Grace Kelly, actress and friend of Josephine Baker, Princess of Monaco, 1929 to 1982.
Subject of a song by Mika. And cool enough to have a Myspace page.
And the star of brilliant Hitchock movies such as To Catch A Thief, in which she was cool and elegant enough to turn Cary Grant straight again.
And the classic Rear Window, in which she was able to convince the rugged and wild Jimmy Stewart to stay in one place for a bit and settle down and stop stammering and stuttering.
And Dial M For Murder, a movie with a quite frankly unbelievably ridiculous plot. If you were married to the queen of Hitchcock’s icy blonde muses, why would you want to kill her?
It was also paid homage to in this photoset of iconic scenes from Hitchcock movies, this one above featuring the lovely Charlize Theron. At least it wasn’t Gwyneth Paltrow.
Maybe someday This Recording will let me write an article for them on the women of Hitchcock’s films…
…especially if I mention that Mad Men’s Betty Draper (January Jones) is a perfect evocation of Grace Kelly if she were crammed every day into the role of June Cleaver.
