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DEVASTATING BEAUTY : the CUT

"Beauty can be isolating."

Richard Avedon

GRETA GARBO "Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening."

GRACE KELLY "Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal."

MERLE OBERON "Without security it is difficult for a woman to look or feel beautiful."

of MARELLA AGNELLI Capote said "If they were both in Tiffany's window, Marella would be more expensive."(the other 'they' being Babe Paley.)

Pauline de Rothschild "Elegance. The most fleeting, intractable of qualities. It can be increased, but rarely bought outright."

James Lees-Milne said of DIANA MITFORD her beauty was "the closest to Botticelli's Venus that I have ever seen."

PAUL NEWMAN "You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career."

GARY COOPER “The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all”

Giorgi Armani said of TINA CHOW " Tina had an innate elegance and never needed any designer to do anything for her. Rather she did a lot for us."

DONYALE LUNA "Back in Detroit I wasn't considered beautiful or anything but here I'm different"

in NO particular order-

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Grace

Along with the Blushing Hostess (here) and in celebration of our most elegant and gracious First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy- Little Augury celebrates GRACE.

American born Grace Kelly:

Hollywood movie star extraordinaire,
Absolute Beauty,
Princess Grace of Monaco.

The Blushing Hostess has invited us to visit her site and see all the postings about gracious people.

Grace Kelly lit up the tiny Principality of Monaco with Her magic, Her stardom, Her elegance, Her style,

Her Grace.

Her Serene Highness, Princess Grace, played the Fleur Cowles Flower Game-selecting Ten Flowers she would take to fill her own island. Of the two hundred that answered to Cowles , the Princess' answers reveal much.

After reflecting, she put together a perfect world, providing everything she might need with her choices; beauty, sustenance, shelter and a fairy tale ending. She was an intellectual, an artist, a pragmatist and a dreamer.

The Princess Plays the Flower Game

in Grace's own words

I chose ZUCCHINI so that I could eat the flower...

(the Zucchini Blossom)

let the leaves grow over a trellis made from BAMBOO*
where I would sit quietly in the shade and contemplate

my beautiful ROSES

and pure white IRIS.

Bees would make a hive in the fragrance of my APPLE tree

(the apple blossom)

and enjoy the LAVENDER

and ROSEMARY to make their honey.

after running through my field of DAISIES,

I would stretch out...sip a little rosemary tea and nibble on GLADIOLUS bulb (very rich in Vitamin C). I would be very kind to this much maligned flower whose sisters are bobbing up and down, precariously perched on the back decks of yachts in Monte Carlo Harbour, looking quite forlorn.

I would try to find a fresh water pond on the island for my WATER LILIES
with the hope that their large leaves will attract frogs.

Who knows?

One might turn into a handsome prince who would be decent enough to whisk me off this lonely island
and take me back to civilization...

After all, I am really a city girl at heart!

Princess Grace had a full staff in the Palace awaiting her pleasure, all in attendance to assure the success of entertaining in her name-Yet one can not imagine her hand not being in it all. The same thoughtfulness and care she must have taken in each and every detail-Much like her flower list.

* her note-" I hope you will accept it although I have never seen it flower."

Cary Grant plays the Flower Game

"he loves me"
"he loves me not"

the Daisy
one of Grant's picks

Cary Grant as Fleur's Leading Man

Grant was best man at the last of Fleur's fourth marriage and Grant was married five times. So these two would have had a lot more than flowers to talk about.

Grant as leading man with Grace Kelly in Hitchcock's
"To Catch A Thief"

Who wouldn't let Grant lead them around? He is for me Hollywood's one and only best Leading Man.

Grant's enthusiasm for his pick of flowers is adorable. He still has that effect.

As Grant told it to Fleur:

"My selections, probably listed in the favour with which I regard them
since they popped to mind in the following order:

PANSIES- all types, all colours; LILACS- lavender and/or white; BLUEBELLS;

LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY;

DAISIES-not the small field daisy but the larger, single petalled variety:

SWEET PEAS Lathyrus odoratus;

ROSES; VIOLETS; CORNFLOWERS-Blue; JASMINE."

& Grant added:

" Though how could you limit me, or anyone, to a list of only ten?
I long to add primroses, mimosa, frangipani, carnations, fuchsias...

Oh, I could go on for hours."

Cary Grant's Palm Springs Home for over 20 years
Las Palomas (The Doves)
see more of it here