Brother and sister dancing duo Tom and Ellen Bowen (Fred Astaire and Jane Powell) travel to merry old England. There, against the backdrop of the impending wedding of royals, they go about the usual comedic pursuit of love. This film is probably most memorable for Astaire’s dream sequence that has him dancing on the ceiling.
Royal Wedding 1951 HD by Stanley Donen | Fred Astaire and Jane Powell | Comedy & Musical Film
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Royal Wedding is a 1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Musical film 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.
The story is set in London in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh. Astaire and Powell are siblings in a musical ensemble and dance ensemble duo, echoing the real-life theatrical relationship of Fred and Adele Astaire.
Plot
The story sees brother and sister Tom and Ellen Bowen as stars of a show Every Night at Seven, a Broadway theatre success. They are persuaded to take the show to London, capitalizing on a wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh.
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 to reconcile her estranged parents and also asks his agent to locate Anne’s supposed fiancé in Chicago – only to discover that he’s married.
Carried away by the emotion of the wedding, the two couples decide that they will also be married that day.
Cast
- Fred Astaire as Tom Bowen
- Jane Powell as Ellen Bowen
- Sarah Churchill (actress) as Anne Ashmond
- Peter Lawford as Lord John Brindale
- Keenan Wynn as Irving Klinger/Edgar Klinger
- Albert Sharpe as James Ashmond
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