A 1952 American musical comedy about a silent-film studio scrambling to adapt to the sudden arrival of talking pictures in 1927 Hollywood.
Production
MGM’s Arthur Freed unit built the film around songs from the studio’s back catalogue, mostly co-written by Freed himself in the late 1920s. Gene Kelly co-directed and choreographed with Stanley Donen, performing the celebrated title number in a downpour created from milk-tinted water on a backlot street.
Reception
The film opened in March 1952 to warm but not exceptional reviews and respectable box office. Its critical reputation rose substantially over the following decades as musicals fell out of fashion and its formal craft became more visible.
Legacy
The American Film Institute ranked it the greatest movie musical ever made. The title sequence, performed by Kelly with an umbrella along a flooded curb, is among the most parodied images in cinema.
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