"later during World War II was suppressed on the grounds that the Soviets were then allies of the West. In 1955, the musical ""Silk Stockings"" opened on Broadway. Written by Cole Porter, the stage production was based on the 1939 story and script and starred Hildegard Neff and Don Ameche. The musical was then adapted by MGM as a 1957 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. Actor George Tobias, who played the commissar in ""Silk Stockings"", also appeared in an uncredited small role in ""Ninotchka"" as the Russian official who gets punched by Leon"
"and ""The Traitor"". Her film debut was as a comical ""femme fatale"" in the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn 1949 classic ""Adam's Rib"", directed by George Cukor. ""The Asphalt Jungle"" (1950) provided Hagen with her first starring role alongside Sterling Hayden. Hagen received excellent reviews playing ""Doll"" Conover, a woman who sticks by criminal Dix's side until the bitter end. She appeared too in the ""film noir"" ""Side Street"" (1950) playing a gangster's sincere but none-too-bright nightclub-singer girlfriend. Hagen is best remembered for her comic performance in ""Singin' in the Rain"" as the vain and talentless silent movie star Lina"
"She again took the lead female role (alongside Kelly) in his MGM musical ""It's Always Fair Weather"" (1956), which lost money. In between she made an appearance in ""Deep in My Heart"" (1954). Charisse was co starred with Dan Dailey in ""Meet Me in Las Vegas"" (1956), which also lost money. She rejoined Astaire in the film version of ""Silk Stockings"" (1957), a musical remake of 1939's ""Ninotchka"", with Charisse taking over Greta Garbo's role. Astaire paid tribute to Charisse in his autobiography, calling her ""beautiful dynamite"" and writing: ""That Cyd! When you've danced with her you stay danced with."""
"in ""The Mark of the Renegade"" (1951). Back at MGM Charisse was the leading lady in ""The Wild North"" (1951) with Stewart Granger, which was a huge hit. As Debbie Reynolds was not a trained dancer, Gene Kelly chose Charisse to partner with him in the celebrated ""Broadway Melody"" ballet finale from ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), which was acknowledged soon after release as one of the greatest musicals of all time. Charisse had an excellent role in ""Sombrero"" (1953). She had the lead female role in ""The Band Wagon"" (1953), where she danced with Astaire in the acclaimed ""Dancing"
"Stockings""), following the fashion for French-themed musicals established by ardent Francophile Gene Kelly with ""An American in Paris"" (1951), which also featured Kelly's protégée Caron. Like ""The Band Wagon"", ""Daddy Long Legs"" did only moderately well at the box office. Wealthy American Jervis Pendleton III (Fred Astaire) has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, Julie Andre (Leslie Caron). He anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Her nickname for him, ""Daddy Long Legs"", is taken from the description"
"opened on July 2, 1985 at the Gershwin Theatre after 39 previews, and ran for 367 performances, closing on May 18, 1986. Informational notes Citations Further reading Singin' in the Rain Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical-romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds. It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to ""talkies"". The film was only a modest hit when first released. Donald O'Connor won the Golden"
"Singin' in the Rain Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical-romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds. It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to ""talkies"". The film was only a modest hit when first released. Donald O'Connor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green won the Writers Guild of America Award for their screenplay,"
"Jenny Gayner Jenny Gayner is an English actress, dancer and singer, who has played lead roles in a number of West End and touring theatre productions, including ""Chicago"", ""The Rocky Horror Show"", ""Spamalot"", ""Singin' in the Rain"", ""Legally Blonde"" and ""Relatively Speaking"" as well as performing in her own one-woman cabaret show, and starring in and producing horror film, ""The Addicted."" She appeared with the cast of ""Chicago"" at the 2012 Summer Olympic countdown in London. She played the lead role in the television film"", The Trial,"" the story of Gillian Taylforth's libel case against The Sun newspaper, co-starring John"
"her mixed race background, be the person who brings Ravenal and Magnolia back together again after a separation of only a few years rather than twenty. And it was Freed who cast Ava Gardner in the role of Julie. Two of his films won the Academy Award for Best Picture: ""An American in Paris"" and ""Gigi"". On the night that ""An American in Paris"" won Best Picture, Freed received an Honorary Oscar, and his version of ""Show Boat"" was also up for two Oscars that year, though it lost both to ""An American in Paris"". ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952),"
