Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while 2,800 admirers, who had paid up to $250 each, enjoyed three hours of celluloid suspense. Clips from many of Hitchcock's 56 movies were interspersed with personal appearances by French Director François Truffaut, Joan Fontaine (Rebecca), Janet Leigh (Psycho). Cyril Ritchard (Blackmail) and Monaco's Princess Grace (Rear Window, Dial M for Murder). Grace, whose career was made in Hitchcock movies, quoted one of Hitch's quips. After being stuffed into a tightfitting gold lamé ballgown for To Catch a Thief, she was greeted by him with "There's hills...
...Show flop of the week: John Kelly of Philadelphia, ineligible for England's Henley Diamond Sculls more than 50 years ago because he had worked with his hands as a bricklayer, returned to haunt the hoity-toity British in the person of his lissome granddaughter Princess Caroline of Monaco, 17. That was roughly the plot the Philadelphia Inquirer reported last week in a story that said Prince Charles of England, 25, was swept off his feet by Caroline. The pair got together presumably last year when she attended a convent school near Windsor Castle. The problems were even more...
About 1,500 people have been in vited to the wedding, including Mark's saddle maker and the village blacksmith from the Phillipses' family home near Great Somerford, Wiltshire. Of Europe's surviving monarchs, only Monaco's Prince Rainier will be present. Television cameras, though, will provide live coverage for a potential audience of 500 million around the world...
...million for the year ended last March 31 and a 40% rise in the price of S.B.M. stock, to $15.50. No one was more pleased than his third cousin, Prince Rainier, known to Americans as the husband of elegant Movie Star Grace Kelly. Prince Rainier's Monaco government owns two-thirds of the shares...
Before 1966, the controlling interest was owned by Aristotle Onassis and S.B.M. made money. But in Prince Louis's view, the prosperity was deceptive, concealing weaknesses that became obvious after "Ari" left. Says the prince: "People got to saying: 'Monte Carlo and Monaco are for old people. They are boring.' " Seeking the younger set, S.B.M. under Prince Louis brought top nightclub Hostess-Singer Régine from Paris to headline a new club, and so upgraded its restaurants that one got a star in the Guide Michelin this year. The government helped out by building...