"High Society (musical) High Society is a musical comedy with a book by Arthur Kopit and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Some updated or new lyrics were provided by Susan Birkenhead. The musical is based on Philip Barry's 1939 stage comedy, ""The Philadelphia Story"" and the subsequent 1956 musical film adaptation, ""High Society"", which features Porter's songs. The musical includes most of the music featured in the movie, along with several songs selected from other Porter musicals. It premiered on Broadway in 1998 and has since been revived. Another musical adaptation of the story had opened in London in"
"in these lists: The stars of the film appeared in an adaptation on CBS Radio's ""Lux Radio Theater"", airing July 20, 1942, as the premiere episode of the special War Office ""Victory Theater"" series. ""Lux"" presented it again in 1943, with Robert Taylor, Loretta Young, and Robert Young. It was also adapted on two episodes of ""The Screen Guild Theater"", first with Greer Garson, Henry Fonda, and Fred MacMurray (April 5, 1942), then with Hepburn, Grant, and Stewart reprising their film roles (March 17, 1947). The film was adapted in 1956 as the MGM musical ""High Society"", starring Bing Crosby,"
"film with the same title – the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production of the 1956 Cole Porter musical ""High Society"" starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra – was in release. Edward Bernds and Elwood Ullman, the screenwriters for The Bowery Boys comedy, acknowledged their nomination was a mistake and successfully requested their removal from the Academy Award ballot. Warner Archives released the film on made-to-order DVD in the United States as part of ""The Bowery Boys, Volume Two"" on April 9, 2013. High Society (1955 film) High Society is a 1955 comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring the comedy"
"invasion of a society girl's second wedding, which appeared on Broadway in 1939 starring Katharine Hepburn. The motion picture rights were purchased by Hepburn's then-boyfriend, Howard Hughes, and her reprise of the role in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film is said to have jump-started her stalled movie career. A later remake of the film, ""High Society"", starred Grace Kelly. Kelly was also the daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia family, but as an Irish-American Roman Catholic, she was barred from the debutante ball. Upon her father's death in 1949, Scott undertook the management of the Ardrossan estate, modernizing farming facilities and becoming"
"High Society (soundtrack) High Society is a 1956 soundtrack album, featuring Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Grace Kelly. This was Crosby's fifth LP album, and his first recorded for Capitol Records. It was the soundtrack for the MGM feature film ""High Society"", also released in 1956. Initially issued on vinyl either in mono or stereo format, the album has been issued on CD by Capitol in Japan (CD: TOCP-6587) in 1991 and by Capitol in the UK (CD: CDP 793787-2) in 1995. The album was also included in a 3-CD box set called ""Original Soundtrack Recordings"" issued by"
"High Society (soundtrack) High Society is a 1956 soundtrack album, featuring Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Grace Kelly. This was Crosby's fifth LP album, and his first recorded for Capitol Records. It was the soundtrack for the MGM feature film ""High Society"", also released in 1956. Initially issued on vinyl either in mono or stereo format, the album has been issued on CD by Capitol in Japan (CD: TOCP-6587) in 1991 and by Capitol in the UK (CD: CDP 793787-2) in 1995. The album was also included in a 3-CD box set called ""Original Soundtrack Recordings"" issued by"
"chose to make many cuts to the film and much of the original music is missing or severely truncated. The Warner re-cut survives in the Library of Congress collection. Top Speed (film) Top Speed is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical comedy film released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers. It was based on a 1929 stage musical of the same name by Harry Ruby, Guy Bolton and Bert Kalmar. The film stars Joe E. Brown, Bernice Claire, Jack Whiting, Laura Lee, and Frank McHugh. Elmer Peters (Brown) and Gerald Brooks (Whiting), bond clerks on a weekend vacation,"
"Cafe Society (1939 film) Cafe Society is a 1939 American romantic comedy film directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray and Shirley Ross. A wealthy young woman marries a reporter to win a bet. The wealthy Christopher ""Chris"" West is a member of the cafe society. To win a bet, she marries reporter Crick O'Bannon, who believes Chris married him for love. When Crick overhears Chris telling one of her friends about the bet, he decides to get even by writing a story about her betrayal. In response, Chris's grandfather, Christopher West Sr, apologizes for his"
