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Singin' In the Rain
Release date 1952
Country: USA
Running time: 100 minutes
Genre : Musical
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen


A silent movie star falls in love with a starlet in Hollywood in the days of the transition from silent movies to sound.

This is the greatest musical ever made.It is certainly the crowning achievement of the Arthur Freed unit at MGM, a production unit which revolutionised the film musical by integrating story and song so that one led logically to the other.It is fitting that producer Freed's finest film should showcase his music (he had began his career as a songwriter with his partner Nacio Herb Brown).Many of their songs had first appeared in early sound musicals such The Broadway Melody (1929) and Hollywood Revue of 1929.

The film is very authentic in its depiction of that time though no actress ever had quite as squeaky a voice as Lina Lamont. The title song had featured in other films including a rousing rendition by Judy Garland in Little Nellie Kelly (1940) but it was Gene Kelly's performance of it which really turned it into an immortal hit. Kelly was perfect as the silent film star on the skids, Donald O'Connor's comedy and dancing talents were used properly for once particularly in the Make Em Laugh number. Debbie Reynolds was supposedly Louis B. Mayer's own choice to star opposite Kelly. In the Broadway Ballet number Kelly was joined by Cyd Charisse displaying her extraordinary legs. The directorial partnership of Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen had already had a big success with On the Town (1949) but hit the jackpot here, rarely in Hollywood's history was there a more entertaining 100 minutes. 

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