Singin' in the Rain

"What a Glorious Feeling!"

1952 1h 43m EN

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★8.1TMDB · 3,635🍅100%Rotten Tomatoes●99Metacritic★8.3IMDB · 282,203

ComedyRomance

Synopsis

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In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

“What a Glorious Feeling!”

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Cast

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

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Stanley Donen
Writers: Adolph Green, Adolph Green, Betty Comden
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Shot for just $2.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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2 / 8

ERA

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74 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

CAST

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229+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Directed by Stanley Donen, shot by Harold Rosson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Adrienne Fazan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

ERA

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Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "What a Glorious Feeling!".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0045152 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Stanley Donen directs. Harold Rosson behind the camera. Adrienne Fazan cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $2.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
274 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3229+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
4Directed by Stanley Donen, shot by Harold Rosson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Editor Adrienne Fazan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "What a Glorious Feeling!".
8IMDB entry: tt0045152 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9The top-rated still from this film on TMDB has 6 community votes — a signal the frame composition stuck with viewers.
10Classified under 21 themes, including "fan", "musical", "partner", "film in film".
11Released under 16 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Harold Rosson
Editing: Adrienne Fazan
Costume design: Walter Plunkett
Makeup / hair: William Tuttle
Runtime: 103 min · 1h 43m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $2,540,800
Box office: $7,200,000
Return: 283% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): G
IMDB: Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes: 100% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 99/100
IMDB rating: 8.3/10 · 282,203 votes
MPAA: G

Awards

Nominated for 2 Oscars. 11 wins & 11 nominations total

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

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Andres Gomez2013-09-10
★ 10/10
Just a masterpiece mixing an interesting background story, great script with good humor, exceptional singers and dancers and a Gene Kelly that is just genial, well sided with Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds. A must to be seen.
John Chard2017-02-08
★ 10/10
I'm happy again! Singing In The Rain is to me the greatest musical ever made, sure many others push it close, The Wizard Of Oz for one will always be a 10/10 movie in my opinion, but Singing In The Rain is a film that has no flaws, it is a perfect movie. Don Lockwood is a star of silent movies but his life is boring, then talking movies arrive and with them he eyes an opportunity to greatly improve his life. A chance encounter with dancer Kathy Selden will further shape his destiny, and along with best pal and partner Cosmo Brown, their respective fortunes will hopefully dovetail towards fulfillment. Where do you start? The film is a homage to happiness, be it film making or love, or friendships and honour, the film is pure and simply joyous from the first reel to the triumphant last shot. Featuring stunning choreography, Singing In The Rain doesn't cop out by merely having characters plodding thru a script and then bursting into song occasionally, each song furthers the characters and fleshes out the story unfolding to keep the plot lines tight and crucially, important. Make 'Em Laugh, Good Morning, and Singing In The Rain are just some of the brilliant songs and dance routines on show here, with the latter a now legendary piece of cinematic history that speaks volumes for the joyous nature of the film, whilst the finale sequence of the 'Broadway Ballet' is magic & elegance personified. The cast are uniformly excellent, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor & Debbie Reynolds interplay together like they were hatched from the same egg, and the joint direction from Stanley Donen (along with Kelly) is seamless. Full of hat tipping and self-referencing winks, Singing In The Rain regularly hits the top ten lists of critics and movie fans alike, so lets not beat around the bush about it...it flipping well deserves it. 10/10 in every respect.
r96sk2021-02-28
★ 5/10
I'm clearly in the major, major minority. Honestly though, I didn't enjoy this. It's certainly worth noting musicals are probably my least favourite genre, but I'm still more than capable of finding entertainment with them - e.g. 'The Greatest Showman', 'The Sound of Music' and others. 'Singin’ in the Rain', however, simply didn't connect with me. There's one, maybe two, good songs that I had already heard, while Gene Kelly (Don) is solid fun in the lead role. The premise, minus the music, is actually very interesting, what with the silent film transition era. Given it's a musical, though, they don't delve as deep into that as I wanted. None of the songs, aside from the previously alluded to "Singin' in the Rain", landed well with me, I kinda found them a chore to sit through to be frank. Elsewhere on the cast, aside from Kelly, I found Debbie Reynolds (Kathy) alright but Donald O'Connor (Cosmo) a little irritating - he tries too hard, for my liking. Jean Hagen (Lina) is likewise a tad annoying, though that's intentional with her to be fair. I will acknowledge that the film, aesthetically, looks excellent. I wish I liked it more overall, but I just didn't. Do feel free to ignore me!