‘Royal Wedding’: A Fred Astaire and Jane Powell Classic

Director Stanley Donen, a dancer himself who had long idolized Fred Astaire, pays him tribute. 

Tom Bowen (Fred Astaire) does his amazing dance around the room, in "Royal Wedding." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

NR | 1h 33min | Musical | 1951

Show advertisements billed them as “New York’s favorite brother and sister,” but the singing-dancing fame of Tom (Fred Astaire) and Ellen (Jane Powell) Bowen stretches a little beyond America. Entertainment managers, the Klinger brothers, Irving (Keenan Wynn) and Edgar (also Wynn), persuade the performing duo to head across the ocean to ride the festive buzz surrounding England’s much anticipated Royal Wedding in 1947.