High Society (1956 film) Quotes

High Society (1956 film) is a television program that debuted in 1970 . High Society completed its run in 1970.

It features Sol C. Siegel as producer, Cole Porter in charge of musical score, and Paul Vogel as head of cinematography.

High Society (1956 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of High Society (1956 film) is 111 minutes long. High Society (1956 film) is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The cast includes: Frank Sinatra as Mike, Gordon Richards as Dexter, Grace Kelly as Tracy, Celeste Holm as Liz Imbrie, Margalo Gillmore as Mrs. Lord, Louis Calhern as Uncle Willie, John Lund as George Kittredge, Lydia Reed as Caroline Lord, and Sidney Blackmer as Seth Lord.

High Society (1956 film) Quotes

Gordon Richards as Dexter

• (Gordon Richards) "You'll find it under Harvard Classics. Just give Darwin a little nudge."

• (Gordon Richards) "They met in a hole in the ground."

• (Gordon Richards) "You're my bon ami."
• (Frank Sinatra) "Hey, that's French"

• (Louis Armstrong) "You could play football in this room."
• (Gordon Richards) "I know, but can you rehearse?"
• (Louis Armstrong) "Is that chandelier tied tight up there?"
• (Gordon Richards) "If it gets to swinging a little put a mute in your horn."

• (Gordon Richards) "She's not your wife yet and she was mine you know."
• (Gordon Richards) "Thought I'd better get in first, he's in much better shape."
• (Frank Sinatra) "You'll do."

• (Gordon Richards) "Liz, you're in love with Connor aren't you?"
• (Celeste Holm) "People ask the darnedest questions."
• (Gordon Richards) "Why don't you marry him?"
• (Celeste Holm) "I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that."
• (Gordon Richards) "I said why don't you marry him?"
• (Celeste Holm) "He's still got a lot to learn. I don't want to get in his way for a while."
• (Gordon Richards) "Supposing some other girl comes along in the meantime."
• (Celeste Holm) "I guess I'd just scratch her eyes out. Unless that is she was marrying someone else the next day."
• (Gordon Richards) "You're quite a girl Liz."
• (Celeste Holm) "I don't know. I take nice pictures though."

Frank Sinatra as Mike

• (Frank Sinatra) "We'll go over the wall. Whose car should we use?"
• (Grace Kelly) "Any one."
• (Frank Sinatra) "How about that blue one?"
• (Grace Kelly) "Oh no, that's mine."

• (Frank Sinatra) "You know how I feel about my grandmother but I'd sell her for a drink."

• (Frank Sinatra) "She can't be for real."
• (Celeste Holm) "Who was doing the interviewing?"
• (Frank Sinatra) "You think she was born that way?"
• (Celeste Holm) "Nah. Takes years."

• (Frank Sinatra) "Is that for me?"
• (Gordon Richards) "It's for Sam, you want one?"
• (Frank Sinatra) "You know how I feel about my grandmother but I'd sell her for a drink."
• (Gordon Richards) "Uncle Willie's in the pantry doing weird and wonderful things with healing waters. Tell him you'd like one of the same."
• (Frank Sinatra) "Can I ask for two?"
• (Gordon Richards) "Keep going till you run out of grandmothers."
• (Frank Sinatra) "I'll be drinking a long time."

• (Frank Sinatra) "Who wants to be a millionaire?"
• (Celeste Holm) "I don't."

• (Frank Sinatra) "Have you heard the story of a boy a girl, unrequited love?"
• (Gordon Richards) "Sounds like pure soap opera."
• (Frank Sinatra) "I may cry."
• (Gordon Richards) "Tune in tomorrow."

• (Frank Sinatra) "Don't dig that kind of crooning, chum."
• (Gordon Richards) "You must be one of the newer fellows."

• (Frank Sinatra) "I'm gonna dance."
• (Gordon Richards) "Don't get hurt."

