Royal Wedding
Summary:
Two real-life events were incorporated into the plot of the 1951 MGM musical Royal Wedding. One, the marriage of Fred Astaire's sister Adele to a British nobleman had occurred years earlier; the other, the wedding of England's Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip was only four years in the past. MGM would probably have gotten Royal Wedding out closer to the Eliz... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Fred Astaire - (Tom Bowen)
Jane Powell - (Ellen Bowen)
Peter Lawford - (Lord John Brindale)
Sarah Churchill - (Anne Ashmond)
Keenan Wynn - (Irving Klinger/Edgar Klinger)
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Review:
Royal Wedding is an excellent example of a film the strengths of which are so strong as to make its considerable weaknesses almost irrelevant. Among those weaknesses, the most problematic is the screenplay. Alan Jay Lerner's story is commonplace, even if set against the backdrop of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Th... Continue >>
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