Where to watch Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Singin' in the Rain is available to stream in US on HBO Max, HBO and YouTube TV. It can also be rented or bought from Amazon and AppleTV.
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent-film star and his longtime screen partner must adapt to talking pictures while a chorus girl enters his life. As the studio struggles with new technology and changing audience expectations, their careers and relationships are tested through comic mishaps, romance, music, and dance.
Cast: Donald O'Connor, Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse, Douglas Fowley, Rita Moreno, Mae Clarke, Bess Flowers, Robert Foulk, Kathleen Freeman
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Trivia & production notes
- Betty Comden and Adolph Green initially refused to write the film, believing their contract exempted them from working on projects unless the score was by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, or Rodgers and Hammerstein, but their new agent discovered the clause was fabricated by their previous representative.
- Gene Kelly was unavailable to start work immediately because he was co-choreographing and starring in An American in Paris when the script was first developed.
- Comden and Green considered abandoning the project and returning their advance to MGM until Betty Comden's husband suggested they combine their three separate opening ideas into one scene.
- The song Make 'Em Laugh replaced The Wedding of the Painted Doll shortly before shooting began and bore a remarkable resemblance to Cole Porter's 1948 song Be a Clown.
- Gene Kelly performed the title song while running a 103-degree fever, and filming the sequence took two to three days rather than a single take as popularly believed.
- The rain in the title number was made visible through backlighting rather than the common myth that milk was mixed into the water.
- Debbie Reynolds was not trained as a dancer but as a gymnast, and Gene Kelly's criticism of her inexperience upset her until Fred Astaire found her crying and invited her to watch one of his rehearsals.
- After shooting the Good Morning routine, which lasted from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., Reynolds' feet were bleeding.
- Donald O'Connor, who smoked four packs a day at the time, had to spend several days in the hospital after filming the Moses Supposes sequence.
- Most of the film's costumes were acquired by Debbie Reynolds and sold at a 2011 Hollywood auction, though Donald O'Connor's green check suit from Fit As a Fiddle is now permanently displayed at the Costume World Broadway Collection Museum in Florida.
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