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 | ||
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Don Lockwood
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Gene Kelly | |
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Cosmo Brown
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Donald O'Connor | |
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Kathy Selden
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Debbie Reynolds | |
Jean Hagen (ADR scene)[N 2] | |||
Betty Noyes (singing)[N 1] | |||
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Lina Lamont
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Jean Hagen | |
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R. F. Simpson
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Millard Mitchell | |
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Roscoe Dexter
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Douglas Fowley | |
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Zelda Zanders
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Rita Moreno |
Music[]
Song | Singer(s) | ||
Main Title
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Gene Kelly | ||
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Donald O'Connor | |||
Debbie Reynolds | |||
Fit as a Fiddle
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Gene Kelly | ||
Donald O'Connor | |||
All I Do Is Dream of You
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Debbie Reynolds | ||
Chorus | |||
Make 'em Laugh
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Donald O'Connor | ||
Medley
(I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin, The Wedding of the Painted Doll, Should I?) |
Chorus | ||
Beautiful Girl
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Jimmy Thompson | ||
You Were Meant for Me
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Gene Kelly | ||
Moses Supposes
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Gene Kelly | ||
Donald O'Connor | |||
Good Morning
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Gene Kelly | ||
Donald O'Connor | |||
Debbie Reynolds | |||
Singin' in the Rain
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Gene Kelly | ||
Would You?
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Betty Noyes | ||
Broadway Melody
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Gene Kelly | ||
Singin in the Rain (in A-Flat)
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Debbie Reynolds | ||
You Are My Lucky Star
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Gene Kelly | ||
Betty Noyes |
International versions[]
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Catalan | Cantant sota la pluja |
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Czech (Československá televize Brno, filmové vysílání) |
Zpívání v dešti |
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Czech (Studio Fontána) |
Zpívání v dešti |
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Czech (S Pro Alfa) |
Zpívání v dešti |
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French | Chantons sous la pluie |
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German | Du sollst mein Glücksstern sein Singin' in the Rain |
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Hungarian | Ének az esőben |
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Italian | Cantando sotto la pioggia |
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Japanese (first dub) |
雨に唄えば |
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Japanese (Omnibus Promotion) |
雨に唄えば |
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Japanese (World Picture Co., Ltd.) |
雨に唄えば |
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Portuguese (Brazil) | Cantando na Chuva |
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Slovak | Spievanie v daždi |
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Spanish (Latin America) | Cantando bajo la lluvia |
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Spanish (Spain) (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) |
Cantando bajo la lluvia |
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Spanish (Spain) (Balcázar) |
Cantando bajo la lluvia |
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Turkish | Yağmur Altında |