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Stanley Donen (/ ˈ d ɒ n ə n / DON-ən; [1] April 13, 1924 – February 21, 2019) was an American film director and choreographer. He received the Honorary Academy Award in 1998 , and the Career Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2004.
Stanley Donen (/ ˈ d ɒ n ə n / DON-ən; [1] April 13, 1924 – February 21, 2019) was an American film director and choreographer, and occasionally worked in the American theater. He has directed 28 feature films and worked on various other films or television projects, often as a choreographer.
When we came to do On the Town, I knew it was time for Stanley to get screen credit because we weren't boss–assistant anymore but co-creators." [13] [32] Together, they opened up the musical form, taking the film musical out of the studio and into real locations, with Donen taking responsibility for the staging and Kelly handling the ...
After a two-year courtship, Wagner, Marshall and her two sons from her marriage to Stanley Donen moved back to America. Wagner and Marshall married on July 21, 1963, at the Bronx Courthouse. They had a daughter, Katie (born May 11, 1964). They separated in June 1970 and divorced on October 14, 1971. [45]
Some directors make their presence felt in every frame of their films, while others operate in service of the stories and the stars. There is no such thing as an egoless director, but Stanley ...
Marshall married three times, her first husband being the cameraman Allen Davey. In 1950 she was engaged to director Howard Hawks, [2] but a wedding never took place. Her second husband (from May 20, 1952, [3] until 1959) was director Stanley Donen, with whom she had two sons, Peter and Joshua.
Eventually Stanley Donen signed. [8] Donen's fee was $600,000, Grusskoff's was $400,000. [9] Katz said, "our reaction was, Stanley Donen seems so bizarre for this kind of film! Then we realized he's the ideal director because he is really a romantic director, and he can do this kind of character stuff and the kind of humor that the film has." [4]
Donen at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2010. Stanley Donen was an American film director and choreographer. He is known for his innovative musicals of the golden age of Hollywood which include Singin' in the Rain (1952), On the Town (1949), Funny Face (1957), It's Always Fair Weather (1955), as well as the romance films Charade (1963), Indiscreet (1958), and Two for the Road (1967).