Watching Singin' In The Rain (1952) FOR THE FIRST TIME!! || Movie Reaction!
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- Hey everyone hope you enjoyed the reaction! Plan on doing a lot more musicals including the classics! Had a lot of fun in this reaction did not expect the story to be so good!!
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Hey everyone hope you enjoyed the reaction! See you next for Peter Pan and Madagascar!!
Which is coming first?
I think Peter Pan 1953 animated
Also I can’t wait to see you’re Madagascar reaction
React to jungle book 2
React to Scooby Doo meets courage the cowardly dog movie next please
"Kathy", is Carrie Fisher's mother, Debbie Reynolds. She had never danced professionally before this movie. She was 19 years old, and her feet were bleeding by the time they finished filming the "Good Morning" scene. Actress, Jean Hagen (Lina Lamont) put on the atrocious voice, and was actually the voice used when Kathy recorded Lina's speaking and singing parts. So Jean was actually dubbing "Kathy" when "Kathy" was dubbing Lina!
I wondered if that was the actress's real voice and I've been watching this movie since I was kid. Wow that's amazing acting!
I know! That’s my favorite fun fact about this movie. ☺️☔️
She was 19 in this???? She looks like she's in her mid-late twenties, that's crazy!
Wasn't Gene Kelly like... 40-something? I love this movie but that's... a little weird 😂 Ah, well
@@jessicamacaulay7462 also Gene Kelly constantly got frustrated with her during production because he felt she wasn’t learning the tap sequences fast enough(she wasn’t a natural dancer). She actually got some extra dancing help from Fred Astaire who was much more kind and patient with her.
Jean Hagen did the speaking parts but not the singing, that was Betty Noyes.
The film is about the transition from silent movies to talkies. There is also a lot of truth in the movie in that some actors could not make the transition to speaking roles. Many silent film stars had the right look and could pantomime the actions they needed to depict, but once talking movies came into being their careers were finished. They either just couldn't act out speaking roles, or some, like the woman in this film, just had terrible speaking voices.
This movie started me on my journey to Watching and enjoying silent movies.
@@erinesque1889 I can watch everything BUT silent movies. They are so boring to me lol. I think human entertainment and talking or chanting just go together. After all, Shakespeare held a audience for 3 hours a show off of spoken lines lol
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You must watch the 1931 City Lights with Charlie Chaplin, excellent film.
This is one of many films that I truly consider a ‘timeless must-see’ regardless of how old it is. Just a lovely time.
Just like I have always thought of "An American In Paris"
The main reason why those dance numbers is so good is that the filmmakers trusted the audience to not need all the frantic cutting between shots that you get all the time these days. They just pointed the cameras at these extraordinary performers and let them demonstrate how good they were
They don’t make movies like this anymore. It’s honestly a masterpiece. There’s a reason it’s still popular
Is it any wonder why this time period is called the "Golden Age of Cinema"?
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire insisted on dances being filmed to show the whole people, and they had the clout to do it.
When Gene Kelly passed, in place of a eulogy, the news stations just played his Singing in the Rain number all the way through.
The comedy in this film is excellently done. Gene Kelly and Donald O'connor are a fantastic dance pairing.
Debbie Reynolds just shines in this too, brilliant casting. It was sad that when her daughter passed (Carrie Fisher, you know her as Princess Leia), She died the very next day.
They had too much fun together and they didn’t want to explore the universe without each other!
Wait why did I not know she was Carrie Fisher's mom!! 😯
My sister and I STILL jokingly do the "No no NO!" *high pitch* "Yes yes YES" *low pitch* thing at 32:20 -- we thought it was hilarious as kids and we still do lmao
I constantly say "what's the big idea?!" in a really high-pitched voice because of this movie!
Me too! Still gets me 🤣
Same also the conversation about the microphone "in the BUSH"
When my sister was little she started doing her Lina impression so much that she actually started talking like her for a bit. My mom was so mad 😂 (this was also the second time she had to stop her talking weird) We still to this day quote "and I can't stand 'im" all the time, as well as singing Moses supposes.
