Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain is an American musical film by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen from 1952 starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds . The film tells of a historical point in film history; the transition from silent film to sound film.

The film is not only as possible the best musical film ever seen, but it is also invariably included in several lists of best movies ever. Despite all these awards the film won no Oscar, possibly because Gene Kelly the year before with even a MGM-musical (An American in Paris) had won six Oscars. Have brought the film in his first year at checkout all three times the production costs within.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The story is about the established star Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), who with great success one after another silent film release, according to a set pattern ("If you have seen one, you have seen them all"). In the media they are portrayed as love couple, something that does not correspond to the reality, but nevertheless still like believed to be by Lina. On the other hand, Don brings his time outside the studio almost exclusively by with his best friend Cosmo Brown and later also with his new girlfriend Kathy Selden.
 * 2 Cast
 * Scenario 3
 * 4 Actors
 * 5 Recordings
 * 6 Music
 * 7 Prices
 * 8 external link
 * 9 Sources

The advent of sound film upsets the fixed pattern of filmmaking and the film industry needs to adapt. The then in production being The Duelling Cavalier is converted into a sound film, but the sound recordings turn out disastrous bad, mostly because of Lina Lamont who does everything wrong what to do. A preview is disaster.

Don Lockwood and his friend get to synchronize the sound after the RAID and a musical out of it, which is sung by the voice of Lina Lamont Dons girlfriend Kathy Selden.The plan is to do this for one movie, as an emergency to save the existing production. Afterwards, will be a new star Kathy and Lina be drained. If Lina here find out it shall withdraw its own plan, which must save her career. Her plan works, but this increases her success to the head and they forget themselves: during the successful premiere of the dubbed The Dancing Cavalier she offers her opponents an opportunity to put the foot to cross her. Is gratefully seized upon this opportunity, after which Don and Kathy happily ever after movies can go make. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Scenario[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The original contract for the film was to create a vehicle for the songs that Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed from 1929 for the first musicals of the MGM. There followed the decision to include the film than but to play during that period. The screenwriters of the movie Betty Comden and Adolph Green had bought a House that originally belonged to a star from the era of the silent movie era. The man had lost his fortune when the sound film to his career. This gave Comden and Green the inspiration for the screenplay. Originally the scenario are based on an actor who played in westerns and was confronted with the sound film. This was later changed to an actor with a vaudeville background.
 * Gene Kelly: Don Lockwood
 * Debbie Reynolds: Kathy Selden
 * Donald O'Connor: Cosmo Brown
 * Jean Hagen: Lina Lamont

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The writing duo began to collect anecdotes and stories from the days when the silent film was ousted by the sound film. Costume designer Walter Plunkett explained that Bebe Daniels during the recordings of Rio Rita (1929) with her range on the arm of her opponent John Boles tapped. The still primitive recording equipment gave the innocent taps again as timpani strokes. This anecdote was by Comden and Green in the movie taken over as Lina Lamont during the recordings of The Duelling Cavalier with her range against the arm of Don Lockwood strikes. Also the experiences of actor John Gilbert were used. Gilbert was a star from the era of the silent movie era. Although his voice was definitely appropriate for the sound film he was teased by the sound engineers that were unfolding quickly his voice. In doing so, he gave up a scenario with overly flowery phrases, directly from the written maps of the silent film were. Comden and Green used these experiences for Don Lockwood who ridicules immortal by his text from the silent film to use and for bear as if it's going to be a play. In the scenario diving all sorts of parodies of famous actors and actresses from the silent film on the character Zelda Zanders based on is. Clara Bow. Bow was known as the "It Girl", while Z "Zip Girl" is. In the scene where the studio Director, R.F. Simpson, introduces the new gadget of the sound film we see actress Olga Mara and her husband Baron de la Ma de la Toulon. Mara is inspired by actressPola Negri and the baron is a persiflage on the Marquis Henri de La Falaise de Coudray, the husband of actress Gloria Swanson. The character R.F. Simpson is in turn based on Louis b. Mayer and producer Arthur Freed. Journalist Louella Parsons wrote a gossip column about Hollywood star is present as Dora Bailey, while Director Erich von Stroheim as Roscoe Dexter is performed.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The screenwriters names the song "Singin'in the Rain" as a starting point. It was the sixth time that "Singin' in the Rain" was staged in a Hollywood movie. After the introduction in "The Hollywood Revue of 1929" it came for in Babes in Arms (1939, Speak Easily from 1932, Little Nellie Kelly (1940) and in 1948 the Babe Ruth Story . In the final scenario Gene Kelly sings and dances the song in the world famous scene where he dances in the rain. In the original scenario would be sung by Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor after the flop of The Duelling Cavalier. Also You Are My Lucky Star got another execution. Originally Debbie Reynolds singing the song at a movie poster with the portrait of Don Lockwood. ==Actors<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">As with any major Hollywood movie gave the choice of the actors in the film the necessary headaches. Initially it was chosen for the role of Howard Throat Don Lockwood. But that was in the phase of the project that Lockwood was still a star from westerns. When the perspective shifted to a replaced Gene Kelly vaudeville Throat-background of Lockwood. Kelly interfered in turn with the auditions for the role of Kathy Selden. Judy Garlandwere earlier. Kathryn Grayson, Jane Powell, Leslie Caron, and June Allyson considered but found to be too old. Kelly and Stanley Donen have always full held that Reynolds was their first choice.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Actor, singer, and pianist Oscar Levant was initially the choice of the producers for the role of Cosmo Brown. The screenwriters had the role of Cosmo is at Levant geschreve. Finally saw Levant of the Donald O'Connor role and became attracted.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Judy Holliday had good paper for the role of Lina Lamont. Comden and Green had written the role with Holliday in mind. The actress was a good friend of the duo and they used a lot of material from the time they cooperated with Holliday in the theatrical group The Revuers. However, scored a hit with the original production when Holliday Born Yesterday was her role as Lina Lamont of the course. The actress Jean Hagen moved forward, her understudy for Born Yesterday. Lamont's character was based on actress Norma Talmadge that the transition from silent film to sound film couldn't make. Hagen did an improvisation, in which they performed the shrill voice of Lamont. Since they actually had a very beautiful voice, the contrast was so great that they got the role