• (Frank Sinatra) "Hands up."
• (Grace Kelly) "Oh it's you. Go away."
• (Frank Sinatra) "Where are you going?"
• (Grace Kelly) "Some place and dance."
• (Frank Sinatra) "But they're dancing in there."
• (Grace Kelly) "I know but George is frowning at me and I can't dance when anyone frowns at me."

• (Frank Sinatra) "This joint's full of spies."
• (Celeste Holm) "That should make us feel at home."

• (Frank Sinatra) "Would you have four footmen bring me a large ashtray."
• (Celeste Holm) "Mike, be careful what you say. We may be wired for sound."

• (Frank Sinatra) "She's a lovely girl."
• (Grace Kelly) "Yes, isn't she? Ah, but we're afraid she has a homicidal streak."

• (Frank Sinatra) "If you had really know her, you would've"
• (Frank Sinatra) "never let her get away. You go hiccups."
• (Gordon Richards) "Excuse me."
• (Frank Sinatra) "It's alright."

• (Frank Sinatra) "Mr Kittredge, it may interest you to know that our so-called affair consisted of exactly two kisses and one rather late swim both of which I thoroughly enjoyed and the memory of which I wouldn't part with for anything. After which I returned here, carried her to her room, deposited her on her bed and promptly returned here which you will no doubt remember."
• (John Lund) "That's all?"
• (Frank Sinatra) "That's all."
• (Grace Kelly) "Why? Was I so cold? So forbidding?"
• (Frank Sinatra) "Not at all. On the contrary but you were somewhat the worse or the better for the wine and there are rules about such things."

• (Frank Sinatra) "Oh Tracy, you're tremendous."
• (Grace Kelly) "It's funny because I feel very small. Put me in your pocket, Mike."

• (Frank Sinatra) "Didn't you once know a girl named Tracy Samantha Lord?"
• (Gordon Richards) "Yes, I did."
• (Frank Sinatra) "No, you didn't. If you did, you wouldn't have let her go."

Grace Kelly as Tracy

• (Grace Kelly) "Oh, I think men are wonderful."
• (Celeste Holm) "The little dears."

• (Grace Kelly) "Oh, it got dark all of a sudden."

• (Grace Kelly) "I'm such an unholy mess of a girl."
• (Gordon Richards) "Oh, come on, that's not even good conversation, Tracy."

• (Grace Kelly) "Caroline Lord, if you put this picture in my wedding presents once more I am going to personally chain you to your bed."

• (Grace Kelly) "Are you learning anything about the idle rich?"
• (Frank Sinatra) "Yeah, they drive too fast. Where are we headed anyway?"
• (Grace Kelly) "The graveyard."
• (Frank Sinatra) "I'm not ready."
• (Grace Kelly) "I thought I'd show you the playground of the rich, the graveyard of the wealthy."
• (Frank Sinatra) "Well, for that I'm ready."

• (Grace Kelly) "I would like to talk to you privately."
• (Gordon Richards) "Well now, I consider that right neighborly."

• (Grace Kelly) "Isn't it a fine day. Is everybody fine? That's fine."

• (Grace Kelly) "Look everybody, it's Uncle Willy. Wasn't it nice of Uncle Willy to surprise us?"

• (Grace Kelly) "One thing's for sure. You're well rid of me."
• (Gordon Richards) "Oh, no, no-one can say that but me."

• (Grace Kelly) "There are fairies at the bottom of my garden all ringing little bells."

• (Grace Kelly) "My, she was yar."

• (Grace Kelly) "Mother, don't you think Caroline is old enough to be sent to a good military school?"

Lydia Reed as Caroline Lord

• (Lydia Reed) "Mother, don't you think it's stinking of Tracy not to invite father to the wedding?"
• (Margalo Gillmore) "Yes, just between us, I think it's good and stinking."

• (Lydia Reed) "Dexter? This is Caroline."
• (Gordon Richards) "Hello, beautiful."
• (Lydia Reed) "Any time now."

