Source: sfgate.com
Spoto sets the record straight on Grace Kelly
Nearsighted, asthmatic as a child, willful at times, Grace Kelly was so beautiful that she spellbound director Alfred Hitchcock for three films, including the classic 1954 thriller "Rear Window." Then she married a prince.
Biographer Donald Spoto, author of "High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly," hopes his new book sets the record straight about the Oscar-winning actress, who made 10 movies in four years before becoming the Princess of Monaco in 1956.
"After Grace's death," he says, "there was a spate of absolutely lubricious, mendacious fabrications about her sex life written by people who call themselves biographers. She was a red-blooded young woman who had boyfriends before she got married, but to present her as a woman of almost pathologic libertinism, a nymphomaniac, is absolute rubbish."
Spoto reports that contrary to popular perception, Kelly never intended to retire from movies altogether.
"When she married Prince Rainier, Grace had contractual obligations that she expected to fulfill, but as years went by, there were no roles for actresses like Grace Kelly or Audrey Hepburn. Instead you had Faye Dunaway in 'Bonnie and Clyde,' Elizabeth Taylor in 'Who's Afraid of Virginal Woolf?,' Anne Bancroft in 'The Graduate.' Grace was hungry to do more films, but this new, frank sexuality never appealed to her."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/13/AR2009111301393.html (14/11/2009)
The exhibition in Rome must have been a dee-lite to see! From here there's a dress that's never been seen before. Does anyone have a picture of Pss. Grace in the dress with the different colored squares on it and the event she wore it at. 
