"The Swan" 1956, Grace Kelly, Louis Jourdan, Clip #1

Clip #1. Look for this movie on TCM or buy the tape at Amazon.com.

The story is about a royal family who is hoping to lure a prince (Alec Guiness) to marry their daughter (Grace Kelly), who is a princess of a small country. The prince is only going to visit for a short time, so the mother of the princess decides to use a tutor (Louis Jourdan) as a pawn in order to make the prince jealous.

This film is a little slow in parts, but for the most part quite charming and funny. Grace Kelly is at her most luminous. Also stars Louis Jourdan, Brian Aherne, Alec Guiness, Jessie Royce Landis, and Estelle Winwood. Read more about this film here: http://imdb.com/title/tt0049815/

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• swan
• grace
• kelly
• louis
• jourdan

[bookkeeper57]

Storyline sounds as if borrowed for the Princess Diaries comedy that starred Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway.

[sweeney3269]

No, actually, it resembles The Princess Diaries not at all. And the end of this film is not what you might expect, either.

[Pacabelle]

The chemistry between Grace Kelly and Louis Jourdan is amazing in this film! Jourdan is so dashing and debonair actor of all time!

[AAMLfan]

Oh Louis......if only a man would look at me like THAT.

[MyGolden89]

I've watched this marvellous movie more than 100 times. It's one of my favourite Grace's. She's absolutely stunning. She left Hollywood for love. Actually she become the most beautiful and elegant Princess of the History

[TheWorldwide456]

Se solo potessi trovare una donna meravigliosa come lo e' stata la Princessa Grace Kelly, vera Regina di bellezza, fascino stile e classe. Ho visto questo bellissimo e romantico film almeno 100 volte. Un sogno, tranne il finale! Grace Kelly : Il Cigno Regale in assoluto!

[sephsdaughter]

@bookkeeper57 You can't say that it was the storyline of Princess Diaries when this was here LONG before the princess diaries came out.

[shreena78]

I have to do a book report on grace Kelly and I'm not even halfway through the book which I hardly understand... This is easier

[Mandinko23]

@youmeustogether exactly i watched this years ago when i was in high school i thought she was audrey hepburn cause their voice sound sooooooooooooo much alike

[Mandinko23]

@lourdesgirl101 that is soooo funny wow someone became a nun after playing a nun how awsome is that. Grace is sooooo beautiful and elegant , i watched this movie when i was in high school on AMC channel i never knew that it was grace kelly who played the princess.

[16reynoso]

@youmeustogether I noticed that too!

[itsjustme425]

Loved this movie, but I do wish the ending was different. Grace and the tutor had such an amazing chemistry then in the end they don't end up together! But all in all it was a excellent movie.

[Magix1reaper]

So that's what she looked like? Wow. A true beauty of her time.

I'm reading her biography and it has pictures but... well, to see the actual thing is something.

[kocsogarc]

Could you put up the whole movie? ;)