"considered to be one of Barry's best depictions of an affluent American family and its confrontation with less convention-bound values. ""The New Yorker"" writer Brendan Gill called it ""a kindly comedy, whose precepts are Barry's own."" It was filmed twice, first in 1930 where it garnered an Academy Award nomination for actress Ann Harding, and then, notably, in a 1938 version by George Cukor starring Katharine Hepburn as the elder daughter of a stiff-necked wealthy businessman and Cary Grant as the younger daughter's quirky, charismatic suitor who has no plans, once he makes enough money to live happily, to spend"
"Stewart as Macaulay Connor. In 1956, it was adapted to a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film version, ""High Society"" with Grace Kelly (an actual Philadelphia socialite in real life) in the Tracy Lord role, Bing Crosby as C.K. Dexter Haven and Frank Sinatra as Macaulay Connor. Radio adaptations of ""The Philadelphia Story"" include a half-hour presentation on ""The Prudential Family Hour of Stars"" (February 26, 1950), starring Sarah Churchill, Norma Jean Nilsson, Gerald Mohr and Gene Kelly. An hour-long adaptation was broadcast August 17, 1952, on ""Best Plays"", with a cast including Joan Alexander, Betty Furness, Myron McCormick and Vera Allen. ""The"
"film roles included the grandfather in ""The Red Pony"" (1949), adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck and starring Robert Mitchum, the spy boss of Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic ""Notorious"" (1946), and a jaded and acerbic high school teacher in ""The Blackboard Jungle"" (1955). His performance as Uncle Willie in ""High Society"" (1956), a musical remake of ""The Philadelphia Story"", turned out to be his final film. Calhern was married four times, to Ilka Chase (1900–1978) from 1926 to 1927, Julia Hoyt (1897–1955) from 1927 to 1932, Natalie Schafer (1900–1991) from 1933 to 1942, and Marianne"
"knows why she did not keep their appointment. They embrace. The film is a remake of the 1939 film ""Love Affair"" with Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne and of the 1957 film ""An Affair to Remember"" with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, both directed by Leo McCarey. The name of Terry McKay's character remained the same in all three films, while a different one was chosen for each of the three leading men. ""Love Affair"" was Hepburn's first big-screen appearance in nearly 10 years (although she had made several TV movies in this time) and marked her last appearance in"
"deal of the screenplay seems as dated today as the idle rich ... [Kelly] lacks the gawky animal energy that Katharine Hepburn brought to the 1939 play and the 1941 movie, [Crosby] saunters through the part rather sleepily, without much of the old Bing zing [, and] Sinatra plays the reporter like a dead-end kid with a typewriter."" At the North American box office, ""High Society"" was a success. It was one of the 10 highest grossing films of 1956 in the US and Canada earning $5,602,000, and $2,656,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $1,148,000. ""High Society"" received two"
"High Society (1955 film) High Society is a 1955 comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. The film was released on April 17, 1955, by Allied Artists and is the 37th film in the series. It is the only film in the series to receive an Academy Award nomination, albeit through being mistaken for another film with the same title. Sach receives news that he is the heir to the Terwilliger Debussy Jones fortune. Accompanied by his pals Slip and Louie, he arrives at the Jones mansion to review the legal papers"
"Top Speed (film) Top Speed is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical comedy film released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers. It was based on a 1929 stage musical of the same name by Harry Ruby, Guy Bolton and Bert Kalmar. The film stars Joe E. Brown, Bernice Claire, Jack Whiting, Laura Lee, and Frank McHugh. Elmer Peters (Brown) and Gerald Brooks (Whiting), bond clerks on a weekend vacation, are on the run from a local sheriff after Elmer attempts to fish in a ""no fishing"" area. The two men arrive at an expensive hotel where they rescue"
"is taken from a nursery rhyme, and bears no relation to Billy Wilder's acclaimed 1959 comedy film ""Some Like It Hot"" starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis. Some Like It Hot (1939 film) Some Like It Hot, reissued for television as Rhythm Romance, is a 1939 comedy film starring Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, and Gene Krupa. Directed by George Archainbaud, its screenplay was written by Wilkie C. Mahoney and Lewis R. Foster, based on the play ""The Great Magoo"" by Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler, which performed briefly on Broadway in 1932. The film was released the year"
"Higher and Higher (film) Higher and Higher is a 1944 musical film starring Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley, and Frank Sinatra (in his film debut), loosely based on a 1940 Broadway musical written by Gladys Hurlbut and Joshua Logan. The film version, written by Jay Dratler and Ralph Spence with additional dialogue by William Bowers and Howard Harris, diverges significantly from its source. The film has songs by Jimmy McHugh (music) and Harold Adamson (lyrics), as well as one song by Rodgers and Hart, ""Disgustingly Rich,"" that remains from the stage production. The household staff of millionaire Cyrus Drake hasn't been"
