Tragically, that anniversary was to come all to soon, as she died at 52 in an automobile accident in 1982. Granting Spoto hours upon hours of interviews and access to her personal life, she held Spoto to one condition: that he not publish any biography of her until 25 years after her death. She was more interested in perfecting her craft and had her sights set more on Broadway than Tinseltown. But Kelly chafed at the image that MGM and the media ensnared her in. Kelly epitomized high glamour even before she married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956, winning the hearts of legions of Americans as the star of 11 Hollywood films between 1950 and her marriage (including Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and To Catch a Thief ). To outsiders, it looked like a glamorous life, but it really was not." But I found it unreal-unreal and full of men and women whose lives were confused and full of pain. "Oh, I liked some of the people I worked with and some friends I made there, and I was thankful for the chance to do some good work. "I never really liked Hollywood," Grace Kelly told author Donald Spoto, the author of her new biography, High Society
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