1:42 -- And that, ladies and gentlemen, is young Rita Moreno as Zelda Zanders, who at 90 years old is STILL kicking ass and taking names, most recently on Netflix's One Day at a Time and in the new West Side Story (the remake of the film for which she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, the first Latina to do so).
Wasn't she also the first to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony
@@yadiraantoinetasanchez3554 She's definitely up there... I know some have said Barbra Streisand is the first EGOT, but one of her awards wasn't in a competitive category or something. I've also heard Helen Hayes was the first but I know even less about her. Rita was definitely the first Latina to do it tho
ZELDA!-AAHH! ZELDA!!
rita moreno is NINETY???? I thought she was so much younger for some reason, like around 80 maybe. that blows my damn mind
I grew up watching her on "The Electric Company" in the 1970's. She was the first to coin the scream "HEY YOUUU GUYYYYYYYS!", not Sloth from "The Goonies."
Fun Fact: This was one of the original 25 films selected for preservation by the national film registry.
Cats Don't Dance!! You should definitely do that one! Gene Kelly choreographed the film and it was his last project. The whole film is basically a big love letter to old Hollywood and specifically Singin in the Rain (it even has a parody of the poster in the credits). Also some of the best animation I've ever seen in a non-Disney movie...
Gene Kelly also choreographed Hello Dolly!
I second that for Cats Don’t Dance! Mark Dindal’s underrated film before Emperor’s New Groove!
YES! YES! YES!
Oh I think Nick would absolutely love Cats Don’t Dance! Excellent musical numbers and animation and the characters are really likable!
THat movies insane underrated- Darla Dimple practically made that film lol
when they sign "singing in the rain" and pull the curtain rope, it makes everyone watching feel so giddy, such a happy ending.
Don't know if anyone else clarified this for you, but the song "Singin' in the Rain" didn't originate from this movie (though this is the most famous version). Most of the songs in this movie were pre-existing songs written for other movie musicals from the 1920s-'30s. The song "Singin' in the Rain" originally appeared in one of the very first sound movies in 1929.
THIS. IS. MY. CHILDHOOD. Even if a stage version of this wouldn't happen for decades, Singin' In The Rain is such a classic and a staple of the musical genre. This is one that me and my family would watch every year and one my mom (who is a music teacher) shows to her students also every year.
Don Lockwood's actor, Gene Kelly, is such a staple of older films. He was what one would references as a real "triple threat" (not really a threat; it just means he could sing, dance, AND act...which is something not as many can do anymore). He has such a collection of credits in practically every medium of the times from film to stage to even radio.
Cosmo's actor, Donald O'Connor, was also a staple of films at the time (mostly for his comedic flair). He had a string of films involving a talking mule named Francis (in which Don had to play the straight/serious role to help convince people that the mule could talk) and even had his own show. (He was also known to be quite a smoker and the "Make 'Em Laugh" song in particular took quite a toll on him.)
And Kathy Selden's actress, the lovely Debbie Reynolds, was a real shining star in the cinema starlight. While she had done some other things prior to this film, Singin' In The Rain was the film that really put her in the spotlight. And, along with being in many films, radio shows, and musicals/cabarets, she's also the mother of Carrie Fisher (whom you might know as Princess/General Leia in the Star Wars franchise).
A bit of context for the section from 42:45 - 43:15: During the pre-Depression era, when this movie takes place, revue-type variety shows were popular, and they were classified into three primary tiers. Burlesque, Vaudeville, and Follies were those tiers in order from the lowest to the highest brow. That segment is supposed to be a montage showing Gene Kelly's character in the movie-within-a-movie working his way up the ranks of the theater world. Hence, this is why the outfits that he and his chorus girls wear get progressively nicer and why the overall appearance of the act looks progressively more dignified. The theater names shown in that montage were the names of actual theaters in New York famous for staging shows in each of those three tiers when this movie takes place.
Other trivia;
Donald O'Connor who played Cosmo really did get his start in variety acts like their characters in the film; he basically came from a performing vaudeville family. That's where all of his physicality comes from, and led to him being quite skilled in all sorts of areas of performance. I think it was his brother who helped him with the backflips off the wall for Make 'Em Laugh.
