The Swan

The Swan is a 1956 remake, directed by Charles Vidor[?], of a 1925 movie about the daughter of a minor branch of a European royal house who is being considered as a wife for her cousin, the heir to the throne. Grace Kelly is the princess, and the movie was made because she was about to become a princess in real life. Her cousin the crown prince is played by Alec Guinness, and her brothers' tutor, a commoner for whom she thinks she may feel more affection than she does for the prince, is played by Louis Jourdan[?].

The princess's relatives -- played by Jessie Royce Landis[?], Estelle Winwood[?], and Brian Ahern[?] -- are comically eccentric, and Agnes Moorhead[?], as the queen who shows up near the end to find out if the princess has made the grade, is crankily imperious. Leo G. Carroll plays their butler.

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The 1925 silent film with the same title was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki[?] and starred Frances Howard[?] as Princess Alexandra and Adolphe Menjou as Crown Prince Albert.