a big impact in a pretty short time period, she starred in 2 of my favorite movies of that time period "High Noon" and "Rear Window" and Hitchcock classics like "Dial M for Murder" and "To Catch for Thief".

I wonder if she was truly happy being a princess or if she would have preferred to continue acting?

I also noticed that Kelly was one of the few Hollywood stars to come from wealthy parents and you can see the difference in how stable and secure her life was (only married once, no known issues with alcohol, pretty smooth career). I notice the same thing with Katherine Hepburn, had quite a different life compared to Joan Crawford (who came from poverty).

[James Crawford · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the story of a woman that wanted acting as a career, going so far as to change her accent to fit in better. She went from a model (who was bullied, by the way) to Broadway to television and movies. At times she was sort of wild but not terribly.

The major theme is the romance she had with the Prince of Monaco and how they ended up getting married and had a child. It also covers how she died.

It's a good book but would have been better if there had been photographs with it and perhaps a list of her tv shows and movies.

[Sonja Johnson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Overview of Grace Kelly's life. Told in this "through the window from behind the shrubs and across the street" view point it's about as exciting as you would think. All distant observations of a celebrity figure that traded the spotlight for a tiara and never looked back. And yet we obsess over the "American Princess." The epitome of "class" that is well studied and crafted... read: manufactured. There may be more to the beauty than meets the eye, but you wouldn't know it from this quick retelling of her life. If you are a Kelly fan this book only serves to disappoint.

[Jane Runge Darlage · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading more about this iconic figure about whom I knew very little. I would have preferred a little more post-marriage coverage, like how she contributed to her principality over the course of her marriage, but the stories are supposed to be short! I will probably do more reading on my own. I was disappointed that her death date was listed incorrectly - simply a typo, but since it was really only one day after the accident, printing it as a month and a day after the accident was an unfortunate slip-up.

[Terri's Dangerous When Reading · Rating 5 out of 5]

Considering that I received this free I have absolutely no complaints. It is a quick summary of Grace Kelly's life and it covers a lot of ground in 48 pages. Her life reads like a fiction novel in many ways. She had so much and yet you can also see how she was quite restricted by first her parents and then by the royal role that she married in to. She stated it was a fairy tale that her life was a fairy tale. I am glad that I read this short summary of her life.

[Bonnie Gleckler Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

So much more than an Actress.

Yes, most of us know who Grace Kelly is. We know her as an actress or we know of her as a Princess. We’ve seen some of the movies she’s starred in such has “Rear Window”, but what we most likely don’t know is about her family, her youth, her lovers, and her life as a princess. This brief read fills in the blanks and enlightens us as to who she really was and how she lived. .

[Christine Hunter · Rating 4 out of 5]

No Real Depth

I don't know if because it's written by Hourly History, that the book is a basic overview of the actor, but it's a simplistic view of the life of Grace Kelly. That being said, it was actually pretty well written and I did learn some things that I didn't know before. It's really aimed at young adults.

[Patricia S Winchel · Rating 5 out of 5]

America's Princess

Grace Kelly was able to live every young girl's dream. She was born into a wealthy family, became famous as an actress and married a real prince. It was a true life fairytale that sadly did not end with "happily ever after." I learned a little bit about her that I didn’t know and thoroughly enjoyed the story.

[Jean · Rating 3 out of 5]

America’s first princess bride

Today we are excited as the life of Megan Markel and Prince Harry of Great Britain fill the headlines, but America’s first actress/princess was Grace Kelly. She married the prince of Monaco in the mid-twentieth century with as much excitement and pomp.

[D. Thrush · Rating 4 out of 5]

From model to movie star to princess of Monaco. This 48-page book covers a lot of ground. Grace had an active love life and difficulty getting along with her parents. She had affairs with some of her co-stars before meeting the prince at a publicity event. This was in the 1950s a long time before Meghan and Harry. Despite some errors, a fascinating true story.

[Candida · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short biography

I wish I could have read a more in depth biography of Grace Kelly. This one was extremely short. I grew up loving to watch her Hitchcock movies especially. This biography goes over her life in acting in particular. It then just skims over her childhood and her married years.

[Sharron · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not enough

Interesting to a point but lacked details. Much of her life was skipped over. I saw biopic on tv which included Hitchcock trying to persuade her to do a movie . Also her french was good enough to persuade Degaulle to attend fundraiser in Monaco and much more. Very disappointed in lack of details.

[Katrin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quick interesting read!! I have a few of those hourly history books on my phone and they were for free, too. Awesome! Enjoyed a lot to get a glimpse into her life and her story. Although I of course have heard about her, most of it was new for me. Great to get some of these books for free to read for example on holidays when you forgot to bring a book along *lol*

[Molly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this absolutely extraordinary. Learned things about Princess Grace that I wasn't familiar with. There were a few factual errors in the end, but other than that, I truly enjoyed this. I continue to enjoy this series and cannot recommend them enough to my friends and family.

[Norma J. Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative

I never knew so much about Miss Kelly while she was acting. I didn't know that she was so promiscuous. I must admit she was a very pretty lady. I thought the book was informative, but not complete.

[Dianna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good introduction to Grace Kelly's life.

This is not an in-depth look into the life of Grace Kelly, but it is a very good introduction for those of us who know of Grace Kelly from her days as Hollywood box office gold.

[Jonathan Cavazos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cool blonde.

I am a Grace Kelly fan. Her life story was interesting. It would have been interesting to see where her acting career would have taken her, if she would have been allowed to continue to act.

[Guy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A quick read, a good looking gal I well remember. Yup, that makes me and old duffer and I proud of it. I don't remember any of the "bad stuff" mentioned about her, but I do remember her becoming royalty. Maybe my focus all those years ago was on a good-looking gal.
Thanks.

[Rubin Carpenter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great introduction to a legendary lady

This Biography of Grace Kelly was very interesting a person I had only seen in movies and in news media stories this was intriguing enough to have me search for more about her a good read

[Teresa Guzzo moulton · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fine book until the end

The book was very good and informative until the end. At that point, it could have spoken a little more about her death and the aftermath of her husband and children.

[David Parker · Rating 4 out of 5]

A princesa that became a real Princess

Interesting life. Loved the Hitchcock movies. Could not remember what became of her after the marriage. Happy that she finally found her Prince Charming.