313. High Society (1956)
Directed By Charles Walters
Synopsis
Like Philadelphia Story with songs!
Review
I am not sure a remake of Philadelphia Story was needed. In fact I am pretty sure it wasn't, Philadelphia Story is still the better film, if for nothing else for the fact that Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grand are much better comedic actors than Bing Crosby and
Frank Sinatra.
That being said there is something to Grace Kelly... yes it is grace Kelly at the pool that makes the remake worthy. Particularly sad however that this is her last part. From here she would marry prince Rainier of Monaco and enjoy driving in the Riviera. By the way my wife played as a child with Stephanie, her daughter heh. Who I had a crush for when I was about 5. Tiny world.
So the songs add very little to the film, it is fun to see Louis Armstrong showing up here, but again little is added. The film is a perfectly enjoyable but unnecessary remake of a better film. Oh well.
Final Grade
7/10
Trivia
From Wikipedia:
High Society marked the final acting role for Grace Kelly before she became Princess of Monaco (the film was actually released three months after her marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco). At the time of the film's release, Sinatra and Holm were over forty and Crosby was fifty-three. Kelly, however, was only twenty-six and was actually the second consideration for the part of Tracy Lord, the original choice, Elizabeth Taylor, being unable to commit.
High Society would mark the first on-screen pairing of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, two of the most popular singers and actors of the 1940s and 1950s. They would act together again in the Sinatra-produced Robin and the 7 Hoods in 1964. This would be the second time that Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly acted together, the first time being in The Country Girl in 1954.
Ahh Grace:
Synopsis
Like Philadelphia Story with songs!
Review
I am not sure a remake of Philadelphia Story was needed. In fact I am pretty sure it wasn't, Philadelphia Story is still the better film, if for nothing else for the fact that Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grand are much better comedic actors than Bing Crosby and
Frank Sinatra.
That being said there is something to Grace Kelly... yes it is grace Kelly at the pool that makes the remake worthy. Particularly sad however that this is her last part. From here she would marry prince Rainier of Monaco and enjoy driving in the Riviera. By the way my wife played as a child with Stephanie, her daughter heh. Who I had a crush for when I was about 5. Tiny world.
So the songs add very little to the film, it is fun to see Louis Armstrong showing up here, but again little is added. The film is a perfectly enjoyable but unnecessary remake of a better film. Oh well.
Final Grade
7/10
Trivia
From Wikipedia:
High Society marked the final acting role for Grace Kelly before she became Princess of Monaco (the film was actually released three months after her marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco). At the time of the film's release, Sinatra and Holm were over forty and Crosby was fifty-three. Kelly, however, was only twenty-six and was actually the second consideration for the part of Tracy Lord, the original choice, Elizabeth Taylor, being unable to commit.
High Society would mark the first on-screen pairing of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, two of the most popular singers and actors of the 1940s and 1950s. They would act together again in the Sinatra-produced Robin and the 7 Hoods in 1964. This would be the second time that Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly acted together, the first time being in The Country Girl in 1954.
Ahh Grace:
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