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1952 American musical-romantic comedy film

Singin' in the Rain
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by
  • Cistron Kelly
  • Stanley Donen
Written by
  • Adolph Greenish
  • Betty Comden
Suggested by "Singin' in the Rain"
Produced by Arthur Freed
Starring
  • Gene Kelly
  • Donald O'Connor
  • Debbie Reynolds
  • Jean Hagen
  • Millard Mitchell
  • Cyd Charisse
Cinematography Harold Rosson
Edited past Adrienne Fazan
Music by
  • Songs:
  • Nacio Herb Brown (music)
  • Arthur Freed (lyrics)
Color process Technicolor

Production
company

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by Loew'southward Inc.

Release dates
  • March 27, 1952 (1952-03-27) (Radio City Music Hall)
  • April eleven, 1952 (1952-04-xi) (United States)

Running time

 103 minutes
Land Usa
Language English
Budget $2.54 1000000[1]
Box office $seven.2 million[1]

Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical romantic comedy motion-picture show directed and choreographed by Cistron Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and featuring Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell and Cyd Charisse. Information technology offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to "talkies".

The moving-picture show was just a modest striking when it was first released. O'Connor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Player – Motility Pic Musical or Comedy, and Betty Comden and Adolph Dark-green won the Writers Lodge of America Award for their screenplay, while Jean Hagen was nominated for the Academy Accolade for Best Supporting Actress. Nevertheless, it has since been accorded legendary condition by contemporary critics, and is often regarded equally the greatest musical motion picture ever made and one of the greatest films ever made,[ii] likewise equally the greatest film made in the "Freed Unit" at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Information technology topped the AFI'southward Greatest Picture show Musicals list and is ranked every bit the fifth-greatest American motion movie of all time in its updated list of the greatest American films in 2007.

In 1989, Singin' in the Rain was one of the first 25 films selected by the U.s. Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for existence "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[3] In 2005, the British Film Found included it in its list of the 50 films to be seen by the age of xiv. In 2008, Empire mag ranked it as the eighth-best film of all time. In Sight & Sound mag'due south 2012 list of the 50 greatest films of all time, Singin' in the Rain placed 20th.[4]

Plot [edit]

Don Lockwood is a popular silent film star with humble roots as a "hoofer" and stuntman. Don barely tolerates his vain, cunning, spoiled, conniving, and shallow leading lady, Lina Lamont, though their studio, Monumental Pictures, links them romantically to increment their popularity. Lina is convinced that they are in honey, despite Don's protestations otherwise.

At the premiere of their latest film, The Regal Rascal, Don tells the gathered crowd a version of his life story, including his motto: "Nobility, ever dignity." His words are humorously contradicted by flashbacks showing him alongside his best friend Cosmo Brown ("Fit as a Dabble"). To escape from his fans after the premiere, Don jumps into a passing auto driven by Kathy Selden. She drops him off, but not earlier claiming to be a stage actress and sneering at his "undignified" accomplishments every bit a movie star.

After, at an later-party, the caput of Don's studio, R.F. Simpson, shows a brusk demonstration of a talking picture,[a] but his guests are unimpressed. To Don's amusement, Kathy pops out of a mock cake correct in front of him, revealing herself to be a chorus daughter ("All I Do is Dream of You"). Furious at Don'south teasing, she throws a cake at him, accidentally hitting Lina in the face up, and so flees. Don becomes smitten with Kathy and searches for her for weeks, with Cosmo trying to cheer him up ("Brand 'Em Express mirth"). While filming a romantic scene, a jealous Lina reveals that her influence is backside Kathy's loss of work and subsequent disappearance. On the studio lot, Cosmo finally finds Kathy quietly working in another Monumental Pictures production ("Beautiful Girl") and they reconcile. Don sings her a dear song, and she confesses to having been a fan of his all along ("Y'all Were Meant for Me").

