Stanley Donen

...costs. Sci-fi flicks from filmmakers you wouldn't expect to make sci-fi flicks (Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Winterbottom and Stanley Donen are a few examples) always fascinate me, so I'm very anxious to see what Anderson comes up with if he...

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...which becomes "awfully precious and monotonous and eventually ... fags out in sheer bad taste." Crowther does, however, compliment Donen for his "colorful and graphic" ''mise-en-scene ''. In its home market, the UK, where Cook and...

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Donen directed Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding Stanley Donen (born April 13, 1924) is an American film director and choreographer hailed by David Quinlan as "the King of the Hollywood musicals". His most famous work is ''Singin' in the Rain...

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...Oscar or any of his other awards. It belongs to an oversize photograph of Fred Astaire. "He was my inspiration,'' Donen says of the man he directed in "Royal Wedding'' and "Funny Face. '' Astaire was his biggest influence "without any...

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...hadn't even dissolved in your stomach." Gelbart not only could write an entire "MASH" episode in one night, but when Stanley Donen asked Gelbart to look over a problematic draft of "Blame It on Rio" that a writer had turned in, Gelbart...

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...Marcus and Harvard literature professor Werner Sollors; and a monthlong retrospective of the films of director Stanley Donen in October. Donen will be present on Oct. 9 and 10. At the Brattle Theatre, novelist James Ellroy reads from his...

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...receiving his special statuette in 1972? Or when Cary Grant got his? I, for one, would not have wanted to miss director Stanley Donen's musical acceptance or Blake Edwards' slapstick turn when he won. One of the most memorable honorary...

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...Jean Hagen star in this inventive, delightful MGM extravaganza about the early days of talkies in Hollywood. Kelly and Stanley Donen also choreographed and directed the classic. www.cinespia.org Starring early L.A. The Academy...

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...apparent reason but, then again, you don't need an excuse to see this joyful tribute to the musicals of Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen. The story, featuring three couples kept separate until the end of the film, is reminiscent of a...

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...relished being able to shop undisturbed in the village's supermarket), Michael Powell, Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Stanley Donen (Singing in the Rain) and Robert Wise (The Sound of Music) are just some who've made the...

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