Grace Kelly was in American films.
Grace Kelly . Subsequently , she had leading roles in five films , including The Country Girl ( 1954 ) , for which her deglamorized performance earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress . High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman , directed by Fred Zinnemann , and starring Gary Cooper . High Society is a 1956 American musical comedy film directed by Charles Walters and starring Bing Crosby , Grace Kelly , and Frank Sinatra . Rear Window is a 1954 American Technicolor mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich 's 1942 short story `` It Had to Be Murder '' . The Country Girl is a 1954 American drama film directed by George Seaton and starring Bing Crosby , Grace Kelly , and William Holden .