Stanley Donen
          Director, Actor  
	
	Films to Rent 
				 
	  
	        
On the Town (1949)
 
- Dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly 
- Exuberant musical about three sailors enjoying a day's leave in New York is about as good as this stuff gets. The cast almost bounce off the screen.
 
Royal Wedding (1951) 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford… 
- Famous for its legendary tap–dance on the ceiling, this otherwise thinly–plotted musical (set against the marriage of Princess Elizabeth…
 
Singin' in the Rain (Singing in the Rain) (1952)
 
- Dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Feat. Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds… 
- The quintessential Hollywood musical happens to be about the movie biz. Its blend of vivacious style and humour, catchy numbers and dazzling…
 
Give a Girl a Break (1953) 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Debbie Reynolds, Marge Champion, Gower Champion… 
- Musical comedy about three unknown actresses who are all competing for Broadway stardom after a temperamental performer walks off the set of a major…
 
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards… 
- Rollicking musical set in backwoods Oregon, with brothers all looking for brides–to–be.
 
It's Always Fair Weather (1955) 
- Dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Feat. Gene Kelly 
- An American musical satire, shot in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor, with music by Andre Previn. It was one of the last major dance–oriented MGM…
 
Funny Face (1956)
 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn 
- Hip musical boasts the unrestrained ebullience of Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn as a fashion photographer and book–clerk who becomes his…
 
Pajama Game, The (1957)
 
- Dir. George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Feat. Doris Day 
- Exemplary screen musical stars Doris Day in exuberant form as a feisty union delegate who falls for her boss while negotiating a wage rise for her…
 
Kiss Them For Me (1957) 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson… 
- Very very silly war comedy with Grant and his navy buddies fighting for their right to spend their shore leave as they see fit, which inevitably…
 
Indiscreet (1958)
 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman 
- Snappy comedy in which sophisticates Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman indulge in a whirlwind romance that cools off smartly when she finds his claim of…
 
Damn Yankees (Whatever Lola Wants) (1958)
 
- Dir. George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Feat. Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston… 
- Supremely entertaining musical rom–com that transposes the Faustian legend to the world of American baseball, with Gwen Verdon in the iconic…
 
Grass Is Greener, The (1960) 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum… 
- The wife of an English Earl falls in love with an American millionaire tourist. Songs by Noel Coward.
 
Charade (1964)
 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn 
- Excellently scripted Hitchcock–style thriller crosses the romantic with the macabre.
 
Two for the Road (1966)
 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney 
- Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney play a married couple who reflect on their twelve year marriage while driving through France in a sports car with…
 
Arabesque (1966) 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Sophia Loren, Gregory Peck 
- Whimsical spy shenanigans in London, with Anglo–Arab relations straining over the custody of a hieroglyphic code. Sophia Loren's extraordinary…
 
Bedazzled (1967)
 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch… 
- A brilliant and enduring satire that updates of the 'Faust' tale to swinging London, with Moore playing a lovelorn chef who is lured into a pact by…
 
Staircase (1969) 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Cathleen Nesbitt 
- Sitting somewhere between farce and melancholy, a pair of aging barbers bicker over the possibility of ending their loving but often volatile…
 
Little Prince, The (1974) 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Richard Kiley, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder 
- The classic childern's story by aviator Antoine de Saint–Exupery is here translated with whimsy and wit intact. A pilot is stranded in a desert…
 
Lucky Lady (1975) 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds… 
- Shapeless caper with three rum–runners set during the prohibition whose lives are complicated by the personal relationships. 
 
A notorious…
 
Saturn 3 (1980) 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel 
- Space–base scientists Farrah Fawcett and Kirk Douglas become menaced by baddie Harvey Keitel and his sex–crazed robot. Martin Amis's…
 
Blame it on Rio (1984) 
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Michael Caine, Demi Moore, Joseph Bologna… 
- French–style farce in which Caine and his business partner holiday in Rio de Janeiro with their respective teenage daughters in tow. Caine has…