乔（平·克劳斯贝 Bing Crosby 饰）只是一介普普通通的小职员，却爱上了大企业家的女儿苏珊（格蕾丝·凯利 Grace Kelly 饰）。两人的感情自然遭到了苏珊父亲布朗（西德尼·布莱克默 Sidney Blackmer 饰）的强烈反对，不仅如此，苏珊的父亲还将同女儿门当户对的富家大少爷介绍给女儿认识，想要撮合两人。
自卑的乔大受打击，他离开了苏珊，选择和一位名叫爱丽丝的女人走到了一起。爱丽丝虽有家室，但她的性感和温柔抚慰了乔受伤的心灵，可即便如此，乔还是无法忘记苏珊，最终，他决定挤入上流社会，名正言顺的夺走苏珊。因为苏珊腹中怀上了乔的孩子，布朗不得不同意他们的婚事。

艾利克斯桑卓（格蕾丝•凯利 Grace Kelly 饰）是含着金汤匙出生的贵族千金小姐，从小到大都过着衣食无忧养尊处优的生活。当她成长到可以婚嫁的年龄时，家门口便排起了长长的求亲队伍，无数的名门绅士都想一吻她的芳泽。
女儿的婚事是艾利克斯桑卓父母心中的头等大事，他们精挑细选，想要给女儿挣得一个好的前程，最终，他们决定将艾利克斯桑卓嫁给尊贵的王子艾伯特（亚利克•基尼斯 Alec Guinness 饰），然而，就在这个节骨眼上，艾利克斯桑卓邂逅了名为尼古拉斯（路易斯•乔丹 Louis Jourdan 饰）的家庭教师，尼古拉斯的出生十分平凡，和艾利克斯桑卓之间有着天壤之别。

小镇执法官威尔·凯恩（加里·库柏 饰）在卸任的当天，同未婚妻艾米（格蕾丝·凯利 饰）举行了婚礼，两人预备开始蜜月旅行的当口，小镇迎来了三位不速之客，他们是皮尔斯、科比和本，三人在火车站等候五年前被威尔抓获的恶棍弗兰克·米勒。预感小镇将被卷入一场血腥仇杀的人们纷纷躲避，或者力劝威尔离开，但前任执法官执意留下，并开始在镇上寻找帮手，岂料不得升迁的员警哈维、当年审判弗兰克的法官等人全部与此事撇清了关系，新婚妻子亦不支持威尔的坚守，孤立无援的威尔只得拿起自己的枪战斗……
这部影片中的时间与真实世界中的时间步调一致。本片获1953年奥斯卡最佳男主角奖等十余项专业褒奖。

最近城里的屡屡发生珠宝劫案，警察们都束手无策。因为贼人的手法和以前闻名的大盗“黑猫”约翰（加里•格兰特 Cary Grant 饰）如出一辙，警察们找上了正在乡间别墅过着悠闲生活的约翰。约翰当然不会轻易就范，他摆脱了警察之后，开始调查到底是谁用他的手法屡屡作案。毫无头绪的约翰找到了以前的战友巴先生，却被巴先生餐馆里的人视作不速之客。幸好在侍者孚的女儿的帮助下，约翰来到了嘎纳海滩。在保险公司经理的帮助下，约翰展开了他的抓贼行动。

汤尼（雷·米兰德 Ray Milland饰）和玛戈（格蕾丝·凯利 Grace Kelly 饰）是貌合神离的一对夫妻。汤尼常常为了他的事业和爱好，把娇妻忘在一边，二人感情亮出红灯。而生活寂寥的玛戈和作家马克不可避免的擦出爱之火花，他们约会、通信，不料竟被汤尼发现。汤尼没有声张，只是写了一封匿名信给妻子以示警告。然而现在马克竟然造访家中，为了一雪耻辱，加之图谋等到妻子玛戈的丰厚财产，汤尼暗生毒计。 汤尼向旧时同学列斯开出了一千英镑的价钱，让其参与他布下的一整套严密杀人计划。这套计划有设计精妙的凶手不在场证据，电话、钥匙，窗帘，统统成为这个阴谋的道具设置。然而计划终究赶不上变化，列斯不但得不到赏金，还要赔上自己的性命。而汤尼却也急中生了智……

摄影师杰弗里斯（詹姆斯·斯图尔特 饰）因站在赛车道中间拍摄，断了左腿，只得在家静养七周。除了保险公司的护士斯特拉（西尔玛·里特 饰）和女友丽莎·卡罗尔·弗里蒙特（格雷斯·凯利 饰）每日前来照料，百无聊赖的杰弗里斯只能在窗前闲看邻居们的日常生活以打发时间。对面公寓的二楼住着人造珠宝推销员拉尔斯·托瓦尔德（雷蒙德·伯尔 饰）及妻子安娜（艾琳·温斯顿 饰），夫妻之间争吵不断。一个雨夜，杰弗里斯看到拉尔斯提着箱子外出数次。次日，杰弗里斯又看到拉尔斯用报纸包裹一把锯和一把刀。杰弗里斯起了疑心，他怀疑拉尔斯杀害了安娜并分尸抛弃。然而，杰弗里斯并未目击案发过程，也未见到尸体。那么真相究竟如何呢？杰弗里斯的推测只是他的臆想吗？为了证实他的推测，杰弗里斯要如何寻找证据呢？

