Grace Kelly

Grace Kelly will go down in history as the actress who sacrificed her own career for love, aged just 26. One thing she did not forsake, however, was the headlines. They, and the lenses of the world's press, followed her wherever she went, and while High Society, the last of her 11 movies, in 1956, brought down the curtain on her Hollywood career, the legend lived on.

Her rapid rise through the Hollywood star firmament was assisted by the likes of director John Ford, who said her audition sho...