I don’t know how, but I somehow managed to get through life to this point without ever having seen High Society. Until now. Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong & his band, Cole Porter, and Nelson Riddle all kill. Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra are no slouches either. Yeah, I’m late.
The woman in the film is named Tracy Lord. Lords is indeed the name of the porn star.
I was hoping for something juicier also.
And Lordi is a Finnish metal band.
And the original source was The Philadelphia Story which I saw this spring at a local theater. High Society was the second film based on it. All great, of course.
The Philadelphia Story is one of my favorite movies ever. Not only (I think) the third of three great Katherine Hepburn / Cary Grant pairings, but arguably Jimmy Stewart’s breakthrough role. I chuckled when I came to the board and saw CK.
To this day, I still read his name as C. K. Dexter Haaaaaaaaaaaaaven.
I’m so lost.
What is the point of this thread? I expected…something funnier and different.
There could be other stuff Dex has in common with Ms Lord[s]. A Ford Fiesta? Hummel figurines? A snood?
My name just happens to coincide with the name used by the author of PHILADELPHIA STORY (the original, a play) which then got taken into HIGH SOCIETY. It’s a fairly common name.
Many years back, I knew a lawyer named Donald E. Duck. He was pretty old even then; he was a teenager when Disney turned his name into a world-wide joke. (Can you imagine being mid-teens and suddenly every time you tell someone your name, they laugh and say, “No, really?”)
[sub]OK, seiously, Alessan, you’re right on. When I went to choose a screen name, Jimmy Stewart’s voice calling out “C K Dexter Haaaaaaven! Oh, C K Dexter Haaaaaaaven!” just got stuck in my head and wouldn’t come loose.[/sub]
This is the funniest thing in the world.