Stanley Donen
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- 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…