Grace Kelly—whose cool, blond beauty defined the aloof sexiness of the classic Hitchcock heroine—left a lasting impression on Hollywood and the world. Although her career was brief, she lit up the screen in films like High Society, Rear Window, and The Country Girl<u>,</u> for which she won an Oscar. She was not only a fine actress, great beauty, and icon of American style, but she was also a passionate philanthropist, known for her generosity and kindness. Published on the 25th anniversary of her death, Grace Kelly: A Life in Pictures is the definitive photographic portrait—160 images capturing the early years, film career, royal marriage, and private life of this remarkable woman.

Grace Kelly She was a famous American starlet who ended up living every girl's dream of becoming a princess. This American celebrity married the prince of Monaco at the age of 26 and left Hollywood behind to become a monarch. Who was Grace Kelly? Was she an American icon? Was she the much-needed life support of an antiquated royal family? Was she just a trendsetter who got lucky or was the character of Grace Kelly something that biographers, historians, and paparazzi all missed entirely? Conspiracy theorists and gossip column veterans seemed to have had a field day ever since Kelly's car ran off the side of a cliff and led to her untimely demise. But greater than any Hollywood cliff-hanger, the life of Grace Kelly demands our attention and respect. Inside you will read about... - Early Modeling Career - Parental Problems - Work with Hitchcock - To Catch a Prince - Princess or Prisoner
So, let us move beyond the many years of hype and hyperbole. Come along with us as we explore the true-life story of an American princess; come along with us as we come to grips with the life of Grace Kelly.

Drawing on his unprecedented access to Grace Kelly, bestselling biographer Donald Spoto at last offers an intimate, honest, and authoritative portrait of one of Hollywood’s legendary actresses.


In just seven years–from 1950 through 1956–Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that included roles in eleven movies. From the principled Amy Fowler Kane in High Noon to the thrill-seeking Frances Stevens of To Catch a Thief, Grace established herself as one of Hollywood’s most talented actresses and iconic beauties. Her astonishing career lasted until her retirement at age twenty-six, when she withdrew from stage and screen to marry a European monarch and became a modern, working princess and mother.

Based on never-before-published or quoted interviews with Grace and those conducted over many years with her friends and colleagues–from costars James Stewart and Cary Grant to director Alfred Hitchcock–as well as many documents disclosed by her children for the first time, acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto explores the transformation of a convent schoolgirl to New York model, successful television actress, Oscar-winning movie star, and beloved royal.

As the princess requested, Spoto waited twenty-five years after her death to write this biography. Now, with honesty and insight, High Society reveals the truth of Grace Kelly’s personal life, the men she loved, the men she didn’t, and what lay behind the façade of her fairy-tale life.

“Exactly the type of book I love: charming, smart, and brimming with heart.”—EMILY GIFFIN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted

“Fast paced and entertaining from beginning to end.”—KRISTIN HANNAH, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale

Two years after Grace Kelly’s royal wedding, her iconic dress is still all the rage in Paris—and one replica, and the secrets it carries, will inspire three generations of women to forge their own paths in life and in love.

Paris, 1958: Rose, a seamstress at a fashionable atelier, has been entrusted with sewing a Grace Kelly—look-alike gown for a wealthy bride-to-be. But when, against better judgment, she finds herself falling in love with the bride’s handsome brother, Rose must make an impossible choice, one that could put all she’s worked for at risk: love, security and of course, the dress.

Sixty years later, tech CEO Rachel, who goes by the childhood nickname “Rocky,” has inherited the dress for her upcoming wedding in New York City. But there’s just one problem: Rocky doesn’t want to wear it. A family heirloom dating back to the 1950s, the dress just isn’t her. Rocky knows this admission will break her mother Joan’s heart. But what she doesn’t know is why Joan insists on the dress—or the heartbreaking secret that changed her mother’s life decades before, as she herself prepared to wear it.

As the lives of these three women come together in surprising ways, the revelation of the dress’s history collides with long-buried family heartaches. And in the lead-up to Rocky’s wedding, they’ll have to confront the past before they can embrace the beautiful possibilities of the future.

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Get to know the real Princess Grace, from the first years of her marriage to the last days of her life. "My Days with Princess Grace of Monaco: Our 25-Year Friendship, Beyond Grace Kelly" chronicles what it was like to be best friends with an iconic princess, with 70 never-before-seen personal photos, letters and diaries that give a behind-the-scenes look at Grace Kelly's life after she became Princess Grace. Gain rare insight into her final days through a detailed account of her last family vacation the month before her tragic death. This is also the true story of the historic events depicted in "Grace of Monaco," in which Grace Kelly was to return to Hollywood at a time when Prince Rainier almost lost his crown and country.

