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Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain
Singing in the rain poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Produced by Arthur Freed
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Betty Comden
  • Adolph Green
Starring
Music by Lennie Hayton (original score)
Songs:
Nacio Herb Brown (music)
Arthur Freed (lyrics)
Cinematography Harold Rosson
Edited by Adrienne Fazan
Production
company
Distributed by Loew's Inc.
Release date
Running time
103 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $2.5 million
Box office $12.4 million

Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds. 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."

The film was only a modest hit when first released. Donald 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. But it has since been accorded legendary status by contemporary critics, and is frequently regarded as the best movie musical ever made, and the best film ever made in the "Freed Unit" at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 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. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry.


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