1. Singin’ In the Rain Directed By Stanley Donen Gene Kelly

2. Actors Debbie Reynolds as Kathy Selden Donald O’Connor as Cosmo Brown Douglas Fowley as Roscoe Dexter Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood Jean Hagen as Lina Leamont Millard Mitchel as R.F. Simpson Rita Moreno as Zelda Zanders Cyd Charisse as Dancer

3. Awards Won a Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actor- Donald O’Connor Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture- Musical/comedy Nominated for Academy Award Best Actress- Jean Hagen and Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture

4. Awards cont. Writers Guild of America- Best Written American Musical 10 th Greatest Film of all Time by Entertainment Weekly American Film Institute voted it #1 Movie Musical

5. Themes The “Real” Hollywood - The movie cheerfully sheds light on the un-realness behind the isolated lives within Hollywood Love - There are two different celebrities trying to make it in the industry while unknowingly falling in love

6. Cinematic Elements Many of the scenes in which they are singing or moving along the street are all filmed in one shot. The camera pans steadily in literally all directions giving a nice flow to the scenes.

7. Did you know? The script was written after the songs, so the writers had to generate a plot to fit the songs. The rain seen through out the film is actually a mixture of milk and water. The combination showed up much better on screen, but caused Gene Kelly’s suit to shrink. The “Broadway Ballet” scene took a month and a half to finish and cost 1/5 of the movies budget($600,000)

8. Discussion Questions Why was it so difficult for the actors and crew to get use to the new “talkie” movies? How would you have reacted, as an audience member, to the invention of sound in movies? Does the flowing camera help or hurt the film as a whole?

9. Works Cited Mcgee, Scott. “Behind the Camera” Turner Classic Movies. TCM, n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2015 “Singin’ in the Rain Comes to London’s West End: We’ll Make a Splash. “ The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2015 “Singin’ in the Rain.” IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2015 By Connor Bresnahan