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Announced a while back and landing on my review table recently is this from Life Miniatures .
http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/life-miniatures-august-2016-new-release.79926/
The release was back in August and depicts a representation of possibly one of the most beautiful and inspirational woman who went from Hollywood film star to Princess ...... a true fairy tale which ended so tragically .
Wearing fabulous gown and jewels and loved by all once she had settled into the life of a Royal ..she was IMO an iconic woman of the time.
It is of course Grace Kelly , born November 12th 1929 as Grace Patricia Kelly
Grace was introverted and always seemed to be fighting colds . She enjoyed making up stories and reading, feeling like a misfit in the sporty household
In 1947, Grace Kelly was accepted into the US Academy of Dramatic Arts She headed for lived at the Barbizon Hotel for Women, and earned extra money by modeling for the John Robert Powers modeling agency.
With her blonde hair, porcelain complexion, blue-green eyes, and 5’8” perfect poise,....
Grace Kelly became one of the highest-paid models in New York at the time.
Kelly returned to acting on live television dramas and Broadway plays. She took more acting classes in New York with Sanford Meisner to work on her voice.
In the autumn of 1952, Grace Kelly tested for the film Mogambo (1953), enticed by it being filmed in Africa and starring legendary film star Gable. After the test, Kelly was offered the part and a seven-year contract at MGM. The film was nominated for two Oscars: Best Actress for Ava Gardner and Best Supporting Actress for Grace Kelly. Neither actress won, but Kelly won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
By the 1950s, the director Hitchcock had made a name for himself in Hollywood making suspenseful motion pictures that featured very cool blondes as his leading ladies. In June 1953, Kelly got a call to meet Hitchcock. After their meeting, Grace Kelly was cast as the female star in Hitchcock’s next motion picture, Dial M for Murder (1954).
In 1954, Grace Kelly was handed the script for The Country Girl, a role that was completely different from anything she had played before, that of the wearied wife of an alcoholic. She wanted the part badly, but MGM wanted her to star in Green Fire, a film she felt was full of clichés.
Kelly was never really happy in Hollywood and wrestled with MGM with firm resolve, threatening to retire. The studio and Kelly compromised and she starred in both movies. Green Fire (1954) was a box-office failure. The Country Girl (1954) was a box-office success and Grace Kelly won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
While Grace Kelly turned down multiple motion picture offers, to the studio’s displeasure, audiences revered her everywhere. One film she did not turn down was Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief (1955), filmed on the French Riviera with Cary Grant
In spring 1955, while at the Cannes Film Festival, Grace Kelly was asked to appear in a photo session at the Palace of Monaco with Prince Rainier III. She obliged and met the prince. They chatted lightly while photos were taken. The photos sold magazines worldwide.
To finish her contract, Kelly starred in two final movies: The Swan (1956) and High Society (1956). She then left stardom behind to become a princess.
The royal wedding of 26-year-old Miss Grace Patricia Kelly to 32-year-old His Serene Highness Prince Rainier III of Monaco was held in Monaco on April 19, 1956
The Prince and Princess of Monaco had three children: Princess Caroline, born 1957; Prince Albert, born in 1958; and Princess Stéphanie, born in 1965.
In addition to being a mother Princess Grace as she was known, supervised the renovation of a crumbling medical facility into a first-rate hospital and founded the Princess Grace Foundation in 1964 to help those with special needs. Princess Grace of Monaco became loved and cherished by the people of her adopted homeland.
Princess Grace began suffering from severe headaches and abnormally high blood pressure in 1982. On September 13th of that year, Grace and 17-year-old Stéphanie were returning to Monaco from their country home, Roc-Agel, when Grace, blacked out for a second. When she came to, she accidentally pressed her foot on the accelerator instead of the brake, driving the car over an embankment
The day following the accident, she was taken off the life support and Grace Kelly died on September 14, 1982, at the age of 52.
She was portrayed by Nicole Kidman in the films , a beautiful woman in her own right , this is in my opinion the subject of the sculpt Nicole Kidman as she is in the film.
