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- A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
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Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, and featuring Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Rita Moreno and Cyd Charisse in supporting roles.
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Synopsis. Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) is a popular silent film star with humble roots as a singer, dancer and stunt man. Don barely tolerates his vapid, shallow leading lady, Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), who has convinced herself that the fake romance their studio concocted and publicized is real.
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Singin’ in the Rain, American musical comedy film, released in 1952, that was a reunion project for the American in Paris directorial team of Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, who was also the films’ star. Singin’ in the Rain emerged as a classic, considered by many to be the greatest Hollywood musical ever made.
Writers Adolph Green and Betty Comden discovered that MGM had a cache of many wonderful but unheralded songs featured in the studio’s films from the early sound era. This inspired them to use these tunes as the basis of a screenplay about the trials and tribulations endured by people in the film industry when sound was introduced, a process that made plenty of new stars while destroying many established ones. Kelly portrayed a studio star who falls in love with an aspiring actress, played by Debbie Reynolds. Her lovely voice wins her a place opposite him in the new “talkie” films, pushing aside his screechy-toned leading lady, played by Jean Hagen.
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•Studio: MGM
•Directors: Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
•Writers: Adolph Green and Betty Comden
•Music: Nacio Herb Brown and Lennie Hayton
•Gene Kelly (Don Lockwood)
•Donald O’Connor (Cosmo Brown)
•Debbie Reynolds (Kathy Selden)
•Jean Hagen (Lina Lamont)
•Millard Mitchell (R.F. Simpson)
•Cyd Charisse (Dancer)
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With Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen. A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
- 1952-04-10
- 1 min
- It wasn't adapted from a Broadway musical. Many movie musicals of the 1930s, '40s and '50s were based on stage shows, but this wasn’t one of them. Rather, it was a new script, written just for the movie, featuring old songs written for previous movies.
- It was conceived by producer Arthur Freed as a means of showcasing songs he had written, but it wasn't (just) an ego trip. Freed was a successful lyricist in the 1920s and '30s, collaborating with composer Nacio Herb Brown on dozens of songs for MGM musicals.
- The one "original" song written specifically for the movie is actually a rip-off. As the film was about to commence shooting, directors Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly realized Donald O’Connor didn’t have a solo number.
- Debbie Reynolds had no dance experience before she made the movie. She pointed this out when she was asked to be in Singin’ in the Rain, but Kelly said he could teach her, just as he’d done with Frank Sinatra for Anchors Aweigh.
Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 romantic-comedy musical by directors Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. Centering on the 1920s era of Hollywood, Singin' in the Rain follows two movie stars forced to adjust to the talking pictures era of films. When the film's leading man realizes his on-screen partner's voice is less than pleasing, a young singer is brought in to dub her lines - including her singing ...
“Singin’ in the Rain” pulses with life; in a movie about making movies, you can sense the joy they had making this one. It was co-directed by Stanley Donen, then only 28, and Kelly, who supervised the choreography. Donen got an honorary Oscar in 1998, and stole the show by singing “Cheek to Cheek” while dancing with his statuette.