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Grace Kelly

June 2021

  • Grace Kelly: Lost Tapes of a Princess

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: the private life of Grace Kelly

    A new documentary gains access to family archives of the Hollywood star and former Princess of Monaco. Plus: Phil Collins at the BBC. Here’s what to watch this evening

August 2020

  • Grace of Monaco: Hollywood Princess.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: the royal life of Grace Kelly

    An archive-laden documentary charts the screen icon’s transformation into the Princess of Monaco before her untimely death. Plus: The Last Wave continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

April 2020

  • James Stewart keeps watch in Hitchcock’s Rear Window.

    The classic film I've never seen
    I’ve never seen ... Rear Window

    For a housebound James Stewart, staring out at the neighbours becomes an all-consuming obsession. Luckily he has Grace Kelly to help sort truth from fantasy

February 2019

  • Observer New Review ONLY    American actress Grace KELLY and American photographer Philippe HALSMAN.

    The big picture
    The big picture: Grace Kelly jumps for Philippe Halsman

  • Composite of famous faces inside a red heart, for a piece about teenage crushes

    'Grace Kelly seemed like an angel': Clive James and others on their first crushes

March 2018

  • Hubert de Givenchy with Audrey Hepburn in his Paris workshop; the Hollywood star said of his clothes: ‘I put them on and I feel protected.’

    Hubert de Givenchy obituary

    Couturier to Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy

January 2018

  • A poster for 1958’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Elizabeth Taylor

    Hitchcock, Hepburn and Dirty Harry: vintage movie posters – in pictures

    Produced for classic films such as Psycho, Roman Holiday and The Italian Job, these rare original Hollywood posters are now all worth a pretty penny as cultural antiques

December 2017

  • A selection of classic Irish literature, including a copy of James Joyce's Ulysses.

    Free world
    Grace Kelly's Irish library: a collection of classic reads … in Monaco

    The film star’s roots prompted her to collect Irish literature, including rare editions of Joyce, Beckett and Shaw. The 9,000 volumes are now housed in a lovely, and free, library in the principality

November 2017

  • Grace Kelly, 1959

    Grace Kelly to Elizabeth Taylor: Cartier jewels and their wearers – in pictures

    The National Gallery of Australia’s exhibition will feature more than 300 pieces of jewellery

April 2015

  • Hollywood actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco, 19 April 1956.

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 20 April 1956: Grace Kelly marries her prince

    Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 20 April 1956: The Hollywood star becomes a fairy tale princess of the tiny principality of Monaco

August 2014

  • GRACE KELLY & CARY GRANT

    To Catch a Thief review – Hitchcock at his most witty, elegant and insouciant

  • Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief

    What you should watch this week
    Why To Catch a Thief is the one film you should watch this week - video

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