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    Stanley Donen, co-director of 'Singin' in the Rain,' dies at 94

    by Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times Feb 23, 2019 7 minutes

    Stanley Donen, who directed or co-directed some of Hollywood's best-known movie musicals, including "On the Town," "Royal Wedding" and what many consider the greatest movie musical of all time, "Singin' in the Rain," has died. He was 94.

    Donen, a master of filming dance with imagination and style and a director whose nonmusical credits include "Charade," "Indiscreet" and "Two for the Road," died of an apparent heart attack Thursday, his sons Joshua and Mark Donen confirmed Saturday.

    A one-time Broadway chorus boy whose film career was launched in the 1940s, Donen's name was inextricably linked with MGM and its athletic dancing star Gene Kelly.

    At age 19, he assisted Kelly on the dance numbers for the 1944 movie musical "Cover Girl," for which Donen conceived and directed (uncredited) the "Alter Ego" double-exposure number in which Kelly danced with his window reflection after it leapt off the windowpane.

    A year later, Donen came up with the equally innovative idea of having Kelly dance with Jerry, MGM's cartoon mouse, in director George Sidney's 1945 musical "Anchors Aweigh."

    "I get all the credit for this,

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