Cast

      Grace Kelly                       as Princess Alexandra
      Alec Guinness                    as Prince Albert
      Louis Jourdan                    as Dr Nicholas Agi
      Jessie Royce Landis         as Princess Beatrix
 
 

      Credits

       director:                             Charles Vidor
       production:                         MGM
       screenplay:                         John Dighton
                                                                   (based on the play by Ferenc Molnar)
       costume design:                 Helen Rose
 
 

      Synopsis

      Quotes

       Alexandra:   Don't come any closer Nicholas... I've never seen a man in love and... and he happens
                          to be in love with me.
       Nicholas:   Are you so afraid of me?
       Alexandra:   Oh, if I am, then I want always to be afraid. I want to be so good to you. Oh, I want
                         a hundred things. I want to tell you everything that's in my heart, all my secrets...

       Alexandra:   You mustn't talk like that... or look at me like that!

        Prince Albert:   Think what it means to be a swan, to glide like a dream on the smooth surface of
                                the lake and never go on the shore. On dry land, where ordinary people walk, the
                                swan is awkward, even ridiculous. When she waddles up the bank, she painfully
                                resembles a different kind of bird.
        Alexandra:   A goose?
        Prince Albert:   I'm afraid so. So there she must stay, out on the lake, silent, white, majestic Be a bird,
                               but never fly. Know one song, but never sing it until the moment of her death.

        Alexandra:   Take me in, Albert.

              Notes

      -   The film is a remake of Onee Romantic Night (1930).

      -   Jessie Royce Landis had alreaddy played Grace's mother in To Catch a Thief.