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Cyd Charisse broke up with her relatively small role as gangster girl by in the Hollywood world. To Singin' in the Rain was to see them mainly as a dancer. MGM was so excited that they gave her a large role opposite Fred Astaire in The Band Wagon. ==Recordings<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Singin' in the Rain was a showplace of MGM. There was a large budget, that was exceeded and eventually came out on 2.540.800 dollars. Walter Plunkett's costumes alone came out on $ 665,000,-. Directed byGene Kelly and Stanley Donen, the film, despite the old familiar songs, correct its own character: the established songs were performed in an innovative way, which of course especially gold for the title song, which became world famous by the very fine performance in this film by Gene Kelly. The film is made at a dizzying pace, with a slight undertone of irony, and radiates energy. The story is only really quiet in the big song-and-dance number by the end of the film: for the rest, the showmanship at the service of the story. So Donald O'Connor brings his experience as a vaudeville artist in, resulting in an almost at breakneck number that contributes to the pace of the film (a number for which a new song was improvised). Other than Donald O'Connor does Gene Kelly not his own breakneck stunts; though he did the choreography for the dance numbers.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Kelly was not an easy Director/choreographer. Donald O'Connor was the first weeks of the shooting terrified of him. Every mistake he made was by Kelly punished with a swear cannonade. Kelly demanded a lot of his actors and dancers, working days 11 hours were no exception. Debbie Reynolds who still lived at home and came by bus every day, often slept in the studios in order to avoid the long journey by bus. They also did not easy with Kelly. The Director was disappointed that Reynolds was no real dancer (she had a background as a gymnast). He insulted her on set and screeching made comments about her dancing skills. Also replace his choreography he considered Reynolds-Assistant Carol Haney. About her touring through all the insults clogged Reynolds is behind a piano where she was found by Fred Astaire . Astaire offered Reynolds to her to help with the dancing. Reynolds did her very best and sometimes even more than that. at the end of the recordings of Good Morning (with a rich tapnummer) they had to be worn with bleeding feet from the set. Later she would declare that it bear a child and making Singin' in the Rain were the most difficult experiences of her life.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Donald O'Connor also gave itself for one hundred per cent, when Gene Kelly asked him to repeat an old trick he had performed as a young dancer, O'Connor had to swallow some. What Kelly wanted was that O'Connor during the song Make Em Laugh against the wall on ran and then made a complete somersault. That was already a challenge when he was young, but now he ran against the thirty and smoked four packs of cigarettes a day. The stunt was so exhaustive that O'Connor remained after a week in bed. After the recordings of the stunt by an error in developing unusable bleaching, repeated O'Connor the stunt without complaining.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Gene Kelly was also hard for themselves. Before the recordings started Singin' in the Rain was the singer's sick to death. He had 39.4 degrees fever and Stanley Donen insisted that Kelly was going home. The number required the full engagement of Kelly as a dancer. Kelly who spent a lot of time in the preparation had stabbed, refused to go home. He started on the recordings and are largely improvised dance steps in the rain. However, he was becoming sicker and Donen had barely time to appropriate camera settings to put down. There is debate about whether the whole scene in one afternoon was recorded or that it took several days to include everything. According to Donen and Kelly was there simply no more time than that one afternoon. The rain that falls during the recording is so richly water mixed with a little milk to the splashing water perception. Apart from a better effect caused the mixture also an unwanted by-product. The wool Pack of Gene Kelly began to shrink.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The story of Singin' in the Rain runs in fact to an actress, Lina Lamont, who with such a shrill voice talk, that her voting in the dubbing is replaced by the voice of talented Kathy Selden. The remarkable thing is that Jean Hagen who plays the role of Lina Lamont just had a beautiful voice. In the final scene where Debbie Reynolds as Kathy Selden behind the curtain should stand up to Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) with a beautiful voice, we hear right Jean Hagen instead of Debbie Reynolds. Also it is not Debbie Reynolds that we hear singing in the songs Would You? and You are My Lucky Star, but singer Betty Noyes. Reynolds was also not good enough found in tap dance numbers. While they with bleeding feet was drained by the recordings of Good Morning Gene Kelly was already working to replace the sound at the tapnummers. Kelly worked with two Assistant choreographers: Carol Haney and Gwen Verdon. They were responsible for the tap dance sounds of Gene Kelly dance number in the post production of Singin' in the Rain. Kelly left Haney and Vernon up to their ankles in a barrel full of water so as to synchronize the tap dancing in water after. Self did Kelly post production of Good Morning where he both tap dance steps from Reynolds as his own self indubte. ==Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Most songs from Singin' in the Rain date from 1929-1939 and were written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown. They were used in several MGM movie musicals in that period. Freed, meanwhile, moved up to producer and head of the so-called Freed Unit, was responsible for the great MGM musicals. It was his idea to reuse the old songs in a new film musical. The screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green wrote the text for a new song: Moses Supposes, that was put on music by Roger Edens. Another new song was Make Em Laugh by Arthur Freed. But this song quickly became seen as plagiarism on the number Be a Clown by Cole Porter. In the film, the following songs used (music and lyrics by Arthur Freed and Nascio Herb Brown, unless otherwise stated):

