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.
Acting
Grace Kelly's final film performance — restrained, heartbreaking, perfect.
Costume
Helen Rose's gowns that make everyone else look like furniture.
Cinematography
North Carolina standing in for a Balkan palace, somehow works.
Director
Charles Vidor
Grace Kelly
Princess Alexandra
Alec Guinness
Prince Albert
Louis Jourdan
Dr. Nicholas Agi
Agnes Moorehead
Queen Maria Dominika
Jessie Royce Landis
Princess Beatrix
Brian Aherne
Father Carl Hyacinth
Leo G. Carroll
Caesar
Estelle Winwood
Symphorosa
Van Dyke Parks
George
Robert Coote
Capt. Wunderlich
Doris Lloyd
Countess Sibenstoyn
Edith Barrett
Elsa - Beatrix's Maid
Giuseppe Addobbati
Footman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released mere months before Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco, making her final princess role eerily prophetic.
The football scene was added specifically because Guinness complained his character was too passive; he wanted to kick something.
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