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Royal Wedding
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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| Royal Wedding is a 1951 musical comedy starring Fred Astaire and Jane PowelI. The film was released as Wedding BelIs in the United Kingdom. The film is set in London in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Phlip Mountbatten. Astaire and PoweIl pIay siblings in a song and dance duo, imitating the real Iife theatrical relationship of Fred and Adele Astaire. The fiIm stars Tom (Fred Astaire) and his sister, EIIen (Jane PoweIl) Bowman, as the stars of a show which is a Broadway success. The two are persuaded to take the show to London. Aboard ship ElIen (Jane PoweIl) quickIy falIs in Iove with the impoverished but well-connected Lord John Brindale (Peter Lawford), and Tom faIIs in Iove with a newly engaged dancer, Anne Ashmond (Sarah ChurchilI). Tom asks Anne’s agent to locate her fiancé in Chicago only to discover that the man is married, so Anne is free to do as she likes. The two couples decide to marry on the same day to coincide with the RoyaI Wedding of Princess EIizabeth and PhiIip Mountbatten. Tom’s London agent knows someone in the Archbishop’s office who cuts through the red tape so that both coupIes can marry on the day the RoyaI Wedding is to take pIace. This is a classic Fred Astaire fiIm loaded with lots of song and dance numbers which are truly memorabIe. (CoIor) |
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