Regie:
Charles VidorMuziek:
Bronislau KaperActeurs:
Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan, Agnes Moorehead, Jessie Royce Landis, Brian Aherne, Leo G. Carroll, Van Dyke Parks, Bess Flowers (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Even though HIGH SOCIETY was released afterward, this was Kelly's last film before ascending the throne of Monaco on April 18, 1956. It's early in the century, and Kelly is a young woman of noble parentage. Her mother, Jessie Royce Landis, is eager to marry her off to Guinness, the crown prince. Kelly is being tutored by Jourdan and falls in love with him during the strains of a Kaper tune, "The Swan Waltz," but it's for naught. Landis' brother is Brian Aherne, who has given up the royal ermine for monk's cloth and is against Landis' obvious attempt to marry off Kelly. He thinks his niece should be allowed to make her own decisions of the heart. Landis' sister, Winwood, is a dotty old woman who has all the best comedy lines as she comments on the shenanigans in a pixilated fashion, sort of like the female version of Cecil Kellaway in so many movies. Guinness comes to see Kelly and doesn't pop the question, so Jourdan is enlisted to play a love rival, thus causing Guinness to finally ask for her hand and be granted it. The story, written in 1922, was vaguely about the Hapsburgs and in 1956 it seemed out of synch with what was going on in the world, though not necessarily what was transpiring in Kelly's life. She had gone from a Philadelphia debutante to model to award-winning actress, and was now about to become a queen. This movie would have been immeasurably helped by songs and screamed to be treated as a musical rather than a straight comedy-drama. It's the stuff that operettas are made of, and many of the anti-monarchist jokes are totally lost on modern audiences. The Biltmore estate in North Carolina stands in for the European castle. (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
(meer)Acteurs
Grace Kelly
USA
Beste films:
Rear Window (1954)
U spreekt met uw moordenaar (1954)
The Country Girl (1954)
Alec Guinness
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
Louis Jourdan
Frankrijk
Beste films:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Julie (1956)
Columbo (1971) (serie)
Agnes Moorehead
USA
Beste films:
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Vrouwen achter de tralies (1950)
Jessie Royce Landis
USA
Beste films:
Bon Voyage! (1962)
North by Northwest (1959)
Aimez-vous Brahms ? (1961)
Brian Aherne
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
Underground (1928)
Juarez (1939)
I Confess (1953)
Leo G. Carroll
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
Song of Love (1947)
North by Northwest (1959)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Van Dyke Parks
USA
Beste films:
The Swan (1956)
The Two Jakes (1990)
He Said, She Said (1991)
Bess Flowers
USA
Beste films:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Leslie Denison
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
Song of Love (1947)
Gevaarlijk spel (1942)
The Court Jester (1955)
Doris Lloyd
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
Muziek in het hart (1965)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
To Each His Own (1946)
Edith Barrett
USA
Beste films:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Jane Eyre (1943)
Giuseppe Addobbati
Italië
Beste films:
La dolce vita (1960)
Il conformista (1970)
War and Peace (1956)
Robert Coote
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
Othello (1952)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Gene Coogan
USA
Beste films:
Gemerkt door de haat (1956)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Joe Canutt
USA
David Thursby
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Captains Courageous (1937)
The Heiress (1949)
Don Anderson
USA
Beste films:
North by Northwest (1959)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Ottola Nesmith
USA
Beste films:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Estelle Winwood
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (serie)
The Name of the Game (1968) (serie)
Murder by Death (1976)