Mogambo News

Grace Patricia Kelly American actress of films and television, known for her stately beauty and reserve.

The Stevens School yearbook circa 1947 said Grace Kelly was most likely 'to become a stage and screen star,' a statement that was both prophetic and, on a deeper level, too shallow in scope, at least according to what is revealed in High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly , Donald Spoto's authorized biography of the late actress.

Beverly Hills' Courier columnist George Christy goes inside the life of the iconic blonde beauty.

SHE GLOWS: Grace Kelly with Cary Grant in the 1955 film To Catch a Thief. LUMINOUS: Grace Kelly in the 1953 film Mogambo.

Clark Gable and director Victor Fleming - who would reunite a few years later for a little drama called "Gone With the Wind" - collaborated on this soapy 1932 drama about an American rubber plantation owner in Indochina who finds himself swept up in a triangle with a floozy from Saigon and the beautiful wife of a visiting engineer.

Was HER Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco the most alarmingly glamorous creature who ever lived or, anyway, who was ever photographed? Donald Spoto finds himself cooing over how she was the very 'essence of freshness' she 'smelled of gardenias, exotic and pure...'. At which point we need to remind ourselves that Grace Kelly, the subject of ...

MOGAMBO is a rip-roaring African adventure from MGM, in the tradition of that studio's KING SOLOMON'S MINES .

Th inking of Africa means wild animals and thundering drums a ' the image that Hollywood has been spoon-feeding us since Tarzan of the Apes was first shown.

When Grace Kelly dazzled the screen in her first starring role, as the almost murderee in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder , she represented a new phenomenon in Hollywood.

ANTHONY REYES Northwest Arkansas Times Fayetteville resident Joan Seiz was a flight attendant for Eastern Air Lines for 37 years.