After rival studio Warner Bros. has an enormous hitting with its first talking picture, the 1927 picture show The Jazz Vocalist, R.F. decides he has no choice only to convert the next Lockwood and Lamont film, The Dueling Cavalier, into a talkie. The production is beset with difficulties, including Lina's grating vocalism and stiff Brooklyn accent. An exasperated diction double-decker tries to teach her how to speak properly, but to no avail. In contrast, Don fares amend when taking diction lessons ("Moses Supposes"). The Dueling Cavalier 's preview screening is a disaster; the actors are barely audible cheers to the bad-mannered placing of the microphones, Don repeats the line "I love you" to Lina over and over, to the audience'south cheeky laughter,[b] and in the middle of the film, the sound goes out of synchronization, with hilarious results as Lina shakes her caput while the villain'due south deep voice says, "Yes! Aye! Yes!" and the villain nods his head while Lina's squeaky soprano says, "No! No! No!"

Afterward ("Good Morning"), Kathy and Cosmo help Don come with the idea to plow The Dueling Condescending into a musical called The Dancing Cavalier, consummate with a modern musical number and backstory. The 3 are disheartened when they realize Lina'south terrible voice remains a problem. Still, Cosmo, inspired by a scene in The Dueling Cavalier where Lina's vocalism was out of sync, suggests that they dub Lina's phonation with Kathy'south ("Singin' In the Rain"). Later hearing Don and Cosmo pitch the thought ("Broadway Tune"), R.F. approves only tells them not to inform Lina that Kathy is doing the dubbing ("Would You"). Having learned the truth, an infuriated Lina barges in on a dubbing session, and becomes even angrier when she is told that Don and Kathy are in love and intend to marry, and that R.F. intends to give Kathy a screen credit and a large publicity buildup. Lina threatens to sue R.F. unless he makes sure no one ever hears of Kathy and that she keeps dubbing for the rest of her career. R.F. reluctantly agrees because of a clause in Lina'south contract which holds the studio responsible for positive media coverage.

The premiere of The Dancing Cavalier is a tremendous success. When the audience clamors for Lina to sing live, Don, Cosmo, and R.F. tell her to lip sync into a microphone while Kathy, concealed behind the curtain, sings into a second 1. While Lina is "singing" ("Singin' in the Rain Reprise"), Don, Cosmo, and R.F. gleefully open the curtain, revealing the fakery. The defeated Lina flees in humiliation, and a distressed Kathy tries to run away likewise, but Don proudly announces to the audition that she'southward "the existent star" of the pic ("Y'all Are My Lucky Star"). Later on, Kathy and Don kiss in front of a billboard for their new film, Singin' in the Rain.

Cast [edit]

  • Gene Kelly as Donald (Don) Lockwood
  • Debbie Reynolds every bit Kathy Selden. Reynolds was just nineteen when filming began.[5]
  • Donald O'Connor as Cosmo Brown
  • Jean Hagen as Lina Lamont. Fresh from her role in The Asphalt Jungle, Hagen read for the part for producer Arthur Freed. She did a dead-on impression of Billie Dawn, Judy Holliday's character from Born Yesterday – for which Hagen had been Holliday's understudy – which won her the role.[6]
  • Millard Mitchell as R.F. Simpson. The initials of the fictional head of Monumental Pictures 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 run across it on film first, referring to the "Broadway Tune" sequence. This is a joke, since the audition has just seen it.[ commendation needed ]
  • Cyd Charisse every bit the long-legged adult female in the green sequined apparel and Louise Brooks–fashion hair who vamps Gene Kelly in the "Broadway Melody" sequence.
  • Douglas Fowley as Roscoe Dexter, the director of Don and Lina's films.
  • Rita Moreno as Zelda Zanders, the "Zip Daughter" and Lina's friend. As of 2022, Moreno is the terminal surviving credited star from the pic.

Uncredited

  • Betty Noyes as the singing vox of Debbie Reynolds on "Would You lot"[7] and "You Are My Lucky Star"[8]
    • In addition, although the film revolves around the thought that Kathy has to dub for Lina's piercing voice, in the scene where Kathy is portrayed recording a line of Lina's dialogue ("Null can go along usa apart, our love will last 'til the stars turn cold"), Jean Hagen's normal voice is used, because Hagen'southward deep, rich phonation was preferred over Reynolds' somewhat thin and youthful one.[seven] [8] [9]
  • King Donovan equally Rod, caput of the publicity section at Awe-inspiring Pictures
  • Judy Landon as Olga Mara, a silent screen vamp who attends the premiere of The Regal Rascal. As of 2022, she and Rita Moreno are the last surviving actors from the motion-picture show.
  • Madge Blake as Dora Bailey, a Hollywood gossip columnist based on Louella Parsons
  • Kathleen Freeman every bit Phoebe Dinsmore, Lina'due south diction coach
  • Bobby Watson equally Lockwood's diction coach during the "Moses Supposes" number
  • Jimmy Thompson as the singer of "Beautiful Girl"
  • Mae Clarke as the barber who puts the finishing touches on Lina Lamont's hairdo
  • Julius Tannen as the man demonstrating the engineering of talking pictures[x] [xi]
  • Tommy Farrell as Sid Philips, the manager of the movie featuring the song "Beautiful Girl"

