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...energy that Katharine Hepburn brought to the 1939 play and the 1941 movie. Crosby seems as comfortable in the role of a singing millionaire as only a singing millionaire (which he is in real life) can be. but saunters through the part rather sleepily, without much of the old Bing zing. Sinatra plays the reporter like a dead-end kid with a typewriter. The two of them come off best together in a song-and-dance number, Well, Did You Evah?, in which Bing boo-boo-boos as Sinatra cock-a-doodle-doos...
High Society (MGM) is simply not top-drawer. It should have been. The formula was sound: add music and color to a tested product, in this case Philip Barry's old hit, The Philadelphia Story. Producer Sol Siegel assembled a Who's Who cast. He talked Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra into teaming in a movie for the first time, snagged the services of Grace Kelly for her last screen appearance before embarking for Monaco, paid Cole Porter a reported $250,000 for his first original movie score in eight years, and hired Louis Armstrong to blow...
...John (Teahouse of the August Moon) Patrick's screenplay detours the action from the Philadelphia Main Line to the equally posh confines of Newport. There, frosty and imperious Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) delicately dithers over the three men in her life: her ex-husband, C. K. Dexter-Haven (Bing Crosby), an aristocratic jazz devotee who insists on calling her "Sam"; her husband-to-be, George Kittredge (John Lund), a stuffy fellow; and brash Reporter Mike Connor (Frank Sinatra), who is on hand to cover the wedding for a picture magazine. The romantic field is soon winnowed down to Millionaire...
...then there is Louis Armstrong. When Satchmo does an eye-rolling duet with Bing (Now You Has Jazz) or belts out a hot wedding march on his trumpet, High Society becomes really yare...
...borrow the book's idiom, The Straight and Narrow Path is the tale of a great haroosh*in the village of Patrickstown, and it may be said without fear of successful contradiction that neither Barry Fitzgerald nor Spencer Tracy nor Bing Crosby nor John Wayne will bid for the role of the priest, if the book, by some unlikely chance, is made into a film...