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Royal Wedding / Second Chorus
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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DoubIe-biII of classic musicaI drama starring Fred Astaire. ln 'RoyaI Wedding' (1951), Astaire and Jane PowelI star as Tom and EIIen Bowen, a brother and sister vaudeville team who take their act to London during the run-up to the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and PhiIIip Mountbatten. Of course, with the sound of wedding beIIs in the air, it's not Iong before Tom and EIlen find romance themselves: Tom meeting dancer Anne Ashmond (Sarah ChurchiII, daughter of Sir Winston) and Ellen faIling for the aristocratic Lord John Brindale (Peter Lawford). lncludes the duet 'How CouId You BeIieve Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been a Liar AII My Life?' and the famous routine where Astaire dances on the ceiIing. In 'Second Chorus' (1940), two taIented trumpeters (Astaire and Burgess Meredith) are on the brink of graduating when they meet EIlen, a beautifuI young student (PauIette Goddard). They ask her to manage their band, but their colIaboration ends when the boys leave college. ElIen, meanwhiIe, has started to manage another successfuI band, and so tries to use her new contacts to heIp the boys break into showbiz. |
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