Singin' in the Rain
Directed by	Stanley Donen Gene Kelly
Produced by	Arthur Freed
Written by	Betty Comden Adolph Green
Starring	Gene Kelly Donald O'Connor Debbie Reynolds Jean Hagen
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	March 27, 1952
Running time	103 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2,540,800 USD
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Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also creating the choreography. It offers a comic depiction of Hollywood's transition from silent films to "talkies". Singin in the Rain is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown, published in 1929. ... This is a copyrighted poster. ... Stanley Donen (born April 13, 1924) is an American film director and choreographer hailed by David Quinlan as the King of the Hollywood musicals. His most famous work is Singin in the Rain, which he co-directed with Gene Kelly. ... For the similarly-named American actress, see Jean Kelly. ... Arthur Freed (September 9, 1894 - April 12, 1973) was born Arthur Grossman in Down Ton Ton Village. ... Comden and Green was the writing duo of Betty Comden and Adolph Green. ... Adolph Green (December 2, 1914 – October 23, 2002) was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freeds production unit at MGM, during the genres heyday. ... For the similarly-named American actress, see Jean Kelly. ... Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. ... Debbie Reynolds (born April 1, 1932) is an American actress, dancer and singer. ... Jean Hagen (August 3, 1923 - August 29, 1977) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... // Events February 20 - The film The African Queen opens (Capitol Theater in New York City). ... A comedy is a dramatic performance of a light and amusing character, usually with a happy conclusion to its plot. ... The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. ... For the similarly-named American actress, see Jean Kelly. ... Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. ... Debbie Reynolds (born April 1, 1932) is an American actress, dancer and singer. ... Stanley Donen (born April 13, 1924) is an American film director and choreographer hailed by David Quinlan as the King of the Hollywood musicals. His most famous work is Singin in the Rain, which he co-directed with Gene Kelly. ... Look up Choreography in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... A sound film (or talkie) is a motion picture with synchronized sound, as opposed to a silent movie. ...

The movie is frequently described as one of the best musicals ever made,^[1] topping the AFI's 100 Years of Musicals list, and ranking fifth in its list of the greatest American films. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Part of the AFI 100 Years. ... The first of the AFI 100 Years. ...

Plot

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. Jean Hagen (August 3, 1923 - August 29, 1977) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress. ...

One day, to escape from overenthusiastic fans, Don jumps into a passing car driven by Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds). She drops him off, but not before claiming to be a stage actress and sneering at his undignified accomplishments. Later, at a party, the head of Don's studio, R.F. Simpson (Millard Mitchell), shows a short demonstration of a talking picture, but his guests are unimpressed. Don runs into Kathy again at the party. To his amusement and her embarrassment, he discovers that Kathy is only a chorus girl, part of the entertainment. Furious, she throws a pie at him, only to hit Lina right in the face. Later, Don makes up with Kathy and they begin falling in love. Millard Mitchell (August 14, 1903 – October 13, 1953) was an American character actor whose credits include roughly thirty feature films and two television appearances. ... 1902 poster advertising Gaumonts sound films, depicting an optimistically vast auditorium A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. ...

After the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer, proves to be a smash hit, R.F. decides he has no choice but to convert the new Lockwood and Lamont film, The Dueling Cavalier, into a talkie. The production is beset with difficulties (most, if not all, taken from real life), by far the worst being Lina's comically grating voice and thick New York accent. A test screening is a disaster. In one scene, Don repeats "I love you" to Lina over and over, to audience's derisive laughter (a reference to a scene by John Gilbert in his first talkie^[2]). The Jazz Singer (1927) is a U.S. movie musical and the first feature-length motion picture with talking sequences. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... John Gilbert John Gilbert (July 10, 1899 - January 9, 1936) was an actor and major star of the silent film era. ...

Don's best friend, Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor), comes up with the idea to overdub Lina's voice and they persuade R.F. to turn The Dueling Cavalier into a musical called The Dancing Cavalier. Kathy is to provide the voice for Lina in the new talkie, without Lina's knowledge. When Lina finds out, she is furious and does everything possible to sabotage the romance. She maliciously demands that Kathy continue to provide her voice in all future films, but remain uncredited. An irate, but desperate R.F. is forced to agree; Kathy has no choice because she is under contract. The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. ...

