Grace Kelly was born on 12 November 1929 in Philadelphia. An American actress who became a princess, Kelly starred in Hollywood in the early 1950s in films such as High Noon, Mogambo, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief, working with Alfred Hitchcock. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Country Girl in 1955. The following year she married Prince Rainier III of Monaco, and left acting to become Princess Grace, devoting herself to charity and the arts. She died after a car accident near Monaco, and her children continue the royal line.
Before and after
- from 24 October 1929 to 29 October 1929Wall Street crash of 1929
- from 29 October 1929 to 1 January 1941Great Depression
- 7 November 1929Construction of Museum of Modern Art
- 9 November 1929Birth of Imre Kertész
- 12 November 1929Birth of Grace Kelly
- 15 November 1929Birth of Ed Asner
- 2 December 1929A skull of Peking Man is found at Zhoukoudian
- 13 December 1929Birth of Christopher Plummer
- 1930Construction of Lenin's Mausoleum
More in Art, literature & culture
- 1923Construction of Forbidden City
- 1925Rise of Art Deco
- 1935Construction of Cà Mau Airport
- 21 September 1937Publication of The Hobbit
- 20 May 1940Construction of Auschwitz
- 15 January 1943Construction of The Pentagon
The era
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