An actress of great beauty and undeniable talents, reduced to a pretty “royal” bauble and tabloid fixture. Grace Kelly had the edge over Princess Diana by having an intriguing pre-marriage life (Hitchcock, glimpsed). But aside from that? Tragic ends, beautiful children living on after them, gorgeous actresses playing them in bio-pics.
Kelly had wonderful practical joke feuds with the likes of Alec Guinness. Not likely to see evidence of that because it’s not how we remember her, but plainly, she was more than mere image.
This “Grace of Monaco,” even more than the Naomi Watts Diana film feels like a Lifetime Original Movie. Piffle, or little more than that. But we’ll see right after Thanksgiving. It goes into limited release Nov. 27.