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Royal Wedding (1951) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Stanley Donen and produced by Arthur Freed.

Academy Awards 1951 --- Ceremony Number 24 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - SongMusic by Burton Lane; Lyrics by Alan Jay LernerNominated
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Musical Monday: Royal Wedding (1951)

on Jun 10, 2019 From Comet Over Hollywood

It?s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week?s musical: Royal Wedding ? Musical #55 ... Read full article


Royal Wedding (1951)

By Amanda Garrett on May 20, 2018 From Old Hollywood Films

Jane Powell and Fred Astaire in a publicity still for Royal Wedding (1951). This article is part of The MGM Musical Magic Blogathon hosted by Hometowns to Hollywood. If you can't enough of the nuptials of the United Kingdom's Prince Harry and American actor Meghan Markle, why not celebrate the... Read full article


Royal Wedding (1951)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Feb 5, 2016 From 4 Star Films

The Wedding of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip was a once in a lifetime experience. They’re still together to this day and yet when they got married she was not even queen yet. It’s hard to believe. It’s only fitting that a momentous occasion ?like that would get a film, and Sta... Read full article


Royal Wedding (1951)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Feb 5, 2016 From 4 Star Films

The Wedding of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip was a once in a lifetime experience. They’re still together to this day and yet when they got married she was not even queen yet. It’s hard to believe. It’s only fitting that a momentous occasion like that would get a film, and Stan... Read full article


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Quotes from Royal Wedding

Irving Klinger: This is a pretty box of pickles!


Ellen Bowen: Didn't your mother never teach you no manners?
Tom Bowen: I never had no mother. We was too poor.


Tom Bowen: I wonder what the groom is doing today.
Ellen Bowen: Why don't you call him up and ask him?
Tom Bowen: Very funny.


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Facts about Royal Wedding

This is one of a handful of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions of the 1950-1951 period whose original copyrights were never renewed and are now apparently in Public Domain; for this reason this title is now offered, often in very inferior copies, at bargain prices, by numerous VHS and DVD distributors who do not normally handle copyrighted or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer material.
Retitled "Wedding Bells" in England so as not to make it seem as a documentary of the recent Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II.
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell sing "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life," the longest song title in a Hollywood film
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