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Overview
High Society is an American comedy romance film first released in 1956,
directed by Charles Walters.
The film stars Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm and John Lund.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
On the eve of her wedding to businessman George Kittredge, Rhode Island
socialite Tracy Samantha Lord receives an unexpected, and unwelcome
visit from her first husband, the jazz musician C.K. Dexter
Haven. Before the reunion can turn nasty, Mike Connor, a reporter
from Spy Magazine turns up at the Lord household, with his
photographer, Liz Imbrie, to write a story on the impending
marriage. One evening, Tracy has too much to drink and falls into
the arms of Mike Connor, and then the swimming pool. The next
morning, Tracy realises that she is loved by three men and wonders
which one of them she should marry...
Film Review
This glitzy remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940)
may have more star power than the Orion Nebula but, thanks to its
unimaginative direction, bland photography and plodding screenplay, it
would have difficulty out-dazzling a lump of coal. The last film
that Grace Kelly made before she gave up acting and became Mrs Prince
Rainier III would appear to have everything going for – lively Cole
Porter numbers, some great performers and the incomparable Louis
Armstrong – but, shamelessly resting on its laurels, it ends up being
about as stimulating as a party political broadcast given by the
Let’s All Wear Beige Party. Crosby is far too old
for his role (he was more than twice Grace Kelly’s age, and looks it)
and Sinatra is clearly wasted on such lowbrow fare as this.
Whilst the film occasionally comes to life – e.g. with the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
number (that’s the song, not the ghastly game show it inspired) -
it drags like an elderly asthmatic snail on its way back home after
doing the weekend shopping. It makes a pretty good soporific
though.
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