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...visible reason, 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...
...command manned by a relative handful of officers and enlisted men whose presence has spawned a fabulous aggregation of 6,000 men, women and children, their dogs, cats, cars and TV sets-perhaps the world's most striking example of the peacetime American Way overseas, and certainly a posh assignment that burns in the salt-hardened souls of Navymen on all the ships...
...schoolmasters remembers Rex as "what we called a posh boy, always neat and well groomed. Pretty unusual in a schoolboy. But he was likable...
...those embarrassing incidents which, whether accidental or calculated, always make surefire headlines, Sweden's voluptuous Cinemactress Anita (Blood Alley) Ekberg writhed her swivel-hipped way across the crowded foyer of a posh London hotel, suddenly found her strapless, skinlike gown at half mast when its key stitches gave way. Reported a lady eyewitness: "Under it was-just Anita." With a pretty display of shocked modesty, Anita repaired to an anteroom for repairs, cooed later: "I like tight dresses, but after this, well...
Sargent resolved to put the English Channel between himself and his detractors. He took an ornate studio on London's Tite Street, later installed his wid owed mother and unmarried sister in a flat around the corner. To be "done by Sargent" became the posh thing; celebrities flocked to his studio. But instead of immortalizing, he rather paralyzed most of them, turning them into clotheshorses, handsome or beautiful as the case might be. having elegant gestures and bored, sleepy expressions...