Who owns singing in the rain

Top cast Edit. Millard Mitchell R. Simpson as R. Cyd Charisse Dancer as Dancer. John Angelo Dancer as Dancer uncredited. Jimmy Bates Boy as Boy uncredited. Stanley Donen Gene Kelly. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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.

Simpson, Monumental's head, dismisses what he thinks is a flash in the pan: talking pictures. It isn't until The Jazz Singer becomes a bona fide hit which results in all the movie theaters installing sound equipment that R. Musician Cosmo Brown, Don's best friend, gets hired as Monumental's ideas man and musical director. And by this time, Don has secretly started dating Kathy Selden, a chorus girl who is trying to make it big in pictures herself. Don and Kathy's relationship is despite their less than friendly initial meeting.

Cosmo and Kathy help Don, who had worked his way up through the movie ranks to stardom, try make the leap to talking picture stardom, with Kathy following along the way. However, they have to overcome the technological issues. But the bigger problem is Lina, who will do anything to ensure she also makes the successful leap into talking pictures, despite her own inabilities and at anyone and everyone else's expense if they get in her way, especially Kathy as Don's off screen girlfriend and possibly his new talking picture leading lady.

Re-Issue from Did you know Edit. Trivia For the "Make 'em Laugh" number, Gene Kelly asked Donald O'Connor to revive a trick he had done as a young dancer: running up a wall and completing a somersault. The number was so physically taxing that O'Connor, who smoked four packs of cigarettes a day at the time, ended up in a hospital bed for a week after its completion. He suffered from exhaustion and painful carpet burns. Unfortunately, an accident ruined all of the initial footage, so after a brief rest O'Connor agreed to do the difficult number all over again.

Goofs During the Cyd Charisse nightclub dance number, when she's wrapped around Gene Kelly , her body completely changes position between frames due to a clumsy edit. Kelly, her love interest, was Or she was when she wore heels, anyway, as she does in the film.

To keep the height difference from being obvious, Kelly arranged the routine so that they were never both standing upright when they were next to each other, always bending toward or away from one another instead. All told, Plunkett designed about costumes for the film.

The whole shoot was difficult for that reason, and this number was particularly challenging. Reynolds said that at the end of a hour day shooting the scene, her feet were bleeding. So the job went to Cyd Charisse, an acclaimed dancer whom Kelly had admired since seeing her work with Fred Astaire in Ziegfield Follies. The unconfirmed but probably true explanation is that censors deemed a portion of the dance too suggestive.

The footage was removed, and the music was re-scored to match the new cut. And not just because you could legitimately break your neck doing those run-up-the-wall flips although that, too. The physical exertion required for the scene would have been demanding for anyone And after the entire sequence had been shot? He had to do it all over again, because a technical error made the footage unusable. Kelly and Donen thought the character, the seductive girlfriend of a gangster, ought to be smoking.

Evidently failing to see the pleasure in it, she never smoked again. We tried to figure out that scene for four days. On the fifth day, I was getting bored. Stanley said, 'Can you dance?

Stanley said 'Great. It took things into a surreal place. Fans of the classic musical, Singing in the Rain , which featured Gene Kelly singing the titular song, were probably not happy to hear that one of the most famous songs was being played in a rape scene. Years later, McDowell came across Kelly at a Hollywood party, where the older actor completely stubbed him.

McDowell thought it was because Kelly didn't like the song being used, but there was a totally different reason why Kelly decided to turn his back on McDowell. In a later interview with Entertainment Weekly , McDowell explained the reason why Kelly stubbed him. It turns out, it had nothing to do with him.

Kelly was mainly annoyed at the fact that Kubrick hadn't actually paid for the rights of the song. She was very sweet and she came up to me afterwards, and said, 'Malcolm, just to let you know, Gene was not pissed off with you. He was pissed off with Stanley… because he never paid him.