Weeks later, Don is still smitten with Kathy and has been searching for her, with Cosmo trying to cheer him up (" Make 'Em Laugh"). Kathy runs away before Don can catch up with her. Furious at Don's teasing, she throws a cake at him, accidentally hitting Lina. To Don's amusement, Kathy pops out of a mock cake, revealing herself to be a chorus girl ("All I Do is Dream of You"). His guests are unimpressed, believing it will never amount to anything. Simpson, shows a short demonstration of the newfound talking picture. Later, at an after-party, Monumental Pictures head R.
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Kathy, who claims to be a theater actress, drops him off, but not before deriding his accomplishments as a movie star. At a red-carpet interview, Don relates the story of his rise to stardom, though his words are contradicted by flashbacks showing his humble roots as a hoofer, Vaudeville musician and stuntman, alongside his best friend from boyhood Cosmo Brown ("Fit as a Fiddle").Īfter the premiere, Don escapes rabid fans by jumping into a passing car driven by Kathy Selden.
Lina is convinced that they truly are in love, despite Don's protestations otherwise. Though Don can barely tolerate Lina, their studio, Monumental Pictures, links them romantically to increase publicity. In 1927, popular silent film stars Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont attend the premiere of their latest film The Royal Rascal. In Sight & Sound magazine's 2022 list of the greatest films of all time, Singin' in the Rain placed 10th. In 2008, Empire magazine ranked it as the eighth-best film of all time. In 2005, the British Film Institute included it in its list of the 50 films to be seen by the age of 14. In 1989, Singin' in the Rain was one of the first 25 films selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It topped the AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals list and is ranked as the fifth-greatest American motion picture of all time in its updated list of the greatest American films in 2007. However, it has since been accorded legendary status by contemporary critics, and is often regarded as the greatest musical film ever made and one of the greatest films ever made, as well as the greatest film made in the " Freed Unit" at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. O'Connor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green won the Writers Guild of America Award for their screenplay, while Jean Hagen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
The film was only a modest hit when it was first released. It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to " talkies". 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 and Cyd Charisse.
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