This movie made me go back and watch so many of the classic musicals!
Oh my…! I would have never imagined that you would react to this amazing musical! 😍 I love how the movie shows part from cinema story and how they started to dub in films. As a person who went to dubbing classes, this film was an incredible discovery! 😊👍🏼
There was a day I got so sick with the flu when I was in college, and on a whim decided to jump into this movie. And it just brightened my entire mood like I couldn't believe! I was blazing through a lot of Old Hollywood films at the time, and Singin' in the Rain really held a special magic; I just felt absolute joy, despite my sickened state. 😊
Having singers dub over actors' performances is quite common; still happens e.g. 'Never Enough' in The Greatest Showman.
Notably this film itself does the same thing. There's using Jean Hagen's voice which other commenters have mentioned, but they also used a real 'ghost singer', Betty Noyes. You'll know her as the one who sang 'Baby Mine' in Dumbo.
This and The Sound of Music are my all-time favorite musicals.
I actually didn't see Singing in the Rain until a few years ago, I grudgingly watched it with my mom during our movie night because it was her turn to pick what we would watch 😂 But I'm glad she did because I ended up loving it!
Then the Sound of Music was just my entire childhood 😍 Ugh.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk 😂
@@jessicamacaulay7462 lol. Both my mom and grandma are very fond of musicals and older dance movies like Dirty Dancing. My grandma was the one who introduced me to them.
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The most iconic scene in the history of cinematography 🚏🕺🏻🌂
8:43 I love seeing peoples reaction when they hear Lina's voice for the first time. You wait a few years between watching the movie and it still makes you jump.
It was actually tragically common for a long time in Hollywood to dub songs and not credit the people, especially the women, who actually sang. In this movie, for example, Cathy's singing voice is actually Lina's actress singing. Ironic
Not for the whole movie, she does her own singing when she’s singing as herself but when she’s dubbing for Lena, Lena’s actress is doing her own singing. It’s really a clever in joke.
Actually the singing voice was provided by Betty Noyes
Brigadoon is another good Gene Kelly movie. Cyd Charisse (the girl in the green dress) is also in that movie. Beautiful music and cinematography.
While filming the song Singin in the Rain Gene Kelly had a high fever but he was a perfectionist and did it anyway
I also love The Band Wagon with Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire, which is another backstage type story.
When she pops out of the cake it’s so funny. The fact that she was telling him she was a stage actress and that he wasn’t a real actor and she turned out to be the equivalent of a stripper is just so funny to me
Not equivalent at all.
Not a stripper. Just a dancer and singer for hire.
That is not the same as a stripper.
The Court Jester, with Danny Kaye! A comedy of errors, adventure, with a dash of musical!
I hope Nick watches that one; I'm sure he'd love it. Danny Kaye is hilarious!
Oh it's amazing and Danny is an incredible physical comedian
In silent movies they did actually use panels to show what the actors were saying. Also they mentioned The Jazz Singer and it's true, it IS the first "talking picture" in cinema and it did explode in popularity overnight.
Donald O'Connor (Cosmo) actually had to take a day off after doing one continuous take of "Make Them Laugh" due to pure exhaustion. But then he had to do it again because the first take didn't get filmed correctly. The poor guy!
This movie is such an integral part of my childhood. My late grandfather taught me this style of tap dancing and the movie is a family favourite. It’s so important to me that I can’t cope if someone doesn’t like it. I knew it was in safe hands with you, thank you so much Nick
After this, I highly recommend The Music Man, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and my personal favorite, Little Shop of Horrors
You have superb taste
And Newsies.
@@erinesque1889 sank ye
I sing the "Good Morning, Good Morning" song, every morning to my cat. 💙
The Artist (2011) is also worth seeing🎬
Yes! I love The Artist!
This is one of my favorite movies! My mom watched a lot of TCM so I would get sucked into watching these old films lol. My bf still hasn’t seen it, but we plan to watch it soon. The scene where Gene Kelly was singing in the rain, he was actually running a high fever. I can’t even imagine singing and dancing while being so sick. It’s interesting this film actually flopped when it came out. Now so many love it!
