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Royal Wedding

Royal Wedding
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell in Royal Wedding.jpg
Astaire and Powell in Royal Wedding
Directed by Stanley Donen
Produced by Arthur Freed
Screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner
Story by Alan Jay Lerner
Starring Fred Astaire
Jane Powell
Sarah Churchill
Peter Lawford
Music by Burton Lane
Uncredited:
Albert Sendrey
Cinematography Robert Planck
Edited by Albert Akst
Production
company
Release date
  • March 8, 1951 (1951-03-08)
Running time
93 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1,661,000
Box office $3,902,000

Royal Wedding is a 1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. The film was directed by Stanley Donen; it was his second film and the first he directed on his own. It was released as Wedding Bells in the United Kingdom.

The story is set in London in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh. Astaire and Powell are siblings in a song and dance duo, echoing the real-life theatrical relationship of Fred and Adele Astaire.

Royal Wedding is one of several MGM musicals that lapsed into public domain on their 29th anniversary due to failure to renew the copyright registration.

The story sees brother and sister Tom and Ellen Bowen as stars of a show Every Night at Seven, a Broadway success. They are persuaded to take the show to London, capitalizing on an imminent royal wedding.

On the ship, Ellen meets and quickly falls in love with the impoverished but well-connected Lord John Brindale. Whilst casting the show in London, Tom falls in love with a newly engaged dancer, Anne Ashmond. Tom assists Anne to reconcile her estranged parents and also asks his agent to locate Anne's supposed fiancé in Chicago – only to discover that he's married.


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