As a remake of The Philadelphia Story, High Society has problems. Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly are wonderful, but look more like father and daughter than a divorced couple; and plodder Charles Walters isn't up to George Cukor when it comes to mixing the sweet and tart ingredients of a great screwball comedy.
But, chances are you won't care because, as a Cole Porter musical, High Society is nigh-unbeatable. It matches Bing with Frank Sinatra in Well, Did You Evah, establishes what everyone in 1956 would think of as 'our song' in Crosby's True Love, allows Celeste Holm a shot at immortality duetting with Frankie on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and hauls in Louis Armstrong to act as singing Greek chorus on the title song and Now You Has Jazz. It's sensational.