Grace Kelly

Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who, after marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956, became Princess of Monaco.

Kelly was born on November 12, 1929, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to an affluent and influential family. Her father, IrishAmerican John B. Kelly, Sr. , had won three Olympic gold medals for sculling and owned a successful brickwork contracting company that was wellknown on the East Coast. A registered Democrat, he was nominated to be mayor of Philadelphia for the 1935 election, but lost by the closest margin in the citys history. In later years, he served on the Fairmount Park Commission and, during the Second World War was appointed by President Roosevelt as National Director of Physical Fitness. Two of his brothers were also notable Walter C. Kelly was a vaudeville star who also made films for MetroGoldwynMayer and Paramount Pictures, and George Kelly was a Pulitzer Prizewinning dramatist, screenwriter and director. Kellys mother was Germanborn Margaret Katherine Majer , who had taught physical education at the University of Pennsylvania, where she had been the first female to coa

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