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The premiere of The Dancing Cavalier is a success, but when the audience clamors for Lina to sing live, Don, Cosmo, and R. F. tell her to lip sync into a microphone while Kathy, concealed behind the curtain, sings into a second microphone. While Lina is "singing" ("Singin' in the Rain Reprise"), the men raise the curtain, revealing the ruse.
1971 – "Singin' in the Rain" is sung mockingly by Alex DeLarge, played by Malcolm McDowell, in the rape scene in Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange. The Gene Kelly version plays during the end credits. [28] 1976 – In their 1976 Christmas special, the British comedy act Morecambe and Wise parodied the "Singin' in the Rain" sequence. [29]
Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American musician and actor. He enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929.
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]
Rachael Elizabeth Beck (born 2 September 1971) is an Australian stage and television singer-actress. From 1991 to 1994 Beck had a major role on the popular sitcom, Hey Dad..! , as Samantha Kelly. From 2006 to 2008, Beck appeared on all three seasons of Seven Network 's celebrity singing competition It Takes Two , as a singing coach successively ...
Singin' in the Rain is a stage musical with story by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, lyrics by Arthur Freed, and music by Nacio Herb Brown. Adapted from the 1952 movie of the same name , the plot closely adheres to the original.
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Melanie was born and raised in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York City.Her father, Frederick M. Safka (1924–2009), was of Russian–Ukrainian ancestry, [5] [6] and her mother, jazz singer Pauline "Polly" Altomare (1926–2003), was of Italian heritage.