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Stanley Donen, who directed or co-directed some of Hollywood's best-known movie musicals, including “On the Town,” “Royal Wedding” and what many consider the greatest movie musical of all ...
Stanley Donen brought a new kinetic freedom to the screen musical. Until news of his death, at 94, came Saturday, many considered him the last of the great Golden Age Hollywood directors. Donen ...
Stanley Donen, who directed Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling, Gene Kelly singing in the rain and a host of other sparkling moments from some of Hollywood’s greatest musicals, died on Thursday ...
Stanley Donen, who co-directed Singin’ in the Rain with Gene Kelly and helmed two of the most acclaimed musicals of the 1950s, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Funny Face, has died. He was 94.
The 1955 post-war musical played with darker themes than "An American in Paris" or "Singin' in the Rain" and ended up being one of the final dance-focused MGM musicals of the era.
“Our love will last till the stars turn cold.” That line from “Singin’ in the Rain” perfectly sums up the sensibility of its director, Stanley Donen: absolute sincerity wedded to knowing ...
LOS ANGELES — Filmmaker Stanley Donen, a giant of the Hollywood musical who through such classics as "Singin' in the Rain" and "Funny Face" helped give us some of the most joyous sounds and ...
Stanley Donen, Who Reinvented the Movie Musical and So Much More, Dies at 94. The "On the Town," "Singin’ in the Rain" and "Two for the Road" maestro had a nearly 70-year career in film and theater.
Director Stanley Donen died Thursday in New York City at age 94. On July 2, 2006, Susan King talked with film historians and experts about Donen, who was then being honored with a LACMA tribute.
Stanley Donen, the former dancer who directed some of Hollywood’s greatest musicals including Gene Kelly’s landmark “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and ...
Stanley Donen, the director of such stylish and exuberant films as “Singin’ in the Rain,” has died at 94. Continue to Variety SKIP AD. You will be redirected back to your article in seconds ...