I’ve watched TCM since I was little and love the old movies. They don’t make them like that anymore
Gene Kelly will be forever remembered, if for one thing, for the Singing in the Rain dance routine he did for this movie...you have no concept as a newcomer that it's a classic and iconic of ALL movie musicals. He takes a childhood action we all did in the rain, splashing and jumping in our boots in the rain puddles, walking home from school, and turns it in to an unforgettable masterpiece. Amazing. He was sick as hell with the flu when he did this for the camera, 103 degree temperature. You show this one scene to little kids in elementary school and they laugh and think it is so cool what he did, and they love the song. At that age there is no preconceived brainwashed notion what a musical should be...it is pure joy.
Damn this just came out, this is actually a really good movie.
Movie Recommendations:
Spontaneous
The Lovely Bones
Collateral Beauty
Fried Green Tomatoes
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Last Night in Soho
Midnight in Paris
Tick Tick Boom
13 Going on 30
Down With Love
Midnight Sun
Cats Don't Dance
Little Black Book
Uptown Girls
The Fallout
Big Fish
Marriage Story
Thomas Kinkade's The Christmas Cottage
Alex Strangelove
Listen to Your Heart
Steel Magnolias (the ORIGINAL)
Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Klaus
Zootopia
Passengers
Jojo Rabbit
Sleeping With the Enemy
Enough (starring J.Lo)
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
The Imitation Game
TV Recommendations:
Green Eggs and Ham
Only Murders in the Building
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
My Roommate is a Cat
Merlin
Good Omens
The Good Place
This movie is the reason I, as a kid, danced in the rain (specifically splashing in puddles) with my umbrella.
Still do, 'cause who wants to get old?
It's ok I do the same lol
I haven't watched it yet, or looked at the comments, but YES!! My all time favorite movie, I grew up watching it with my parents, and it is what made me fall in love with musicals and old movies. If you enjoy this Nick, I highly recommend "Holiday Inn" and "White Christmas"
jean hagen, who plays lina lamont in the film, was nominated for the oscar for best supporting actress that year. it's a terrific comedic performance.
Ahhhh I love Singin' in the Rain! As a kid, I enjoyed this film, but as an adult, I really dearly love it. It's just the complete embodiment of fun, and the humor hits hard. I love watching Lena do literally anything. Her entire attitude is just so funny--even when she's whole-heartedly embracing her antagonist role. There are moments where the movie takes a brief vacation from the plot to veer off into the strange, and sometimes absurd, musical numbers where I just can't help but give it all of my attention ("Gotta Dance" specifically). I know it's not for everyone, but Singin' in the Rain is just such a weird fun masterpiece.
Gene Kelly performed the title song while suffering from a 104 degree fever.
"Singin' in the Rain" is from the movie The Hollywood Revue of 1929 .
Fun fact: It was performed by Cliff Edwards, who would voice Jiminy Cricket in Disney's Pinocchio a little over a decade later.
Nick, I love how excited you get when you watch these movies. It reminds me how I felt the first time I saw them. Love watching you.☺
Debbie Reynolds who plays Kathy, was mother to Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in Star Wars. And they both died a few years ago within days of each other
I don’t think anyone else mentioned this, so “Make Em Laugh” was a rewrite of a song from another Gene Kelly movie, The Pirate. The song in that one was called “Be A Clown”. That movie is one of my favourite Judy Garland ones too.
If I recall, he also dances with The Nicholas Brothers in The Pirate.
@@JonS0107 Yes, he does.
It’s more a case of plagiarism than a rewrite. Arthur Freed flat-out stole the song from Cole Porter with new lyrics.
the girl who's car he jumps in is Debbie Reynolds. SHe is Carrie Fusher's motehr. Carrie Fsher is Princess Leia from Star wars. so the woman in the car is Princese Liea's mother
I remember I first saw this movie with my mom when I was around 6 and I fell in love with it!
