Singin' in the Rain [60th Anniversary Special Edition]

Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

Overview

Probably the best film musical ever made, this movie has several magical scenes, including the one where Gene Kelly giddily sings and dances in pouring rain. Set in 1927 Hollywood, the engaging story centers around the attempt of a popular silent screen romantic couple to make the transition to talkies.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/02/2012
UPC:	0883929266777
Original Release:	1952
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:43:00
Sales rank:	2,615

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Gene Kelly	Don Lockwood
Donald O'Connor	Cosmo Brown
Debbie Reynolds	Kathy Selden
Jean Hagen	Lina Lamont
Millard Mitchell	Simpson
Rita Moreno	Zelda Zanders
Douglas Fowley	Roscoe Dexter
Madge Blake	Dora Bailey
King Donovan	Rod
Kathleen Freeman	Phoebe Dinsmore
Judy Landon	Olga Mara
Cyd Charisse	Guest Artist
Bobby Watson	Diction Coach,Actor
Jimmie Thompson	Male Lead in `Beautiful Girls' Number,Male Lead in "Beautiful Girls" Number
Dan Foster	Assistant Director
Margaret Bert	Wardrobe Woman
John Dodsworth	Baron de la May de la Toulon
Stuart Holmes	J.C. Spendrill III
Dennis Ross	Don as a Boy
Bill Lewin	Bert
Richard Emory	Phil
Julius Tannen	Man on Screen
Dawn Addams	Lady in Waiting
Elaine Stewart	Ladies in Waiting
Carl Milletaire	Villain
Jack George	Orchestra Leader
Wilson Wood	Vallee Impersonator
Dorothy Patrick	Audience
William Lester	Audience
Charles Evans	Audience
Joi Lansing	Audience
David Sharpe	Fencer
Russ Saunders	Fencer
Patricia Denise	Girl Dancer
Jeanne Coyne	Girl Dancer
Bill Chatham	Male Dancing Quartet
Ernest Flatt	Male Dancing Quartet
Don Hulbert	Male Dancing Quartet
Robert Dayo	Male Dancing Quartet
David Kasday	Kid
John Albright	Actor
Betty Allen	Actor,Actor
Bette Arlen	Chorus Girl
David Bair	Chorus Boy
Lulu Mae Bohrman	Audience Member
Gail Bonney	Audience Member
Chet Brandenburg	Film Crew Member
Tex Brodus	Party Guest
Gwen Carter	Girl Talking with Cosmo at Party
Lyle Clark	Audience Member,Hairdresser
Dorinda Clifton	Dancer
Harry Cody	Audience Member
Chick Collins	Fencer
English	Voices
John Angelo	Dancer
Mary Bayless	Audience Member
Russell Saunders	Fencer
Lynn Bernay	Actor
Shirley Rickert	Actor
Morgan Jones	Actor
Lennie Hayton	Composer
Nacio Herb Brown	Composer
Arthur Freed	Composer

