Article Continued BelowThe filmmaker Guillermo del Toro said, “Before Stanley Donen actors sang, actors danced. Donen was asked in 2002 whether the filmmakers knew that “Singin’ in the Rain,” released in 1952 and also starring Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor, would be revered decades later. You just think about how you can do it.” Both the film and Donen were at first underrated. One Donen film, the chic mystery “Charade” (1963), reminded viewers of a Hitchcock thriller. Donen steadfastly denied any Hitchcock influence, while adding that the master of suspense “doesn’t own the genre.”Yvette Mimieux and director Stanley Donen on the set of the movie The Neptune Factor.

Source: thestar February 23, 2019 18:55 UTC