What is your favorite Stanley Donen film?

Charade and Arabesque.

Singin in the rain and two for the road


but I am very very fond of 
TGE GRASS IS GREENER

pajama GAME

FUNNY FACE

 

I'm not much of a musical film but, but Stanley and I share the same birthday.

I just saw Damn Yankees for the first time last week.

My favorite:  Two for the Road

Singin' in the Rain...in my top 3 films

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Singin' in the Rain / Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Charade aka the best Hitchcock film that Hitchcock did not make !

THE LITTLE PRINCE - 1/10

ON THE TOWN; BEDAZZLED - 5/10

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN - 10/10

ON THE TOWN "The happiest musical ever made" said Sunday Times


But how about a top ten ? - all "recommended" to varying degrees
SINGIN IN THE RAIN
CHARADE
TWO FOR THE ROAD
FUNNY FACE
SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
ITS ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER
ARABESQUE
THE PAJAMA GAME
INDISCREET

of the rest I thought ROYAL WEDDING and KISS THEM FOR ME were both duds, and  LOVE IS BETTER THAN EVER THE GRASS IS GREENER both mediocre, ONCE MORE WITH FEELING and LUCKY LADY both poor (latter was roasted by critics at time)

MOVIE MOVIE and DAMN YANKEES near misses (and latter very disappointing - source for 1967 TV version welcome - Lee Remick as Lola!)

Haven't seen SURPRISE PACKAGE - thought I had - will seek out.

I have no problem choosing CHARADE as my favorite Donen-directed NON-musical. The only thing that keeps me from watching it even more often than I do is this quote from Cary Grant, after filming this classic: "All I want for Christmas is another movie with Audrey Hepburn" ...because he never got that present, and neither did we. And that makes me sad.

But for my favorite of his musicals? How can I ever choose just one from the following:

ON THE TOWN (first of his collaborations with the marvelous writers Betty Comden and Adolph Green, as well as with the peripatetic Gene Kelly)
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (same credits as above, but with most of the songs (including the title one) chestnuts by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, reprised from very early MGM talkies)
SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (I'd pick this one for the Barn-Raising [and later barn-razing ] sequence alone)
IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER (a vastly under-appreciated movie and the last--as far as I know--of the four-way collaboration shared by Donen-Kelly-Comden-Green)
FUNNY FACE (Donen does Paramount and brings us the wonderful 's wonderful, unexpected team of Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire--with a delightful turn by the multi-talented Kay Thompson.   )
DAMN YANKEES (his second musical for WB--and also the second and tragically last collaborative effort of the promising composer-lyricist team of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross (whose first outing together was Pajama Game, also directed on film by Donen))