Songs [edit]

Singin' in the Pelting was originally conceived past MGM producer Arthur Freed, the caput of the "Freed Unit" responsible for turning out MGM'southward lavish musicals, as a vehicle for his itemize of songs written with Nacio Herb Brown for previous MGM musical films of the 1929–39 period.[12] Screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green wrote one entirely new vocal, "Moses Supposes", with music managing director Roger Edens providing the music (meet below).[13] Freed and Dark-brown wrote a new song for the motion picture, "Make 'Em Laugh".

All songs accept lyrics past Freed and music by Chocolate-brown unless otherwise indicated.[13] Some of the songs, such every bit "Broadway Rhythm", "Should I?", and particularly "Singin' in the Rain" itself, have been featured in numerous films. The films listed beneath mark the outset time each song was presented on screen.

  • "Fit as a Fiddle (And Set for Dearest)", originally published in 1932 with music past Al Hoffman and Al Goodhart, lyrics by Freed.
  • "Temptation" (instrumental simply) from Going Hollywood (1933).
  • "All I Practice Is Dream of You" from Sadie McKee (1934).[13] The system in "Singin' in the Rain" is an up tempo, upbeat, "flapper" version of the song with full instrumentation. In dissimilarity, the "Sadie McKee" version is slower tempo, and appears routinely throughout the movie every bit a honey carol accompanied by a solo ukulele. An instrumental only version with full orchestration is besides part of the film'south opening and closing theme. An instrumental version was likewise played on the piano by Chico Marx in the 1935 Marx Brothers motion-picture show A Night at the Opera.
  • "Singin' in the Rain" from The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929).[xiii] Kelly's performance in the song is now considered iconic.[fourteen]
  • "Make 'Em Express mirth", considered an original song, only bearing a striking resemblance to Cole Porter's "Be a Clown" from some other MGM Freed-produced musical, The Pirate (1948).
  • "Beautiful Girl Montage" comprising "I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'" from Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935),[xiii] "The Nuptials of the Painted Doll" from The Broadway Melody (1929),[13] "Should I?" from Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)[13] and "Beautiful Girl" from Stage Mother (1933)[13]
  • "Y'all Were Meant for Me" from The Broadway Tune (1929)[thirteen]
  • "You lot Are My Lucky Star" from Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)[13]
  • "Moses Supposes" (music by Roger Edens, lyrics by Comden and Green), from a 1944 version based on the tongue-twister with the same title.
  • "Adept Morning" from Babes In Arms (1939)[13]
  • "Would Yous?" from San Francisco (1936)[thirteen]
  • "Broadway Melody" composed of "The Broadway Melody" from The Broadway Melody (1929)[13] and "Broadway Rhythm" from Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935).[thirteen] The music for the "Broadway Ballet" section is by Nacio Herb Chocolate-brown.[xv]

Product [edit]

History [edit]

Arthur Freed, the head of the "Freed Unit" at MGM responsible for the studio'southward glossy and glamorous musicals, conceived the idea of a pic based on the back itemize of songs written past himself and Nacio Herb Brown, and called in Betty Comden and Adolph Green from New York to come up with a story to necktie the songs together and to write the script. Comden and Green first refused the consignment, equally their amanuensis had assured them that their new contract with MGM called for them to write the lyrics to all songs unless the score was by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, or Rodgers and Hammerstein. After a two-week concur-out, their new amanuensis, Irving "Swifty" Lazar, having looked over the contract, told them that the clause had been entirely an invention of their previous agent, and that there was no such language in the contract. Later hearing this, Comden and Green began working on the story and script.[sixteen]