Nick, Lots of us, including me, are wondering are you going to react to “Tick…Tick…BOOM?”. It’s stars Andrew Garfield, and his singing in that Netflix movie is Phenomenal! No joke and no lie.
Next - "Some like it hot!" with Marylin Monroe 😃
🤩 no way!! Im so excited! 😁 this os an INTEGRAL part of cinema history
I love Cyd Charisse in this! She and that slinky green dress have amazing chemistry with Gene Kelly, and their first dance is one of the sexiest ever, imo.
Any movie with Gene Kelly dancing is spectacular. He was a terrific dancer and choreographer.
Fun fact about the song “Make ‘Em Laugh” Donald o Connor (cosmo) was an avid smoker so after doing this number he had to stay in bed for 3 days cause he got sick. Unfortunately the footage got destroyed so they had to do another take!
I enjoyed sharing this movie with you SO much !….thank you…..Your enjoyment and interest is infectious 👍🤗
Fun Fact... at 39:48 ..... The voice singing the song With You actually belongs to the actress that played Lena.
Here's a fun fact: water didn't show up well on the dark set, so for the titular--iconic--number, Gene Kelly was singing in the milk. In a wool suit.
OMG I lowkey can't believe you actually reacted to this movie, but I love it! I feel like Donald O'Connor is so underrated, but its definitely a classic.
After hearing this song in A Clockwork Orange, I’ll never think of it the same way again!
Fun fact, a year later the movie "I love Melvin" was realeased, for those people who ship Cathy and Cosmo, and tbh I like it as well, but not as much as this one.
One of the greatest singers who was dubbed for famous stars was Marnie Nixon. She was given a part of a Nun in The Sound of Music
So she could dub a couple of the actors in that film, plus many more
Singing in the Rain, An American in Paris, and White Christmas were my favorite musicals growing up. I still sing "Singing in the Rain" and "Would You" to myself as an adult.
this has been my favorite movie literally my entire life. it's one of my aunt's favorites (she has a giant poster of it in her house) and she had it at home when I was a kid, so I watched it for the first time when I was about 4 and knew absolutely 0 English (I'm swedish), but everything about it just made me fall in love with it, and I haven't stopped loving it since. there's a lot of facts about this movie that are so interesting, like how Donald O'Connor (cosmo) had to be hospitalized after doing the make 'em laugh number because of how physically taxing it was and he was smoking several packs of cigarettes a day at that point, or how gene Kelly in general basically revolutionized the way movie musicals were made and how much energy he poured into creating all the dance numbers, which are always incredible in all his films
Here's some trivia: when they were dubbing over Lena's voice the voice is actually Jean Hagens(lena) real voice.
For one of the art courses I took for graphic design/animation I had to choose a sequence to recreate for story boarding, and idk why but this movie popped into my head, and it was the best projects I’ve ever done. Film is universal and this one as well! Also LOVE the reaction and I love being a subscriber 😅
The issue with a lot of silent film actors making the transition to talkies wasn't usually their voice on its own, it's more to do with the style of acting was entirely different. With silent films you almost act like a mime, since you can't rely on dialogue to get your point across when you only have the odd subtitle card here and there. With sound actors became much more subtle.
I highly recommend The Artist which also covers the same time period. It's interesting because it's mostly a silent movie too, but due to artistic reasons rather than technical limitations.
I was just about to recommend The Artist as well!! I think Nick would enjoy it, the music is beautiful in that one too. It’s almost like a direct descendant to this movie in both message and style, it honors the era well.
There were though a fair number whose careers did end because of their voices though. I heard of one that had a severe lisp. Didn't matter for silent movies but talkies... Death Knell.
Oh Nick, you have to watch a few early talkie movies, then you'll understand what's going on. The sets on those movies were enormous, with lots of pretty girls dancing and stuff. ^_^
Have you seen some of the really early Marx Bros and Eddie Cantor ones?
@@erinesque1889 Oh yes! When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's, early talkies were shown on TV a lot, usually Saturday afternoons. I got to love them. The ones I'm thinking about here are the Busby Berkeley movies, he was a director and choreographer. He was the one that did the huge movie sets and dancing girls. I recommend checking one or two of them out. And of course I loved the Marx Brothers, too much fun
@@shariwelch8760 I’ve seen a few of Busby Berkeley movies like Whoopee, The Kid From Spain, Palmy Days, and Ali Baba Goes To Town!
