Article: Ultimate Grace: remembering Grace Kelly, a great American actress and a real-life princess, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of her death.

THERE HAS BEEN a bounty of charismatic blondes on the silver screen-Jean Harlow and Carole Lombard in the 1930s; Veronica Lake, Lana Turner and Betty Grable in the 1940s; and in recent years, Sharon Stone, Cameron Diaz, Gwyneth Paltrow and a host of look-alikes, many of them forgettable. But no celluloid blondes were like those in the 1950s, which was a decade of luscious fair-haired babes who had one thing in common: their commonness. Sexpots all, there was, most famously, Marilyn Monroe, followed by Mamie Van Doren, Jayne Mansfield and Kim Novak. The French version was the pouty Brigitte Bardot.

There were two exceptions to the ripe-and-ready rule. The first was ...

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