The Country Girl Articles
Grace Kelly on TCM: REAR WINDOW, THE COUNTRY GIRL
James Stewart, Grace Kelly in Rear Window Turner Classic Movies' Grace Kelly series continues this Thursday, Nov. 12, with three of Kelly's biggest hits, all from 1954: Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and The Country Girl. Kelly, who died in 1982 following a car accident in Monaco, would have turned 80 on Nov. 12. Some consider Dial M for Murder a minor Alfred Hitchcock [...]
Grace Kelly: TO CATCH A THIEF, THE SWAN
Grace Kelly on TCM: Part I Thanks to Kelly's Oscar win, The Country Girl is interesting as a historical curiosity — it's the sort of "gutsy" and "realistic" film adaptation of a respected stage play that was very popular among the filmgoing elite of the 1950s (e.g., Tea and Sympathy, A Hatful of Rain), but that I generally find both lame and artificial. Bing Crosby's [...]
Grace Kelly on TCM
Stating the obvious: most people take great pleasure in idealizing their idols — which is why idols are idols. Whether we're talking of gods, saints, prophets, or pop stars, the process is pretty much the same: flaws are expunged, deeds that never took place are turned into (at times miraculous) facts, the Pantheon of the Immortals becomes their abode following their earthly demise. (In some [...]