The movie was only a moderate favorite when first launched, with just Donald O'Connor's win at the Golden Globe Honors, Betty Comden as well as Adolph Green's win for their movie script at the Writers Guild of America Honors, as well as Jean Hagen's election at the Academy Honors for Best Sustaining Starlet being the only significant recognitions it got. Nevertheless, it was accorded its famous condition by contemporary doubters. It is now often considered the most effective motion picture music ever made, [2] as well as the most effective movie ever before made in the "Arthur Freed Unit" at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It topped the AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals list, as well as is rated as the fifth biggest American movie of perpetuity in its updated checklist of the greatest American movies in 2007.
In 1989, the United States Collection of Congress selected the movie for preservation in the National Film Windows registry.
Don Lockwood (Kelly) is a preferred quiet film star with simple origins as a vocalist, dancer and also stuntman. Don hardly tolerates his vain, superficial leading female, Lina Lamont (Hagen), though their studio, Significant Images, connects them passionately to raise their popularity. Lina herself is convinced they remain in love, regardless of Don's protestations otherwise.
At the première of his latest movie, The Royal Rascal, Don tells the gathered crowd an exaggerated variation of his life tale, including his slogan: "Dignity, always dignity." His words are humorously contradicted by recalls along with his buddy Cosmo Brown (O'Connor).
Gene Kelly dance while singing the title track "Singin' in the Rainfall".
To leave from his followers after the opened, Don jumps into a passing automobile driven by Kathy Selden (Reynolds). She drops him off, but not before claiming to be a phase actress and sneering at his "undignified" achievements as a flick star. Later on, at a party, the head of Don's studio, R.F. Simpson (Millard Mitchell), reveals a short demo of a speaking photo, [a] but his visitors are unimpressed. To Don's amusement, Kathy bulges of a mock cake right before him, exposing herself to be a carolers girl. Furious at Don's teasing, she throws a real covered at him, only to strike Lina right in the face. She runs away. Don is smitten with her and searches for her for weeks. Lina tells him while shooting a love scene that she had Kathy fired. Don lastly finds Kathy working in another Huge Pictures manufacturing. She confesses to having actually been a fan of his the whole time.
After a competing studio has a huge favorite with its initial chatting photo, Allure Vocalist (1927), R.F. determines he has no choice yet to transform the following Lockwood and also Lamont movie, The Duelling Cavalier, into a talkie. The production is besieged with difficulties, however without a doubt the worst is Lina's grating voice as well as strong New york city accent. A frustrated diction train attempts to show her how you can speak appropriately, but to no avail. The Duelling Cavalier's examination screening is a calamity; the stars are barely audible thanks to the unpleasant positioning of the microphones, Don repeats the line "I enjoy you" to Lina over and also over, to the audience's derisive giggling, [b] and also in the center of the film, the noise goes out of synchronization, with humorous results.
Don, Kathy and also Cosmo come up with the suggestion to transform The Duelling Cavalier right into a musical called The Dancing Cavalier, total with a modern-day musical number called "Broadway Tune". However, they are puzzled concerning what to do regarding Lina's voice. Cosmo, motivated by a scene in The Duelling Cavalier where Lina's voice ran out sync, suggests they call Lina's voice with Kathy's. R.F. accepts the suggestion, yet has them not tell Lina concerning the dubbing. When Lina learns, she is exasperated. She comes to be even angrier when she discovers that R.F. means to provide Kathy a display credit rating and a huge publicity accumulation afterward. Lina threatens to file a claim against R.F. unless he gets Kathy to proceed functioning anonymous as Lina's voice. R.F. unwillingly accepts to her needs.
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