Stanley Donen

They use the same effect in the video.

I think it's Stanley Donen who did it.

But Royal Wedding, great Fred Astaire movie.

And that's how the same effect.

Um, and you could see...

And it's directed by Stanley Donen.

[laughs] You know, I think everybody knows from Singin' in the Rain and Funny Face and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

But I think there's something to it, because this movie really, it moves along and it's paced like a musical.

There's a musicality to this movie that I think that Stanley Donen really brings his expertise to.

Mm-hmm, totally.

And I love, I love that saying, that it's the greatest Hitchcock movie of his never m- that he never made.

I was like, "This is so Hitchcockian." But at the same time, there is some of that musicality that you were talking about-

But he did really famous movies.

For director Stanley Donen, he did Charade, Aberystwyth, Two for the Road, Howard Hawks.

You know? Uh, he did the baby elephant walk.

Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.

Oh, we're gonna miss Debbie Reynolds.

But in terms of, uh, but in terms of, uh, you know, the, the, the creators and, uh, you know, Stanley Donen and, and Gene Kelly, just talk about sort of their genius and, and you know, what you sort of gathered from-

Well, Gene Kelly, it was, that was my dream for heaven's sake.

I had a, a seven-year contract with MGM Studios.

Mm-hmm.

So, uh, it was just an absolute joy.

What was Robert Wise's style as a director compared to, let's say, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly earlier, or, uh-

Well, let's compare it to, uh, Jerome Robbins, 'cause they were-

Uh, this one, we've got a new audio commentary by Matthew As- Matthew Asprey Gear.

Uh, we've got a Later Films of Stanley Donen, a visual essay by Daniel Kramer on this one.

Uh, then we've got CBS Radio Workshop presents The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery.

Uh, and, uh, yeah, Bob Fosse, Richard Kiley, Gene Wilder.

The financial services company who directed Funny Face and Charade.

Well, I mean, I know Stanley Donen directed...

Oh, so

it's Morgan Stanley Donan.

... because they're looking at the girls.

And the way he starts with like a Stanley Donen sense of musical, and then little by little he introduces different lenses.

There are, every decision has a storytelling point.

Yeah.

... on its timeline.

And I'd go so far as to say even though it's a Columbia picture, it is, t- in my estimation, the first MGM musical of the golden era of the mid-'40s to the mid to late '50s, obviously because of the Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen-

Right

... influence.