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The American director Stanley Donen is pmort at the age of 94 years. His name was not well known to the general public and yet it is one of the great references of the musical, author of Chantons sous la pluie , mythical film carried by the breathtaking number of tap dance by Gene Kelly, dancing under the flood.

In his youth Stanley Donen had been a dancer himself, it was also on Broadway that his friendship with Kelly had been forged. With this exceptional dancer, it's the beginning of a long collaboration.

Choreographer as well as director, inventive, always at the service of his actors, Donen excels in the musical, with Beau fixes on New York , which will be a failure, Royal Wedding , Funny little face , with Audrey Hepburn.


Funny little face
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Audrey Hepburn will become in the 1960s his favorite actress. Together they turn Charade , travel to two .

Stanley Donen's career has had many ups and downs. We can not sing in the rain all his life, he said in 1969 at the time of the release of The Stairs , a comedy with Richard Burton and Rex Harrison, which was a commercial failure.

In 1998, he received an Oscar of Honor for all of his work.