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Synopsis
Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the Toast of Tinseltown. While Lockwood and Lamont personify smoldering passions on screen, in real life the down-to-earth Lockwood can't stand the egotistical, brainless Lina. He prefers the company of aspiring actress Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), whom he met while escaping his screaming fans. Watching these intrigues from the sidelines is Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor), Don's best pal and on-set pianist. Cosmo is promoted to musical director of Monumental Pictures by studio head R. F. Simpson (Millard Mitchell) when the talking-picture revolution commences. That's all right for Cosmo, but how will talkies affect the upcoming Lockwood-Lamont vehicle "The Dueling Cavalier"? Don, an accomplished song-and-dance man, should have no trouble adapting to the microphone. Lina, however, is another matter: put as charitably as possible, she has a voice that sounds like fingernails on the blackboard. The disastrous preview of the team's first talkie has the audience howling with derisive laughter. On the strength of the plot alone, concocted by the matchless writing team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Singin' in the Rain is a delight. But with the addition of MGM's catalog of Arthur Freed-Nacio Herb Brown songs -- You Were Meant for Me, You Are My Lucky Star, The Broadway Melody, and of course the title song -- the film becomes one of the greatest Hollywood musicals ever made. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Madge Blake Dora Bailey
Cyd Charisse Dancer in the Fantasy Sequence
Jean Hagen Lina Lamont
Millard Mitchell R. F. Simpson
Millard Mitchell R.F. Simpson
Rita Moreno Zelda Zanders
Donald O'Connor Cosmo Brown
Debbie Reynolds Kathy Selden
Douglas Fowley Roscoe Dexter
Gene Kelly Don Lockwood

Production Crew

Cedric Gibbons Art Director
Randall Duell Art Director
Harold Hal Rosson Cinematographer
Arthur Freed Composer (Music Score)
Lennie Hayton Composer (Music Score)
Nacio Herb Brown Composer (Music Score)
Walter Plunkett Costume Designer
Gene Kelly Director
Stanley Donen Director
Adrienne Fazan Editor
Lennie Hayton Musical Direction/Supervision
Arthur Freed Producer
Adolph Green Screenwriter
Betty Comden Screenwriter
Edwin B. Willis Set Designer
Jacque Mapes Set Designer
Adolph Green Songwriter
Al Goodhart Songwriter
Betty Comden Songwriter
Fred Brown Songwriter
Hoffman Songwriter
Roger Edens Songwriter
Irving G. Ries Special Effects
Warren Newcombe Special Effects
Year: 1952
Runtime: 103
Country: USA
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature

Genre
Comedy
Musical

Produced by
MGM

Awards
1952 - Best Film - New York Film Critics Circle
1952 - Best Picture - National Board of Review
1952 - Best Picture - Musical or Comedy - Golden Globe
1952 - Best Film - Any Source - British Academy of Film and Television
1952 - Best Film - Any Source - British Academy of Film and Television
1952 - Best Picture - Musical or Comedy - Hollywood Foreign Press Association
1988 - U.S. National Film Registry - Library of Congress
1998 - 100 Greatest American Movies - American Film Institute
2002 - Film Presented - Telluride Film Festival