Royal Wedding (motion picture) - Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Sarah Churchill, Peter Lawford (performers) (trailer) (1951) (no video link)
Title
Royal Wedding (motion picture) - Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Sarah Churchill, Peter Lawford (performers) (trailer) (1951) (no video link)
Subject
Motion picture
Description
Content description from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
The story is set in London in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten. Astaire and Powell play siblings in a song and dance duo, echoing the real-life theatrical relationship of Fred and Adele Astaire.
Royal Wedding is one of several MGM musicals that entered public domain because the studio failed to renew the copyright registration in the 28th year after its publication.
Ephemera: none available.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
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.
The story is set in London in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten. Astaire and Powell play siblings in a song and dance duo, echoing the real-life theatrical relationship of Fred and Adele Astaire.
Royal Wedding is one of several MGM musicals that entered public domain because the studio failed to renew the copyright registration in the 28th year after its publication.
Ephemera: none available.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Stanley Donen (director)
Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Sarah Churchill, and Peter Lawford (performers)
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Date
1951 March 8
Citation
“Royal Wedding (motion picture) - Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Sarah Churchill, Peter Lawford (performers) (trailer) (1951) (no video link),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed April 19, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/700.