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Article: Sense of Grace Still Pervades Magic Monaco
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 20, 1995
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The first thing I wanted to do when I got to Monaco was find the
road above Prince Rainier's magic kingdom where Grace Kelly and Cary
Grant, perhaps the most beautiful couple in movie history, had a
seductive picnic in "To Catch a Thief."
"Would you like a leg or a breast?" Grace asked, playfully, as
she pulled a chicken out of a basket.
"You decide," said Cary.
That scene, and a later one in Monte Carlo where Grace and Cary
begin making love against a backdrop of fireworks exploding over the
Mediterranean, made "To Catch a Thief" a thriller in more ways than
one.
But it wasn't nostalgia that had me searching for that picnic
site. It just seemed the ideal spot to begin my visit to a ...