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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]
1986 – In the film Legal Eagles, Robert Redford "sings in the rain" watching the movie on TV during a sleepless night. 1989 – In the Woody Allen film Crimes and Misdemeanors, Cliff (Allen) and Halley watch Singin' in the Rain at Cliff's apartment. Cliff claims to watch the film "every few months to keep my spirits up".
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.
Movie legends in the making. While a host of truly major movies will become public in the coming decade, for now early works by major figures from the not-always-stellar early sound era will have to suffice. A decade before he would move to Hollywood and make films like “Psycho,” and “Vertigo,” Alfred Hitchcock made “Blackmail” in ...
THE COUNTDOWN: Louis Chilton, Annabel Nugent, Adam White and Maira Butt select 25 of the most unduly celebrated films ever made
The robin Mary Poppins whistles with in "A Spoonful of Sugar" originally sang a lyric as well. Andrews also recorded a brief yodel which breaks into the first line of "A Spoonful of Sugar" which was to have been used to "activate" the smoke staircase prior to the "Step in Time" number. Although cut from the film, footage of Andrews performing ...
Robin Thomas, who played Kalabar, told Bustle in 2018 that he lost his voice filming the scene where his character yells from the balcony of City Hall. "I remember that they didn't put a body mic ...
"Make 'Em Laugh" is a song first featured in the 1952 MGM musical film Singin' in the Rain, performed by Donald O'Connor as the character Cosmo Brown. Written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown , [ 1 ] the song is closely based on Cole Porter 's " Be a Clown " from the Freed-produced 1948 MGM musical film The Pirate , in which it was sung by ...