So, my local theatre company is doing this show for it's main musical this summer, and it was super nice to see you react to this! My callback for it was just yesterday, and the cast list comes out Sunday. Super excited!
Fun Fact: Debbie Reynolds, the actress playing Kathy in this, was Carrie Fisher's mother INRL.
This is one of my favorite movies. I'm so glad you enjoyed watching it too!
Donald O'Connor, Cosmo, is one of my all time favorite actors. I've seen just about every movie he was in that I could get my hands on. His comedic timing is perfect not to mention how good of a dancer he is. I admit to having a huge crush on him lol
I have to admit if I had to choose between the two to go out with I would choose O'Connor
Just about to settle down and watch this. I have a feeling you're going to love it 😁
Edit: I loved your reaction to the violins at 4:17, and how excited you were when Lina made her speech at the end. Glad you enjoyed it!
I can remember when I first watched this; I was unwell, and couldn't sleep, so I decided to give it a go as I love musicals. I could not contain my laughter when Lina first spoke, and during Donald O'Connor's performance of "Make 'Em Laugh".
FUN FACT: The guy singing Make 'em Laugh, Donald O'Connor, was a terrible chain-smoker. After performing it, he was bedridden for days. Unfortunately, the footage ended up lost and he had to perform the scene all over again.
Did anyone catch that the girl in the singing & dancing number "Good Morning" that she's wearing what looks like a 20's female version of Quick Sliver? lol
Good Morning is my favorite part of this movie.
The Singin' in the Rain number was shot on an outdoor set during the day. They hung heavy black tarps to make it night. Crews jackhammered holes into the pavement to make puddles. It was shot during the hottest days of summer and at times there wasn't enough water pressure for the rain.
This is one of those movies that ALWAYS manages to put you in a good mood no matter how many times you watch it!
Yes, silent films had words on screen.
This early "talking picture" would have been filmed in "black and white". That's why the costumes were such crazy colors. Those colors look more vivid when reproduced in a black and white medium.
Cyd Charisse (pronounced Sid Sha-reese) was totally hot in that green dress, and this was filmed only a few weeks after she gave birth.
Wow! I didn't know that (or forgot it). Another bit of trivia, she was a lifelong non-smoker (apparently rare in Hollywood at the time), which makes the fact that she is introduced in this movie holding a cigarette somewhat ironic.
Gene keenly actually spent a week in hospital after doing the dancing in the rain scenes …he was really really Ill with a fever
I mean they have singers dubbing over the actors all the time in Bollywood but people go into the movies expecting this - like one singer could do the singing for 40 movies. My guess is that it's all part of the illusion of cinema, all tricks, all wonderful in the sense that it's all over the top and everyone is coming together to make a movie. But my point is that people know that, and that both the actors and the singers get their credit for it..
This movie is an absolute favorite of mine 😁😁😁😁
At 42:00 and 44:00, enters Hollywood's most beautiful, talented, athletic, and graceful dancer...Cyd Charisse! She was asked by Gene to come in and do this Broadway Melody scene. Debbie was okay, but not at the level of Cyd in dancing. Cyd had a short but memorable role in the movie. She just had a baby a few months earlier and also missed out on another Gene Kelly movie, "An American in Paris", due to her pregnancy. The censors were carefully observing Cyd as she wore some skimpy outfits (for that time) that would not be put in the movie.
This is my absolutely favorite musical! I'm so happy you reacted to this one!!! Gene Kelly is my favorite actor, and I can't even explain how much I adore all of his movies!!
Always loved that film. Watching that with you was a lot of fun *Nick!*
Love this one. Watched it as a kid when I was home sick
Make 'Em Laugh is such a great number. I had such a crush on Donald O'Connor.
Check out _Sunset Boulevard_ (1950), a black comedy film noir classic about an ageing silent-screen actor’s second shot at fame.
