This is Grace Kelly. The antithesis to Ava Gardner and the same archetypal beauty of Mrs. Betty Draper.

What’s the story on Mrs. Kelly?

Well! There are many delicious parallels. Just look-wise, her and Birdie have a lot of the same things going on. Demure, delicate, the suggestion of high class. Kelly was from money and while attending a fancy Pennsylvania academy, Ravenhill, she did some modeling with her sisters and appeared in amateur plays.

Kelly went to the same dramatic arts school as Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. She had a relatively short and glorious stint in Hollywood: 6 years. Her regal-ness  was best exploited under director Alfred Hitchcock. She starred in Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. The New Yorker applauded her virginal beauty and ‘quiet confidence’ . She cinched an Oscar for Country Girl in 1954.

Then she literally became a princess: Kelly married Prince Rainer of Monacc in 1956. Her official tittle became Her Serene Highness, the Princess of Monaco and she spent the second half of her life throwing charity balls and giving out awards to dignitaries and starlets.

She died in a car crash in 1982 on the streets of Monaco while driving her daughter to their country house.