The United States and Monaco issued joint commemoratives Wednesday honoring actress Grace Kelly.
The designs are nearly identical; both depict the same portrait taken from a publicity poster for the 1954 movie “Country Girl,” for which Kelly was awarded an Oscar.
The inscriptions read “Grace Kelly” on the U.S. stamp and “Princesse Grace” on the Monaco stamp. The U.S. stamp will be 29 cents and the Monaco five francs, equivalent to about $1.
Kelly (1929-1982), who was born in Philadelphia, studied drama in New York and made her professional acting debut in 1949 in summer stock at the Bucks County (Pa.) Playhouse in “The Torchbearers.” That same year Kelly made her first appearance on Broadway in Strindberg’s “The Father.”
Her first film was “Fourteen Hours” in 1951. She starred in “High Noon” (1952), “Mogambo” (1953), “Dial M for Murder” (1954), “Rear Window” (1954), “To Catch a Thief” (1955) and “High Society” (1956).
Kelly died Sept. 14, 1982, after her auto plunged off a highway in southern France.
