Grace of Monaco

Cut, great.

- That's a wrap, everyone! - (APPLAUSE)

Great job, fantastic!

Fantastic!

That was amazing!

Nice. Beautiful job.

That was glorious. Thank you.

Grace Kelly, the Academy A ward winning Movie Star,

born in Philadelphia, USA, is about to rejoin Prince Rainier III of Monaco,

whose chance meeting with Grace in Cannes led to a whirlwind courtship,

and a feat no Hollywood leading man was ever able to accomplish,

winning Grace Kelly's hand in marriage.

With their storybook romance nearing its happy ending,

Miss Kelly boarded the liner Constitution with the rest of the Kelly family,

including her father Jack,

who built a construction business that made him a millionaire

and an embodiment of the American dream.

Hollywood royalty joins Monegasque royalty...

the century's biggest wedding in the world's smallest state.

Best wishes and presents have arrived from all over the world,

from kings and queens, presidents and prime ministers,

movie magnates and millionaires.

Grace Kelly... now Her Serene Highness, the Princess of Monaco...

has left behind everything she's ever known for a new life in a new world,

destined to live happily ever after with her charming prince.

From here you can see the whole of Monaco, Mr Hitchcock.

Yes, I know.

You are to refer to her as Your Highness.

Or if you speak French, you can call her Votre Altesse.

Just Altesse is also acceptable, but Highness is not. Nor is Princess.

Are you coming or not, Mr Hitchcock?

Remember to nod your head when you first make her presence, but do not bow.

She's not the Queen of England.

Oh! You've grown so big!

This is for you. First prize of the Monaco Young Poets' society.

Oh!

Ma'am, you can't bend down.

Oh... Pardon.

Hitch!

This is the part where I say, "Cut!"

Marnie.

Marnie?

So who's the leading man?

I don't know. Cubby Broccoli just made a spy movie with some Scottish fellow

he's raving about.

We go into production in spring.

And Universal will pay you $1 million.

Well, it's not about the money, Hitch.

It's going to be the role of a lifetime, Gracie.

Do I look that unhappy?

You look tired.

Where's Rainier?

We rarely see each other.

He er... He works a lot.

We've prepared a room at the palace for you. You'll stay?

- I have to get back to LA. - Oh, please!

I'm sorry, I left Evan alone with Cary Grant.

And goodness knows what they've done to my Birds script.

How is Cary?

Cary's great.

But his wife still sticks pins in your effigy every night.

You're still an artist, Gracie.

Don't forget it.

Hitch!

I'm fine.

Doesn't get better than this.

Highness.

Hey, when I screw a woman, I'm in it for the long haul, so to speak.

That's what I said to Maria. Hey, be proud of your scandals.

What else are they gonna write about when you're gone?

- (LAUGHTER) - That's not how it happened at all.

No.

I was hoping we could talk privately.

President De Gaulle is worried for French jobs.

We have to do something. Our treasury is practically empty.

So you steal our taxes...

to pay for all of this?

This is all an image, Monsieur Denard.

Your president knows that. This is all we have left to sell.

Madam, did you know you are sitting on the world's largest penis?

My bar stools, made from whale's scrotum.

- Ari! Please! - (LAUGHS)

It's all right, Antoinette. Mr Onassis was joking.

Ari, would you like me to confiscate your boat?

I'd like to leave now.

You're his sister, you have to stay.

Are any of your Hollywood friends here?

Uh... no. No. This is Mr Onassis's party.

He likes to be the biggest drunk on the boat.

Well, our point is, the British will always side with the Americans.

Their Atlanticism will be the end of our culture.

President de Gaulle believes we must pool our wealth and finance a third pillar,

between the Soviets and the United States.

That's what Europe must become.

- What should I do about my children? - About what?

Well, they're Monegasque and they're American.

Perhaps I should drop them in the middle of the ocean?

France is stuck in a terrible war in Algeria, Your Highness.

Many lives have been lost.

The very stability of our country is under threat.

That means the stability of Europe is under threat.

One would ask why you are fighting a war in Africa.

Conflict is often a necessary evil.

Especially in the colonies.

Oh, but colonialism is so last century.

I suspect one shouldn't occupy a princess with such... matters.

I was brought up to participate.

My father would have been most upset to see someone without enthusiasm.

Of course.

It is the American way.

Perhaps if it was the European way, we wouldn't have had Fascism, Communism

or the need for your president's third pillar.

This is not America, Grace!

- People don't just speak their minds. - And why not?

Because that man is the chief treasury agent...

That man is a bully!

He's the chief treasury agent to Charles de Gaulle!

The most powerful voice in Europe.

And I need him on my side if I'm ever to modernise this country.

- So what did you expect me to say? - Say nothing! Say nothing!

Because everything you say has consequences.

Not now, Madge. Not now.

Isn't this what you wanted me to teach Caroline and Albert? Isn't it?

Never be afraid to speak your mind?

That's what you said you loved about me.

Madge said...

Hitchcock came to see you.

Madge said that?

Yes, he came to see how I was.

He was passing through, and...

It was nice to see him.

I wish you told me.

I'd like to have seen him.

This hospital's been abandoned for years.

We don't even know if the floors are sound.

Ma'am, we simply cannot justify these repairs.

The hospital already accounts for most of our spending.

How about the palace gives you an endowment,

and the Red Cross Committee matches it?

If you pay to expand the orphanage,

the retirement homes will expect you to do the same, and then the schools.

And you don't have the funds.

My dear Countess, it's really very, very simple and necessary.

All we have to do is convert this space into an open dormitory.

And then we put partitions and each child will have their own separate living area.

Simple.

Maybe we can vote for it in our plenary session tomorrow.

But now we must get back,

there's the small issue of the Annual Red Cross Ball to organise.

But that's not due until October.

It's the most important event in our social calendar.

Besides, you just don't have the money for renovations right now.

I'm sorry, Countess, I mistakenly thought we were here to repair a hospital.

103 new companies registered offices in Monaco in the last two years.

90 per cent of them relocated from France.

All of them came for your zero-tax.

And what do you want us to do about it?

Stop courting them.

- (DOG BARKING) Oliver, come here! Come on!

- Casinos. Come here, now!

That's what I've inherited, Emile.

Good dog!

A playground for French aristocrats.

And that's a problem?

Oh, for the 10,000 people who live here, yes.

Ordinary people need schools, hospitals.

We make nothing, we export nothing.

If France is going to drain Monaco of all she has,

it's not unreasonable to expect French businesses to pay for it.

We find ourselves at an impasse, Your Highness.

Because the President wants you to not only impose income tax in Monaco,

but to pay the proceeds to France.

You want us to pay tax to France?

This is a French protectorate

which has only ever existed because of French good will.

This is a sovereign nation.

Oliver, come on, boy.

My peers in Paris are not as understanding as I am.

I'm to return tomorrow with your full acceptance.

Please work with me, Your Highness.

Does de Gaulle really want the children of Monaco

to grow up to be croupiers?

Some would say that would be an improvement.

Some of Monaco's children are running around like their mother,

the offspring of a Philadelphia bricklayer.

Let me go.

- Let me go. - Mr. Pelletier...

May I, Mr. Pelletier?

He slapped a French representative?

Yes, he sent me away, expelled me from Monaco.

Tell De Gaulle he's becoming dangerously anti-French.

You've been the principality priest for a long time.

You must know how complicated things are here, Tuck.

- Yes, I know, Gracie. - I feel I made a mistake.

What kind of mistake?

Everything I do or say is wrong.

Everything.

Do you know how I spent my afternoon?

I was trying to persuade the good ladies of the Red Cross