In To Catch A Thief, pinups Grace Kelly and Brigitte Auber both compete for Grant's affections, despite them being 25 and 24 years younger respectively, his salt and pepper locks doing nothing to lessen the chemistry and plausibility of the attraction; Doris Day, 20 years his junior, plays his love interest in That ...
While some working relationships end when the cameras stop rolling, Cary Grant and Grace Kelly maintained a lifelong friendship, with Cary becoming a frequent guest at Roc Agel after Grace Kelly became Princess Grace of Monaco.
Although playing a 21-year-old, Audrey Hepburn was actually 35 in real life. Jeremy Brett (who turned 30 during filming) was cast as 20-year-old Freddy Eynsford-Hill so Hepburn would not seem too old in comparison.
With an age gap of 54 years, the couple was rumoured to have split up, but that wasn't the case, according to TMZ. Alfallah previously dated The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and works in the entertainment industry. Cher and Alexander Edwards have a 40-year age gap.
Grace Kelly Slept Around So Much That It Ruined Her Career
How much older was Jimmy Stewart than Grace Kelly?
Equally strange is the 21-age gap Stewart shares with his actress Grace Kelly who plays his socialite girlfriend Lisa Carol Fremont. While 46-year-old Stewart was nearing his 50s, Kelly was much younger as she was only 25 at the time when Rear Window was filming.
Her singing was done by the enormously gifted Marni Nixon, whom among others, dubbed the voice of Deborah Kerr in THE KING AND I. One of the extras on the MY FAIR LADY disc shows how Audrey Hepburn actually sounded before the dubbing.
This depiction is important because Shaw maintains later in his epilogue that one of the reasons for Eliza's rejection of the possibility of marriage to Higgins is that she could never live up to Mrs. Higgins' standards, that she could never equal Mrs. Higgins' grasp of life.
The stifling British class system of the time prevents that from happening. No matter how beautifully she speaks and conducts herself, she will always be a guttersnipe to Higgins and his imperialist ways. And so she is better off marrying the rather simple but devoted Freddy Eynsford Hill.
The religious ceremony was held at Monaco's Saint Nicholas Cathedral and was attended by around 600 people, including movie stars like Cary Grant, Gloria Swanson, and Ava Gardner, as well as members of high society like Aristotle Onassis and Conrad Hilton.
The truth is that Princess Grace and Prince Rainier loved each other very much, right from the beginning. He courted her long distance at a time when people still wrote letters, and he wrote very poetically.
STORICAL FOOTNOTES: BFFS GRACE KELLY & JOSEPHINE BAKER
The two women met when Grace Kelly stood up for Josephine who was being denied service at a New York club. They would remain friends for the rest of Josephine's life, after which she would be buried in Monaco, near her friend.
Henry Higgins did remain in Eliza Doolittle's life, but Shaw was insistent on the fact that they were no match romantically, that they remained purely friends who saw each other as sparring partners in wit and cleverness.
At that moment, Higgins returns, looking for his slippers, which Eliza hurls at him with all her force. He is totally baffled by her display of anger. He is furthermore astounded by her calling him a "selfish brute" who is ready to throw her back into the gutter now that she has won his bet for him.
There is a brief episode in this act in which Eliza threatens to leave because Higgins is being so rude to her, and he calls her an ingrate. She does not leave because he uses chocolates to tempt her back. This is in contrast to the final act when Higgins again calls her an ingrate.
W-where the devil are my slippers?!” Eliza then walks up to him, places her hand on his cheek, turns around and walks out, leaving Higgins in the study as the lights lower. This ending is so painfully awkward.
Higgins denies any difference in treatment, and Eliza announces she will marry Freddy because he loves her. She says she was foolish to think she needed Higgins and will never see him again ("Without You"). Henry Higgins realizes his attachment to Eliza ("I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face").
My Fair Lady tries to offer the best of both worlds by adapting the original ending, but stopping short of having Eliza leave once more. It makes the ending somewhat ambiguous but heavily implies that the two will remain together, despite Higgins' nasty shortcomings.
How old was Audrey Hepburn during the filming of My Fair Lady?
Although playing a 21-year-old flower girl, Hepburn was actually 34 in real life. The opera that was playing the night Professor Higgins and Eliza meet in Covent Gardens was Faust. The inspiration for the library in Professor Henry Higgins' home was a room at the Château de Groussay, Montfort-l'Amaury, in France.
As the voice of Maria in 'West Side Story' and Eliza Doolittle in 'My Fair Lady', Marni Nixon should have been one of Hollywood's biggest stars. Instead, other actors got the credit and she became American cinema's 'most unsung singer', writes Alexandra Pollard.
Dubbing. Hepburn's singing was judged inadequate, and she was dubbed by Marni Nixon, who sang all songs except "Just You Wait", in which Hepburn's voice was preserved during the harsh-toned chorus, with Nixon on the melodic bridge section. Hepburn sang the brief reprise of the song in tears.
You know, I just love Grace Kelly. Not because she was a princess, not because she was an actress, not because she was my friend, but because she was just about the nicest lady I ever met.
In 1956, she appeared in the romantic comedy The Swan, and the musical comedy High Society. Later that year, the 26-year-old Kelly retired from acting, to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco, becoming the princess of Monaco.
On June 25, 1997, a thrombosis formed in his right leg, leading to a pulmonary embolism, and a week later on July 2, 1997, surrounded by his children, James Stewart died at age 89 at his home in Beverly Hills, California. His last words to his family were, "I'm going to be with Gloria now".
She knows that she cannot return to her old way of life, and she cannot stand the idea of living "with a low common man after you two" (Higgins and Pickering), and she certainly doesn't intend to go to her father's house to live; thus, as soon as possible, she will marry Freddy.
