103: Grace Kelly (Dead Blondes Part 11)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The quintessential “Hitchcock blonde,” Grace Kelly had an apparently charmed life. Her movies were mostly hits, her performances were largely well reviewed, and she won an Oscar against stiff competition. Then she literally married a prince. Was it all as perfect as it seemed? Today we’ll explore Kelly’s public and private life (and the rumors that the two things were very different), her working relationship with Hitchcock, her Oscar-winning performance in The Country Girl, the royal marriage that took her away from Hollywood and Kelly’s very specific spin on blonde sexuality. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	【Music】
0:28.5	Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to
0:37.1	exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century
0:43.8	part of the Panoplay Network. I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is another
0:52.0	installment in our ongoing series, Dead Blonds.
1:22.0	One question that I get frequently asked, especially during a series such as
1:42.2	Dead Blonds, is aren't there any happy stories in Hollywood? Well, of course
1:49.0	there are. They're just often slightly less dramatic than the stories of
1:54.0	struggle, of flawed people reaching for something that's slightly outside their
1:58.3	grasp, or of wild swings between success and failure. And some stories are
2:05.1	happier in some tellings than in others, and some stories are happy ones until
2:11.6	they're not. Today's episode is about a woman whose life, by most accounts, was
2:17.7	pretty great, at least until it suddenly ended. She suffered no serious hardships
2:24.4	during her rise to fame and time working in Hollywood. She drank, but it didn't
2:28.9	seem to impact her life negatively until close to the end. Stories of some of her
2:33.9	many romantic dalliances burbled in the tabloids, but did little to mar her
2:38.6	perfect public image. An image that was, as one ex-boyfriend put it, quote,
2:44.0	so proper people thought of her as a nun. Her movies were mostly hits, her
2:50.8	performances were largely well-reviewed, and she won an Oscar against stiff
2:55.7	competition. Then she literally married a prince. Grace Kelly was a working
3:03.3	movie actress for about five years. In that time she made only ten movies. Then
3:09.5	she married the Prince of Monaco and went into early retirement from the
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