singing in the rain. DAVIES: Donen also directed "Royal Wedding," in which Fred Astaire seemed to defy gravity by dancing on the ceiling. Donen got his start as a dancer. At the age of 16 ...

Entertainment is watching Fred Astaire ... Singin' in the Rain, and An American in Paris. Now streaming on Max, the dazzling dance-musical is a must-watch. Astaire stars as aging movie star ...

Stanley Donen, a director of Hollywood musicals who secured an enduring place in cinema history as the filmmaker who captured Fred Astaire dancing on a ceiling and Gene Kelly singing in the rain ...

I never cared for my singing voice.” But Irving Berlin, several of whose songs Mr. Astaire introduced, said, ”I`d rather have Fred Astaire sing my songs than anyone else. . . . He`s just as ...

Her performance in Two Weeks with Love impressed MGM so much that she landed Singin’ in the Rain. The 1952 movie ... I realized that if it was hard for Fred Astaire, dancing was hard for ...

Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain and Fred Astaire in Top Hat were essentially airheads. The protagonists of more recent musicals like Wonka or Cats did not exactly reflect Chekhovian tensions.

“It’s been circulated for decades that he worked Debbie so hard in Singin’ in the Rain that her feet bled ... in the beloved dance sequence.” “Fred Astaire continued the European ...

"Dance numbers are anything but spontaneous," Donen told Fresh Airin 1996. Donen, who died Feb. 21, also directed On the Town, Funny Face and Damn Yankees, among other films.