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Royal Wedding (1951)
American musical romantic comedy.
A brother and sister dance act encounter challenges and romance when booked in London during the Royal Wedding.
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 the imminent royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten.
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 in reconciling her estranged parents and also asks his agent to locate Anne’s supposed fiancé in Chicago – only to discover that he’s married and therefore Anne is free to do what she likes.
Carried away by the emotion of the wedding, the two couples decide that they will also be married that day. Thanks to the resourcefulness of Tom’s London agent, Edgar Klinger, who knows someone in the Archbishop’s office who can cut through the official red tape and also has a cooperative minister in his pocket, Anne and Tom, and Ellen and John, are in fact married on the royal wedding day.
| Directed by | Stanley Donen |
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| Written by | Alan Jay Lerner (story & screenplay) |
| Produced by | Arthur Freed |
| Starring | Fred Astaire Jane Powell Sarah Churchill Peter Lawford |
| Cinematography | Robert Planck |
| Edited by | Albert Akst |
| Music by | Songs: Burton Lane (music) Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) |
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time
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93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,661,000 |
| Box office | $3,902,000 |
