Royal Wedding (1951)

Directed by

Stanley Donen

Genre

musical film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 112 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American brother and sister who perform as a song-and-dance duo travel to London in 1947. While there, each one falls in love with a local person despite complications.

whimsicalromanticlightheartedupbeatjoyfulcharmingnostalgic

What happens

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 directorial feature. It was released as Wedding Bells in the United Kingdom. Royal Wedding is one of several MGM musicals that entered the public domain because the studio failed to renew the copyright registration in the 28th year after its publication. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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