Grace Kelly (film)

Grace Kelly is a 1983 American made-for-television biographical film starring Cheryl Ladd as Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco. The film originally aired on ABC on February 21, 1983.
The producers claimed that Princess Grace assisted for several weeks with the film's pre-production before her unexpected death in 1982.

Cast

Cheryl Ladd as Grace Kelly
*Christina Applegate as Young Grace Kelly
Lloyd Bridges as Jack Kelly
Diane Ladd as Margaret Kelly
Alejandro Rey as Oleg Cassini
Ian McShane as Prince Rainier of Monaco
Marta DuBois as Rita Gam

Critical reception

The New York Times wrote that Cheryl Ladd "comes reasonably close to being as beautiful as the original," but regretted "the sense of stately awe and suffocating propriety that seeps through the project. Grace Kelly will offend nobody. Unfortunately, it's not likely to interest too many people, either"; Allmovie agreed that the film "tones down the darker aspects of its subject, and the film is infinitely more tasteful than most other TV biographies of the same period, even when dealing with Princess Grace's untimely death"; whereas the Radio Times wrote "There's much that this TV movie glosses over, particularly with regard to her love life, but director Anthony Page successfully conveys the pressures placed on Kelly by her privileged background and her international fame."