SINGING IN THE RAIN, 50th Anniversary, New 35mm Print, Restored Soundtrack
Shows daily at 5:15, 7:30, 9:45PM
Additional Saturday and Sunday matinees at 12:45 and 3:00PM
Please Note: No 9:45 show on Christmas Eve (Tuesday, Dec. 24)
Pauline Kael called this glorious classic film "probably the most enjoyable of all movie musicals." It's 1927: Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are the darlings of the silent silver screen. Offscreen, Don, aided by his happy-go-lucky friend and piano accompanist, Cosmo Brown, has to dodge Lina's romantic overtures, especially when he falls for chorus girl Kathy Selden. With the advent of sound in motion pictures, it is decided to turn Don and Lina's new film into a "talkie" and a musical at that. The only problem is Lina's voice, which mere words cannot describe. Thus, Kathy is brought on to dub her speaking and singing voice in secret, and Don's on top of the world. But then Lina finds out... On the strength of the plot alone, concocted by the matchless writing team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, SINGING IN THE RAIN is a delight. But with the addition of MGM's catalog of Arthur Freed-Nacio Herb Brown songs - "You Were Meant for Me," "You Are My Lucky Star," "The Broadway Melody," and of course the title song - the film becomes one of the greatest Hollywood musicals ever made. (1952, 103 minutes; directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly; starring Gene Kelly, Debbie rerynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen)

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