Because many of the songs had originally been written during the fourth dimension when silent films were giving way to "talkies" and musicals were popular with audiences, Comden and Green came up with the idea that the story should be set during that transitional period in Hollywood, an era they were intimately familiar with. When Howard Keel was mentioned as the possible lead, they tried to work up a story involving a star of Western films who makes a comeback equally a singing cowboy, but they kept gravitating to a story about a swashbuckling romantic hero with a vaudeville background who survives the transition by falling dorsum on his abilities as a vocal-and-trip the light fantastic man, a story which Factor Kelly was well-suited for.[17]

Kelly could not be approached at the time, as he was deeply immersed in An American in Paris (1951), which he was co-choreographing with Stanley Donen, and in which he was starring. Comden and Greenish continued to piece of work on the script, and had at that time iii possible openings for the film: a silent picture show premiere, a magazine interview with a Hollywood star, and a star-meets-girl, star-loses-girl sequence. Unable to determine which to employ or how to proceed, they had just decided to return their advance to MGM and admit defeat, when Betty Comden'due south married man arrived from New York and suggested that they combine all three openings into 1. The script with the re-written opening was canonical by Freed and past MGM's head of production Dore Schary, who had recently replaced Louis B. Mayer.[18]

By this time shooting on An American in Paris had completed, and Freed suggested that Kelly be given the script to read. Kelly and Donen responded enthusiastically, and immediately become involved in re-writes and adjustments to the script. Comden, Light-green, Kelly, and Donen were all quondam friends, and the process went smoothly. Besides the Freed-Brown songs, Comden and Green contributed the lyrics to "Moses Supposes", which was set up to music past Roger Edens. Shortly before shooting began, "The Wedding of the Painted Doll", which Comden and Green had "painfully wedged into the script as a auspicious-upward song" was replaced with a new Freed/Brown song, "Make 'Em Laugh",[19] which diameter a remarkable resemblance to Cole Porter's 1948 song "Be a Clown".

Subsequently Comden and Green had returned to New York to piece of work on other projects, they received word that a new song was needed for a love-song sequence betwixt Kelly and Debbie Reynolds. The original had been a song-and-dance medley involving different sets in different soundstages on the studio lot, but they were asked for a romantic honey song set in an empty sound stage, and it was needed immediately. Comden and Light-green provided such a scene for "You lot Are My Lucky Star" and sent information technology off to Hollywood.[20]

Revisions from early drafts [edit]

  • In an early on typhoon of the script, the musical number "Singin' in the Rain" was to be sung by Reynolds, O'Connor, and Kelly, emerging from a restaurant later on the flop preview of The Dueling Cavalier, to celebrate the thought of changing the film into a musical.[21]
  • Kelly singing "You Were Meant For Me" to Reynolds on an empty sound phase was non included in that typhoon. The number was originally conceived as Kelly singing a medley of other songs to her as they romped effectually various studio back lot sets.[22]
  • Rita Moreno was originally to have sung the pb in "I've Got a Feelin' You lot're Foolin'" with other showgirls, but this ended up equally part of the "Beautiful Girl Montage" without her.[23]
  • In order to make the flick more "family friendly" and have the age rating of "One thousand," Production Lawmaking Assistants (PCA) pushed for costuming and delivery of lines to exist appropriate for women, where their bodies were clothed and dialogue was said in a less sexually offensive way.[ commendation needed ]

Scenes filmed but cut before release [edit]

  • Gene Kelly sang a reprise of "All I Practice Is Dream of Yous" later the political party at R.F. Simpson's house when Kelly chases afterwards Reynolds. The song, catastrophe in Kelly'south bedchamber, was cut from the release version after two previews, and the footage has been lost.[24]
  • Reynolds' solo rendition of "You Are My Lucky Star" (to a billboard showing an image of Lockwood) was cut after previews.[24] This number has survived and is included on the original soundtrack and DVD version of the film.[25] Information technology also was used in the retrospective picture That's Entertainment III.
  • In the steamy "Vamp Dance" segment of the "Broadway Melody Ballet" with Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly, reviewers from both the Product Code and the Catholic Church's Legion of Decency objected to a cursory, suggestive pose or movement between the dancers. Although at that place is no precise documentation of what or where it was, shut examination of footage toward the end of the dance shows an abrupt cutting when Charisse is wrapped effectually Kelly, indicating the probable location.[26]

Other notes [edit]