• (Lydia Reed) "Tracy, it's your song. Dexter must be home."
• (Grace Kelly) "Mother, has Dexter come back?"
• (Margalo Gillmore) "Well, we knew he was giving his house over to the jazz festival, maybe he has come back."
• (Grace Kelly) "He's back. No-one else would play that song. That cheap, vulgar, dreadful song."
• (Lydia Reed) "That beautiful, wonderful song he wrote especially for her? That's gratitude."

Celeste Holm as Liz Imbrie

• (Celeste Holm) "Mike, if I ever am in your way. Don't honk, just run over me."

• (Celeste Holm) "You know something professor, I think you dropped a loop."

• (Celeste Holm) "Elegant junk."
• (Frank Sinatra) "It's shiny."

• (Celeste Holm) "Were you by any chance playing footsie with me at lunch?"
• (Frank Sinatra) "From where I sat?"
• (Celeste Holm) "I didn't think your reach was that good. Seth Lord has a roving eye and foot."

• (Celeste Holm) "Plate."

Louis Calhern as Uncle Willie

• (Louis Calhern) "I can't find Liz."
• (Gordon Richards) "I think I just saw someone wander out on to the terrace. Alone."
• (Louis Calhern) "You don't say. The little vixen."
• (Gordon Richards) "Ollie ollie oxen free."
• (Gordon Richards) "What's the matter? Uncle Willie giving you a little trouble?"
• (Celeste Holm) "That man's gonna wind up a juvenile delinquent mark my words."

• (Louis Calhern) "My dear boy, this is the sort of day history tells us is better spent in bed."

John Lund as George Kittredge

• (John Lund) "I have a feeling you had more to do with this than anybody. You and your whole rotten class."
• (Gordon Richards) "Oh class my --"
• (Frank Sinatra) "grandmother."

• (John Lund) "That sounds like Tracy's voice."
• (Gordon Richards) "No, no. It's just the night watchman."
• (John Lund) "It's a woman's voice."
• (Gordon Richards) "Well he's a lyric tenor you see."

• (John Lund) "This is all your fault. You and your whole rotten class."
• (Gordon Richards) "Oh, class my --"
• (Frank Sinatra) "-- Grandmother."

Margalo Gillmore as Mrs. Lord

• (Margalo Gillmore) "Tracy, look at the way she does her hair."
• (Grace Kelly) "Oh, yes, it's lovely. Is it lacquered?"

• (Margalo Gillmore) "George told us what happened. Your father will make an announcement."
• (Grace Kelly) "Oh thank you. No, no, I got myself into this, I'll get myself out. Ooh."
• (Gordon Richards) "Go. Go."
• (Grace Kelly) "Good morning"
• (Grace Kelly) "Will you stop that racket? Good morning. I'm afraid there's been a slight hitch. My fiancé that was -- that is -- he's decided we should call it a day and I quite agree with him and -- oh Dexter help me please?"
• (Gordon Richards) "Say "two years ago I did you out of a wedding in this house by eloping to Maryland""
• (Grace Kelly) "Two years ago I did you out of a wedding in this house by eloping to Maryland."
• (Gordon Richards) ""But I hope to make it up to you now by going through with it as originally planned.""
• (Grace Kelly) "But I hope to make it up to you now by --"
• (Grace Kelly) "by going through with it as originally and most beautifully planned."
• (Gordon Richards) ""So if you'll just keep your seats a moment""
• (Grace Kelly) "So if you'll just keep your lovely seats a moment"
• (Gordon Richards) ""That's all""
• (Grace Kelly) "That's all"
• (Grace Kelly) ". Oh Dexter, are you sure?"
• (Gordon Richards) "No, but I'll risk it if you will."
• (Grace Kelly) "You're not just doing it to save my face?"
• (Gordon Richards) "It's such a sweet old face."

• (Margalo Gillmore) "This is Miss Elizabeth Imbrie and Mr Mike Macauley Connor. They're from Spy magazine."
• (Gordon Richards) "Spy? Say your tastes have changed a little haven't they, Sam?"

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