High Society is a 1956 American romantic musical comedy film directed by Charles Walters and starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra. The film is a musical remake of the 1940 film The Philadelphia Story starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart. This film featured Kelly’s final role before she became Princess of Monaco; it was released three months after her marriage to Prince Rainier III.
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High Society is a 1956 American romantic musical comedy film directed by Charles Walters and starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra. The film is a musical remake of the 1940 film The Philadelphia Story starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart. The cast also features Celeste Holm, John Lund and Louis Calhern, in his final film, with a musical contribution by Louis Armstrong. This film featured Kelly’s final role before she became Princess of Monaco; it was released three months after her marriage to Prince Rainier III. The sailboat used in the film, the True Love, sails on Seneca Lake out of Watkins Glen, NY as an excursion boat for Schooner Excursions Inc. Producer Sol C. Siegel paid Porter USD 250,000 for his first original film in eight years, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It has been said that one of the main reasons that Sinatra was drawn to the film was a mock-tipsy boy-hood with his idol Crosby.
A soundtrack album was released the year of the film’s release, and was a major success in America and the United Kingdom. It was Kelly’s only role in a musical, and Kelly has never had a role in one since. The movie was shot mostly in and around Clarendon Court in Newport, Rhode Island, which was then owned by Mae Cadwell Hayward, and later purchased in 1970 by Claus von Bulow. The location, according to Turner Classic Movies, enabled them to take advantage of the Newport Jazz Festival, established in 1954, incorporating it into the film by giving Crosby’s character a background as a Gilded Age robber baron who became a jazz composer and friend of jazz star Louis Armstrong, who plays himself in the movie. As name-checked by Crosby in the song \”Now You Has Jazz\”, where each musician takes a small solo, Armstrong’s band includes: Edmond Hall, Trummy Young, Billy Kyle, Arvell Shaw, and Barrett Deems.
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