Reynolds' singing in two songs was dubbed by Betty Noyes, ane of them when Kathy is lip-synching for Lina Lamont, while her high notes and taps were dubbed in the entire film. The spoken dialog in the same scene was actually uttered by Hagen. Donen one time explained Reynolds' "mid-western" accent was thought inferior to Hagen's natural speaking voice for this i scene.[27]

In the sequence in which Factor Kelly dances and sings the title song while spinning an umbrella, splashing through puddles and getting soaked with pelting, Kelly was ill with a 103 °F (39 °C) fever.[28] [29] The water used in the scene caused Kelly's wool suit to shrink during filming.[30] A common myth is that Kelly managed to perform the entire vocal in 1 take, thanks to cameras placed at predetermined locations. However, this was non the example; filming the sequence took two to three days.[31] Another myth is that the rain was mixed with milk in order for the drops to evidence up meliorate on photographic camera; merely the desired visual effect was produced, albeit with difficulty, through backlighting.[32] [33]

Debbie Reynolds was not a dancer when she made Singin' in the Rain; her background was equally a gymnast.[25] Kelly plain insulted her for her lack of dance experience, upsetting her. In a subsequent encounter when Fred Astaire was in the studio, he found Reynolds crying nether a pianoforte. 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 however willing to talk to him afterwards. Afterward shooting the "Good Morning time" routine, which had taken from 8:00 a.m. until eleven:00 p.m. to shoot,[34] Reynolds' feet were bleeding.[25] Years later, she was quoted equally saying that "Singin' in the Rain and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to practice in my life."[35]

Donald O'Connor had to stay in bed in the infirmary for several days after filming the "Make 'Em Laugh" sequence.[31] [36]

Most of the costumes from this film were eventually acquired by Debbie Reynolds and held in her massive collection of original film costumes, sets, and props. Many of these items were sold at a 2011 auction in Hollywood. While almost items were sold to individual collectors, Donald O'Connor's green cheque "Fit As a Fiddle" suit and shoes were purchased by Costume Globe, Inc. They are at present on permanent display at the Costume World Broadway Collection Museum in Pompano Beach, Florida.[ citation needed ]

Reception [edit]

According to MGM records, during the pic's initial theatrical release, it fabricated $3,263,000 in the The states and Canada, and $2,367,000 internationally, earning the studio a profit of $666,000.[37] It was the tenth-highest-grossing movie of the twelvemonth in the U.s.a. and Canada.[38] [39]

Disquisitional response [edit]

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote: "Compounded generously of music, dance, color spectacle and a riotous affluence of Factor Kelly, Jean Hagen and Donald O'Connor on the screen, all elements in this rainbow program are carefully contrived and guaranteed to lift the dolors of winter and put y'all in a buttercup mood."[40] Multifariousness was also positive, writing: "Arthur Freed has produced another surefire grosser for Metro in Singin' in the Rain. Musical has pace, humor, and good spirits a-plenty, in a breezy, skillful-natured spoof at the picture manufacture itself ... Standout performances by Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor, especially the latter, enhance the film's pull."[41] Harrison's Reports called it "meridian-notch entertainment in every department – music, dancing, singing, staging and story".[42] Richard Fifty. Coe of The Washington Post called it "withal another fresh and breezy, colorful and funny musical" from Gene Kelly, adding, "Of the players there's not a dud in the lot, from Kelly's facile performing to the brief but electric dance appearance by Cyd Charisse, a slap-up partner for him."[43]

Pauline Kael, the long-time film critic for The New Yorker, said of the moving picture "This exuberant and malicious satire of Hollywood in the late twenties is perhaps the nearly enjoyable of picture musicals – just about the best Hollywood musical of all time."[44] Roger Ebert placed Singin' in the Rain on his Keen Movies list, calling the film "a transcendent experience, and no one who loves movies can afford to miss it."[45]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the motion-picture show has a perfect 100% blessing rating based on 64 reviews, with an boilerplate rating of 9.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Clever, incisive, and funny, Singin' In The Rain is a masterpiece of the classical Hollywood musical."[46] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 99 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[47] The film made each site'south list of best-rated films, ranked 46th on Rotten Tomatoes (as of 2021)[48] and ninth on Metacritic.[49]

Admiration in the film industry [edit]

