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Royal Wedding (1951)

1951 · Feature film · 92 min · dir. Stanley Donen

A story of a famed singing, dancing, brother and sister team!

  • musical film
  • romantic comedy

Synopsis

Royal Wedding is a 1951 American musical comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. Set in 1947 London at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, the film follows an American brother-sister song-and-dance duo, each of whom falls in love—the brother with a female dancer and the sister with an impoverished but well-connected nobleman. The film marked Donen's second…

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Details

Director
Stanley Donen
Writer
Alan Jay Lerner
Cinematography
Robert H. Planck
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Released
1951-03-08
Running time
92 minutes

Cast & crew

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