HIGH SOCIETY

High Society is a musical film made (1956) by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in VistaVision and Technicolor with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Sol C. Siegel from a screenplay by John Patrick, based on the play The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry. The cinematography was by Paul Vogel, the art direction by Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters and the costume design by Helen Rose.The film stars Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm with Louis Armstrong, John Lund, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, and Margalo Gillmore.

High Society marked the final acting role for Grace Kelly before she became Princess of Monaco and the film was actually released three months after her marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco. At the time of the film's release, Sinatra and Holm were over forty and Crosby was fifty-three and Kelly, however, was only twenty-six. Enjoy Frank Sinatra & Celeste Holm singing "Who Wants to Be a Milionaire," H.C.