Betty Comden and Adolph Green written report that when they met François Truffaut at a party in Paris, Truffaut was very excited to see the authors of Chantons sous la pluie. He told them that he had seen the film so many times that he knew it frame by frame, and that he and fellow manager and screenwriter Alain Resnais, among others, went to see information technology regularly at a small Parisian pic theatre where it sometimes ran for months at a time.[44]

Awards and honors [edit]

The film is recognized past the American Film Found in these lists:

  • 1998: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – #10[62]
  • 2000: AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – #xvi[63]
  • 2002: AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions – #16[64]
  • 2003: AFI'due south 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains:
    • Lina Lamont – Nominated Villain[65]
  • 2004: AFI'southward 100 Years...100 Songs:
    • "Singin' in the Rain" – #three[66]
    • "Make 'Em Laugh" – #49[66]
    • "Good Forenoon" – #72[66]
  • 2005: AFI'due south 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
    • Lina Lamont: "What practice they think I am, dumb or something? Why, I brand more coin than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!" – Nominated[67]
  • 2006: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals – #ane[68]
  • 2007: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (tenth Anniversary Edition) – #5[69]

In 1989, Singin' in the Rain was among the first 25 films chosen for the newly established National Picture Registry for films that are accounted "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" past the U.s.a. Library of Congress and selected for preservation.[56]

Singin' in the Rain has appeared twice on Sight & Sound 's list of the ten all-time films of all time, in 1982 and 2002. Its position in 1982 was at number 4 on the critics list; on the 2002 critics' list, information technology was listed as number x, and it tied for nineteen on the directors' list.[seventy] In 2008, Singin' in the Rain was placed on Empire'southward 500 Greatest Movies of All Time List, ranking at #8, the highest ranked G-rated movie on the list.[71]

Home media [edit]

The 40th Anniversary Edition VHS version released in 1992 includes a documentary, the original trailer, and Reynolds' solo rendition of "You lot Are My Lucky Star", which had been cut from the terminal flick.[72]

According to the audio commentary on the 2002 Special Edition DVD, the original negative was destroyed in a burn. Despite this, the film was digitally restored for its DVD release. A Blu-ray Ultimate Collector'south Edition was released in July 2012.

The digital version of the film is currently available to stream on HBO Max.[73]

Adaptations [edit]

Comic volume adaptation

  • Eastern Colour Pic Love #14 (April 1952)[74]

Stage adaptation
The Broadway musical Singin' in the Rain was adapted from the motion flick, and the plot of the stage version closely adheres to the original. Directed and choreographed by mail service-modern choreographer Twyla Tharp, the opening night bandage starred Don Correia as Don Lockwood, Mary D'Arcy as Kathy Selden, Richard Fancy as Roscoe Dexter, Faye Grant every bit Lina Lamont, and Peter Slutsker as Cosmo Brownish. The musical opened on July 2, 1985, at the Gershwin Theatre after 39 previews, and ran for 367 performances, endmost on May xviii, 1986.[75]

In popular civilization [edit]

