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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.
- August 8, 1980
Sep 18, 2019 · Xanadu by Dmitri Smirnov. Xanadu (aka Shangdu, Shang-tu, and Kaiping) located in Inner Mongolia, northern China, was first the capital (1263-73) and then the summer capital (1274-1364) of the Mongol Empire. It came to prominence during the reign of Kublai Khan (r. 1260-1294) and was famous for its palaces, gardens and waterways.
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Xanadu (film), a 1980 film starring Olivia Newton-John. Xanadu (musical), a 2007 Broadway musical based on the film. Xanadu (TV series) 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 was the legendary capital of Kublai Khan, the Mongol ruler who established the Yuan dynasty in China. The site, located on the grassland steppe, reflects the cultural fusion of nomadic and agrarian civilisations, and the spread of Tibetan Buddhism.
Dec 23, 2020 · Directed by Robert Greenwald from a script by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel, Xanadu stars Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly and a Jim Morrison mannequin that's broken out of Tussauds...
Aug 8, 1980 · A struggling artist and a muse fall in love and try to open a disco club in this musical comedy starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this 1980 film.
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Xanadu, place in the opium-induced vision that English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge recorded in the poetic fragment “Kubla Khan” (1798). Coleridge’s fantasyland was based on Shangdu (“Upper Capital”), near present-day Duolun in Inner Mongolia, to which the real Kublai Khan moved the seat of Mongol.