"The Band Wagon The Band Wagon is a 1953 American musical-comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. It tells the story of an aging musical star who hopes a Broadway show will restart his career. However, the play's director wants to make it a pretentious retelling of the ""Faust"" legend and brings in a prima ballerina who clashes with the star. Along with ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), it is regarded as one of the finest of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals, although it was only a modest box-office success on first release. The songs were written"
"Saffron Burrows Saffron Dominique Burrows (born 22 October 1972) is a British-American actress and model. Burrows has appeared in films such as ""Circle of Friends,"" ""Wing Commander,"" ""Deep Blue Sea,"" ""Gangster No. 1,"" ""Enigma,"" ""Troy,"" ""Reign Over Me"" and ""The Bank Job."" On the small screen she has starred as Lorraine Weller on ""Boston Legal,"" Dr. Norah Skinner on ""My Own Worst Enemy,"" and Detective Serena Stevens on ""."" She appeared as Cynthia Taylor on the Amazon Video series ""Mozart in the Jungle."" An only child, Burrows was born in London, England. Both her parents are socialists. Her father is"
"Country House and Hospital, and was buried in Chapel of the Pines Crematory. Hagen was nominated for a 1956 Emmy Award in the ""Best actress (continuing performance)"" category. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1502 Vine Street for her contributions to television. Jean Hagen Jean Hagen (born Jean Shirley Verhagen, August 3, 1923 – August 29, 1977) was an American actress best known for her role as Lina Lamont in ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Hagen was also nominated three times for"
"case, the filming of the sequence taking place over 2–3 days. Another myth is that the rain was mixed with milk in order for the drops to show up better on camera; but the desired visual effect was produced, albeit with difficulty, through backlighting. Debbie Reynolds was not a dancer when she made ""Singin' in the Rain""; her background was as a gymnast. Kelly apparently insulted her for her lack of dance experience, upsetting her. In a subsequent encounter when Fred Astaire was in the studio, he found Reynolds crying under a piano. Hearing what had happened, Astaire volunteered to"
"Scarlett Strallen Scarlett Strallen (born 3 July 1982) is an English stage actress, best known for her work in musical theatre productions in the West End and on Broadway. She has received two Olivier Award nominations, in 2006 for her portrayal of Josephine in ""HMS Pinafore"", performed at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre and in 2012 for her role in ""Singin' in the Rain"". Strallen played the title role in the West End production of ""Mary Poppins"" opposite Gavin Lee as Bert, at the Prince Edward Theatre from 2005 (as a replacement to original cast member Laura Michelle Kelly) to"
"Lola Kirke Lola Clementine C Kirke (born 27 September 1990) is an English-born American actress and singer-songwriter, best known for her starring roles in ""Mistress America"" and the Amazon Studios television series ""Mozart in the Jungle."" She is also known for her supporting role in David Fincher's ""Gone Girl."" Kirke was born in Westminster, London, England, and raised in New York City from the age of five. Her father, Simon Kirke, was drummer for the rock bands Bad Company and Free. Her mother is Lorraine (née Dellal) Kirke, the owner of Geminola, a vintage boutique in New York City that"
"10 August 2018, by Downtown Records. Lola Kirke Lola Clementine C Kirke (born 27 September 1990) is an English-born American actress and singer-songwriter, best known for her starring roles in ""Mistress America"" and the Amazon Studios television series ""Mozart in the Jungle."" She is also known for her supporting role in David Fincher's ""Gone Girl."" Kirke was born in Westminster, London, England, and raised in New York City from the age of five. Her father, Simon Kirke, was drummer for the rock bands Bad Company and Free. Her mother is Lorraine (née Dellal) Kirke, the owner of Geminola, a vintage"
"Adrienne King Adrienne King (born July 21, 1960) is an American film, stage, and voice actress, visual artist, and former stuntwoman. She is best known for portraying Alice Hardy in Sean S. Cunningham's horror film ""Friday the 13th"" (1980), a role she later reprised in Steve Miner's sequel ""Friday the 13th Part 2"" (1981). A child actor, King made her film debut as Melinda in the television feature ""Inherit the Wind"" (1965) before appearing in ""Between the Lines"" (1977), ""Saturday Night Fever"" (1977), and ""Hair"" (1979) in uncredited roles. After appearing in the ""Friday the 13th"" films, King suffered an"
