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Plot summary
The Broadway hit Every Night at Seven stars Tom Bowen and his sister Ellen. Their New York engagement ends, and their agent arranges a London run timed to the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, so the pair sail for England. On board, Ellen falls for Lord John Brindale, a well-connected nobleman with little money, and the romance costs her a rehearsal. Tom spends that hour in the ship's gym, dancing with a hat rack. In the liner's ballroom, a waltz turns comic when heavy weather sets the ship rolling. In London, while casting the show, Tom meets the dancer Anne Ashmond.
Cast
- Margaret Bertas Ellen's Maid
- Bea Allenas Dancer in Haiti Number
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Royal Wedding (1951)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- June Allyson, originally cast opposite Fred Astaire, became pregnant and was replaced by Judy Garland over director Charles Walters' objection. Garland then missed days claiming sickness, so Freed replaced her with Jane Powell; per biographer Gerold Frank, she asked to be released from her MGM contract.
- For Fred Astaire's "You're All the World to Me" number, MGM built a set inside a revolving barrel and used a new camera mount developed by John Arnold that rotated the 35mm camera 360 degrees along its lens axis, letting Astaire seem to dance on the walls and ceiling.
- Fred Astaire's dance on the walls and ceiling of his room in Royal Wedding inspired Lionel Richie's song "Dancing on the Ceiling" and its accompanying music video, in which Richie performs a similar dance.
- Royal Wedding entered the public domain because MGM failed to renew the copyright registration in the 28th year after its publication; it is one of several MGM musicals to fall into the public domain that way.
