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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, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, and featuring Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Rita Moreno and Cyd Charisse in supporting roles.
Instead of 'rain' he says 'oil' to fit the film's theme, and emulates Gene Kelly's iconic swinging on the lamppost. 2005 – The "Singin' in the Rain" sequence was featured in a Volkswagen Golf commercial, with Gene Kelly seen breakdancing in the street. Also featured was Mint Royale's version of the song accompanying the commercial.
Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, and Gene Kelly from a lobby card for Singin' in the Rain. The following year, Singin' in the Rain featured Kelly's celebrated and much imitated solo dance routine to the title song, along with the "Moses Supposes" routine with Donald O'Connor and the "Broadway Melody" finale with Cyd Charisse.
Singin’ in the Rain is considered a cinema classic, due in part to Gene Kelly’s iconic song and dance performance of the movie’s titular musical number. And 70 years later, imagery from the ...
According to Kelly, Singin' in the Rain's exalted place in pop culture never failed to surprise her late husband, as well as his co-stars Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, who passed away in ...
Patricia Ward Kelly, married to the late, legendary dancer and filmmaker, tells IndieWire he’d find today’s musicals “going backwards a bit.”
The original soundtrack to the 1952 film Singin' in the Rain was released by MGM Records in the same year in three formats: as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm shellac records, as a set of four 7-inch EPs, and as a 10-inch long-play record. [2] [3] It contained songs performed by Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds. [2]
Jean Hagen (born Jean Shirley Verhagen; [a] August 3, 1923 – August 29, 1977) was an American actress best known for her role as Doll Conovan in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and as Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.