Singin' in the Rain Page #5

Synopsis: 1927 Hollywood. Monumental Pictures' biggest stars, glamorous on-screen couple Lina Lamont and Don Lockwood, are also an off-screen couple if the trade papers and gossip columns are to be believed. Both perpetuate the public perception if only to please their adoring fans and bring people into the movie theaters. In reality, Don barely tolerates her, while Lina, despite thinking Don beneath her, simplemindedly believes what she sees on screen in order to bolster her own stardom and sense of self-importance. R.F. Simpson, Monumental's head, dismisses what he thinks is a flash in the pan: talking pictures. It isn't until The Jazz Singer (1927) becomes a bona fide hit which results in all the movie theaters installing sound equipment that R.F. knows Monumental, most specifically in the form of Don and Lina, have to jump on the talking picture bandwagon, despite no one at the studio knowing anything about the technology. Musician Cosmo Brown, Don's best friend, gets hired as Monumental's i
Production: MGM
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.3
Metacritic:
99
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
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Year:
1952
103 min
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special. Say, Hamlet's soliloquy...

...or a scene from Romeo and Juliet?

Don't be shy.

You make about the prettiest Juliet

I've ever seen. Really.

All I do is dream of you

The whole night through

With the dawn I still go on

Dreaming of you

You're every thought

You're everything

You're every song I ever sing

Summer, winter, autumn and spring

And were there more than

Twenty-four hours a day

They'd be spent in sweet content

Dreaming away

When skies are gray

When skies are blue

Morning, noon and nighttime too

All I do the whole day through

Is dream of you

It's the cat's meow!

All I do the whole day through

Is dream of you

- had to tell you how good you were.

- Excuse me.

Now that I know where you live,

I'd like to see you home.

- Listen, Mr. Lockwood...

- Say, who is this dame anyway?

Someone lofty and far above us all.

She couldn't learn anything from

the movies. She's a stage actress.

Here's one thing I've learned

from the movies!

- 'll kill her!

- Lina, she was aiming at me!

- You never looked lovelier.

- t was an accident.

It happens to me

five or six times a day.

Where is she?

Donnie?

Excuse me.

Where'd Miss Selden go?

She grabbed her things and bolted.

Anything I can do?

Sorry. I don't have time to find out.

Kathy!

Hey, Kathy!

Hey!

Keep that action going.

More steam in the kettle!

More action, boys.

A little more rhythm.

More steam and more water.

- Hi, Maxie.

Hi, Don.

- Good morning, fellas.

- Hiya, Don.

Did you read Variety today?

"First talking picture, The Jazz Singer.

All-time smash end of first week."

- All-time flop end of the second.

- We start today.

- Good luck.

- Thanks.

I'm now Count Pierre de Bataille,

known as the Duelling Cavalier.

- What's it about?

- t's a French Revolution story.

You're a French aristocrat.

She's a simple girl of the people

and won't even give you a tumble.

Well, it's a living.

Good morning.

Keep the background moving.

Hit him.

Come on. Knock him down!

Get up there and hit him again.

Hurry up!

Why bother to shoot this?

Release the old one under a new title.

You've seen one, you've seen them all.

- Why'd you say that?

- What's the matter?

That's what that Kathy Selden

said to me that night.

That's three weeks ago.

You still thinking about that?

- can't get her out of my mind.

- How could you?

She's the first dame who hasn't

fallen for you since you were 4.

She's on my conscience.

It's not your fault she lost her job.

- 've got to find her.

- You've been trying to.

Short of sending out

bloodhounds and a posse.

Come on, now.

Snap out of it.

You can't let this get you down.

You're Donald Lockwood.

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Betty Comden

Betty Comden (born Basya Cohen, May 3, 1917 – November 23, 2006) was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century. Her writing partnership with Adolph Green, called "the longest running creative partnership in theatre history", lasted for six decades, during which time they collaborated with other leading entertainment figures such as the famed "Freed Unit" at MGM, Jule Styne and Leonard Bernstein, and wrote the musical comedy film Singin' in the Rain. more…

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