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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.
Jun 22, 2024 · 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.
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- 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.
Aug 9, 2012 · Singin' in the Rain wasn't a huge hit when it opened, but the 1952 film — which turns 60 this year — is now regarded as one of the best Hollywood musicals of all time. To celebrate the ...
Jan 27, 2024 · Yuka Kitamura is best known for the orchestral music she made in the shadows. At legendary Japanese video game developer FromSoftware, where 33-year-old Kitamura worked for the past 11 years, her compositions were never the main course, but they were an inescapable, binding wax.
Apr 11, 2022 · Singin’ in the Rain is considered a cinema classic, due in part to Gene Kelly’s iconic song and dance performance of the movie’s titular musical number. And 70 years later, imagery from the ...
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Debbie Reynolds was an athlete who had planned to teach gymnastics before she was discovered at a beauty contest in Burbank, CA. She was 19 years old when she made “Singin’ in the Rain”. Gene Kelly, whose character “falls in love” with the Debbie Reynold’s character in the movie, was 40 years old at the time.