  • Kelly'south hometown Pittsburgh Pirates games at PNC Park play the scene from the moving-picture show during rain delays.[76]
  • Gene Kelly's "Singin' in the Rain" sequence was one of the opening scenes of The Neat Moving-picture show Ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios.[77] Kelly approved his Audio-Animatronics likeness prior to its delivery to Florida.[78]
  • 1971 - In Stanley Kubrick's picture show "A Clockwork Orange" Alex (Malcolm McDowell) sings "Singin' in the Rain" during the home invasion and rape scene.
  • 1976 – In their 1976 Christmas special, the British one-act human activity Morecambe and Wise parodied the "Singin' in the Rain" sequence.[79]
  • 1983 – In the tv set special Paddington Goes to the Movies, the movie is mentioned at some points and Paddington performs a version of Cistron Kelly's famous trip the light fantastic from the moving picture.[80]
  • 1989 – In the Woody Allen motion picture Crimes and Misdemeanors, Cliff (Woody Allen) and Halley (Mia Farrow) picket Singin' in the Rain at Cliff's apartment. Cliff claims to scout the picture show "every few months to keep my spirits upwardly".
  • 2005 – The trip the light fantastic toe to the title song is parodied in the Monty Python Broadway musical Spamalot in the dance pause to "Always Look on the Vivid Side of Life", complete with tap-dancing knights spinning bright yellowish umbrellas effectually.[81]
  • 2005 – The "Singin' in the Pelting" sequence was featured in a Volkswagen Golf game commercial, with Gene Kelly seen suspension-dancing in the street. As well featured was Mint Royale's version of the vocal accompanying the commercial.
  • 2005 – A parody of the number "Singin' in the Rain" was featured in the 2005 blithe moving-picture show Robots where Fender (Robin Williams) breaks out singing and dancing after dropping off a appointment. Instead of 'rain' he says 'oil' to fit the motion-picture show's theme, and emulates Cistron Kelly's iconic swing on the lamppost.
  • 2006 - In the Family Guy episode Peterotica, Glen Quagmire starts telling sex jokes. Afterwards a few sexual activity jokes, he makes another and begins singing Make em' Laugh.
  • 2010 – Ii songs from the film were featured in "The Substitute", a flavour 2 episode of the musical comedy television series Glee.
  • 2012 – In the film Silver Linings Playbook, Jennifer Lawrence's character is inspired by a clip of Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly dancing to "Moses Supposes" from Singin' in the Rain.
  • 2013 – The anime curt Gisoku no Moses features a young female ghost dancing with a pair of haunted dance shoes to the tune of "Moses Supposes".[82]
  • 2015 – In the romantic drama pic Brooklyn, Tony Fiorello (Emory Cohen) takes Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) out on a date to see the motion picture. In the adjacent scene, he emulates Gene Kelly's iconic swing on the lamppost.[83]
  • 2015 – The scene in which Gene Kelly sings "You Were Meant for Me" is featured in the Nancy Meyers film The Intern.[84] Tropicana Products used this song in their commercial throughout 2015 adverting their orange juice.
  • 2016 – Singin' in the Rain was an inspiration for the musical film La La State, directed by Damien Chazelle.[85]
  • 2017 – The song "Good Morning" was featured in the Legends of Tomorrow season three episode "Telephone Home".[86]
  • 2019 – The video to the BTS song "Boy with Luv" heavily references "Singin' in the Rain.[87] [88]
  • 2022 –Million Dollar Legsby jazz punk ring, Hogchoker, was released on the 70thanniversary of Singing in the Rain as an homage to the moving-picture show and its dancer, Cyd Charisse. The opening line is, 'Information technology wasn't all singing, but it wasn't all rain'.

See too [edit]

  • Listing of films considered the best
  • Listing of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a film review assemblage website
  • List of films featuring fictional films

References [edit]

Informational notes

  1. ^ This scene pays homage to the original 1921 DeForest Phonofilm demonstration, featuring DeForest explaining the system.
  2. ^ This is a reference to a scene by John Gilbert in his first talkie, His Glorious Night.[ citation needed ]

Citations

  1. ^ a b "Singin' In The Pelting (1952)". The Numbers . Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  2. ^ Haley Jr., Jack: That'due south Entertainment!, Frank Sinatra segments. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1974
  3. ^ "ENTERTAINMENT: Motion-picture show Registry Picks First 25 Movies". Los Angeles Times. September 19, 1989. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
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Bibliography

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  • Hess, Earl J. & Dabholkar, Pratibha A. (2009). Singin' in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ISBN978-0-7006-1656-five.

Farther reading

  • Comden, Betty & Green, Adolph (1986). Singin' in the Rain. New York: Lorrimer Publishing. ISBN0-85647-116-X. OCLC 13125781.
  • Dirks, Tim. "FilmSite Review: Singin' in the Rain (1952)". Filmsite.org. AMC. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
  • Telek, Scott (November 11, 2007). "Speaking vs. Dancing in the Rain". Cinema de Merde . Retrieved Feb 14, 2016.
  • Wollen, Peter (1992). Singin' in the Rain. London: BFI Publishing. ISBN0-85170-351-8. OCLC 27108548.

External links [edit]

  • Singin' in the Rain at the American Film Establish Catalog
  • Singin' in the Pelting at IMDb
  • Singin' in the Pelting at the TCM Picture show Database
  • Singin' in the Rain at AllMovie
  • Singin' in the Rain at CinemaClassic (in French)
  • Singin' in the Rain at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Singin' in the Rain at Virtual History

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