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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. It stars Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds, with Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, and Rita Moreno playing supporting roles. It depicts Hollywood in the late 1920s in a lighthearted manner, with the three stars playing performers caught up in the transition from silent films to "talkies".

When it first came out, the film was a minor success. O'Connor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Betty Comden and Adolph Green won the Writers Guild of America Award for their screenplay, in addition Jean Hagen and Lennie Hayton were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Scoring of a Musical Picture, respectively.

However, it is now widely recognized as the greatest musical picture ever made, one of the greatest films ever made, and the best film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Freed Unit". It topped the AFI's best Movie Musicals list and was selected as the fifth-best American motion picture of all time on its 2007 updated list of the greatest American films, up from tenth place on the original 1998 list. Singin' in the Rain was one of the first 25 films chosen by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 1989. In 2005, the British Film Institute listed it as one of the 50 films that children should see before the age of 14. In 2008, Empire magazine named it the eighth-best picture of all time. Singin' in the Rain ranked 10th on Sight & Sound magazine's 2022 list of the greatest films of all time. Previously, it was placed fourth in 1982 and tenth in 2002.

Cast[]

Character Actor
Don Lockwood (Singin in the Rain)
Don Lockwood
Gene Kelly
Cosmo Brown (Singin in the Rain)
Cosmo Brown
Donald O'Connor
Kathy Selden (Singin in the Rain)
Kathy Selden
Debbie Reynolds
Jean Hagen (ADR scene)[N 2]
Betty Noyes (singing)[N 1]
Lina Lamont (Singin in the Rain)
Lina Lamont
Jean Hagen
R. F. Simpson (Singin in the Rain)
R. F. Simpson
Millard Mitchell
Roscoe Dexter (Singin in the Rain)
Roscoe Dexter
Douglas Fowley
Zelda Zanders (Singin in the Rain)
Zelda Zanders
Rita Moreno

Music[]

Song Singer(s)
Main Title
Gene Kelly
Donald O'Connor
Debbie Reynolds
Fit as a Fiddle
Gene Kelly
Donald O'Connor
All I Do Is Dream of You
Debbie Reynolds
Chorus
Make 'em Laugh
Donald O'Connor
Medley
(I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin, The Wedding of the Painted Doll, Should I?)
Chorus
Beautiful Girl
Jimmy Thompson
You Were Meant for Me
Gene Kelly
Moses Supposes
Gene Kelly
Donald O'Connor
Good Morning
Gene Kelly
Donald O'Connor
Debbie Reynolds
Singin' in the Rain
Gene Kelly
Would You?
Betty Noyes
Broadway Melody
Gene Kelly
Singin in the Rain (in A-Flat)
Debbie Reynolds
You Are My Lucky Star
Gene Kelly
Betty Noyes

International versions[]

Language Title
Singin in the Rain - logo (English) Polish Deszczowa piosenka
Singin in the Rain - logo (English) Russian
(R5)
Поющие под дождём
Singin in the Rain - logo (English) Russian
(SomeWax)
Поющие под дождём
Singin in the Rain - logo (English) Russian
(DVD Magic)
Поющие под дождём
Singin in the Rain - logo (English) Ukrainian
(1+1)
Співаючи під дощем

Notes[]

  1. Singing voice in two songs
  2. In the looping sequence, Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds) is seen dubbing the dialogue for Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) because Lina's voice is shrill and screechy. However, it's Jean Hagen herself, who actually had a beautiful deep, rich voice.
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