Royal Wedding
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| 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 |
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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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