Stanley Donen

On stage 2 productions, 1 years

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Also credited on3 works

Funny Face
On the Town
The Red Shoes

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In the literature8 passages

• 81 Stanley Donen (b. 1924), American director of some of the most famous Hollywood musicals. His credits include On the Town , Singin' in the Rain , and It's Always Fair Weather .ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• The very faithful film version was released by Warner Brothers in 1957; George Abbott and Stanley Donen directed, and Fosse choreographed. With the exception of Janis Paige, who was replaced by Doris Day, virtually all the Broadway principals reprised their roles for the film (including Raitt, Foy, Haney, and Reta Shaw); the “Steam Heat”…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• “Marge, Gower and I got along famously,” explains Debbie Reynolds. “And Bobby Fosse and Stanley Donen—they got along famously. So it was kind of like two camps. Bobby and Stanley had aligned themselves, and they just thought we were really corny. They were Mr. Show Biz, and we were no talent. We were okay, but we weren’t as great as they.…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
• 19 Stephen M. Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling: Stanley Donen and His Movies (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), 180.ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
• Silverman, Stephen M. Dancing on the Ceiling: Stanley Donen and His Movies. New York: Knopf, 1996.ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
• Give a Girl a Break. Dir. Stanley Donen. With Marge and Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds, and Bob Fosse. MGM, 1953.ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt

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