Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
No Result
View All Result
Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
Home Movie

Grace Kelly Bridesmaid Was 91 – The Hollywood Reporter

rmtsa by rmtsa
October 20, 2023
in Movie
0
Grace Kelly Bridesmaid Was 91 – The Hollywood Reporter
74
SHARES
1.2k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


You might also like

Brad Pitt’s ‘F1’ Racing to $58M Box Office Opening, ‘M3GAN 2.0’ Bombs

Roundhay Garden Scene: The oldest surviving film [1888]

MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE Series Reboot Gets a New Subtitle Name LIFE’S STILL UNFAIR — GeekTyrant

Judy Balaban, the daughter of a longtime studio mogul who dated Montgomery Clift and Merv Griffin, married Tony Franciosa and served as one of Grace Kelly’s bridesmaids at her wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, has died. She was 91.

Balaban died Thursday night in a hospital in Los Angeles, her friend, author and documentary filmmaker Cari Beauchamp, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Balaban was a champion for civil rights, serving on the board of directors for the ACLU of Southern California for decades.

In a 2010 piece for Vanity Fair that she and Beauchamp co-wrote, Balaban described using LSD (then legal) as a form of therapy in the early 1960s when her good friends Cary Grant and his third wife, Betsy Drake, were using it, too.

“What I had with Cary and Betsy was a kind of soul-baringness that the culture didn’t start to deal with until years later,” she says in the story. “We continued to have that even when our lives went off in different directions.”

Balaban also talked about those days during an appearance in the 2017 Showtime documentary Becoming Cary Grant.

Her 1961-67 marriage to Franciosa (A Hatful of Rain, The Name of the Game) was sandwiched between her marriages to high-profile Hollywood agent Jay Kanter from 1953-61 and to actor Don Quine (The Virginian) from 1971-96. All three ended in divorce.

Judith Rose Balaban was born in Chicago in October 13, 1932, to Tillie and Barney Balaban. Her father co-owned a chain of theaters before he was elected president of Paramount in 1936, and he would preside over the studio through 1964.

Her brother was noted jazz musician Red Balaban, and her half-brother was Burt Balaban, a producer of films including 1960’s Murder, Inc.

She and her family moved to New York when her dad took the Paramount job, and she attended high school in Washington, D.C., before returning to Manhattan to work in the fashion industry.

Balaban, who was in the gossip sheets as dating Clift in the early ’50s when he was making films like A Place in the Sun, was going out with Griffin and watching him sing at a nightclub when she was introduced to Kanter. Their marriage brought her to Hollywood.

Balaban became fast friends with Kelly through Kanter, who was the actress’ agent (he also represented the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando and Paul Newman during his career). The star of High Noon, Rear Window and The Country Girl called her “Judybird”; she called Kelly “Graciebird.”

When Kelly and Rainier wed at Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Monaco on April 18, 1956, Balaban was there alongside fellow bridesmaids Maree Frisby, a high-school friend of Kelly’s; Sally Parrish and Bettina Thompson, classmates from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts; Carolyn Scott, a modeling companion; and actress Rita Gam, Kelly’s onetime roommate in Hollywood.

All traveled to Monaco with the bride-to-be aboard the SS Constitution. (Ava Gardner, who starred with Kelly in 1953’s Mogambo, reportedly declined to be a bridesmaid.)

Balaban wrote about the experience in her 1989 book, The Bridesmaids: Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, and Six Intimate Friends.

She described Kelly’s dress — created by MGM costume designer Helen Rose — as “twenty-five yards of silk peau de soie, another twenty-five of light silk taffeta, ninety-eight yards of silk tulle and nearly three hundred and twenty yards of Valenciennes lace.”

Balaban also appeared in 1983 and 2018 documentaries about Clift and one about Kelly in 1987 and was interviewed for Mark Cousins’ acclaimed 2011 doc series The Story of Film: An Odyssey.

Survivors include her daughters, Amy, whom she had with Kanter, and Nina, whom she had with Franciosa; and a cousin, Oscar-nominated actor Bob Balaban. Victoria, her other daughter with Kanter, died in June 2020.

Scott Feinberg contributed to this report.



Source link

Tags: BridesmaidGraceHollywoodKellyReporter
Share30Tweet19
rmtsa

rmtsa

Recommended For You

Brad Pitt’s ‘F1’ Racing to $58M Box Office Opening, ‘M3GAN 2.0’ Bombs

by rmtsa
June 28, 2025
0
Brad Pitt’s ‘F1’ Racing to M Box Office Opening, ‘M3GAN 2.0’ Bombs

Apple Original Films‘ critically acclaimed F1: The Movie is off to the races. The Formula One movie — directed by Joseph Kosinski of Top Gun: Maverick fame and starring Brad Pitt...

Read more

Roundhay Garden Scene: The oldest surviving film [1888]

by rmtsa
June 28, 2025
0
Roundhay Garden Scene: The oldest surviving film [1888]

Roundhay Garden Scene is a short silent motion picture filmed by French inventor Louis Le Prince at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds, in Yorkshire on 14 October 1888....

Read more

MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE Series Reboot Gets a New Subtitle Name LIFE’S STILL UNFAIR — GeekTyrant

by rmtsa
June 28, 2025
0
MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE Series Reboot Gets a New Subtitle Name LIFE’S STILL UNFAIR — GeekTyrant

The Malcolm in the Middle limited series reboot wrapped production last month, and we are just hearing about the new name the episodes will go by - Malcolm...

Read more

‘The Batman 2’ Script Is Finally Done

by rmtsa
June 28, 2025
0
‘The Batman 2’ Script Is Finally Done

Three years after The Batman opened in theaters, the script for the sequel is finally complete.The Batman co-writer/director Matt Reeves shared a photo of the script on his Instagram account with...

Read more

Taika Waititi’s Live-Action Movie Gets Disappointing Update

by rmtsa
June 28, 2025
0
Taika Waititi’s Live-Action Movie Gets Disappointing Update

Taika Waititi’s live-action Akira movie has received a disappointing update courtesy of a new report from THR. What is the latest on the live-action Akira movie? According to...

Read more
Next Post
Brynn Whitfield Shades Tamra Judge for Telling Andy to ‘F**k Off’

Brynn Whitfield Shades Tamra Judge for Telling Andy to ‘F**k Off’

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Browse by Category

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized

CATEGORIES

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized
No Result
View All Result

Recent News

  • All the glamorous celebrity looks from the Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez wedding – National
  • Resident Alien’s Edi Patterson on Heather/Harry’s Future, Episode 4
  • Brad Pitt’s ‘F1’ Racing to $58M Box Office Opening, ‘M3GAN 2.0’ Bombs

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In