"for over a year after Parks admitted to the House Un-American Activities Committee that he had been a member of the Communist Party and named other members and was unsuccessful at the box office. In 1952 Kelly was at the height of his fame after the release of ""An American in Paris"". He then re-teamed with Donen to make ""Singin' in the Rain"", which would become one of the most highly praised films of all time. The film was produced by Freed, written by Comden and Green, photographed by Harold Rosson and starred Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor and Jean"
"Jack Dawn at Twentieth Century Pictures. In 1934, Tuttle and Dawn moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Working as Dawn's assistant, Tuttle supervised the makeup work in such movies as ""The Wizard of Oz"" and ""Father of the Bride"". Tuttle created makeup for many of Hollywood’s biggest stars, among them Judy Garland (“Summer Stock”, 1950); Gene Kelly (“Singin’ in the Rain”, 1952); Katharine Hepburn (“Pat and Mike”, 1952) and Esther Williams (“Million Dollar Mermaid”, 1952). Eventually he worked his way up to head of the studio's makeup department, In the 1950s he would be responsible for the makeup in ""Singin' in the Rain"","
"Actress. The film was also nominated for Best Original Music Score for Lennie Hayton. Donald O'Connor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his portrayal of Cosmo Brown. Betty Comden and Adolph Green received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical. ""Singin' in the Rain"" has appeared twice on ""Sight & Sound""s list of the ten best films of all time, in 1982 and 2002. Its position in 1982 was at number 4 on the critics list; on the 2002 critics' list, it was listed as"
"King and I"" Annette Warren for Ava Gardner in ""Show Boat"", Robert McFerrin for Sidney Poitier in ""Porgy and Bess"", Betty Wand for Leslie Caron in ""Gigi"", Lisa Kirk for Rosalind Russell in ""Gypsy"", and Bill Lee for Christopher Plummer in ""The Sound of Music"". When songs appear in non-musical films, however, the actors sing live on set, but later dub their voices in ADR using a ""better"" performance of the song. Lip-synching is almost always used in modern musical films (""The Rocky Horror Picture Show"" being an exception) and in biopics such as ""Ray"" and ""La Vie en Rose"","
"of the style, which has been replicated on screen over the years, most vividly by Cyd Charisse in ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), Isabelle de Funès as Valentina in ""Baba Yaga"" (1973) and Melanie Griffith in ""Something Wild"" (1986). It was associated also with many popular singers and actresses in the 1960s and has frequently been evoked by writers and directors, as well as fashion designers, seeking to recapture the hedonsitic or free spirit of the 1920s. For example, Kerry Greenwood's ""Cocaine Blues"" (1989) and succeeding novels about Phryne Fisher, a glamorous, but unconventional aristocratic investigator in late twenties Melbourne,"
"Pugh' and has gone on to play a guest lead in ""Casualty"" for the BBC and ""True Crime"" for ITV and Moving On BBC.She appeared in both Series of hard hitting Period Drama ""The Mill"" for ""Channel 4"". She has toured the hugely popular West End production of Singin' in the Rain, as antagonist Lina Lamont. Her other theatre credits include J.B Priestley's ""I've been here before"" at the Jermyn Street Theatre; ""Hatched and Dispatched"" at The Park Theatre; ""To Kill a Mocking Bird"" directed by Elizabeth Newman; and"" The Winters Tale"" directed for the second time by David Thacker."
"Douglas Fowley Douglas Fowley (born Daniel Vincent Fowley, May 30, 1911 – May 21, 1998) was an American movie and television actor in more than 240 films and dozens of television programs, He is probably best remembered for his role as the frustrated movie director Roscoe Dexter in ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), and for his regular supporting role as Doc Holliday in ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"". He is the father of rock and roll musician and record producer Kim Fowley. Fowley was born in The Bronx in New York City. He began acting while attending St."
"Carleton Carpenter) was the first soundtrack recording to become a top-of-the-chart gold record, reaching number three on the ""Billboard"" charts. Her performance in the film greatly impressed the studio, which then gave her a co-starring role in what would become her highest-profile film, ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), a satire on movie making in Hollywood during the transition from silent to sound pictures. It co-starred Gene Kelly, whom she called a ""great dancer and cinematic genius,"" adding, ""He made me a star. I was 18 and he taught me how to dance and how to work hard and be dedicated."""
