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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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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
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
Kathleen Freeman. Phoebe Dinsmore (uncredited) Joi Lansing. Chorus Girl (uncredited) Sylvia Lewis. Female Tango Dancer (uncredited) Harry 'Snub' Pollard. Old Man Getting Umbrella in "Singin' in the Rain" Number (uncredited) William Schallert.
Oct 21, 2024 · Gene Kelly was the star of Singin' in the Rain, a film considered by many to be the greatest Hollywood musical ever made. The film's most unforgettable sequence is Kelly’s performance of the title song, with him swinging from a lamppost in the rain, delighted at falling in love.
Debbie Reynolds was a gymnast and beauty pageant winner with a few bit parts to her name when she booked Singin' in the Rain, which catapulted her to stardom. As Kathy, Reynolds gave a sincere and authentic performance at just 19 years old.