Debbie Reynolds as Kathy Selden, after her identity is revealed

The premiere is a tremendous success. When the audience clamors for Lina to sing live, Don and Cosmo improvise and get Lina to lip-synch while Kathy sings into a second microphone while hidden behind the curtain. Unbeknownst to Lina, as she starts "singing", Don, Cosmo and R.F. gleefully raise the curtain behind her, revealing the deception. Lina flees in embarrassment, and is never seen in the picture again. When Kathy tries to escape as well, Don has her stopped and introduces the audience to the real star of the film. Image File history File links SingingKathy. ... Image File history File links SingingKathy. ... Lip synchronization is the synchronization of audio signals (sometimes with corresponding video signals) so that there is no noticeable lack of simultaneity between them. ...

Songs

Singin' in the Rain was originally conceived by MGM producer Arthur Freed, the head of the "Freed Unit" responsible for turning out MGM's lavish musicals, as a vehicle for his catalog of songs written with Nacio Herb Brown for previous MGM musical films of the 1929-1939 period.^[3] Screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green contributed lyrics to one new song.^[4] Arthur Freed (September 9, 1894 - April 12, 1973) was born Arthur Grossman in Down Ton Ton Village. ... Nacio Herb Brown (22 February 1896 - 28 September 1964) was a United States songwriter. ...

All songs have lyrics by Freed and music by Brown, unless otherwise indicated.^[4] Some of the songs, such as "Broadway Rhythm", "Should I?" and most notably "Singin' in the Rain", were featured in numerous films. The films listed below mark the first time each song was presented on screen.

• "Singin' in the Rain", from Hollywood Revue Of 1929.(1929)^[4] Ironically, in the final scene in which Kathy apparently sings "Singin' in the Rain" for Lina Lamont to lip-sync to, it was actually performed by Jean Hagen herself.^{[citation needed]}
• "Fit as a Fiddle (And Ready for Love)", from College Coach^[5] (music by Al Hoffman and Al Goodhart)
• "Temptation" (instrumental only), from Going Hollywood (1933)
• "All I Do Is Dream of You", from Sadie McKee (1934)^[4]
• "Make 'Em Laugh" - considered an original song, but a near-plagiarism of Cole Porter's "Be a Clown", although it is said Porter gave his tacit permission.^{[citation needed]} In the lead in to the song, O'Connor/Cosmo sarcastically references the tragic line "ridi pagliaccio" ("Laugh, clown") from the opera Pagliacci. O'Connor was hospitalized for a week for exhaustion after shooting this number.^{[citation needed]}
• "Beautiful Girl Montage" comprising "I Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'" from Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935),^[4] "The Wedding of the Painted Doll" from The Broadway Melody (1929)^[4] and "Should I?" from Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)^[4]
• "Beautiful Girl", from Going Hollywood (1933)^[5] or from Stage Mother (1933)^[4]
• "You Were Meant for Me", from The Broadway Melody (1929)^[4]
• "You Are My Lucky Star", from Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)^[4]
• "Moses Supposes" (music by Roger Edens, lyrics by Comden and Green)
• "Good Morning", from Babes in Arms (1939)^[4]
• "Would You?", from San Francisco (1936)^[4]
• "Broadway Melody Ballet" composed of "The Broadway Melody" from The Broadway Melody (1929)^[4] and "Broadway Rhythm" from Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)^[4] (music by Nacio Herb Brown and Lennie Hayton)

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Discarded versions

In an early draft of the script, the musical number "Singin' in the Rain" was to be sung by Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly on the way back from the flop of a talkie movie. "You Were Meant For Me" was not included in that draft. Instead, the love song was supposed to be Gene Kelly's version of "All I Do is Dream of You," which would be sung after the party at R.F. Simpson's house, when Kelly chases after Reynolds. The song would have ended up at Kelly's house. The footage of this scene has been lost. Reynolds' solo rendition of "You Are My Lucky Star" (to a billboard showing an image of Lockwood) was cut from the film, but has survived.^[6] Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. ...

