High Society: Beautiful aloof Newport heiress Tracy Lord (Kelly) is about to marry bland ... more
businessman George Kittredge (John Lund) but matters become complicated when her ex-husband C K Dexter-Haven (Crosby) moves to her neighbourhood determined to win...
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High Society:The rich are generally different. But in matters of the heart, they're just ... more
as scatterbrained as the rest of us. Heiress Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) is engaged to one man (John Lund), attracted to another (Frank Sinatra) and, just maybe, in l...
Music / Performing Arts, Comedy - Director: Trevor Nunn, Geoffrey Posner - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, Parental Guidance - Starring: Duncan Preston, Celia Imrie, Julie Walters, Victoria Wood, Jim Broadbent
Advantages: A good happy musical, a family film, funny. Disadvantages: maybe slightlty dated, but still fun
, he wrote a total of 14 songs, 9 of which were used in the movie.
During the filming of HighSociety Grace Kelly got engaged to Prince Rainier of Monaco and the ring she wore in the film was actually her own newly acquired engagement ring.
When she showed her ring to the cast she referred to it as 'sweet', from then on she was teased daily about her 'sweet little ring'.
The filming of HighSociety was completed in March and Grace Kelly left immediately after filming for Monaco where she married Prince Rainier on 19th April 1956. The studios fast tracked the movie to get it into the cinemas to take advantage of the free publicity provided by the wedding.
HighSociety was Grace Kelly's last movie and the end of her acting career, as she went on to become Princess Grace of Monaco.
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of High Society (DVD)
about 30 times since December 2002 and still love it much to the dismay of my fiancé as i sing along to all the songs.
Doris Day and Howard Keel play CalamityJane & Wild Bill Hickock fantastically, however i do have to say that the Director could have found a better actress that Allyn McLerie to play Katie Brown.
But a highly recommended film to people of all ages. ...
Advantages: feel good film, good songs, great actng, Disadvantages: bad backdrops and awful songs from Howard Keel!
Hubby could not believe that I had never ever seen this film so to shut him up I got the DVD to watch with him. I didn?t have expectations for it as I don?t really like western type films but I was pleasantly surprised by this film.
The film stars Doris Day who plays the role of CalamityJane, a tom boy who is more than happy to spend her time being ?one of the lads? and chasing of the Indians. She gets very annoyed when she beings in the wagon which contains all the goodies for the towns people and the men starts ogling a cigarette card which has a picture of Adelaid Adams on.
A few evenings later when the Theatre / Bar has advertised a beautiful female star for the evening entertainment they are in trouble when the actress turns out to be an actor so he s forced to dress in drag and try to fool the audience. Things go wrong ...
Musicals & Music Films - Musicals & Other Music Films
Classification
Universal
Production Year
1956
Running Time
3 hours 20 minutes
Plot
Two features. In 'High Society' Porter adds the tunes and Sinatra adds the ring-a-ding to this swinging musical remake of The Philadelphia Story. A prim socialite (Kelly in her last role before becoming Her Serene Highness) finds herself in a the middle of a comic mess when her ex-husband (Crosby) and an amorous reporter (Sinatra) come to cover the preparations for her upcoming wedding. Adding to the tension is her skirt-chasing father, who's also returned home for the ceremony. The resulting confusion and several potent drinks melt the ice princess's frosty exterior. It isn't long before she sees through her society-climbing fiancee, and warms up again to her crooning jazz musician ex-husband. Rare chance to see rivals Crosby and Sinatra together. Includes such hit numbers as 'True Love', 'You're Sensational', and 'Did You Evah'. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Motion Picture Story. Also includes 'Calamity Jane'.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
WARNER HOME VIDEO; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date
24/04/2006
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
D 080564
Barcode
7321900805643
Production Designer
Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters
Music Director
Ray Heindorf, Johnny Green
Screenwriter
James O'Hanlon, John Patrick
Choreographer
Charles Walters
Composer
Ray Heindorf, Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Cole Porter
...Hollywood hokum at its most magically, glossily simple -- watch it and be happy to the tips of your toes... (Total Film, )
DVD Description
Two features. In 'High Society' Porter adds the tunes and Sinatra adds the ring-a-ding to this swinging musical remake of The Philadelphia Story. A prim socialite (Kelly in her last role before becoming Her Serene Highness) finds herself in a the middle of a comic mess when her ex-husband (Crosby) and an amorous reporter (Sinatra) come to cover the preparations for her upcoming wedding. Adding to the tension is her skirt-chasing father, who's also returned home for the ceremony. The resulting confusion and several potent drinks melt the ice princess's frosty exterior. It isn't long before she sees through her society-climbing fiancee, and warms up again to her crooning jazz musician ex-husband. Rare chance to see rivals Crosby and Sinatra together. Includes such hit numbers as 'True Love', 'You're Sensational', and 'Did You Evah'. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Motion Picture Story. Also includes 'Calamity Jane'.
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