Stanley Donen was an American film director and choreographer. He received the Honorary Academy Award in 1998, and the Career Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2004. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.
Donen in 2010
Sinatra and Kelly in Anchors Aweigh
Fred Astaire dances on the walls and ceiling in Royal Wedding, a special effect using a rotating reinforced-steel cylindrical chamber in which to film.
Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain
Eugene Curran Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style and sought to create a new form of American dance accessible to the general public, which he called "dance for the common man". He starred in, choreographed, and co-directed with Stanley Donen some of the most well-regarded musical films of the 1940s and 1950s.
Kelly in 1943
Leslie Caron and Kelly in the trailer for An American in Paris (1951)
Singin' in the Rain trailer: Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds and Kelly (1952)
Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, and Gene Kelly from a lobby card for Singin' in the Rain