"also a producer. She's also producing the horror film ""The Jokesters"". She starred as the lead in the ""Emily Stone"" short film/book trailer which was released in October. She was a vocalist for the band Jacqui Judge & Rouge in 2009 but had to leave due to her move to Los Angeles, she features on their song Fuck or Fight. She has also guest performed with Corduroy and Bob & The Mob. She has sung on an episode of ""Largo Winch"" and in the feature film ""Foodland"". Kim Poirier Kim Jacinthe Poirier (born February 6, 1980) is a Canadian actress,"
"abode of two of the characters, reclusive writer Frank Alexander (Patrick Magee) and his wife (Adrienne Corri), being visible during the infamous """"Singin' in the Rain"""" scene. Nearly thirty years later, in ""Eyes Wide Shut"" (1999), Christiane's vivid paintings adorn nearly every wall of characters Dr. and Mrs. Harford's (Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) Manhattan apartment and a few paintings by her daughter, Katharina, also are shown. More of Christiane's paintings are featured in the billiard room and the upstairs bathroom of the Manhattan mansion of the character, Ziegler (Sydney Pollack). In March 2001, Kubrick traveled to the Vatican in"
"Danielle Ferland Danielle Ferland (born January 31, 1971) is an American actress and singer, best known for originating the role of Little Red Ridinghood in Stephen Sondheim's ""Into the Woods"" on Broadway. Ferland attended Frank Scott Bunnell High School in Stratford, Connecticut, from 1983–1987 and attended New York University. She made her Broadway debut at age 13 as Louise in Stephen Sondheim's ""Sunday in the Park with George"" (1984). She next appeared off-Broadway in ""Paradise!"" (1985). In 1987 she was the singing child star in Woody Allen's ""Radio Days"". She returned to Broadway, originating the role of Little Red Ridinghood"
"Streep's other Oscar-nominated roles were in ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1981), ""Silkwood"" (1983), ""Out of Africa"" (1985), ""Ironweed"" (1987), ""Evil Angels"" (1988), ""Postcards from the Edge"" (1990), ""The Bridges of Madison County"" (1995), ""One True Thing"" (1998), ""Music of the Heart"" (1999), ""Adaptation"" (2002), ""The Devil Wears Prada"" (2006), ""Doubt"" (2008), ""Julie & Julia"" (2009), """" (2013), ""Into the Woods"" (2014), ""Florence Foster Jenkins"" (2016), and ""The Post"" (2017). She returned to the stage for the first time in over 20 years in The Public Theater's 2001 revival of ""The Seagull"", and won a second Emmy Award and a Golden"
"Sarah Payne (actress) Sarah Payne is a British actress and singer. She has worked extensively in London’s West End, and has played various roles in theatre, comedy, musical theatre, and opera. Payne initially trained as a musician, and studied music at Durham University. She was offered a part in a musical, and within two years she received a Best Actress of the Year in a Musical Olivier Award nomination for creating the role of Lina Lamont in ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1983) at London's Palladium Theatre. Her major theatre credits also include such shows as ""The Rocky Horror Show"" (1979),"
"Joi Lansing from 1951 to 1953. He died on December 22, 2001 at age 73, after a lengthy illness, in Los Angeles. Lance Fuller Lance Fuller (December 6, 1928 – December 22, 2001) was an American actor. He was born in Somerset, Kentucky. He was a contract actor for most of the 1950s with Universal-International. He had many uncredited roles for the first several years of his Hollywood career. His first role was in ""Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man"" (1943), and he was featured (uncredited) in several movies into the 1950s, including ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952). He co-starred in"
"Isabelle Guérard Isabelle Guérard (born July 1, 1978) is a Canadian film and television actress. She garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Actress at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2013 for ""The Storm Within (Rouge sang)"", and a Jutra Award nomination as Best Actress in 2010 for ""Détour"". Born in Montreal, Quebec, Guérard first came to prominence as a cast member on the teen drama series ""Watatatow"", she also appeared in the films ""White Skin (La Peau blanche)"", ""La Rage de l'ange"", ""Piché: entre ciel et terre"" and ""French Kiss"", and the television series ""Le Négociateur"" and"
"1929. The song was performed by Annette Hanshaw in her album ""Volume 6"", on film by a nightclub band as dance music and sung in a Chinese dialect in ""The Ship from Shanghai"" (1930), by Jimmy Durante in ""Speak Easily"" (1932), by Judy Garland in ""Little Nellie Kelly"" (1940), and as background music at the beginning of MGM's ""The Divorcee"" (1930) starring Norma Shearer. ""Singin' in the Rain"" was remixed in 2005 by Mint Royale. It was released as a single in August 2005 after being featured in an advert for the VW Golf GTI, peaking at No. 20 on"