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Watch: The Swan 1956 123movies, Full Movie Online – Princess Beatrice’s days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he’s bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate’s dairy than Alexandra’s rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra’s brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him..
Plot: Princess Beatrice’s days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he’s bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate’s dairy than Alexandra’s rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra’s brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
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Grace Kelly, the perfect swan
Swans are beautiful, elegant creatures. So who better to portray the human embodiment of a swan than the beautiful, elegant Grace Kelly? Our story unfolds in 1910 with Kelly playing young Princess Alexandra, a minor royal in some fictional European nation. Her family’s fortune has faded and her mother desperately desires for Alexandra to marry the heir to the throne, Prince Albert, and thus restore her family to the throne they lost. Prince Albert is Alexandra’s cousin but don’t mind that because marrying your cousin was quite the royal thing to do at the time. As it turns out Albert is a bit of an odd duck. He has rejected many potential brides and now he has come to call on Alexandra to see if perhaps she is the one. But the prince’s social awkwardness sinks this romance before it ever starts. Alexandra isn’t exactly warm and loving either, a bit of an ice princess. As the would-be romance founders Alexandra’s desperate mother hatches a plot.

The mother urges her daughter to show an interest in Nicholas, who tutors Alexandra’s younger brothers. Nicholas is a nice enough guy, but a commoner, certainly not a real romantic possibility for a princess. He is just to be used to hopefully make Prince Albert jealous. But Nicholas doesn’t know this. He’s been carrying a torch for Alexandra all along and now he thinks he’s got his big chance. Complications ensue, suffice to say things don’t really go according to plan for anyone involved. At least here the drama picks up a bit, prior to this the film had been a little bit flat and mundane. While there are some decent comedic moments sprinkled throughout there aren’t nearly enough laughs to make the film work as a comedy. So for the film to succeed the story has to really grab you. The drama has to be compelling and for much of the film it is really not. Kelly is terrific in a role which suits her perfectly. And Alec Guinness is reliably excellent in playing Prince Albert. But just as the romance between their two characters never sparks to life so too does the movie lack a certain energy. A reasonably engaging, enjoyable film but it leaves you wanting more. The film’s somewhat surprising conclusion is a bit of a letdown as well. At least that ending provides an explanation for why Alexandra is thought of as a swan. The comparison between the beautiful bird and the beautiful woman works well. The movie as a whole does not work nearly as perfectly. A great vehicle for the lovely Kelly, with some good work from Guinness and Louis Jourdan, playing the tutor, as well. But the excellent performers could have done so much more had they had a more engrossing story to work with. Kelly is so good, and so radiant, that it is worth seeing the film for her alone. You’re just left wishing the film had a little bit more to offer.

Superb!
Copyright 1956 by Loew’s Inc. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture. New York opening at the Radio City Music Hall: 26 April 1956. U.S. release: 27 April 1956. U.K. release: 21 May 1956. Australian release: 18 April 1956 (sic). 9,719 feet. 108 minutes.

SYNOPSIS: Hungary, 1910. Determined that her daughter shall become a queen, Princess Beatrix makes agitated preparations when she learns that Crown Prince Albert intends to visit her castle. But Albert is bored and indifferent, Princess Alexandra cold and nervous. The long-awaited visit turns into a gloomy failure.

NOTES: Third film version of the Molnar play. Frances Howard played the title role opposite Adolphe Menjou’s Albert and Ricardo Cortez’s tutor in Dimitri Buchowetzki’s 1925 release for Paramount. In the 1930 sound re-make, Lillian Gish played Alexandra, Rod La Rocque was Albert, whilst Conrad Nagel played Dr Nicholas. The screenplay written by Melville Baker himself, was directed by Paul L. Stein. The sets were co-designed by William Cameron Menzies. A United Artists release, this talkie was entitled One Romantic Night. Although High Society was released later, this was Grace Kelly’s final Hollywood film. She became the real-life Princess of Monaco on 18 April 1956. M-G-M revived this Molnar play to cash in on the publicity.

COMMENT: Who would think M-G-M capable of producing a movie of such taste, elegance, wit and sophistication? Evidently producer Schary, assuming that the movie would be a box-office winner no matter what, decided to let his creative team aim a great deal higher than the studio norm. “The Swan” emerges as a delightful comedy of manners, directed with unobtrusive style and vitality, superbly set and winningly photographed (impossible to detect where Ruttenberg ends and Surtees begins), and for which Kaper has contributed one of his most appealingly melodic scores. It’s hard to credit that not a single one of these artists were so much as nominated for a prestigious Hollywood award.

Of course “The Swan” is a trifle — but what a dish when served up by brilliant players like these! It’s the superlative acting here that makes all the difference between shallow pointlessness and rapier wit. Each character in this wonderful cast is fascinatingly individualized. Timing and pacing from the whole ensemble is just right. Jessie Royce Landis has a couple of excellent foils in Estelle Winwood and surprisingly Brian Aherne (who here for once is perfectly cast).

Of course for most people, the movie’s exciting cast starts and ends with Grace Kelly. She is absolutely radiant, her very hesitancy and immaturity as an actress being cleverly exploited and utilized for stunning dramatic effects by director Charles Vidor. The scene in which she gradually melts while waltzing with Jourdan (an equally charming performer, in my opinion) is masterfully orchestrated, edited and directed.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 44 min (104 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Comedy, Romance, Drama
Director Charles Vidor
Writer Ferenc Molnár, John Dighton
Actors Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Sound System), 4-Track Stereo
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process CinemaScope
Printed Film Format 35 mm