Posted 10 years ago
Guardian
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Serial #4304 is one of the rare gelatin silver glossy double-weight production key-set master prints of Lady Gracie from "Rear Window" by Virgil Apger.
Size: 8" x 10"
Origin: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Date of Image: 1954
Present status: Part of the Sapphire Guardian Collection
Usually via auctions. But time to time people also send these rare antique pictures into my collection as a gift as they know that I'll take care of them.
Where would be the fun in simply downloading them from the net? :) All these pictures in the collection are about 59 to 64+ years old Type 1 originals and are resting here at home. The essence is that all of them are antique and some of them are very-very rare and very hard to find. In some cases only one or two exists of these original photos, no more, especially the ones from 1951 and 1952 as those are extremely rare. And some of the images you can find on the net was actually scanned from these original copies, i.e.: those that are from old newspaper archives. Some are also stamped at the back which shows the career and life of the actual photo. Others has articles attached to their back which tells their story. So this is the reason I stick to the originals; each of these photos has its own story, something what you can't tell about the ones you can find on the net. :)
Thanks for posting. Grace Kelly is from my hometown, Phildelphia. My brother in law tells me he used to see her on the beach at Ocean City New Jersey, but I take that with a grain of salt.
Philadelphia
In your place I would believe that he had seen her there. The Kelly family had a vacation house, a second home there, at end of the 26th and Wesley Avenues, Ocean City, New Jersey. Grace has spent many time there as she loved that place, especially the beach, which was right near it. The house later was owned by Grace's sister, Lizanne Kelly Levine. Lizanne lived there with her husband, Don Levine and her daughter, Grace Levine Packer until both her husband and daughter died, and she sold the house in 2001. The house was demolished four years later, in the fall of 2005.
P.S. And the family also had another vacation house, at 2536 Wesley Ave. That one still stands. The 26th and Wesley Avenues was the beachfront house. Grace spent her summer days riding her bike up and down the Boardwalk, working as a waitress at a local restaurant and soaking up the summer sun. :)