We learnt today from Ben Child’s film column in the Guardian that Nicole Kidman will be playing Grace Kelly in a new Hollywood blockbuster. The film will be directed by Olivier Dahan whose biopic of Edith Piaf was received well by the critics and saw that Marion Cottilard won Best Actress at the Oscars in 2008.
The British Pathe archive has a wealth of great Grace Kelly newsreels and archive video footage, including some quite intimate ones when Pathe were given access to her private family life in Monaco.
You can see some of the best Grace Kelly reels here:
Also, on our YouTube channel VintageFashions you can watch this great clip of Grace Kelly modelling as a student in this video 1940s Evening Fashions:
Do you think Nicole Kidman will be good in the role as Grace? The Australian actress certainly knows how to flick between between partygirl and austere – as we saw in Moulin Rouge, and Nicole Kidman has strawberry blonde hair like Grace.
Finally – we wonder if the new film will make use of some archive footage? We hope so!
British Pathé 
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Nicole as Grace, fantastic! Simply an actress of incredible depth and gift!
and looks just like her. If the film makers do her talent justice she will be exquisite! check her out in Dogville, ”no canvass or props and still mesmorizing” we love you nic,