Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

High society (Motion picture : 1956)

Title:

High society [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Sol C. Siegel production ; screenplay, John Patrick ; directed by Charles Walters.

Edition:

Widescreen version.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video ; [United States] : Turner Entertainment Co., 2008.

Description:

1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

In this musical comedy, a society wedding is being arranged in Newport, Rhode Island. The beautiful Tracy Samantha Lord is to marry George Kittredge. However, Tracy's ex-husband, the songwriter C.K. Dexter-Haven, has never stopped loving her and has hopes of winning her back. A New York scandal sheet reporter and photographer arrive to cover the wedding and complicate the tangled romances.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Divorced women -- Drama.

Remarriage -- Drama.

Courtship -- Drama.

Comedy films.

Musical films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Siegel, Sol C., 1903-1982.

Patrick, John, 1905-1995.

Walters, Charles, 1911-1982.

Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977.

Grace, Princess of Monaco, 1929-1982.

Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998.

Holm, Celeste, 1917-2012.

Lund, John, 1911-1992

Calhern, Louis, 1895-1956.

Blackmer, Sidney, 1895-1973.

Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971.

Vogel, Paul C., 1899-1975.

Winters, Ralph E.

Porter, Cole, 1891-1964.

Green, Johnny, 1908-1989.

Chaplin, Saul, 1912-1997.

Barry, Philip, 1896-1949. Philadelphia story.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Turner Entertainment Co.

Other Title:

Cole Porter in Hollywood, true love.

Millionaire Droopy.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1956.

Based on the play, The Philadelphia story by Philip Barry.

Special features include: featurette Cole Porter in Hollywood: true love, hosted by Celeste Holm; premiere newsreel; CinemaScope cartoon Millionaire Droopy; audio-only bonus: radio ads; trailers for this and The Philadelphia Story; production notes.

Director of photography, Paul C. Vogel ; editor, Ralph E. Winters ; music and lyrics by Cole Porter ; music supervised and adapted by Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin.

Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Louis Armstrong and his Band.

DVD; dual-layer format; Dolby Digital; widescreen presentation (matted, enhanced).

Closed captioned.

Dialogue in English (5.1 surround) with optional French (mono.) soundtrack; optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish.

ISBN:

1419867784

9781419867781

Other Number:

245049811

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

328797

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE High soc

Medium:

[videorecording]