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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089218301895
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Alpha Video
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Alpha Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 19, 2002
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 113306
Studio: Alpha Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 23, 1951
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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 Keogh
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Rating:  - Wonderful Movie
This movie is absolutely wonderful!!!! I love watching old movies, and this one is great. Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling!!! wow!!! They don't make movies like this any more, such a shame! All these wonderful stars are terribly missed!
Rating: - Royal Wedding
Fred Astaire's dancing is always great and the scene where he dances on the floor, wall and ceiling is unforgettable (How did they do that?). Jane Powell makes a great partner for him and Keenan Wynn's double appearances as Fred's London and New York representatives are funny.
Rating: - Royal Wedding Review
If you like musicals, this is a must-have. Astair's famous dancing on-the-ceiling number. Real footage of the original Royal Wedding.
Rating: - Great Musical!
Jane Powell and Fred Astaire star in this wonderfully directed musical as Ellen and Tom Bowen, sister and brother dancing team. After their act is broken up in New York they travel to England to put of their show. Ellen is a bit popular among men as she has several male friends; all of whom want to be her boyfriends. It is a bit of challenge for Tom to watch over his sister and make sure that she spends sometime practicing their dance routines. During their stay in London Ellen meets a charming British aristocrat named Lord John Brindale (Peter Lawford) and falls in love with him, and Tom meets a young dancer named Anne Ashmond (Sarah Churchill) with whom he develops romantic relationship. This movie is brilliantly directed by Stanley Donen, who is also known for directing some of the best musicals that include: Singing in The Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Funny Face, The Pajama Game, and Kismet. The highlight of the movie is Fred Astaire dancing on walls and ceiling; a parody of himself by dancing with a hat rack and imitates Gene Kelly. The solo emphasizes his obsessive rehearsal habits when his sister is on a date. The movie is shot on a great set with excellent décor and costume. My favorite part of the movie is when Tom and Ellen run on street during the Royal Procession, after the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, to propose to their respective sweethearts; Brindale and Ashmond.
There are several numbers which are very enjoyable and the dance routines are ... Read More
Rating: - A Lotta Dance for Your Dime
The release of "Royal Wedding,' in 1951, fifteen years after the last of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films at poverty-stricken RKO Radio Pictures, finds many changes from Astaire's previous work. He's now at powerhouse MGM Studios, where they boasted of more stars than there were in heaven. Where musicals were a specialty-- after all, they had Stanley Donen, a talented director of musicals, though they didn't have Ginger Rogers -- and where all pictures, let alone musicals, were in brightly saturated color. So Astaire costars with Jane Powell, an MGM starlet rather typical of the studio's post-war crop, in brightly saturated color; Stanley Donen contributes his usual artful direction. The whole thing, songs and all, is written by anglophile American Alan Jay Lerner, still five years before his smash Broadway hit, cowritten with Frederick Loewe, the anglophile's dream, "My Fair Lady."
Astaire and Powell costar as a successful brother-sister team of hoofers, just winding up a Broadway engagement in the dog days of summer. London calls, there's a royal wedding on, as Princess (later to be Queen) Elizabeth is marrying; and the pair is happy to hop the next boat crossing the pond. The plot actually follows real life: Astaire first achieved stardom dancing with his sister Adele; but she left the act to marry an English lord, as will the Jane Powell character. Peter Lawford plays the lucky lord. Keenan Wynn plays a dual part, the agent-twins, Irving and Edgar Klinger, one based in New ... Read More
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