Xanadu (film)

Xanadu is a 1980 musical/romance film directed by Robert Greenwald. It stars Olivia Newton-John (fresh from her role in Grease), Michael Beck and Gene Kelly, and features music by Newton-John, ELO, UK pop idol Cliff Richard, and the San Francisco-based art-rock band "The Tubes". The film's tagline is "A fantasy. A musical. A place where dreams come true."

Trivia

• This film is dancer Gene Kelly's last starring role in a motion picture. (He had a minor appearance in the film Action U.S.A. nine years later). Xanadu features his last dance on film. In this film, Kelly is also shown on roller skates during a musical number, a reference to a similar routine he performed in It's Only Fair Weather.
• Gene Kelly's character Danny McGuire has the same name as Kelly's character in Cover Girl (1944), starring Rita Hayworth.
• The title of the film is a reference to the poem "Kubla Khan, or A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment." by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Coleridge had begun work on this poem, intended to be of epic proportions, when he was interrupted by a man from Porlock who person detained Coleridge long enough for him to lose his train of thought after returning to his desk. The poem was never completed; it can be said that Coleridge had "lost his muse."
• The film contains a short animated sequence by former Disney animator Don Bluth and his new animation studio.
• Matt Lattanzi who was to become Oliva-Newton John's husband, and father of her daughter Chloe, was a dancer in the film.