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"Based on the principle that all publicity is good publicity, the makers of \u201CGrace of Monaco\u201D might feel that Grace Kelly\u2019s children have&amp;nbsp;denounced the movie&amp;nbsp;too early in its journey to the screen to be of much use in selling tickets. Still in production, it won\u2019t be released until 2014.Directed by Olivier Dahan (\u201CLa Vie en Rose\u201D), the film isn\u2019t a biopic, but a character snapshot of Grace in 1962 when her husband, Prince Rainier III (Tim Roth), was involved in a dispute with Charles de Gaulle. The French President was opposed to Monaco\u2019s status as a tax haven that deprived France of revenue from international businesses and wealthy citizens that had relocated to its tiny neighbor.It\u2019s the backstory \u2013 Kelly\u2019s momentous journey from Oscar-winning actress to European princess \u2013 that will be \u201CGrace of Monaco\u2019\u201Ds chief lure, however. The film is part of a mini-trend of projects inspired by the turbulent lives of glamorous Hollywood actresses of the 1950s and \u201960s and sanctioned by the passage of time.The other subjects (or, if you like, victims) have so far been Marilyn Monroe (played by Michelle Williams in \u201CMy Week With Marilyn\u201D), Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller in \u201CThe Girl\u201D), and lone brunette Elizabeth Taylor (Lindsay Lohan in \u201CLiz and Dick\u201D). Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Biel respectively played Janet Leigh and Vera Miles in \u201CHitchcock.\u201DThere\u2019s also \u201CJayne Mansfield\u2019s Car,\u201D a Billy Bob Thornton-directed drama that doesn\u2019t have an actress playing Mansfield but did provide a part for\u2026 Tippi Hedren.It would hardly be surprising if films were tabled about Doris Day or Kim Novak, who had their share of off-screen woes. Day had a troubled first marriage and protracted legal problems in the \u201970s and \u201980s following the discovery that her late third husband and her lawyer had squandered her wealth.&amp;nbsp;Novak\u2019s mid-\u201950s affair with Sammy Davis, Jr. prompted her Columbia boss Harry Cohn, fearful of adverse publicity should she marry the black Jewish entertainer, to have a mobster kidnap Davis for a few hours (or so the story goes).Both stars are theoretically ripe for biopic consideration in this prurient climate. But because both are alive, there may, mercifully, be legal reasons preventing screenwriters getting to work \u2013 sensitivity toward the actress\u2019 feelings is unlikely to be a factor.The \u201Cmale gaze\u201D has inevitably been an element in most of these movies (coy though \u201CMy Week With Marilyn\u201D is).&amp;nbsp;In castigating Alfred Hitchcock for his abuse of his leading ladies, \u201CHitchcock\u201D and \u201CThe Girl\u201D scarcely avoided making spectacles of actresses playing suffering actresses, or, in the case of the former, any attractive woman Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) can peer at through a window or peephole.Depicting the director\u2019s sexual harassment of the fragile Hedren, \u201CThe Girl\u201D is the more conscientious of the two. In showing how the spurned Hitchcock (Toby Jones) rationalized torturing her during the filming of \u201CThe Birds,\u201D it says this is what a frustrated authoritarian male is capable of. Irrespective of its sullying of a giant of cinema, it was a story worth telling, even if it depends for its effects on the visual (if not literal) despoliation of Sienna Miller. These lives-of-the-actresses movies, though, are collectively proving an ordeal.&amp;nbsp;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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