This Techncolour title card is from the opening of High Society (1956), a screwball comedy concerning a society woman (Grace Kelly) and her three suitors: fiancé (John Lund), ex-husband (Bing Crosby) and a reporter (Frank Sinatra) assigned to cover the wedding.
Though our lead appears in a position in power, she is of course at the whim of her writer and director, who have made her shallow and unworthy of attention.
I barely made it through the first half-hour of this unforgivable "classic" before returning it to its case and placing it in a neighbour's community book box. I cannot sleep with stories like this in my house anymore. If there is anything good to say about High Society, it is the performances of "Louis Armstrong and his band."
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