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Announced a while back and landing on my review table recently is this from Life Miniatures .
http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/life-miniatures-august-2016-new-release.79926/
The release was back in August and depicts a representation of possibly one of the most beautiful and inspirational woman who went from Hollywood film star to Princess ...... a true fairy tale which ended so tragically .
Wearing fabulous gown and jewels and loved by all once she had settled into the life of a Royal ..she was IMO an iconic woman of the time.
It is of course Grace Kelly , born November 12th 1929 as Grace Patricia Kelly
Grace was introverted and always seemed to be fighting colds . She enjoyed making up stories and reading, feeling like a misfit in the sporty household
In 1947, Grace Kelly was accepted into the US Academy of Dramatic Arts She headed for lived at the Barbizon Hotel for Women, and earned extra money by modeling for the John Robert Powers modeling agency.
With her blonde hair, porcelain complexion, blue-green eyes, and 5’8” perfect poise,....
Grace Kelly became one of the highest-paid models in New York at the time.
Kelly returned to acting on live television dramas and Broadway plays. She took more acting classes in New York with Sanford Meisner to work on her voice.
In the autumn of 1952, Grace Kelly tested for the film Mogambo (1953), enticed by it being filmed in Africa and starring legendary film star Gable. After the test, Kelly was offered the part and a seven-year contract at MGM. The film was nominated for two Oscars: Best Actress for Ava Gardner and Best Supporting Actress for Grace Kelly. Neither actress won, but Kelly won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
By the 1950s, the director Hitchcock had made a name for himself in Hollywood making suspenseful motion pictures that featured very cool blondes as his leading ladies. In June 1953, Kelly got a call to meet Hitchcock. After their meeting, Grace Kelly was cast as the female star in Hitchcock’s next motion picture, Dial M for Murder (1954).
In 1954, Grace Kelly was handed the script for The Country Girl, a role that was completely different from anything she had played before, that of the wearied wife of an alcoholic. She wanted the part badly, but MGM wanted her to star in Green Fire, a film she felt was full of clichés.
Kelly was never really happy in Hollywood and wrestled with MGM with firm resolve, threatening to retire. The studio and Kelly compromised and she starred in both movies. Green Fire (1954) was a box-office failure. The Country Girl (1954) was a box-office success and Grace Kelly won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
While Grace Kelly turned down multiple motion picture offers, to the studio’s displeasure, audiences revered her everywhere. One film she did not turn down was Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief (1955), filmed on the French Riviera with Cary Grant
In spring 1955, while at the Cannes Film Festival, Grace Kelly was asked to appear in a photo session at the Palace of Monaco with Prince Rainier III. She obliged and met the prince. They chatted lightly while photos were taken. The photos sold magazines worldwide.
To finish her contract, Kelly starred in two final movies: The Swan (1956) and High Society (1956). She then left stardom behind to become a princess.
The royal wedding of 26-year-old Miss Grace Patricia Kelly to 32-year-old His Serene Highness Prince Rainier III of Monaco was held in Monaco on April 19, 1956
The Prince and Princess of Monaco had three children: Princess Caroline, born 1957; Prince Albert, born in 1958; and Princess Stéphanie, born in 1965.
In addition to being a mother Princess Grace as she was known, supervised the renovation of a crumbling medical facility into a first-rate hospital and founded the Princess Grace Foundation in 1964 to help those with special needs. Princess Grace of Monaco became loved and cherished by the people of her adopted homeland.
Princess Grace began suffering from severe headaches and abnormally high blood pressure in 1982. On September 13th of that year, Grace and 17-year-old Stéphanie were returning to Monaco from their country home, Roc-Agel, when Grace, blacked out for a second. When she came to, she accidentally pressed her foot on the accelerator instead of the brake, driving the car over an embankment
The day following the accident, she was taken off the life support and Grace Kelly died on September 14, 1982, at the age of 52.
She was portrayed by Nicole Kidman in the films , a beautiful woman in her own right , this is in my opinion the subject of the sculpt Nicole Kidman as she is in the film.
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