All the songs in the movie were songs that had been done in earlier movies by the team of Freed and Brown. Only "Make 'Em Laugh" and "Moses Supposes" were written new for this movie.
The female singing good morning is Carrie Fisher's mom. When Carrie Fisher died Debbie Reynolds was so heartbroken arranging her daughters funeral she died a day after her.
This is my favorite musical that we watched in middle school choir class. Wonderful musical!
Musicals are one of my favorite film genres, and this is one of my all-time favorite musicals. To me, Singing In The Rain is an absolute masterpiece! A+, 10/10 in my book! :)
I watched it once a couple years ago, and I saw it a couple of times as a kid.
I haven’t watched the video yet, was just bored and scrolling through my subscriptions and then I saw this, bolted upright and screeched out loud “oh my god! He’s watching it! He’s watching Singin in the Rain!”
😂 this is one of my all time favorite movies, can’t wait to see what you think!
"You Were Meant for Me" is a popular American song with music by Nacio Herb Brown and lyrics by Arthur Freed, published in 1929.
It was introduced by Charles King in the 1929 musical film The Broadway Melody. It was also sung by King dubbing for Conrad Nagel in the feature film The Hollywood Revue of 1929 and performed by Bull Montana and Winnie Lightner in the film The Show of Shows also in 1929. Later, the song was performed by Frank Morgan in the 1940 musical film Hullabaloo and was included in Penny Serenade (1941, with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant). Gene Kelly sang the song and danced to it with Debbie Reynolds in the 1952 musical film Singin' in the Rain.
I grew up watching musicals, but only a select few that we either owned or got out of the library on occasion. Singin' in the Rain was one of the first musicals I became acquainted with that really sparked a great interest in the musicals of the fifties, right in the middle of what's known as Hollywood's Golden Age. I actually learned about Singin' in the Rain through watching the Francis the Talking Mule movies, which starred Donald O'Connor, as I was curious about what other movies he did.
If you are looking for movie suggestions and you're not afraid of dipping into old black-and-white film, then I recommend the Francis movies, as they're just good old-fashioned comedy. I also recommend the Ma and Pa Kettle movies, a set of movies I grew up watching. While we're on the subject of good old-fashioned black-and-white comedy, there are plenty of options from the Marx Brothers, Laruel and Hardy and Addott and Costello. Should you feel inclined to venture into the world of silent film (do not underestimate it, it is quite entertaining) then you can check out films by stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
If you prefer suggestions for older Technicolor musicals, then hear are some other suggestions:
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Oklahoma
Hello Dolly
Babes in Toyland
Pete's Dragon
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Call Me Madam
Tom Thumb
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Newsies
Guys and Dolls
Meet Me in St. Louis
White Christmas
The King and I
West Side Story
Calamity Jane
Kiss Me Kate
Hit the Deck
The Court Jester
Fiddled on the Roof
There are a great many other older non-musical movies I could recommend as well, but I will limit myself. Perhaps another time.
The part with all the dresses was supposed to be a fashion show/commercial, with the added talking and song to help sell the styles shown.😄
This movie was so good I could even get my kids to watch. It is one of my daughter’s favorites.
That is how silent films were done. Putting the words on the screen
I saw this movie when it first came out. It was the first movie that I ever saw; I was 4 when my parents took me with them to the theater. Nothing like starting at the top! Most of the songs in this movie were already familiar classics from the 20's and 30's. The lyrics were by Arthur Freed, the movie's producer. He told the screenwriters, Comden and Green, "I want to make a movie with my song as the title 'Singin In The Rain'; now go write it." Comden and Green came up with the idea of the transition to talkies. Gene Kelly( Don) both choreographed the numbers and was co-director of the film. When you watch him and Donald O'Connor (Cosmo) dancing, you are watching two of the best dancers ever in Hollywood. Also, the problem with mikes is that they had not yet invented strong overhead mikes plus the camera could not move because it had to be in a soundproof box. So the early talkies were pretty static; thankfully, the technology progressed quickly.
The different versions of the song shows him going up in popularity and getting better and better venues. With the Zigfield Follies being the cream of the crop.