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Grace Kelly
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Actor Born: November 12, 1929 in Philadelphia, PA Death: September 14, 1982 Biography:Both literally and metaphorically, "Grace Kelly" was the cinema's fairy-tale princess; beautiful, elegant, and impossibly glamorous, she transcended the limits of Hollywood aristocracy to attain the power and glory of true royalty. Born November 12, 1929, in Philadelphia, PA, her father was a wealthy industrialist while her mother was a onetime cover girl. Her uncle, "George Kelly", was the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist behind the plays The Show-Off and Craig's Wife. At the age of ten, she made her own theatrical debut in a Philadelphia-area production, and in her late teens she moved to New York, where she worked as a model while attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After turning down a Hollywood contract for fear of being typecast as a starlet, "Kelly" began to work in television, and in 1949 she made her Broadway debut in a revival of "August Strindberg"'s The Father. When Hollywood... Full Biography
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