Grace Kelly
Grace
Kelly estaba sólidamente plantada en Hollywood, con premios de la Academia
por sus películas, cuando decide dejar todo por amor. En el video de abajo Grace habla ante una multitud de
reporteros y se cuenta sobre su vida. Para saber: Golden Age of Television y en vocabulario: frayed, poised
The early days
of television were a time when many hour-long anthology drama series received
critical acclaim…
… the Kelly
family is Monaco bound, sailing to see their grace become the bride of Prince
Rainer III…
After embarking
on an acting career in 1950 when she was 20, Kelly appeared in New York
City theatrical productions and more than 40 episodes of live drama
productions broadcast during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television. From 1952 to 1956 she starred in
several critically and commercially successful films, usually opposite male
romantic leads 25 to 30 years older than her. In October 1953, she gained
stardom from her performance in director John
Ford's African-filmed adventure-romance Mogambo,
starring Clark Gable and Ava Gardner, which won her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 1954 she won
the Academy Award for Best Actress
for her deglamorized performance in the drama The Country Girl with Bing
Crosby. Other noteworthy films in which she starred include the western High Noon (1952), with Gary Cooper; the romance-comedy musical High Society (1956), with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra; and three Alfred
Hitchcock suspense thrillers in rapid succession: Dial M for Murder (1954), with Ray
Milland; Rear Window (1954), with
James Stewart; and To Catch a Thief (1955), with Cary Grant.
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| Mogambo, 1953 |
Para saber
Golden Age of Television
The first Golden Age of Television is the era of
live television production in the United
States, roughly from the late 1940s through the late 1950s. "The Golden Age opened with Kraft Television Theatre on May 7, 1947,
and ended with the last live show in the Playhouse
90 series in 1957;" the Golden Age is universally recognized to
have ended by 1960, as the television audience and programming had shifted to
less critically acclaimed fare, almost all of it taped or filmed.
By the early
1960s, about 90% of American households had a television set, and the roles of
television and radio (which was largely saved from obsolescence by the
invention of the far more portable transistor radio in the 1950s and the
concurrent rise of higher-fidelity FM radio) had changed, so that radio was
primarily a medium for music, and scripted programming became wholly the domain
of television.
The early days
of television were a time when many hour-long anthology drama series received
critical acclaim. Examples include Kraft
Television Theatre (debuted May 7, 1947), The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (debuted September 27, 1948), Television Playhouse (debuted December
4, 1947), The Philco Television Playhouse
(debuted October 3, 1948), Westinghouse
Studio One (debuted November 7, 1948), and Your Show Time (debuted January 21, 1949).
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| Kelly en Dial M. for Murder |
Grace Kelly Story (1956)
Grace
se despide – viaja a Europa en el Constitution – el principado de Mónaco – un resumen de su vida
A storybook
romance near its happy ending as Grace Kelly boards the liner Constitution for
her wedding in Monaco. The rest of the Kelly family is also Monaco bound,
sailing to see their grace become the bride of Prince Rainer III. More than 300
reporters, photographers and newsreel cameramen all but engulfed Miss Kelly in
the wildest and noisiest farewell scramble ever accorded to a departing celebrity.
While all around
her nerves are frayed and tempers
grow short Miss Kelly remains as cool and poised
as a princess.
—As I said
before just getting married is a very big step for any girl and I have a great
many feelings about that and it’s a very exciting thing and I’m very, very
happy. Of course I’m a little sad to be leaving home but I hope to be back
quite often.
The stage is set
for the year´s biggest wedding in the world´s smallest state.
Monaco is crowned
with the majesty of the maritime Alps. A country in miniature with a national
anthem, a handsome young ruler, Prince Rainer, and a brightly uniformed army of
69 officers and men. A fabled little land far from the Philadelphia home of
Grace Kelly, destined one day to be Princess of Monaco. In 1949 making her
first motion pictures appearance as a Warner… news fashion model Grace Kelly
could little dream of becoming the most titled woman in Europe. Barely 19 her
thoughts were centered on her career, a determined young model with a purpose
at the very start of her climb to success and stardom.
Stars are not
made by movie magic and so Grace worked long and studied hard, learning,
remembering, improving. For Grace Kelly 1949 would be an unforgettable year.
Prince Rainer would remember it too for it marked his accession to Europe´s
oldest throne.
Planing to Paris
for a fashion story Grace would be with an easy distance of Monaco but the pretty
commoner was not yet to meet her prince charming.
She was more
than a model now. She was an actress who could play a scene and play it well.
Like every girl
she wanted her make-believe ring would become real. A diamond that would fit
nowhere but on the third finger of her left hand. And perhaps Bermuda would be
her own honeymoon...
Hollywood still
lay ahead but Grace poised and self-assured was almost ready…
Did she know of
Monaco? Probably. Has she heard of Rainier? Possibly. Could she imagine living
in a 200 room palace with a staff of 100 servants? Hardly…
Vocabulario
Frayed: (of a person's nerves or temper) showing the effects of strain/irritation.
The whole
experience left me with frayed nerves
(= feeling worried).
Poised: showing
very calm and controlled behavior.
Angela is a
polite, poised young woman.
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