![]() ![]() The pressure was on to prove him wrong, which she set out to do with a mixture of ambition and wounded self-confidence. When Jack Kelly reluctantly agreed to let Grace enter the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, he was openly skeptical of her future as an actress. ![]() The reason, according to her brother, was that “she got away from home early.”īut it seems she never really got away. Although he judged Grace the least likely to succeed, she turned out to be the only real achiever. Like Joseph Kennedy, he was a philanderer who preached family values and a formidable patriarch who brought up his children to become all-American winners. Her father, Jack Kelly, came from a poor Irish-American family in Philadelphia, but by the time Grace was born in 1929 he made his first $1 million in the construction business and built a 17-room mansion in the fashionable hillside suburb of East Falls. Pressure that began in childhood and never really let up. The story of her life, as Robert Lacey so convincingly tells it, is of Grace under pressure. ![]()
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