But the screwball classics were devoted to the gowned and top-hatted rich, and the audience relished the foolery because the characters remained graceful through all their misadventures.
Anyone else? "Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated," adds Kate Winslet, rather in awe of Audrey, but gathering herself.
He remained "graceful" to most.
TIERED verandas and graceful palms remain hallmarks of Brisbane, despite the surge of shiny new office buildings that tower above the mangrove-fringed banks of the Brisbane River.
As she has made Oscar history as the first woman to win an Academy Award for directing, Kathryn Bigelow, the filmmaker behind "The Hurt Locker" and the forthcoming "Zero Dark Thirty," has remained gracious and graceful about her place in the cinematic canon.
Edges of some pages are torn and crumbling, but the words, drawn in graceful cursive script, remain remarkably legible.
The bookkeeper trolls have allowed the Plaza Athenee's other room, the graceful Grill Relais Plaza, to remain open, and Chef Philippe Marc regularly turns out surprising and exceptional fare.
If so, it is fair to ask whether Beijing will rise to the occasion and be a graceful loser or remain obstinate in the face of overwhelming opposition to its actions in the South China Sea.
Josephine Baker was a wise woman, a graceful writer and a visionary whose insights remain intensely relevant today.
The abandoned wheelchairs, most badly burned, remain queued up in front of what was once a graceful entrance.
