High Society is a 1956 musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra, and made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in VistaVision and Technicolor with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The film, directed by Charles Walters and produced by Sol C. Siegel, originated from a screenplay by John Patrick, based on the play The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry. It was the last film appearance of Grace Kelly, before she became Princess consort of Monaco. The film is a musical remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940), with Bing Crosby in the Cary Grant role, Grace Kelly replacing Katharine Hepburn, and Frank Sinatra performing James Stewart's part, for which Stewart had won the Academy Award for Best Actor. The location of the story was changed from Philadelphia to Newport, Rhode Island. The highly successful jazz musician C.K. Dexter Haven was divorced from wealthy Newport, Rhode Island socialite Tracy Samantha Lord, but remains in love with her. She, however, is about to get married to a bland gentleman of good standing, George Kittredge.