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Dec 30, 2021 · It’s what Donen, Kelly and Team MGM did 70 years ago: they cracked the carapace of the traditional screen musical. Why does a 1952 song-and-dance film keep being voted the greatest ever of...
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.
Apr 2, 2015 · In 1982, seventeen listed Singin’ in the Rain and it now came fourth overall, running immediately ahead of Fellini’s 8 1/2., Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin and Hitchcock’s Vertigo (p.52). It’s now a familiar resident of top ten lists, often the only musical to figure.
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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)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Singin' in the Rain: Directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly. 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
Dec 12, 1988 · The performances of the leads (especially Jean Hagen’s nasally vacuous “Lina Lamont”), the singing, dancing, production numbers, the dialogue, the pacing, energy and the overall joy and exuberance of the movie are what makes Singin’ in the Rain one of the great films.
The most enduring of the four MGM collaborations between Gene Kelly and his director and co-choreographer Stanley Donen, Singin’ in the Rain rises ten places from 20th in 2012 to land in the top ten again.
