Singin’ in the Rain 1952 123movies

Watch: Singin’ in the Rain 1952 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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 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..
Plot: In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
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Ratings:

	8.3/10 Votes: 242,677
	100% | RottenTomatoes
	99/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 2573 Popularity: 23.607 | TMDB

Reviews:

I’m happy again!

Singing In The Rain is to me the greatest musical ever made, sure many others push it close, The Wizard Of Oz for one will always be a 10/10 movie in my opinion, but Singing In The Rain is a film that has no flaws, it is a perfect movie.

Don Lockwood is a star of silent movies but his life is boring, then talking movies arrive and with them he eyes an opportunity to greatly improve his life. A chance encounter with dancer Kathy Selden will further shape his destiny, and along with best pal and partner Cosmo Brown, their respective fortunes will hopefully dovetail towards fulfillment.

Where do you start? The film is a homage to happiness, be it film making or love, or friendships and honour, the film is pure and simply joyous from the first reel to the triumphant last shot. Featuring stunning choreography, Singing In The Rain doesn’t cop out by merely having characters plodding thru a script and then bursting into song occasionally, each song furthers the characters and fleshes out the story unfolding to keep the plot lines tight and crucially, important.

Make ‘Em Laugh, Good Morning, and Singing In The Rain are just some of the brilliant songs and dance routines on show here, with the latter a now legendary piece of cinematic history that speaks volumes for the joyous nature of the film, whilst the finale sequence of the ‘Broadway Ballet’ is magic & elegance personified. The cast are uniformly excellent, Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor & Debbie Reynolds interplay together like they were hatched from the same egg, and the joint direction from Stanley Donen (along with Kelly) is seamless.

Full of hat tipping and self-referencing winks, Singing In The Rain regularly hits the top ten lists of critics and movie fans alike, so lets not beat around the bush about it…it flipping well deserves it. 10/10 in every respect.

There’s a tendency with this film to just think of the genius that was Gene Kelly and his umbrella with the title song, but as a wonderfully enjoyable three hander between himself, Debbie Reynolds and my own favourite from this film Donald O’Connor, it is so much more the that. It just oozes charm and style. The plot centres around the aspirations of a silent movie company to make a talkie! Their long established stars “Don Lockwood” (Kelly) and “Lina Lamont” (Jean Hagan) have a successful on-screen (and in-press) persona as the dream couple – in reality they can barely stomach each other – but they must embrace progress and with the arrival of the sound equipment and new ideas man “Cosmo” (O’Connor) the challenge is on to make a smash hit. Anyone who’s seen any silent movies will know that not everyone successful in that medium had the, shall we say – attributes – to make a go of this, and soon we have a bit of a battle going on between Hagan and Kelly’s actual gal in this movie “Kathy” (Reynolds) for the big part! The settings allow the costumier to have a field day, and the three are very much in their elements trying out all these would-be scenarios from the creative head of “Cosmo”. Songs? Well, where do you start? Betty Comden and Adolph Green hit a real purple patch with his – they trawled through musicals from the twenties and thirties and present us with the likes of “You Were Meant For Me”, “Make ’em Laugh” and “Good Morning” as well as the theme song that get our feet a-tapping and our smiles a-raising. Reynolds’ singing voice came courtesy of Betty Noyes, but the dubbing is perfect and it matters not a jot that she isn’t actually singing. There is plenty of light-heartedness (and a healthy dose of jealous back-biting too!) and the dancing isn’t perfect, which helps lots too. For much of the time, the routines look and feel natural, like pals making it up as they go along and having fun in the process. A lavish looking production and a wee bit of Cyd Charisse and Rita Moreno too – what more could you ask for…?

Timeles Magic
Can you imagine? Me, a film lover since the age of six, hadn’t seen “Singing In The Rain” until last night. I had read and heard so much about it over the years that I knew I was going to be disappointed. As a musical I’ve never seen anything so perfectly “in tune” I can see how many directors have been influenced by the soul of this gorgeous movie. I’ve seen even Federico Fellini here. The tap routine with Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor is so energizing that I wanted to see it again and again. The fantasy number with Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse is breathtaking, breathtaking! How extraordinary to see Debiee Reynolds going through the contagious (Good morning!Good morning!) I had seen her a few nights before as Grace’s mother in “Will and Grace” She hasn’t lost her zest. I’m sure I’ll be seeing this movie many times and I intend to show it to very young people from the post MTV generation and I’m betting with myself that they’re going to love it. Greatness is timeless.

Deserves Every Accolade
This is one of those handful of films that is universally loved and respected and I have to join the crowd on that. For over 50 years it has been considered the best musical ever made and I can’t argue with that, either, especially with the newly- restored DVD version that came out a short time ago. The film never looked and sounded better!

In a nutshell, the reason for the high praise, I would think would be: 1 – Likable lead characters (Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor); 2 – Excellent song-and-dance numbers, capped off by one of the most famous of all-time, the title song “Singin’ In the Rain,” featuring Kelly; 3 – Very good humor throughout the film, aided by Jean Hagen’s dumb blonde imitation, which may be the best ever put on film; 4 – Spectacular color (please get this latest 2-disc DVD), and 5 – of course, simply a very entertaining film start-to-finish.

A few side comments: Kelly gets the legacy with his title song dance but O’Connor’s dancing in here is just as good. In fact, one of his solo routines reportedly exhausted him so much he could not work for five days. A nice bonus is seeing Cyd Charisse in here, showing off her dancing skills and great legs.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 2540800
Revenue 7200000
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Comedy, Musical, Romance
Director Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Writer Betty Comden, Adolph Green
Actors Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 7 wins & 9 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Sound System), Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera Technicolor Three-Strip Camera
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 1,127 m (Sweden, 16 mm), 2,810 m (Sweden, 35 mm), 2,812.7 m (12 reels), 2,815 m (1952) (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2022 remaster), Spherical
Printed Film Format 16 mm, Super 8mm (full length and digest version in two parts), 35 mm