Stanley Donen

Royal Wedding, 1951 starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell

Royal Wedding, 1951 starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell

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Royal Wedding is a 1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. The film was directed by Stanley Donen; it was his second film and the first he directed on his own. It was released as Wedding Bells in the United Kingdom. The story is set… Read more →

Charade (1963 film)

Charade (1963), Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in the “the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made”

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Charade is a 1963 Technicolor American romantic comedy/mystery film directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. The cast also features Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, and Jacques Marin. It spans three genres: suspense thriller, romance and comedy. Because Universal Pictures published the movie with… Read more →