Singin- In The Rain 🔥

The plot follows Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly), a silent film swashbuckler with a posh image that hides his scrappy, vaudeville past. He is paired with the hilariously vain and shrill-voiced Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), a silent star whose career is torpedoed by the arrival of sound because, as the writers put it, the public "doesn't want to hear a foghorn."

Watch it if you like: La La Land , The Artist , Mary Poppins , or just being happy. Singin- in the Rain

Released in 1952 by MGM, Singin' in the Rain was initially considered a modest hit, overshadowed at the Oscars by The Greatest Show on Earth . But time has been extraordinarily kind to this Technicolor gem. Today, the American Film Institute ranks it as the greatest movie musical of all time. But what is it about this specific film about the death of the silent era that makes it feel so eternally alive? To understand the genius of Singin' in the Rain , you have to look at its setting: Hollywood, 1927. The world is about to change forever with the release of The Jazz Singer —the first "talkie." The plot follows Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly), a