==Prices<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jean Hagen was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Actress in a supporting actress, the film received a nomination for the best original film music. Donald o' Connor won a Golden Globe for his role as Cosmo Brown. ==External link<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Sources<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Fit as a Fiddle (And Ready for Love), from the film College Coach (1933) [(hang and lyrics: Al Hoffman and Al Goodhart)
 * Temptation, from the movie: Going Hollywood (1933)
 * All I Do Is Dream of You, from the movie: Sadie McKee (1934)
 * Singin' in the Rain, from the movie: Hollywood Revue Of 1929 (1929)
 * Make 'em Laugh
 * Beautiful Girl: I Got a Feelin' you're Foolin' with medley from the movie: Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), The Wedding of the Painted Doll "from the movie: The Broadway Melody (1929) and Should I? from the movie: Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)
 * Beautiful Girl, from the film Going Hollywood (1933)
 * You Were Meant for Me, from the film: The Broadway Melody (1929)
 * You Are My Lucky Star, from the movie: Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
 * Moses Supposes (music: Roger Edens, Comden and Green text:)
 * Good Morning, from the movie: Babes In Arms (1939)
 * Would You?, from the movie: San Francisco (1936)
 * Broadway Melody Ballet, composed of The Broadway Melody from the movie: The Broadway Melody (1929) and Broadway Rhythm from the movie: Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) (music by Nacio Herb Brown and Lennie Hayton
 * Overview on Rotten Tomatoes: only positive reviews
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 * Betty Comden "Off Stage, a memoir", 1995
 * Jane Feuer, "The Hollywood Musical" 1993
 * Earl j. Hess & Pratibha Dabholkar, "Singin' in the Rain: The Making of an American masterpiece", 2009.
 * Gerald Mast, "Can't help singin', the American musical on stage and screen", 1987
 * Debbie Reynolds (and David Patrick Columbia), "Debbie: My Life", 1988
 * Alice m. Robinson, "Betty Comden and Adolph Green: A bio-bibliography, 1993
 * Tony Thomas "The Films of Gene Kelly: Song & Dance Man", 1974.
 * Patricia Ward Kelly, "life's Too Short: A Story of Gene Kelly", 2002