TCM Celebrates Royal Wedding Friday, April 29, With Five Royal Romances

TCM cordially invites film lovers and royal watchers to celebrate next Friday the nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton with an evening of romance fit for a king and queen.

Friday, April 29

8 p.m. – Royal Wedding (1951)
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell find love in London
just as Queen Elizabeth II prepares to walk down the aisle.

10 p.m. – Roman Holiday (1953)
Audrey Hepburn won an Oscar® for her performance
as a spritely princess opposite Gregory Peck.

12:15 a.m. – The Glass Slipper (1955)
Leslie Caron stars in this lush adaptation of the Cinderella story
co-starring Michael Wilding and featuring the music of Bronislau Kaper.

2 a.m. – The Swan (1956)
Grace Kelly became a real princess the same year she starred
in this comedy with Louis Jourdan and Alec Guinness.

4 a.m. – The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
Ramon Navarro stars in the title role in this silent
Ernst Lubitsch classic co-starring Norma Shearer.

(All times Eastern.)

For fans attending the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, Jane Powell will make a live appearance at a special 60th anniversary screening of Royal Wedding (1951) at The Egyptian Theatre Friday, April 29, at 1 p.m. (PT).

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