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Release Date:
17 July 1956 (USA)
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They're all together for the first time! more
Plot:
C.K. Dexter-Haven, a successful popular jazz musician, lives in a mansion near his ex-wife's Tracy Lord's family estate...
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 1 nomination
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Sensational ... That's All
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Bing Crosby | ... | C.K. Dexter-Haven |
 | Grace Kelly | ... | Tracy Samantha Lord |
 | Frank Sinatra | ... | Mike Connor |
 | Celeste Holm | ... | Liz Imbrie |
| John Lund | ... | George Kittredge |
| Louis Calhern | ... | Uncle Willie |
| Sidney Blackmer | ... | Seth Lord |
| Louis Armstrong and His Band | ... | Themselves |
| Margalo Gillmore | ... | Mrs. Seth Lord |
| Lydia Reed | ... | Caroline Lord |
| Gordon Richards | ... | Dexter-Haven's butler |
| Richard Garrick | ... | Lords' Butler |
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Runtime:
111 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Perspecta Stereo (Westrex Recording System)
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Argentina:Atp |
South Korea:12 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:PG |
Australia:G (original rating) |
Australia:PG (alternate rating) |
Finland:K-12 |
Sweden:Btl |
UK:U
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Features the song "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?" which gave the successful TV quiz show its title.
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Goofs:
Boom mic visible: When George takes Tracy, who's obviously had too much to drink, into the blue walled room during the party to lie down on the couch, before she gets there, a boom mic is visible at the top of the screen.
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Quotes:
Uncle Willie:
I can't find Liz.
Dexter: I think I just saw someone wander out on to the terrace. Alone.
Uncle Willie: You don't say. The little vixen!
[leaves]
Dexter: Ollie ollie oxen free!
[Liz comes out of hiding]
Dexter: What's the matter? Uncle Willie giving you a little trouble?
Liz Imbrie: That man's gonna wind up a juvenile delinquent mark my words.
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Dexter: I think I just saw someone wander out on to the terrace. Alone.
Uncle Willie: You don't say. The little vixen!
[leaves]
Dexter: Ollie ollie oxen free!
[Liz comes out of hiding]
Dexter: What's the matter? Uncle Willie giving you a little trouble?
Liz Imbrie: That man's gonna wind up a juvenile delinquent mark my words.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Muppet Show: (#2.4)" (1977)
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Soundtrack:
You're Sensational
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Chapter Headings, an unofficial version:Is Clarendon Court, the von Bulows' mansion, featured in this movie?
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A society wedding is being arranged in Newport, Rhode Island. The beautiful Tracy Lord is to marry George Kitteredge. However, Tracy's ex-husband, the songwriter Dexter Haven, has never stopped loving her and even now has hopes of winning her back. Two journalists, Mike Connor and Liz Imbrie, have arrived to cover the story for 'Spy' Magazine.
Dexter has scheduled the Newport Jazz Festival for the same week as the nuptials, and this brings Louis Armstrong (playing himself) to town. The divine Tracy is adored by three men - Dexter, George and Mike Connor. She begins to harbour doubts about her forthcoming marriage...
"High Society" is a charming reworking of "The Philadelphia Story", the Grant-Hepburn comedy, which was in turn a remodelling of a successful Broadway play. The one great difference with this version is that "High Society" is a glorious musical masterpiece. Cole Porter's score has to be one of the greatest collections of songs ever filmed.
Grace Kelly is good as the imperious Tracy. "I'm a cold goddess," she intones, but she thaws spectacularly in the warmth of love. Bing Crosby as Dexter is his usual droll and stylish self. Crosby is a class act who holds the screen with effortless poise and cracks the funnies with sparkling sarcasm. Sinatra is in knockout form. Rarely has that legendary voice achieved the resonant timbre on display here. Satchmo blasts out a couple of breezy jazz numbers, and comments on the action like a latter-day Greek chorus.
The songs include five all-time classics. "True Love" is a gorgeous duet in which Kelly unveils a tuneful if brittle singing-voice. "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" is rightly world-famous, and is staged here with clever clownage by Sinatra and Celeste Holm (playing Liz). Satchmo's band accompanies Crosby in a swinging "You Has Jazz". The showstopper, "What A Swell Party This Is", has Crosby and Sinatra at their very best, wisecracking self-referentially as they belt out a gem of a song. My personal favourite, "You're Sensational", is beautifully rendered by Sinatra. Watch Frank and Grace in the instrumental break, falling in love with their eyes only.
A confection of sublime music and snappy dialogue, "High Society" is shot in bright, eye-catching Technicolor with an attractive pastel blue predominating throughout. A delightful film.