Technical Credits

Betty Comden

Adolph Green

Betty Comden	Screenwriter
Adolph Green	Screenwriter
Arthur Freed	Producer
Warren Newcombe	Special Effects
Irving G. Ries	Special Effects
Roger Edens	Producer
Michael Steinore	Sound Effects
David Sharpe	Stunts
Douglas Shearer	Sound Effects
Charles J. Hunt	Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Singin' in the Rain: The Movie
1. Scene 1 [1:35]
2. Scene 2 [3:45]
3. Scene 3 [2:27]
4. Scene 4 [3:18]
5. Scene 5 [1:51]
6. Scene 6 [2:21]
7. Scene 7 [4:11]
8. Scene 8 [3:00]
9. Scene 9 [2:59]
10. Scene 10 [1:39]
11. Scene 11 [3:41]
12. Scene 12 [2:20]
13. Scene 13 [2:09]
14. Scene 14 [3:19]
15. Scene 15 [2:48]
16. Scene 16 [4:37]
17. Scene 17 [1:49]
18. Scene 18 [3:23]
19. Scene 19 [2:11]
20. Scene 20 [1:44]
21. Scene 21 [4:13]
22. Scene 22 [1:49]
23. Scene 23 [3:47]
24. Scene 24 [1:52]
25. Scene 25 [4:47]
26. Scene 26 [1:33]
27. Scene 27 [1:59]
28. Scene 28 [2:24]
29. Scene 29 [1:50]
30. Scene 30 [2:57]
31. Scene 31 [1:28]
32. Scene 32 [3:11]
33. Scene 33 [1:47]
34. Scene 34 [5:08]
35. Scene 35 [1:36]
36. Scene 36 [2:44]
37. Scene 37 [2:29]
38. Scene 38 [1:41]
Disc #2 -- Singin' in the Rain: Special Features
1. Producing the Best [5:06]
2. MGM: The Broadway Melody [4:08]
3. The Wizard of Oz [3:41]
4. Mickey and Judy [2:55]
5. Recruiting Talent [4:08]
6. Meet Me in St. Louis [5:03]
7. Ziegfeld Follies [3:24]
8. The Class Unit [3:29]
9. Executive Suites [2:22]
10. Annie Get Your Gun [2:09]
11. On the Town [6:41]
12. Artistically Special [2:42]
13. An American in Paris [7:26]
14. Oscar and the Appreciator [4:56]
15. The Band Wagon [8:18]
16. Singin' in the Rain [6:32]
17. It's Always Fair Weather [3:24]
18. Things Change [2:21]
19. End Credits (Singin' in the Rain) [4:58]
20. All Here for Gigi [2:12]
1. All I Do Is Dream Of You from Sadie McKee (1934) [1:44]
1. Beautiful Girl from Going Hollywood (1933) [4:08]
1. The Broadway Melody from The Broadway Melody (1929) [4:25]
1. Broadway Rhythm from Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) [9:20]
1. Good Morning from Babes in Arms (1939) [2:25]
1. I've Got a Feelin' You'r Foolin' from Broadway Melody of 1936 [5:35]
1. Should I? from Lord Byron of Broadway (1929) [2:38]
1. Singin' in the Rain from The Hollywood Revue of 1929 [6:19]
1. Would You? from San Francisco (1936) [2:53]
1. You Are My Lucky Star from Broadway Melody of 1936 [6:14]
1. You Were Meant for Me from The Broadway Melody [2:25]
1. Temptation from Going Hollywood [2:04]

Menu

Disc #1 -- Singin' in the Rain: The Movie
Play Movie
Scene Selections
Special Features
Commentary by Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Cyd Charisse, Kathleen Freeman, Co-Director Stanley Donen, Screenwriters Betty Comden and Adoph Green, Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann and Author/Historian Rudy Behlmer
Singin' in the Rain: Raining on a New Generation
Theatrical Trailer
Languages
Spoken Languages
English
Português
Subtitles
English (For The Hearing Impaired)
Français
Español
Português
Subtitles: Off
Disc #2 -- Singin' in the Rain: Special Features
Musicals Great Musicals
What a Glorious Feeling
Excerpts From Features Where the Songs Originated
Play All
You Are My Lucky Star Outtake
Gallery
Scoring Stage Sessions
Play

Editorial Reviews

Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's Singin' in the Rain is usually lumped together with the other MGM "songbook" musicals of its era, An American in Paris and The Band Wagon. In contrast to those two outstanding works of music and motion, however, Singin' in the Rain had an additional layer of importance and appeal as one of Hollywood's relatively rare feature films about itself. The Arthur Freed/Nacio Herb Brown songbook is on one level the center of the movie, but it's also a backdrop for a humorous and delightfully stylized look back at the crisis that engulfed the movie mecca and its inhabitants once synchronized sound came to films. The musical was made in 1952, only 25 years after the beginning of the series of events depicted and satirized in the script, so recent in time that there were still plenty of old studio hands (including sound department head Douglas Shearer) who had firsthand memories of the actual events. The fit was natural for the music, too, since Freed and Brown had been on hand (and even onscreen) for the arrival of sound to MGM in 1929. The film is full of delightful in-jokes about its subject and the people who lived through the era: Jean Hagen's Lina Lamont is a burlesque of silent-movie sex symbol Clara Bow, whose decidedly urban style of diction never really fit her image or what the public wanted, while Millard Mitchell's R.F. Simpson was a gently jocular satire of Freed himself, who could never quite visualize the elaborate musical numbers whose scripts and budgets he was approving as producer. Donald O'Connor's Cosmo Brown was an onscreen stand-in for men like Franz Waxman and dozens of other musicians, who moved from writing arrangements or conducting the major theater orchestras to heading the music departments of the studios. The resulting musical, in addition to offering a brace of memorable songs and performances (with a startlingly sultry featured spot for Cyd Charisse in the "Broadway Melody" sequence, as a bonus), gave audiences a short-course pop-history lesson about how the movies learned to talk, sing, and dance.