15 thoughts on “TBT: To Catch a Thief’s 18th Century Masquerade (1955)

  1. I love how everyone smokes like crazy… surprised no one took fire with all the polyester around. I think the blackface with Grace is actually Cary Grant. Oh, and I’m not that much into gold lamé and think Mom’s costume is better: She’s rocking that blue velvet and I WANT THAT WIG!

    1. I wonder if there would have been all that much polyester fabric around in 1955. Polyester drip dry shirts for everyday wear, sure. Don’t know what the cheapo costume fabric of choice would have been. Anybody know?

  2. I know that using black children as accessories is appalling to us now, but we have to admit that it’s doubly authentic – splendidly-dressed black child attendants really were all the rage in the 18th century, and most filthy-rich socialites on the Riviera in the 1950s wouldn’t have had a qualm over hiring a couple of them to add pizzazz to a fancy-dress ball outfit. (Actually they probably still wouldn’t now, if they could count on pictures not being leaked.)

  3. That brocade on the center figure in the next-to-last shot looks . . . almost right for the mid-1700s. I’d love to see the dress close up.

  4. wonderful movie and wonderful costumes. Grace Kelly is the most beautiful woman ever seen at the cinema. Good costumes, I like all of them, especially the one of Princess Kelly and the one of her mother.

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