High Society Articles

Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra in High Society Turner Classic Movies' Grace Kelly series comes to a close with a screening of the actress' last three films: Alfred Hitchcock's comedy-adventure To Catch a Thief (1955), co-starring Cary Grant; Charles Walters' musical High Society (1956), a remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Kelly as the woman between Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby; and Charles Vidor's romantic [...]

Grace Kelly on TCM: Part I Thanks to Kelly's Oscar win, The Country Girl is interesting as a historical curiosity — it's the sort of "gutsy" and "realistic" film adaptation of a respected stage play that was very popular among the filmgoing elite of the 1950s (e.g., Tea and Sympathy, A Hatful of Rain), but that I generally find both lame and artificial. Bing Crosby's [...]

Bobby-soxer-turned-blue-haired-matron idol Frank Sinatra will have his "Summer Under the Stars" day on Friday, Aug. 28. Turner Classic Movies will show twelve of the actor-singer films, the best of which is On the Town, a zesty musical about three sailors and their three girls (four, if you include Alice Pearce) spending a day together in New York City. The three guys — Sinatra, Gene Kelly, [...]