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The movie tells the story of Sonny Malone ( Beck ), a talented artist who has failed to achieve independence and must return to his job painting larger versions of album covers for record store windows (commercial work with no artistic reward). Upon returning to this job, he finds an album cover with a beautiful woman on it ( Newton-John) and in trying to track her down, comes into contact with a washed-up orchestra leader, Danny McGuire ( Kelly). Danny lost his muse years ago, Sonny has not yet found his.
Things become complicated (as much as they do in movies of this sort) as Newton-John's Kira helps the two men realize their dream of opening a nightclub, while also falling in love with Sonny. Ultimately, she has to make a choice about how she feels about him to her parents, who happen to be gods....
Critics panned the film, and it had little success at the box office, but the soundtrack was somewhat successful and contained a few hits, especially the title track. The title song, "Xanadu," is catchy enough that multiple covers of it have appeared from time to time in dance compilations.
This film is Gene Kelly's last starring role in a picture (he appeared in a film called Action U.S.A. 9 years later, but it was a minor appearance). Kelly was a world-class dancer in movies, most famous for his role in the film Singin' in the Rain, and the iconic image of his dancing in the title track adorns many movie houses and Hollywood retrospectives. Xanadu, a relatively minor film, is therefore blessed with his last dance on film. In this film, Kelly is also shown on roller skates during a musical number, which is a reference to a similar routine he performed in It's Only Fair Weather .
The title of the film, Xanadu, is a reference to a poem, "Kubla Kahn, or A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment." by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (published in 1816Events March 25 Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck dies and is succeeded by the later Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, his son and founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg.). In the poem, Xanadu is the location of a "stately pleasure dome" built by Kubla KhanKubla Khan is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about the Mongol/ Chinese emperor Kublai Khan, of the Yuan dynasty. Coleridge claimed that it was written in the autumn of 1797 at a farmhouse near Exmoor, but it may have been composed on one of a number of. Under the influence of drugs, Coleridge had begun work on this poem, intended to be of epic proportions, when he was interrupted by a man from PorlockThe Man from Porlock was a visitor on Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his writing of the oriental poem Kubla Khan''. Coleridge had perceived the entire course of the poem in a dream (possibly an opium-induced haze), but was interupted by this visitor from. This person detained Coleridge long enough for him to lose his train of thought after returning to his desk, and the poem was never completed. That is, Coleridge had lost his muse.
This iconic reference is also used in Orson WellesCarl Van Vechten, 1937 George Orson Welles ( May 6, 1915 October 10, 1985) is commonly considered one of Hollywood's greatest directors, as well as a fine actor and screenwriter. Early career Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He had an unusual childh' Citizen KaneOrson Welles, is here commemorated on a postage stamp. In this famous scene Kane gives a political speech with a giant portrait of himself in the background. Citizen Kane is the first film directed by Orson Welles, and is loosely based on the life of the as the name for the title characters' ostentatious estate.
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