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Xanadu is a 1980 American musical fantasy film written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald. The film stars Olivia Newton-John , Michael Beck , and Gene Kelly in his final film role.
The 1980 film on which Xanadu is based barely recouped its $20 million production budget at the box office and received uniformly unfavorable reviews, but the soundtrack was a commercial hit, as were several of the songs singularly. Although the film was nominated for six Razzies, winning one for Worst Director, it became a cult classic ...
Aerial view of Otto Hermann Kahn's Oheka Castle that portrays the fictional Xanadu. During production, the film was referred to as RKO 281. Most of the filming took place in what is now Stage 19 on the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood. [49] There was some location filming at Balboa Park in San Diego and the San Diego Zoo. [50]
Xanadu (Citizen Kane), a mansion in the 1941 film Citizen Kane; Xanadu, a 1980 film starring Olivia Newton-John Xanadu, a 2007 Broadway musical based on the film; Xanadu; Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical, a 1953 Seventh Army musical; Xanadu, a ballet by Mildred Couper; Xanadu, a virtual world in "Garage Kids", the pilot of Code Lyoko
Xanadu is the fictional estate of Charles Foster Kane, the title character of the film Citizen Kane (1941). The estate derives its name from the ancient city of Xanadu , known for its splendor. Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California , has been considered to be the main inspiration for Xanadu, due to the William Randolph Hearst /Kane comparison ...
The film's version of the song contains a fairly lengthy instrumental introduction, a small segment of which is used for the album version. [ citation needed ] The single's B-side, "Drum Dreams", is also featured in the film at the beginning of the Xanadu nightclub grand opening scene and segues into the movie title song.
Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical is an original musical written and produced in 1953 by Seventh Army Special Services in Germany, the first of the numerous stage musicals, film musicals and songs inspired in part by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan with its opening lines: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree
"Xanadu" is the title song from the soundtrack of the 1980 musical film of the same name. Written by Jeff Lynne of the English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), the song is performed by British and Australian singer, songwriter and actress Olivia Newton-John, with Lynne adding parenthetic vocals in the style of his other songs on the Xanadu soundtrack, and ELO providing the ...