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There, as a choreographer and later as a director, he contributed to some of the most celebrated musical sequences ever put on film, from Gene Kelly’s dance with Jerry the Mouse in Anchors Aweigh to Singin’ in the Rain’s watery ballet. But if Donen was indisputably, in the words of Jean-Luc Godard, “the master (major or minor) of the musical,” he was no less adept at comedy, suspense, drama and romance, able to adapt his visual flair and deft touch with actors for seemingly any occasion. We are delighted to welcome Stanley Donen to the Film Society for this career-spanning, in-person tribute! Thanks to: Kent Jones, Mike Nichols, Haden Guest/Harvard Film Archive, Barry Allen and Kathryn Brennan/Paramount Pictures, Mark McElhatten/Sikelia Productions, Justin Rautenbach and Michael Schlesinger/Sony Pictures Repertory, Caitlin Robertson and Schawn Belston/20th Century Fox, Marilee Womack/Warner Brothers. Save with a Three-Film Pass! $27 General Public/ $21 Students & Seniors / $18 Members Buy your pass now! >> Calendar >> Admission $12 General Public $9 Students $8 Seniors $7 Members Weekday Matinee Admission* $9 General Public $7 Students $6 Seniors $5 Members *All screenings that begin prior to 6pm, Mon-Fri only. Tickets and passes are also on sale at the Walter Reade Theater's box office. Certain restrictions apply. VISITOR INFO >>   Arabesque Stanley Donen, 1966, USA; 105m “Ultra-Mod! Ultra-Mad! Ultra-Mystery!” Cryptographer Gregory Peck and shoe-fetishist Sophia Loren go Pop in a wrong-man thriller with swooping chases and Henry Mancini theme. Read more...   Buy Tickets Fri Nov 5: 4 Bedazzled Stanley Donen, 1967, UK; 103m The rollicking Faustian deal with the devil starring Brit comic duo Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. With Raquel Welch as one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Read more... Buy Tickets Fri Nov 5: 9 Charade Stanley Donen, 1963, USA; 113m Audrey Hepburn (wearing Givenchy) pursues Cary Grant (wearing multiple identities) through a Paris filled with international intrigue, in Donen’s elegant Hitchcockian yarn. Read more... Buy Tickets Thu Nov 4: 3:45 Damn Yankees Stanley Donen & George Abbott, 1958, USA; 111m “Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets!” Powered by original Broadway cast members—and heartthrob Tab Hunter—Donen’s final Fifties musical is an all-American lark. Read more... Buy Tickets Thu Nov 4: 1:30 Mon Nov 8: 8:30 Funny Face Stanley Donen, 1957, USA, Digital; 103m Q&A with Stanley Donen and Mike Nichols on Nov. 3! Donen and screenwriter Leonard Gershe’s iconic Paris musical stars Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn, and the music of George and Ira Gershwin. Shot in glorious Technicolor. Read more... Buy Tickets Wed Nov 3: 6:00 Wed Nov 10: 1:30 Give a Girl a Break Stanley Donen, 1953, USA; 82m 21-year-old Debbie Reynolds is effervescent alongside Marge and Gower Champion and Bob Fosse in this showbiz story of a Broadway production whose star quits. Read more... Buy Tickets Wed Nov 10: 3:30 The Grass Is Greener Stanley Donen, 1960, UK; 104m Elegant but struggling aristos Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr open their castle to tours, and in saunters Robert Mitchum with his eye on the lady of the house... Read more... Buy Tickets Sun Nov 7: 2 Indiscreet Stanley Donen, 1958, UK; 100m Ingrid Bergman glides through her comeback as a London actress enamored of tricky diplomat Cary Grant, in Donen’s comic but mature pas de deux. Read more... Buy Tickets Fri Nov 5: 6:15 It’s Always Fair Weather Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1955, USA; 101m Donen’s final collaboration with Gene Kelly was this quasi-sequel to On the Town about three WWII vets reuniting. With Kelly on roller skates and Cyd Charisse in a boxing gym. Read more... Buy Tickets Thu Nov 4: 9:00 Mon Nov 8: 4:15 Kiss Them for Me Stanley Donen, 1957, USA; 105m An underrated Cary Grant gem about a trio of decorated navy pilots on shore leave in San Francisco during WWII. With va-va-voom Jayne Mansfield. Read more... Buy Tickets Sun Nov 7: 4:15 The Little Prince Stanley Donen, 1974, UK/USA; 88m The beloved Saint-Exupéry classic about a boy on his lonely planet, played with otherworldly adorableness by Steven Warner. Featuring Bob Fosse and Gene Wilder. Read more... Buy Tickets Sat Nov 6: 2 Movie Movie Stanley Donen, 1978, USA; 105m Q&A with Stanley Donen and Scott Foundas! Donen’s heartfelt comic valentine to the Hollywood of yesteryear is presented as a double feature—melodrama Dynamite Hands and splashy Baxter’s Beauties of 1933. Not on DVD! Read more... Buy Tickets Thu Nov 4: 6:15 On the Town Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1949, USA; 98m “New York, New York, it’s a helluva town!” The classic MGM musical was Donen’s dynamic smash debut—at age 25—with Gene Kelly. Hello, sailors! Read more... Buy Tickets Mon Nov 8: 6:30 The Pajama Game Stanley Donen & George Abbott, 1957, USA, 16mm; 101m A splendid Doris Day stars as the headstrong union leader who falls for John Raitt in Donen and George Abbott’s toe-tapping adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. Read more... Buy Tickets Sat Nov 6: 4:00 Royal Wedding Stanley Donen, 1951, USA; 93m Fred Astaire and Jane Powell are a brother-sister act who dance up a storm on an ocean-liner en route to England. Featuring Astaire’s dazzling wall-and-ceiling jig. Read more... Buy Tickets Wed Nov 3: 4:00 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Stanley Donen, 1954, USA; 102m Q&A with Stanley Donen and Kent Jones on Nov. 6! Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Donen’s exhilarating CinemaScope musical stars Howard Keel as an Oregon woodsman whose marriage inspires his many siblings. Read more... Buy Tickets Sat Nov 6: 6 Mon Nov 8: 2 Singin’ in the Rain Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952, USA; 103m Movies were made for this: MGM’s exuberant Technicolor tale of Hollywood turning talkie, with iconic showstoppers and backstage romance. Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Cyd Charisse. Read more... Buy Tickets Fri Nov 5: 2 Sun Nov 7: 6:30 Staircase Stanley Donen, 1969, France/USA/UK; 96m Introduced by critic Armond White! Richard Burton and Rex Harrison star as an aging gay London couple in Donen’s touching, unusually frank, and ahead-of-its-time adaptation. Not on DVD! Read more... Buy Tickets Sat Nov 6: 9 Surprise Package Stanley Donen, 1960, USA; 100m In this delightful, rarely screened farce, New York racketeer Nico March (Yul Brynner) gets deported to Greece, shortly, disastrously followed by his ditzy moll (Mitzi Gaynor). Read more... Buy Tickets Wed Nov 3: 8:45 Two for the Road Stanley Donen, 1967, UK; 111m Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney play out this overlooked chronicle of a marriage, from first bloom onward, told through five road trips in the French countryside. Read more... Buy Tickets Wed Nov 3: 1:45 Sun Nov 7: 8:45 Back to Top