Princess grace kelly life magazine
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Life Magazine, April 11, 1955 - Grace Kelly
Full page Ethyl Corporation ad in the series "Road Birds" - Screeching Tern. The Olivetti Corporation sets up a typewriter on the sidewalk and LIFE records what happens and what is typed. Full page movie poster ad for "Run for Cover" with James Cagney, unusual layout. Big feature on Polio and the Salk vaccine, one photo shows huge numbers of computer punch cards that are part of statistical analysis. Lucky 19 of 23 survive aircraft crash off the coast of Oregon. Oscar winners. Modern designers enliven the ancient craft of stained-glass windows - in churches. What goes on inside atomic submarine. Antarctic visit of U.S. Navy ship U.S.S. Atka breaks ice for an international expedition - big new push to study antarctica. England's Don Campbell seeks water speed record by jet boat, Lake Ullswater. Two new store mannequins are nearly exact copies of little girls, Tucker Burns and Carol Bancker. Stair-cli
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Life Magazine, June 23, 1961 - Princess Grace Kelly
Young John Clark Gable's christening. Full page ad for " By Love Possessed" starring Lana turner, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., George Hamilton, more. Goldfine case, he describes friendship, gifts and the way Eisenhower reacted to his imprudence. SAC alert - Operation Readiness Inspection hits Loring Air Force Base in Maine, ORI. Nice two page photo of Grace Kelly with Jennie Flanagan. 18-year-old Lew Krausse Jr. is starting pitcher for Kansas City Athletics, baseball. Full page color America Fore Loyalty Group ad with painting of Sergeant William Jasper by F.C. Yohn. Backache - its cause. Photo essay - Harvard's 325th commencement. In color - Danish pleasure park Tivoli, twelve pages of sumptuous photos by Mark Kaufmann. Oskar Kokoschka, painter and teacher, at his famous art school in Austria. College teacher tells of ingenious, illegal and widespread ways students pass exams. Full page color Canad
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Written By: Ben Cosgrove
Before Harry and Meghan, before William and Kate, before Charles and Di, before Liz and Dick (I and II), before any of the “storybook” weddings of the past several decades, there was the fairytale wedding of the gods century: the April 1956 nuptials of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco. The tale of the American movie star and Philadelphia native marrying the prince of a small, sensationally wealthy city-state was simply too perfect to ignore and for months leading up to the event, from the time of the couple’s engagement until the two ceremonies (civil and religious) that formalized their union, the Hollywood princess and the real-life prince were hardly ever out of the news.
Here, LIFE.com presents photos many of which never ran in LIFE magazine from the moment the couple announced their engagement in January 1956 until they were married three and a half months later in Monaco. In an issue published a few weeks after the wed