The definitive visual biography of Grace Kelly’s unforgettable Hollywood career, chronicled in 400 extraordinary black-and white and color photographs, including many never-before-seen."Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes."—Grace KellyNo movie star of the 1950s was more beautiful, sophisticated, or glamorous than Grace Kelly. The epitome of elegance, the patrician young blonde from Philadelphia conquered Hollywood and won an Academy Award for Best Actress in just six years, then married a prince in a storybook royal wedding. Today, more than thirty years after her death, Grace Kelly remains an inspiring fashion icon.Filled with a dazzling array of photographs, many from original negatives, Grace Kelly showcases the legend’s brief yet significant acting career as never before. Blending pictures and memorabilia, this breathtaking compendium traces every step of her artistic journey, including her early television appearances, her breakout role opposite Gary Cooper in High Noon (1952), her exceptional collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock on her most indelible films—Dial M for Murder with Ray Milland (1954), Rear Window with Jimmy Stewart (1954), and To Catch a Thief with Cary Grant (1955)—and her performance in the musical High Society (1956) alongside Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby.A stunning gallery of more than 400 prized and rare photographs and illustrations—precious childhood snapshots, previously unpublished Edith Head and Helen Rose wardrobe sketches, original portraits, scene stills, on-set candids, wardrobe test shots, vintage magazine covers, and rare reproductions of exhibitor’s showmanship manuals showing how film studios marketed Grace Kelly as a star—Grace Kelly captures this beloved luminary’s eternal beauty as never before, and is a fresh, celebratory look at her remarkable career and her enduring cultural influence.

For a small-town girl with big-city dreams, there is no address more glamorous than New York’s Barbizon Hotel. Laura, a patrician beauty from Smith, arrives to work at
for the summer. Her hopelessly romantic roommate, Dolly, comes from a working-class upstate town to attend secretarial school. Vivian, a brash British bombshell with a disregard for the hotel’s rules, rounds out the trio of friends. Together, the girls embark on a journey of discovery that will take them from the penthouse apartments of Park Avenue to the Beat scene of Greenwich Village to Atlantic City’s Steel Pier — and into the arms of very different men who will alter their lives forever.

Hungry for her art and hopeful for the future, young Grace Kelly has the world at her feet. MGM's rising queen is poised to win the Oscar, but she chafes at the studio's increasing restrictions on her life. When an unexpected friendship develops between her and Prince Rainier of Monaco, she faces the tempting possibility of a new role--one that offers the power and stability she craves.
But life isn't like the movies. Twenty years into her crumbling marriage, Grace finds herself frustrated and disillusioned. Conflicted by notions of family, career, and the very nature of womanhood--notions Grace herself shaped for a generation of women--the world's loneliest princess searches for purpose beyond the labels and headlines.
A Hollywood darling, a fairy-tale princess, and a wife starved for autonomy, Grace Kelly is a woman divided. And though she is confined by public perception and societal conventions, one thing is certain--she will never bow to them.

Nyna Giles was picking up groceries at the supermarket one day when she looked down and saw the headline on the cover of a tabloid: “Former Bridesmaid of Princess Grace Lives in Homeless Shelter.” Nyna was stunned, shocked to see her family’s private ordeal made so public—the woman mentioned on that cover, Carolyn Scott Reybold, was her mother.
Nyna’s childhood had been spent in doctor’s offices. Too ill, she was told, to go to school like other children, she spent nearly every waking moment at her mother’s side at their isolated Long Island estate or on trips into the city to see the ballet. The doctors couldn’t tell her what was wrong, but as Nyna grew up, her mother, who’d always seemed fragile, became more and more distant. Now Nyna was forced to confront an agonizing realization: she barely knew the woman on the magazine in front of her.
She knew that her mother had been a model after arriving in New York in 1947, living at the Barbizon Hotel, where she’d met the young Grace Kelly and that the two had become fast friends. Nyna had seen the photos of Carolyn at Grace’s wedding, wearing the yellow bridesmaid gown that had hung in her closet for years. But how had the seemingly confident, glamorous woman in those pictures become the mother she knew growing up—the mother who was now living in a shelter?
In this powerful memoir of friendship and motherhood, Nyna Giles uncovers her mother’s past to answer the questions she never knew to ask.
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The LOL finale to the series that started with
. Perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Lindsey Kelk.
Fate has got it in for Libby Lomax. She realised, far too late, that her best friend Olly, is the actual Love of Her Life. Now he’s in love with the so-nice-it-hurts, Tash, and it looks like her happy ending is completely out of reach.
Things start looking up when she, quite literally, runs into the completely gorgeous Joel. Libby discovers that there is more to Joel than his six-pack, not least, the incredible fact that he honestly believes he has found his fairy tale princess in her.
And if this wasn’t enough, an unwanted guest shows up on Libby’s enchanted sofa; Grace Kelly, wearing her iconic wedding dress and convinced that Libby is figment of her imagination. But one thing that Grace doesn’t believe in is fairy tales. Grace believes that if you really want something, then you’ve got to make it happen yourself; words which give Libby hope that happy endings aren’t just for fairy tale princesses…