Royal Wedding (1951)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Stanley Donen

Writer: Alan Jay Lerner

Cinematographer: Robert Planck

Composer: Albert Sendrey

Cast: Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill, Keenan Wynn, Albert Sharpe

A marriage shy, all singing, all dancing, brother-sister musical act travel to London to put on their successful “Every Nite at Seven” show, but whilst there their matrimonial reluctances are put to the test when romance rears its head, in this shabbily entertaining musical, boasting a pair of charisma filled lead performances and two of cinema’s most exciting dance sequences (Astaire dancing with a hat stand, and dancing on the ceiling). Iain.Stott