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Stanley Donen - what members say
review by MAXIMILIAN from BURNHAM
SPACE, A MONSTER ROBOT, A BARE-ARSED KIRK DOUGLAS, AND HARVEY KEITEL? 16 October 2008
review by A customer from Brighton
Bonus to Classic Film 4 February 2006
review by from lancashire
Cool 60's classic 21 April 2004
Stanley Donen - filmography
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The Story of Film - An Odyssey
(2011)
Starring: Wim Wenders, Stanley Donen, Robert Towne
Director: Mark Cousins
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Documentary series, from director and film expert Mark Cousins, which takes an in-depth look at the evolution of movies, from their tentative first steps to the multi-million dollar bluster of modern blockbusters. Cousins' research takes him from Hollywood to Mumbai, with a brief detour through the ..read more »
 
87%
from 41 members
Not available for rental
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Love Letters
(1999)
Starring: Steven Weber, Laura Linney, Kirsten Storms
Director: Stanley Donen
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Watch now: Unavailable
Oscar® nominee Laura Linney (Mystic River) and Steven Weber (Leaving Las Vegas) star in this charming screen adaptation of A.R. Gurney s internationally-acclaimed stage hit a heartfelt look at love life and friendship directed by the legendary Stanley Donen (Singin In the Rain). Andy is a serious ..read more »
60%
from 55 members
Currently unavailable
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Blame It On Rio
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Michelle Johnson
Director: Stanley Donen
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While on holiday in Rio de Janeiro a middle-aged man (Michael Caine) begins an affair with the teenage daughter of his best friend. The situation gets even stickier when his best friend asks Caine to find his daughter's seducer. With Valerie Harper and Demi Moore.
56%
from 677 members
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Saturn 3
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, Farrah Fawcett
Director: Stanley Donen
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Research scientists Adam (Kirk Douglas) and Alex (Farrah Fawcett) enjoy an idyllic existence on a remote space station until they are joined by inventor Benson (Harvey Keitel). Determined to create a super-race of robots, Benson manufactures a prototype, Hector, who gradually develops a mind of his ..read more »
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from 1,087 member
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Movie Movie
(1977)
Starring: Art Carney, Trish Van Devere, Red Buttons
Director: Stanley Donen
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Watch now: Unavailable
Stanley Donen directs this affectionate spoof of the double-feature musical comedies of the 1930s. Divided into two segments, it even boasts a halfway interval featuring 'trailers' for forthcoming attractions. The first segment, 'Dynamite Hands', stars Harry Hamlin as Joey Popchik, a young boxer on ..read more »
59%
from 15 members
Not available for rental
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The Little Prince
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Gene Wilder, Bob Fosse, Steven Warner
Director: Stanley Donen
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Based on the classic children's book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, this quirky musical adaptation by director Stanley Donen features an eclectic cast including Gene Wilder as The Fox and Bob Fosse as The Snake. When a pilot (Richard Kiley) is forced to land in the Sahara desert, he discovers a ..read more »
57%
from 287 members
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Bedazzled
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron
Director: Stanley Donen
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Classic 1960s comedy updating of the Faust story, as short-order cook Dudley Moore becomes obsessed with waitress Eleanor Bron and will do anything to win her love. When the Devil (Peter Cook) turns up, Moore agrees to sell his soul in return for seven wishes. Also starring Raquel Welch and Michael ..read more »
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from 1,399 member
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Arabesque
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Kieron Moore, Gregory Peck
Director: Stanley Donen
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An expert in ancient hieroglyphics unexpectedly finds himself involved in a web of international intrigue in this chic, enjoyably tongue-in-cheek espionage adventure. Gregory Peck stars as David Pollock, an American professor whose predictable academic routine is overturned when he is hired to help ..read more »
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from 357 members
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Two For The Road
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Nadia Gray, William Daniels
Director: Stanley Donen
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In preparing his romantic comedy Two For the Road, director Stanley Donen decided to utilize many of the cinematic techniques popularized by the French nouvelle vague filmmakers. Jump cutting back and forth in time with seeming abandon, Donen and scriptwriter Frederic Raphael chronicle the 12-year ..read more »
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from 1,005 member
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Charade - Blu-ray
(1963)
Starring: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
Director: Stanley Donen
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn star in this stylish comedy-thriller directed by Stanley Donen, very much in a Hitchcock vein. Grant plays Peter Joshua, who meets Reggie Lampert (Hepburn) in Paris and later offers to help her when she discovers that her husband has been murdered. After the funeral, ..read more »
82%
from 35 members
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Charade
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Jacques Marin, James Coburn, Cary Grant
Director: Stanley Donen