"Sylvia Scarlett Sylvia Scarlett is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, based on ""The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett"", a novel by Compton MacKenzie. Directed by George Cukor, it was notorious as one of the most famous unsuccessful movies of the 1930s. Hepburn plays the title role of Sylvia Scarlett, a female con artist masquerading as a boy to escape the police. The success of the subterfuge is in large part due to the transformation of Hepburn by RKO make-up artist Mel Berns. This film was the first pairing of Grant and Hepburn,"
"Mike Whitehill and Steven Knight, who had earlier created a number of the promotional games for Tarrant's morning show on Capital FM radio, such as the bong game. Tentatively known as ""Cash Mountain"", the show took its finalised title from a song written by Cole Porter for the 1956 film ""High Society"", starring by Frank Sinatra and Celeste Holm. Since the original version launched, several individuals have claimed that they originated the format and that Celador had breached their copyright and took the production company to court, but each claim was later settled out-of-court on an agreement/settlement. In March 2006,"
"in 1938 as ""Holiday"". Directed by George Cukor, it starred Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, with Horton reprising his role as Professor Nick Potter from the 1930 version. Holiday (1930 film) Holiday is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy film which tells the story of a young man who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family. It stars Ann Harding, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Ames and Hedda Hopper. It was produced and released by Pathé Exchange. The film was adapted by Horace Jackson from the play by Philip Barry. It was"
"Henry Daniell and Ina Claire. The play was remade in color, as the 1953 musical ""Let's Do It Again"" starring Jane Wyman and Ray Milland. ""The Awful Truth"" was presented on ""Lux Radio Theatre"" September 11, 1939. Grant and Claudette Colbert starred in the adaptation. The Awful Truth The Awful Truth is a 1937 American screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. The plot concerns the machinations of a soon-to-be-divorced couple, played by Dunne and Grant, who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic escapades. The film was directed by Leo McCarey (who won"
"Funny Face Funny Face is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and written by Leonard Gershe, containing assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Although having the same title as the 1927 Broadway musical ""Funny Face"" by the Gershwin brothers, and featuring the same male star (Fred Astaire), the plot is totally different and only four of the songs from the stage musical are included. Alongside Astaire, the film stars Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson. Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) is a fashion magazine publisher and editor, for ""Quality"" magazine, who is looking for the next"
"appeared with Hepburn in the romantic comedy ""Holiday"" later that year, which did not fare well commercially, to the point that Hepburn was considered to be ""box office poison"" at the time. Despite a series of commercial failures, Grant was now more popular than ever and in high demand. According to Vermilye, in 1939, Grant played roles that were more dramatic, albeit with comical undertones. He played a British army sergeant opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in the George Stevens-directed adventure film ""Gunga Din"", set at a military station in India. Roles as a pilot opposite Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth"
"series couldn't have lasted this long if not for the fine writers."" The joking in the press aside, Ullman and Bernds sent a telegram to the Academy Award Board of Governors, acknowledging the error and requesting that their names be removed from the final ballot. More than 40 years following the film's release, it was adapted for the stage as a Broadway musical with several Porter songs from other sources added to the score. The Broadway production opened on April 27, 1998, at the St. James Theatre, where it ran for 144 performances. High Society (1956 film) High Society is"
"version was a live electronic music mix to a 71 minutes copy from the Cinémathèque vault. Les Electrons Libres version of ""High Treason"" was screened in various French cities from 1998 to 1999 (Paris, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Rennes) and in Barcelona, Spain for the 1999 Sonar Festival. High Treason (1929 British film) High Treason is a 1929 film based on a play by Noel Pemberton Billing. It was directed by Maurice Elvey, and stars James Carew, Humberstone Wright, Benita Hume, Henry Vibart, Hayford Hobbs, Irene Rooke, and Jameson Thomas. Raymond Massey makes his first screen appearance in a small role. The"
