Stanley Donen Dies: Famed Director Of Movie Musicals Including ‘singin’ In The Rain’ Was 94

Patrick Hipes, Deadline.com
Sat, 02/23/2019 - 9:19am

Stanley Donen, the deft director of such iconic movie musicals as Singin’ In the Rain, Funny Face, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Charade who helped define Hollywood’s golden age, has died at age 94. The news was confirmed this morning by his son to the Chicago Tribune. Donen remarkably never won an Oscar for his work, but was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Motion Picture Academy in 1998, “in appreciation of a body of work marked by grace, elegance, wit…

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Stanley Donen Dies: Famed Director Of Movie Musicals Including ‘singin’ In The Rain’ Was 94

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