Tuesday, July 24, 2018

High Society (1956), 7+

A spoiled heiress must choose between three suitors: her jazz musician ex-husband, a stuffy businessman, and an undercover tabloid reporter.
1h 51min | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 17 July 1956 | Color, WS
Director: Charles Walters
Stars: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Louis Armstrong.
Charles Walters ... stager: musical numbers
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049314/

I like GK as Tracy just a bit more than K.Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story ('40), and I love that BC & FS have a duet, but having C.Grant and J.Stewart were better for the story than BC & FS.

The prior pairing of BC & GC was The Country Girl ('54).

Both this film and its antecedent were MGM productions; was the unidentifiable wedding gift the same object in both films?

LA's numbers were very isolated; I wonder if they were excised in Dixie. I always love him, and especially with BC, because BC clearly loves him, and performing with him.

The song True Love is one of those that seems to have always existed, beyond a standard/classic.

Songs performed, all by Cole Porter ( chapters with menu):

  • ch3. High Society Calypso, Performed by Louis Armstrong 
  • ch8. Little One, Sung by Bing Crosby with Louis Armstrong and His Band, also sung (in French) by Lydia Reed 
  • ch14. Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, Sung by Frank Sinatra and Celeste Holm 
  • ch16. True Love, Sung by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly 
  • ch20. You're Sensational, Sung by Frank Sinatra 
  • ch21. I Love You Samantha, Sung by Bing Crosby, with Louis Armstrong and His Band 
  • ch23. Now You Has Jazz, Sung by Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and His Band 
  • ch25. Well, Did You Evah, Sung by Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra 
  • ch27. Mind If I Make Love To You, Sung by Frank Sinatra 

MGM, dir. Walters; 7+