Royal Wedding
by Stanley Donen
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Actor: Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Keenan Wynn, Peter Lawford, Sarah ChurchillDirector: Stanley Donen
Cinematographer: Robert H. Planck
Editor: Albert Akst
Producer: Arthur Freed
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Good Times Video
Movie Reviews of Royal Wedding
Movie Review: Dancing On The Ceiling The Main High Point
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie features some of the most famous dance scenes by Fred Astaire, such as the one where he dances on the walls and ceiling.
That particularly dance is impressive because the special-effects made it look realistic. Kudos to the filmmakers for doing that in a film that is 55 years old. Astaire also did a clever number earlier with a hat rack and did two entertaining dances with Jane Powell.
The dancing was the only good thing in the film. Most of the story deals with romances between Powell and Peter Lawford and Astaire and Sarah Churchill. The latter look a little old for the normal young-romance type angles viewers are used to seeing in films. Facially, Fred looked like he had been ill. He just didn't look good. Powell looked fine but her soprano voice almost broke my TV tube. It was brutal.
Still, it's tough to totally knock any movie in which Astaire demonstrates his incredible dancing skills.
Summary of Royal Wedding
Fred Astaire dances on the ceiling in this 1951 Alan Jay Lerner musical for MGM, directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). The appealing story finds Astaire as part of a brother-and-sister act (along with Jane Powell) that travels to London at the time of Queen Elizabeth II's wedding. Astaire and Powell each find romances that threaten to break up the act, but that's mostly fun window dressing in a movie better known for some truly creative sequences made vivid by Donen, including Astaire's famous dance with a hat rack and his duet with Powell, "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You (When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life)?" --Tom KeoghComedy DVD Video
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