Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen (April 13, 1924 – February 21, 2019) was an American film director and choreographer
whose most celebrated works are "On the Town" (1949) and "Singin' in the Rain" (1952), both of which starred Gene Kelly who co-directed.
His other films include "Royal Wedding" (1951), "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954), "Funny Face" (1957), "Indiscreet" (1958), and "Charade" (1963).
He began his career in the chorus line on Broadway for director George Abbott, where he befriended Kelly.
From 1943, he was in Hollywood and worked as a choreographer before beginning to collaborate with Kelly.
After "On the Town", Donen worked as a contract director for MGM under producer Arthur Freed producing critically well-received box-office hits.
Donen and Kelly co-directed the musical "Singin' in the Rain", released in April 1952, which has appeared on lists of the best films ever made.
Donen's relationship with Kelly deteriorated during their final collaboration, "It's Always Fair Weather" (1955).
He then broke his contract with MGM to become an independent producer in 1957.
He continued making films throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, often financial successes that gained positive attention.
His film output became less frequent in the early 1980s and he briefly returned to the stage as a director in the 1990s and again in 2002.
Donen is credited with having transitioned Hollywood musical films from realistic backstage dramas to a more integrated art form in which the songs were a natural continuation of the story.
Before Donen and Kelly made their films, musicals – such as the extravagant and stylized work of Busby Berkeley – were often set in a Broadway stage environment where the musical numbers were part of a stage show.
Donen and Kelly's films created a more cinematic form and included dances that could only be achieved in the film medium.
Donen stated that what he was doing was a "direct continuation from the Astaire – Rogers musicals ... which in turn came from René Clair and from Lubitsch ...
What "we" did was not geared towards realism but towards the unreal."
Donen is highly respected by film historians; however his career is often compared to Kelly's, and there is debate over who deserves more credit for their collaborations.
Donen and Kelly's relationship was complicated, both professionally and personally, but Donen's films as a solo director are generally better regarded by critics than Kelly's.
French film critic Jean-Pierre Coursodon has said that Donen's contribution to the evolution of the Hollywood musical "outshines anybody else's, including Vincente Minnelli's".
David Quinlan called him "the King of the Hollywood musicals".
Among his awards are an Honorary Academy Award in 1998 and a Career Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival in 2004.
Donen married five times and had three children.
Film director and comedian Elaine May was his partner from 1999 until his death in 2019.
He was the last surviving notable director of Hollywood's Golden Age.
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The Reluctant Debutante (film)
The Reluctant Debutante is a 1958 American Metrocolor comedy film in CinemaScope directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by Pandro S. Berman from a screenplay by Julius J. Epstein and William Douglas- Home based on Douglas- Home's play of the same name.
The music score is by Eddie Warner and the cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg.
The film stars Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall — whom he had married in 1957 after they worked together on" The Constant Husband"( 1955) — with featured performances by John Saxon, Sandra Dee, and Angela Lansbury.
The setting is London's debutante season amidst the last presentation at Court in 1958.
However, because of Harrison's tax problems, the film had to be made in Paris.
Harrison had learned from Kendall's doctor that she had been diagnosed with myeloid leukemia, a fact that was kept from Kendall, who believed she was suffering from an iron deficiency.
The actor cared for Kendall until her death at the age of 32.
She only completed one more film," Once More With Feeling", before her death the following year.
In 2003 the film was remade as" What a Girl Wants", starring Colin Firth and Amanda Bynes.
Once More, with Feeling!
Once More, with Feeling!
is a 1960 British comedy film starring Yul Brynner and Kay Kendall and directed and produced by Stanley Donen from a screenplay by Harry Kurnitz, based on his play.
The film was released by Columbia Pictures and has music by Franz Liszt, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Richard Wagner, arranged by Muir Mathieson.
The cinematography was by Georges Périnal and the costume design by Givenchy.
Once More with Feeling (film)
Once More with Feeling is a 2009 American independent direct- to- video comedy- drama film written by Gina O'Brien and directed by Jeff Lipsky and starring Chazz Palminteri, Drea de Matteo and Linda Fiorentino.
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Joe Chapman released" Once More with Feeling EP" on Brighton- based label, Fly Casual, in 2000.
He later collaborated with Amon Tobin on" Verbal Remixes& Collaborations" in 2003.
In 2009, he and Amon Tobin, under the name Two Fingers, released a self- titled album and a corresponding album of instrumentals.
His musical influences include Drum& Bass and Jungle music.
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Dana Blankstein
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She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.

Question: Which country the director of film Once More, With Feeling! is from?
Answer: American