Singin' in the Rain

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Singin' in the Rain, 1952.

Introduction and comments following Singin' in the Rain, 1952, with Illeana Douglas and Carol Burnett.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Singin' in the Rain, 1951.

Guest host Alicia Malone introduces Singin' in the Rain, 1952.

Ben Mankiewicz and guest Todd Fisher introduce and comment following Singin' in the Rain, 1952.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Singin' in the Rain, 1952.

In the Revolution In Hollywood montage, Rita Moreno as Zelda in the cocktail shaker routine and the cutaways, with four Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed tunes, Jimmy Thompson the crooner, Debbie Reynolds with him as Kathy, Millard Mitchell the studio boss, Donald O'Connor as Cosmo, Tommy Farrell as Sid the A-D, in Singin' in the Rain, 1951.

In fact the greater part of Rita Moreno's performance as flapper movie star Zelda Zanders, in Singinn' in the Rain, 1951, at the opening of the Gene Kelly/Jean Hagen (Don Lockwood, Lina Lamont) movie, introduced by Madge Blake, Stuart Holmes her eligible bachelor.”

The studio boss (Millard Mitchell) after a talking-picture demo, with Cosmo (Donald O'Connor) pal of star Don (Gene Kelly), who's delighted to find snooty Cathy (Debbie Reynolds) doing a cheesecake gig, song by Nacio Herb Brown and producer Arthur Freed, bimbo Lina (Jean Hagen) getting pied, in Singin' in the Rain, 1952.

After the premiere, silent-movie star Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) with musical partner Cosmo (Donald O'Connor) in Hollywood, gets mobbed and, with a coy contemporary-swashbuckling escape, meets opinionated Cathy (Debbie Reynolds), early in MGM's Singin' in the Rain, 1952.

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Silent star Don (co-director and choreographer Gene Kelly) with diction coach (Robert Watson), joined by musical partner Cosmo (Donald O'Connor) for the flat-out athletic tap number to the song by Roger Edens, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, a rousing bit from Singin' in the Rain, 1952.

Dora (Madge Blake) the M-C, sidekick Cosmo (Donald O'Connor) already in place, co-director Gene Kelly (as matinee idol Don Lockwood), with Jean Hagen, silent for now (as co-star Lina), launches the biography bit, song by Al Hoffman and Al Goodhart, from the opening to MGM's Singin' in the Rain, 1952.

Comedy set piece on the switch to talkies, Gene Kelly as silent-star Don Lockwood, Jean Hagen stealing it as his dingbat screen lover Lina, with the disastrous voice, Douglas Fowley the imploding director, Millard Mitchell the studio boss with the slapstick payoff, in Singin' in the Rain, 1952.

The complete title song and dance, newly-enraptured Gene Kelly (also co-director with Stanley Donen and choreographer) as movie star Don Lockwood, tune by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Arthur Freed, in the Best Picture-winner made by his famed Freed Unit at MGM, Singin' in the Rain, 1952.

A silent screen swashbuckler (Gene Kelly) finds love while trying to adjust to the coming of sound in Singin' in the Rain (1952), directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen.