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Release Date:
26 April 1956 (USA)
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Plot:
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra...
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SPhilip French's Screen Legend: Grace Kelly
(From The Guardian - Film News. 12 December 2009, 4:05 PM, PST)
Grace Kelly: To Catch A Thief, High Society, The Swan
(From Alt Film Guide. 24 November 2009, 12:10 AM, PST)
(From The Guardian - Film News. 12 December 2009, 4:05 PM, PST)
Grace Kelly: To Catch A Thief, High Society, The Swan
(From Alt Film Guide. 24 November 2009, 12:10 AM, PST)
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Princess Grace's "Swan Song"
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Cast
(in credits order) (verified as complete) | Grace Kelly | ... | Princess Alexandra |
 | Alec Guinness | ... | Prince Albert |
 | Louis Jourdan | ... | Dr. Nicholas Agi |
 | Agnes Moorehead | ... | Queen Maria Dominika |
| Jessie Royce Landis | ... | Princess Beatrix |
| Brian Aherne | ... | Father Carl Hyacinth |
| Leo G. Carroll | ... | Caesar |
| Estelle Winwood | ... | Symphorosa |
| Van Dyke Parks | ... | George |
| Christopher Cook | ... | Arsene |
| Robert Coote | ... | Capt. Wunderlich |
| Doris Lloyd | ... | Countess Sibenstoyn |
| Edith Barrett | ... | Elsa - Beatrix's Maid |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Giuseppe Addobbati | ... | Footman (uncredited) |
| Don Anderson | ... | Guest at the Ball (uncredited) |
| Joe Canutt | ... | Mounted Hussar (uncredited) |
| Gene Coogan | ... | Footman (uncredited) |
| Leslie Denison | ... | Head Groom (uncredited) |
| Michael Ferris | ... | Footman (uncredited) |
| Bess Flowers | ... | Guest at the Ball (uncredited) |
| Stanley Fraser | ... | Footman (uncredited) |
| Raoul Freeman | ... | Butler (uncredited) |
| Art Gilmore | ... | Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| Jean Heremans | ... | Officer (uncredited) |
| Arthur Lovejoy | ... | Albert's Valet (uncredited) |
| Edith Motridge | ... | Guest at the Ball (uncredited) |
| Ottola Nesmith | ... | Housekeeper (uncredited) |
| Jennifer Raine | ... | Lisa - Alexandra's Maid (uncredited) |
| Dawn Richard | ... | Guest at the Ball (uncredited) |
| John Sheffield | ... | Footman (uncredited) |
| Lou Smith | ... | Guest at the Ball (uncredited) |
| David Thursby | ... | Head Gardener (uncredited) |
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| Charles Vidor | |||
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| Ferenc Molnár | (play "A hattyú") (as Ferenc Molnar) | |
| John Dighton | (writer) | |
Produced by | |||
| Dore Schary | .... | producer | |
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| Bronislau Kaper | |||
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| Joseph Ruttenberg | |||
| Robert Surtees | |||
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| John D. Dunning | (as John Dunning) | ||
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| Randall Duell | |||
| Cedric Gibbons | |||
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| Henry Grace | |||
| Edwin B. Willis | |||
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| Helen Rose | (costumes: women) | ||
Makeup Department | |||
| Sydney Guilaroff | .... | hair stylist | |
| William Tuttle | .... | makeup designer | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Ridgeway Callow | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Wesley C. Miller | .... | recording supervisor (as Dr. Wesley C. Miller) | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Charles K. Hagedon | .... | color consultant | |
Other crew | |||
| Angela Blue | .... | choreographer (uncredited) | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1956) (USA) (theatrical)
- National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1965) (USA) (TV) (original airing) (pan/scan)
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104 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System) |
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Grace Kelly became a real princess when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco the same year that this film was released.
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Dr. Nicholas Agi:
You're so sweet and so beautiful...
Princess Alexandra: Don't come any closer Nicholas... I've never seen a man in love and... he happens to be in love with me.
Dr. Nicholas Agi: Are you so afraid of me?
Princess Alexandra: Oh, if I am I want always to be afraid. I want to be so good to you. I want a hundred things. I want to tell you everything that's in my heart... I want to look after you and spoil you and... oh, eat something.
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Princess Alexandra: Don't come any closer Nicholas... I've never seen a man in love and... he happens to be in love with me.
Dr. Nicholas Agi: Are you so afraid of me?
Princess Alexandra: Oh, if I am I want always to be afraid. I want to be so good to you. I want a hundred things. I want to tell you everything that's in my heart... I want to look after you and spoil you and... oh, eat something.
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Version of "Studio One: The Swan (#3.45)" (1951)
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Before her marriage to Prince Rainier, Grace Kelly made this next-to-last film for M-G-M, the royalty (though, alas, in somewhat of a decline from its glory days) of Hollywood's studio "system." I thought it, along with "High Society," a graceful exit for the lovely Miss Kelly, and M-G-M surrounded her with thorough professionals both before and behind the CinemaScope cameras. I especially enjoyed Alec Guinness, Jessie Royce Landis, and the wonderful Estelle Winwood, as well as Brian Aherne and Louis Jourdan. It's not available on DVD (and may possibly never be) and, I fear, the VHS version is formatted to fit the full screens of non-widescreen TVs. Too bad...It's a handsome production which, no doubt, won't visually impress very much when diminished by, ugh!, "formatting." What's wrong with "letterboxing," may I ask? Maybe it's the word itself!