Monday, May 31, 2010

Well did you evah?

Yesterday I watched "High Society" again and I still don't like it despite some great numbers, the presence of Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and Celeste Holm (one of my all-time favourite actresses). To quote a rather silly joke from the film: the plot and its much-trumpeted message stink.

However, here is an absolutely wonderful number. Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra abandon all pretence of being other characters and are just themselves in a number that, astonishingly enough, was not written for them but was recycled from a much older Cole Porter show, "DuBarry was a Lady". Well, did you evah?

4 comments:

  1. Well, apart from some of the musical numbers - the duo Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant was always a very hard act to follow. (High Society was of course a remake of the Philadelphia Story with Grace Kelly standing in for Katherine Hepburn and Bing Crosby doing Cary Grant's role.)

    /Mikgen

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  2. Actually, I am not a great fan of Philadelphia Story either for the very same reason. Grace Kelly does all right.

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  3. Message?? Must be my bad memory, or it was another movie.
    :-)

    /Mikgen

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  4. Who wants to be a millionaire? ;-)

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