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn star in this stylish comedy-thriller directed by Stanley Donen, very much in a Hitchcock vein. Grant plays Peter Joshua, who meets Reggie Lampert (Hepburn) in Paris and later offers to help her when she discovers that her husband has been murdered. After the funeral, ..read more »
73%
from 4,062 members
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The Grass Is Greener
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant
Director: Stanley Donen
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A rousing chorus of Noël Coward's Stately Homes of England is heard as the opening titles of The Grass Is Greener fade into several stock shots of those stately homes. One of these mansions is owned by British earl Victor Rhyall (Cary Grant), who opens his home to American tourists in order to make ..read more »
64%
from 261 members
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Indiscreet
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Megs Jenkins, David Kossoff, Ingrid Bergman
Director: Stanley Donen
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Anna Kalman (Ingrid Bergman) is a wealthy actress whose love affairs never last for long. When she meets businessman Philip Adams (Cary Grant) at a NATO dinner, she is attracted to him. He reveals that he is married, but this does not prevent them embarking on a love affair. However, just as Philip ..read more »
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from 1,350 member
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The Pajama Game
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: John Raitt, Carol Haney, Doris Day
Director: Stanley Donen
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The Broadway musical Pajama Game was based on Seven and a Half Cents. a comic novel about labor relations written by Richard Bissell. Doris Day stars as an employee at a pajama factory who becomes the spokesperson for her fellow workers when management refuses to give them a 7 1/2 cent raise. ..read more »
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from 934 members
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Kiss Them For Me
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Cary Grant, Leif Erickson, Jayne Mansfield
Director: Stanley Donen
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Wartime comedy starring Cary Grant, Ray Walston and Larry Blyden as three navy war heroes who've been booked on a morale-building 'vacation' in San Francisco. Eluding their ulcerated public relations officer (Werner Klemperer), the trio arranges a wild party with plenty of pretty girls including ..read more »
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from 207 members
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Funny Face
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Suzy Parker, Kay Thompson, Audrey Hepburn
Director: Stanley Donen
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This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire, and several of the original tunes, then goes merrily off on its own. Astaire is cast as as fashion photographer Dick Avery (a character based on Richard Avedon, the film's ..read more »
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from 2,988 members
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Funny Face - Blu-ray
(1957)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Flemyng
Director: Stanley Donen
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This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire, and several of the original tunes, then goes merrily off on its own. Astaire is cast as as fashion photographer Dick Avery (a character based on Richard Avedon, the film's ..read more »
90%
from 1 member
Due for release on 2nd September 2013
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It's Always Fair Weather
(1955)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
Director: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
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Three soldiers return from World War II service in 1945 and rejoice and celebrate all the way to New York. They make a pact to reunite 10 years later at the same bar and recount their lives since. When they do so, each discovers that it has been no bed of roses: they've all become failures. ..read more »
76%
from 16 members
Currently unavailable
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Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Jeff Richards, Howard Petrie, Howard Keel
Director: Stanley Donen
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Based extremely loosely on the Stephen Vincent Benet story Sobbin' Women, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is one of the best MGM musicals of the 1950s. Most of the story takes place on an Oregon ranch, maintained by Adam Pontabee (Howard Keel) and his six brothers, played by Jeff Richards, Russ ..read more »
71%
from 5,141 members
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Singin' in the Rain
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse
Director: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
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Watch now: Unavailable
Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of Tinseltown. While Lockwood and Lamont personify smoldering passions onscreen, in real life the down-to-earth Lockwood can't stand the egotistical, brainless Lina. He prefers the ..read more »
75%
from 13,925 members
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Royal Wedding
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Peter Lawford, Keenan Wynn, Sara Churchill
Director: Stanley Donen
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star as Tom and Ellen Bowen, a brother and sister vaudeville team who take their act to London during the run-up to the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Phillip Mountbatten. Of course, with the sound of wedding bells in the air, it's not long before Tom and Ellen find ..read more »
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from 345 members
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Stanley Donen facts
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...ay through production on THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - leaving MGM Musical Director Stanley Donen to produce and direct the film. The resulting production fared little better, K...