Cast

• Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood. Although his performance in the song Singin' in the Rain is now considered iconic, Gene Kelly was not the first performer chosen for the role — Howard Keel was the original choice to play Lockwood. Keel was replaced by Kelly as the screenwriters evolved the character from a "Western actor" to a "song-and-dance vaudeville" performer.^[2]
• Debbie Reynolds as Kathy Seldon
• Donald O'Connor as Cosmo Brown
• Jean Hagen as Lina Lamont
• Millard Mitchell as R.F. Simpson. The initials of the fictional Monumental Pictures' owner are a reference to producer Arthur Freed. R.F. also uses one of Freed's favorite expressions when he says that he "cannot quite visualize it" and has to see it on film first, referring to the Broadway ballet sequence, a joke, since the audience has just seen it.
• Cyd Charisse as Kelly's dance partner in a dream sequence
• Rita Moreno as Zelda Zanders, Lina's friend

For the similarly-named American actress, see Jean Kelly. ... Howard Keel, born Harry Clifford Leek (April 13, 1919 – November 7, 2004) was an American actor who starred in many of the classic film musicals of the 1950s. ... Debbie Reynolds (born April 1, 1932) is an American actress, dancer and singer. ... Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. ... Jean Hagen (August 3, 1923 - August 29, 1977) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress. ... Millard Mitchell (August 14, 1903 – October 13, 1953) was an American character actor whose credits include roughly thirty feature films and two television appearances. ... Cyd Charisse Cyd Charisse is an American dancer and actress. ... Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931, in Humacao, Puerto Rico) is a singer, dancer and an Academy Award-winning actress and the first and only Puerto Rican actress in history (as well as one of only nine people) to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony...

Acclaim

Jean Hagen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the film for Best Original Music Score. The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. ...

Singin' in the Rain has appeared twice on Sight and Sound's list of the ten best films of all time, in 1982 and 2002, and the American Film Institute placed it at the top of their 100 Years of Musicals list. It is also tenth in the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (1997) list and fifth in their 2007 edition, and the title song is third (#3) in their 100 Years... 100 Songs list.^[7]   Two other songs from the film made the AFI list as well: "Make 'Em Laugh" (#49) and "Good Morning" (#72). Sight and Sound is a British monthly magazine about film. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Part of the AFI 100 Years. ... The first of the AFI 100 Years. ... Part of the AFI 100 Years. ...

In 1989, Singin' in the Rain was also deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Construction of the Thomas Jefferson Building, from July 8, 1888 to May 15, 1894. ... The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ...

Production

Gene Kelly dancing while singing the title song "Singin' in the Rain".

In the famous dance routine in which Gene Kelly sings the title song while twirling an umbrella, splashing through puddles and getting soaked to the skin, he was actually dancing in water with a little bit of milk added, so that the water puddles and raindrops would show up in the filming. Kelly was sick with a 103-degree fever at the time.^{[citation needed]} Image File history File links Singin_Rain. ... Image File history File links Singin_Rain. ... For the similarly-named American actress, see Jean Kelly. ...

Debbie Reynolds was not a dancer at the time she made Singin' in the Rain — her background was as a gymnast.^[6] Kelly apparently insulted her for her lack of dance experience, upsetting her. Fred Astaire was hanging around the studio and found Reynolds crying under a piano. Hearing what had happened, Astaire volunteered to help her with her dancing. Kelly later admitted that he had not been kind to Reynolds and was surprised that she was still willing to talk to him afterwards. After shooting the "Good Morning" routine, Reynolds' feet were bleeding.^[6] Years later, she was quoted as saying that making this film and surviving childbirth were the two most difficult experiences of her life. Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska,[1] was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. ...

Donald O'Connor also apparently did not enjoy working with Kelly, finding him to be somewhat of a tyrant on the set, despite being quoted as saying that Kelly was "patient" with him.

