Stanley Donen

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On the Town (1949): Dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly; Exuberant musical about three sailors enjoying a day's leave in New York is about as good as this stuff gets. The cast almost bounce off the screen.
Royal Wedding (1951): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford…; Famous for its legendary tap–dance on the ceiling, this otherwise thinly–plotted musical (set against the marriage of Princess Elizabeth…
Singin' in the Rain (Singing in the Rain) (1952): Dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Feat. Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds…; The quintessential Hollywood musical happens to be about the movie biz. Its blend of vivacious style and humour, catchy numbers and dazzling…
Give a Girl a Break (1953): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Debbie Reynolds, Marge Champion, Gower Champion…; Musical comedy about three unknown actresses who are all competing for Broadway stardom after a temperamental performer walks off the set of a major…
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards…; Rollicking musical set in backwoods Oregon, with brothers all looking for brides–to–be.
Funny Face (1956): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn; Hip musical boasts the unrestrained ebullience of Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn as a fashion photographer and book–clerk who becomes his…
Pajama Game, The (1957): Dir. George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Feat. Doris Day; Exemplary screen musical stars Doris Day in exuberant form as a feisty union delegate who falls for her boss while negotiating a wage rise for her…
Kiss Them For Me (1957): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson…; Very very silly war comedy with Grant and his navy buddies fighting for their right to spend their shore leave as they see fit, which inevitably…
Indiscreet (1958): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman; Snappy comedy in which sophisticates Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman indulge in a whirlwind romance that cools off smartly when she finds his claim of…
Damn Yankees (Whatever Lola Wants) (1958): Dir. George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Feat. Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston…; Supremely entertaining musical rom–com that transposes the Faustian legend to the world of American baseball, with Gwen Verdon in the iconic…
Grass Is Greener, The (1960): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum…; The wife of an English Earl falls in love with an American millionaire tourist. Songs by Noel Coward.
Charade (1964): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn; Excellently scripted Hitchcock–style thriller crosses the romantic with the macabre.
Two for the Road (1966): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney; Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney play a married couple who reflect on their twelve year marriage while driving through France in a sports car with…
Arabesque (1966): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Sophia Loren, Gregory Peck; Whimsical spy shenanigans in London, with Anglo–Arab relations straining over the custody of a hieroglyphic code. Sophia Loren's extraordinary…
Bedazzled (1967): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch…; A brilliant and enduring satire that updates of the 'Faust' tale to swinging London, with Moore playing a lovelorn chef who is lured into a pact by…
Staircase (1969): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Cathleen Nesbitt; Sitting somewhere between farce and melancholy, a pair of aging barbers bicker over the possibility of ending their loving but often volatile…
Little Prince, The (1974): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Richard Kiley, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder; The classic childern's story by aviator Antoine de Saint–Exupery is here translated with whimsy and wit intact. A pilot is stranded in a desert…
Lucky Lady (1975): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds…; Shapeless caper with three rum–runners set during the prohibition whose lives are complicated by the personal relationships. A notorious…
Saturn 3 (1980): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel; Space–base scientists Farrah Fawcett and Kirk Douglas become menaced by baddie Harvey Keitel and his sex–crazed robot. Martin Amis's…
Blame it on Rio (1984): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Michael Caine, Demi Moore, Joseph Bologna…; French–style farce in which Caine and his business partner holiday in Rio de Janeiro with their respective teenage daughters in tow. Caine has…

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