Royal Wedding
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.
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| Written by | Alan Jay Lerner (story & screenplay)
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| Cinematography | Robert Planck
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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| Running time | 93 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $1,661,000
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| Box office | $3,902,000
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- In an interview given shortly after the film was released, Fred Astaire revealed that he had tried dancing with more than thirty commercially available clothes trees before the studio had the prop department design and build the one in the film at a final cost was over $900. The clothes tree disappeared shortly after the film wrapped.
- This is one of a handful of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions of the 1950-1951 period whose original copyrights were never renewed and are now apparently in Public Domain; for this reason this title is now offered, often in very inferior copies, at bargain prices, by numerous VHS and DVD distributors who do not normally handle copyrighted or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer material.
- Near the end of filming, Jane Powell discovered she was pregnant.
- Final film of James Finlayson, who has an unbilled bit as a cab driver.
- `Charles Walters` was originally signed to direct the film, but he quit when Judy Garland replaced June Allyson, as he refused to work with Garland again after Summer Stock (1950).
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