Gwynnie Should Forget Glee and Star in the Bio-Pic of Grace Kelly
Gwyneth Paltrow has just a few years left to play the movie role she was born for - the lead in the bio-pic of Grace Kelly, the American actress who quit Hollywood to marry Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956.
I watched the Alfred Hitchcock-directed To Catch A Thief on television recently, which stars Kelly and Cary Grant, for the umpteenth time.
The witty, double-entendre laden script and the pleasing images of the South of France in the 1950s returned like an old friend.
The movie is one of Hitchcock's minor works and hardly classifies as a thriller.
It comes to life only when ex-jewel thief Grant and virginal socialite Kelly are on the screen together.
For the first time I was struck by the facial similarities of Kelly and Paltrow, who fortunately would be a sufficiently good actress to carry off the complex role, as long as a singing career doesn't divert her since the success on Glee.
Of course Paltrow could play the older Princess Grace, who died at 52 suffering a stroke - and car crash - while driving in Monaco in 1982.
But the Grace Kelly in her mid-twenties - when she made To Catch A Thief and just before she met Rainier - would offer Paltrow a meatier part.
Kelly's beauty was at its peak and Hollywood's leading men were at her feet.
Sleepless nights await any director trying to cast the men who pursued Kelly.
They are said to include David Niven, William Holden, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Marlon Brando.
The last two may have come to blows over her.
Perhaps this is why up on the screen the cocktail of Kelly's glacial beauty and the sensual woman beneath is so potent.
She was a Hollywood princess before becoming a real one.
In those days film stars were a breed apart.
They would never be caught by photographers out shopping in their jeans with no make-up.
Roll the final credits after her wedding as the Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco but before then proper recognition should be given to Kelly's film work, which included the Best Actress Oscar for The Country Girl in 1955.
Researching this article it came as news to me Kelly's long friendship with and support of black American entertainer Josephine Baker.
This is the most intriguing part of her Wikipedia entry and the contrast - in all sorts of ways - between the two extraordinary women would make the film a must-see winner.
I watched the Alfred Hitchcock-directed To Catch A Thief on television recently, which stars Kelly and Cary Grant, for the umpteenth time.
The witty, double-entendre laden script and the pleasing images of the South of France in the 1950s returned like an old friend.
The movie is one of Hitchcock's minor works and hardly classifies as a thriller.
It comes to life only when ex-jewel thief Grant and virginal socialite Kelly are on the screen together.
For the first time I was struck by the facial similarities of Kelly and Paltrow, who fortunately would be a sufficiently good actress to carry off the complex role, as long as a singing career doesn't divert her since the success on Glee.
Of course Paltrow could play the older Princess Grace, who died at 52 suffering a stroke - and car crash - while driving in Monaco in 1982.
But the Grace Kelly in her mid-twenties - when she made To Catch A Thief and just before she met Rainier - would offer Paltrow a meatier part.
Kelly's beauty was at its peak and Hollywood's leading men were at her feet.
Sleepless nights await any director trying to cast the men who pursued Kelly.
They are said to include David Niven, William Holden, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Marlon Brando.
The last two may have come to blows over her.
Perhaps this is why up on the screen the cocktail of Kelly's glacial beauty and the sensual woman beneath is so potent.
She was a Hollywood princess before becoming a real one.
In those days film stars were a breed apart.
They would never be caught by photographers out shopping in their jeans with no make-up.
Roll the final credits after her wedding as the Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco but before then proper recognition should be given to Kelly's film work, which included the Best Actress Oscar for The Country Girl in 1955.
Researching this article it came as news to me Kelly's long friendship with and support of black American entertainer Josephine Baker.
This is the most intriguing part of her Wikipedia entry and the contrast - in all sorts of ways - between the two extraordinary women would make the film a must-see winner.
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