References to Singin' in the Rain

• Cary Grant, in the Alfred Hitchcock movie North by Northwest (1959), also made at MGM, whistles Singin' in the Rain while pretending to take a shower.
• The "Singin' in the Rain" routine has been parodied numerous times, notably by Morecambe and Wise and Paddington Bear. The dance was also parodied, briefly, by The Goodies during their television episode Saturday Night Grease, where the music for the dance sequence was "Singin' in the Rain". It was also once sung (very badly) by Bill Owen outside Nora Batty's house in an episode of Last of the Summer Wine. In the 1980 film Fame, the character Coco Hernandez (played by Irene Cara) dances in a puddle on a train station while singing "Singin' in the Rain". The 2003 film Shanghai Knights featured an homage involving Jackie Chan using an umbrella as a weapon in one of the action sequences. The music heard during the sequence is none other than the song "Singin' in the Rain".
• The sequence was also the subject of a 2005 advertisement for the new Volkswagen Golf GTI.*[1] Kelly appeared to replace his routine with a combination of breakdance and body pop dancing styles, culminating when he stopped to look at the aforementioned car. To create this illusion, three breakdancers performed different parts of the routine on a painstakingly recreated replica of the original set. Kelly's face was digitally superimposed upon each dancer in post-production for the close-ups, while prosthetic makeup was sufficient for most of the footage. A big beat remix of the original song (courtesy of Mint Royale) provided the soundtrack.
• "Singin' in the Rain" is sung mockingly by Alex DeLarge in the rape scene in Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange (1971). Gene Kelly's rendition is heard during the end credits.
• A predominant theme in season four of The Spencer Howard Show is Spencer's starring role in a shot-for-shot remake of Singin' in the Rain.
• In the 1997 film The Full Monty, Guy (played by Hugo Speer), in his audition, imitates Donald O'Connor's famous dance sequence in "Make 'Em Laugh" by attempting to run up the wall and backflip, only to fall on the floor.
• In the Family Guy episode entitled "Peterotica," Glenn Quagmire parodies Donald O'Connor's "Make 'Em Laugh" song and dance routine while in an erotic book shop. In another episode, "Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air", Peter Griffin, Joe Swanson, Cleveland Brown, and Quagmire (and later, Stewie) all perform a routine to the song "Good Morning".
• Adventure game Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine has an easter egg where Al Emmo sings a parody song called "Waitin' for the Train". He mimics some of Gene Kelly's dance moves, including pulling out an umbrella and putting it away again (since he's in the desert), and leaping up on a nearby lamp post while singing.

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DVD and VHS releases

According to the audio commentary on the Special Edition DVD, the original negative was destroyed in a fire, but despite this the film has been digitally restored for its DVD release. A major selling point of DVD video is that its storage capacity allows for a wide variety of extra features in addition to the feature film itself. ...

The 40th Anniversary Edition VHS version includes Reynolds' cut, solo rendition of "Singin' in the Rain".

References

1. ^ Haley Jr., Jack: That's Entertainment!, Frank Sinatra segments. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1974
2. ^ ^{a b} Betty Comden, Adolph Green (2002). "The story Behind Singin' in the Rain: Now It Can be Told", reprint of the "Singin' In the Rain" screenplay introduction, originally published in 1972, included in the liner notes of the "Music from the original motion picture soundtrack (deluxe edition) Singin' in the Rain" double CD by Rhino Entertainment and Turner Classic Movies.
3. ^ George Feltenstein (2002). "Producer's Note", included in the liner notes of the "Music from the original motion picture soundtrack (deluxe edition) Singin' in the Rain" double CD by Rhino Entertainment and Turner Classic Movies
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Track list in the liner notes of the "Music from the original motion picture soundtrack (deluxe edition) Singin' in the Rain" double CD by Rhino Entertainment and Turner Classic Movies.
5. ^ ^{a b} CineBooks' Motion Picture Guide review of the movie included on the Microsoft Cinemania 1997 CD
6. ^ ^{a b c} New 50th Anniversary Documentary What a Glorious Feeling, hosted by Debbie Reynolds
7. ^ http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/100yearslist.aspx AFI's 100 Years lists

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