That's Entertainment!
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- 1974
- 135 min
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I'm singin'in the rain
Just singin'in the rain
What a glorious feeling
I'm happy again
The year is 1929. The singer, Cliff Edwards,
The film, Hollywood Revue.
It is the first all-talking...
all-singing, all-dancing movie ever made.
Everyone from the place
Come on with your rain
I've got a smile on my face
I'll walk down the lane
In the years that followed,
Singin' in the Rain would become...
a theme song for MGM.
Singin'in the rain
In the 1930s, Jimmy Durante
gave us this rendition.
You wrote that this morning?
Yeah, it's something they'll remember.
Yeah, I remember it already.
I'm singin'in the rain
I'm singin'in the rain
What a grand, what a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again
In the 1940s, Judy Garland did it her way.
So dark up above
The sun's in my heart
And I'm gettin'ready for love
Everyone from the place
And come on with the rain
I've a smile on my face
I'll walk down the lane
With a happy refrain
And singin'
Singin'
I'm singin'in the rain
In the 1950s, Gene Kelly,
Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor...
put it all together in what many folks
would call, "the best musical ever made."
Singin'in the rain
Just singin'in the rain
What a glorious feelin'
We're happy again
If you are wondering
what happened in between...
sit back and relax.
You're about to find out.
It's been quite some time
since I first came to this place.
And MGM is certainly
not the same studio...
and Hollywood's not the same town.
But the films we made here
are still around.
Some studios can claim
they made the finest gangster films...
or the greatest horror movies...
but when it came to musicals...
MGM, they were the champions.
Musicals were fantasy trips
for the audiences of that day.
For instance, boy meets girl,
boy loses girl...
boy sings a song and gets girl.
The plots were that simple.
The musicals of the 1930s, '40s,
or even the '50s...
may not tell you
where our heads were at...
but they'd certainly tell you
where our hearts were at.
And all of this lovable nonsense
began back in 1929...
when the silent film had suddenly become
a thing of the past...
and sound was the king.
Don't bring a frown to old Broadway
You've got a clown on Broadway
Broadway Melody of 1929 won
an Oscar for Best Picture that year...
and MGM was off and running
with a new formula for success.
Charles King and a line of
slightly overweight chorus girls...
were the beginning
of a new motion picture art form...
that would captivate audiences
for years to come.
No skies are gray on that Great White Way
That's the Broadway Melody!
No skies are gray on that Great White Way
That's the Broadway Melody!
Within a few short years,
the musical had come of age.
had now become a cinematic spectacular.
Here Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger,
Nelson Eddy and a cast of thousands...
watched Eleanor Powell dance in Rosalie.
When I'm calling you
The most successful singing team
in the history of motion pictures...
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald
in Rose-Marie.
Will you answer too?
Then I will know
our love
will come true
You'll belong to me
I'll belong
to you
In 1936, The Great Ziegfeld won
an Oscar for Best Picture that year...
and it's no wonder.
Virginia Bruce
and a gang of lovely ladies...
cluttered up
Hollywood's biggest staircase.
And somewhere in that lovely mob,
you'll find Dennis Morgan singing a song.
If anyone could afford to film
this extravagant number today...
perhaps it would look something like this.
Just like a heavenly rhapsody
She captures you right from the start
Just like a beautiful melody
She'll play on the strings of your heart
A pretty girl is like a melody
Just like the strain of a haunting refrain
She'll start upon a marathon
And run around your brain
You can't escape
She's in your memory
By morning, night and noon
She will leave you
And then come back again
A pretty girl
is just like a pretty tune
By morning, night and noon
She will leave you
And then come back again
A pretty girl
is just like a pretty tune
The last of the big black-and-white
production numbers...
starring Eleanor Powell
and Fred Astaire...
Cole Porter's music, the sets
and the camera work...
the direction by Norman Taurog,
the incredible tap dancing by these two...
it all seemed to come together
You know, you can wait around and hope,
but I'll tell you...
you'll never see the likes of this again.
Don't be afraid, you'll make your grade
Why, you can sing as good as Bing
And here, the old pro, James Durante,
gives a newcomer...
a few pointers in It Happened in Brooklyn.
Sing it, Danny, make me proud.
Okay, Nick, stand back.
It doesn't have to be witty or smart
Smile.
Long as it comes from the heart
Keep going.
It doesn't have to be classic or rock
Great.
Long as it comes from the heart
I'll give 'em that
I'll give 'em this
I'll strut away
Boy! You can't miss!
Just put a star on my chart
You won't need this anymore.
Cause the song's gonna come
from the heart
Don't work cheap.
On opening nights, your name in lights
Why we won't stop, 'til you reach the top
We'll order our meal la carte
That's expensive!
If the song comes from the heart
We'll be tremendous!
If the song comes from the heart
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