Royal Wedding

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Royal Wedding, 1951.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Royal Wedding, 1951.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Royal Wedding, 1951.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Royal Wedding, 1951.

A brother and sister dance act from New York perform for the aristocracy in London in Royal Wedding (1951).

The opening number presaging the story line, Fred Astaire and Jane Powell on the Broadway stage as brother and sister act Tom and Ellen Bowen, with a Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner original, Stanley Donen directing, in the Freed Unit’s Royal Wedding, 1951.

Jane Powell (as "Ellen Bowen") with opera-quality soprano for Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner's "Open Your Eyes," then dancing in a shipboard ballroom with brother Tom (Fred Astaire), in MGM's Royal Wedding, 1951.

As entertainer "Tom Bowen," Fred Astaire is all over the walls and ceilings over his English girlfriend (played by Winston Churchill's daughter Sarah) in the famous trick sequence, directed by Stanley Donen, from MGM's Royal Wedding, 1951.

Jane Powell and Fred Astaire as Brother-Sister Act "Tom and Ellen Bowen," performing the Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner tune with a very long name in Royal Wedding, 1951, choreography by Nick Castle.

Fred Astaire (as entertainer "Tom Bowen") in his famous routine with a coat rack, to Burton Lane's "Sunday Jumps," choreography by Nick Castle, from MGM's Royal Wedding, 1951.

Brother and sister entertainers Tom (Fred Astaire) and Ellen (Jane Powell) just on the boat, she's off to the letter-writing room where Lord John (Peter Lawford) appears, completing their elongated meet-cute, in Royal Wedding, 1951.