event Singin' In The Rain

Long before file-sharing, the greatest threat to the entertainment industry’s most stubborn millionaires was the advent of talking pictures. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s 1952 classic stars Kelly as Don Lockwood, an arrogant silent-film star shoved into the world of sound. But while Lockwood has a vaudevillian past to back up his pantomime act, his screeching, dumb-as-rocks leading lady (played by a hilarious Jean Hagen) wasn’t made for the mic. That Singin’ In The Rain’s music was written before the script—meaning the writers had to create a plot that would connect a bunch of unrelated songs—makes the film’s legacy as one of cinema’s all-time greatest that much more impressive.

Long before file-sharing, the greatest threat to the entertainment industry’s most stubborn millionaires was the advent of talking pictures. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s 1952 classic stars Kelly as Don Lockwood, an arrogant silent-film star shoved into the world of sound. But while Lockwood has a vaudevillian past to back up his pantomime act, his screeching, dumb-as-rocks leading lady (played by a hilarious Jean Hagen) wasn’t made for the mic. That Singin’ In The Rain’s music was written before the script—meaning the writers had to create a plot that would connect a bunch of unrelated songs—makes the film’s legacy as one of cinema’s all-time greatest that much more impressive.