By Heidi Parker For Dailymail.com
Published: 16:26 GMT, 23 February 2019 | Updated: 16:28 GMT, 23 February 2019
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Hollywood director and choreographer Stanley Donen has died at age 94.
One of Donen's sons confirmed the news, according to the Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips. 'A huge, often neglected talent,' Phillips tweeted Saturday morning.
The icon was best known for his hit films Funny Face, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, On the Town, Singin’ in the Rain, and Charade.
Sad loss: Hollywood director and choreographer Stanley Donen has died at age 94. Seen in 2004
His biggest hit: He co-directed Singin' In The Rain with Debbie Reynolds and Gene Kelly in 1952
The director was presented an honorary Oscar in 1998 by Martin Scorsese 'in appreciation of a body of work marked by grace, elegance, wit and visual innovation.'
Donen never received an Academy Award nomination and never won a regulation Directors Guild of America trophy.
The South Carolina was the architect of the great musicals of the Fifties and Sixties.
He was behind Fred Astaire's dancing up the walls and across the ceiling in the 1951 film Royal Wedding.
'I saw Fred Astaire in Flying Down to Rio when I was 9 years old, and it changed my life,' he told Vanity Fair in March 2013. 'It just seemed wonderful, and my life wasn’t wonderful. The joy of dancing to music! And Fred was so amazing, and Ginger —
