Man Hall Of Fame Part 5

Today's inductee to the Man Hall Of Fame is a person. In fact she is was a unique combination of hotness and grace. One of the great directors of all time fell deeply in love with her and metaphorically killed her off in a later movie.

A man would never feel more manly than if this woman was on his arm. Grace Kelly could very well be the definition of hot in her prime. Hitchcock himself knew exactly what he had when he cast her and knew how to film her so the entire world would fall in love. He put her in jeopardy on screen and worshiped her off camera.

She starred in three films for Hitch, with respect to High Noon, the three best of her career were Read Window, Dial M for Murder, and To Catch A Thief. Hitchcock knew how to paint Grace Kelly with the camera. It has been theorized that Vertigo was Hitchcock's lament to losing Kelly to another man when she retired from acting in 1956. He recreated in Kim Novak a Grace Kelly look alike. It was by far his most personal film about love and loss. Not only in Novak did he try to recreate Kelly, he attempted the same with Eva Marie Saint, Janet Leigh, and of course Tippi Hedren.

Allegedly later on he unleashed his fury on Kelly in The Birds and Psycho, both with a platinum blond Kelly clones being killed outright in Psycho and taking a ton of abuse in The Birds. For the most part this is legend but there might be some merit to it if you read enough books about Hitchcock.

If you believe that she doesn't belong in my Man Hall Of Fame, that's cool but I challenge any man out there to watch all three of those movies (especially her entrance in Read Window) in a row and not love Hitchcock's image of her. Yes Grace Kelly might not have been the person in real life that she was on screen in Hitchcock's mind but that is the part I know I love.