"in the West End musical theatre revues ""High Button Shoes"" (1948) at the London Hippodrome, and Cecil Landeau's ""Sauce Tartare"" (1949) and ""Sauce Piquante"" (1950) at the Cambridge Theatre. During her theatrical work, she took elocution lessons with actor Felix Aylmer to develop her voice. After being spotted by a casting director while performing in ""Sauce Piquante"", Hepburn was registered as a freelance actress with the Associated British Picture Corporation. She appeared in the BBC Teleplay ""The Silent Village"", and in minor roles in the 1951 films ""One Wild Oat"", ""Laughter in Paradise"", ""Young Wives' Tale"", and ""The Lavender Hill"
"and ""I Wish I Were in Love Again"". The film version, released in 1939, starred Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney and was directed by Busby Berkeley. Its radically revised plot retained only two songs from the original stage version—""Where or When"" and ""Babes in Arms"". The film is credited with popularizing the ""kids putting on a musical show for charity"" trope. The original version had strong political overtones with discussions of Nietzsche, a Communist character and two African-American youths who are victims of racism. In 1959 George Oppenheimer created a ""sanitized, de-politicized rewrite"" which is now the most frequently performed"
"Holiday (1938 film) Holiday is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, a remake of the 1930 film of the same name. The film is a romantic comedy that tells of a man who has risen from humble beginnings only to be torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family. The movie, adapted by Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman from the play by Philip Barry, stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and features Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, and Edward Everett Horton. Horton reprised his role as Professor Nick Potter from the"
"design by Lucinda Ballard. The cast starred Jack Haley, Marta Eggerth, and Shirley Ross, with Leif Erickson and Lee Dixon and included Vera Ellen and June Allyson. A film based on the stage musical was released in 1943, starring Haley. Higher and Higher (musical) Higher and Higher is a musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and book by Gladys Hurlbut and Joshua Logan and produced by Dwight Deere Wiman. It ran on Broadway for 84 performances in 1940. ""Higher and Higher"" premiered on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on April 4, 1940 and closed on"
"film career involved small roles in many notable films. Some of those films include: the 1935 John Ford comedy, ""The Whole Town's Talking"", starring Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur; Howard Hawk's classic romantic comedy, ""Bringing Up Baby"" (1938), starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn; 1940's ""My Favorite Wife"", againg starring Grant, this time with Irene Dunne; the two classic biopics ""One Foot in Heaven"" (1941), starring Fredric March and Martha Scott, and Sergeant York (1941) starring Gary Cooper; Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 thriller, ""Saboteur"", with Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane; the 1945 musical ""Anchors Aweigh"", starring Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly,"
"the 1950s, including her appearances at the Palace Theater. Martin was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of Ellie Gordon (Robinson) and Hugh Martin, Sr., an architect. He attended Birmingham-Southern College where he studied music. He was a member of the Beta Beta Chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Martin wrote the music, and in some cases the lyrics, for five Broadway musicals: ""Best Foot Forward"" (1941); ""Look Ma, I'm Dancin'!"" (1948); ""Make a Wish"" (1951); ""High Spirits"" (1964) (music and lyrics, with Timothy Gray); and ""Meet Me In St. Louis"" (1989), a stage version of the film with"
"Princes do."" Kelly was the model for the character of George Kittredge, Tracy Lord's brash, up-and-coming, man-of-the-people fiancé, in Philip Barry's 1939 Broadway comedy ""The Philadelphia Story"". Grace Kelly played Tracy Lord in the 1956 Cole Porter movie musical version, ""High Society"". Kelly was actively involved in city politics, including chairmanship of the Philadelphia County Democratic Party in 1937 and ran for mayor of Philadelphia in 1935. At the time, Philadelphia was a heavily Republican city, but he came close to winning, losing by fewer than 50,000 votes compared with the usual margin of 300,000. He was a commissioner and"
"with him. However, Chris's jealousy resurfaces upon seeing Bells singing at the club that night and she persuades the club's owner to fire Bells. When the bartender, Bill, calls Chris out on her brash behavior, a contrite Chris asks that Bells be rehired and admits to Crick that she has been an awful fool. Cafe Society (1939 film) Cafe Society is a 1939 American romantic comedy film directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray and Shirley Ross. A wealthy young woman marries a reporter to win a bet. The wealthy Christopher ""Chris"" West is a member"