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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
He found success on Broadway in a production of Pal Joey and tempting offers from Hollywood soon followed resulting in his first film For Me And My Gal in 1942. Kelly would go on to become a screen legend with unforgettable performances in An American In Paris, Singin In The Rain, On The Town, and Brigadoon. Kelly was awarded lifetime achievement awards by the Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute and was also given an Honorary Academy Award in 1983.
What a glorious feeling! Gene Kelly’s umbrella-swinging ‘splash’ hit is an ode to joy and to the bumpy era when silent movies became talkies. Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds star in this restored version of one of Hollywood’s best-loved musicals. Filled with memorable songs, lavish routines and Kelly’s fabulous song and dance number performed in the rain. Musician Don Lockwood (Kelly) rises to stardom during Hollywood's silent-movie era--paired with the beautiful, jealous and dumb Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen). When Lockwood becomes attracted to young studio singer Kathy Selden (Reynolds), Lamont has her fired. But with the introduction of talking pictures, audiences laugh when they hear Lockwood speak for the first time--and the studio uses Selden to dub her voice.
Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron sing and dance to the music of George and Ira Gershwin in this winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Jerry the Mouse star in this charming musical mix of live action and animation. Two sailors (Sinatra and Kelly) in Hollywood looking for glamorous movie starlets find romance, dance with a cartoon mouse and help a young starlet get discovered, all during one shore leave.
Three sailors, Gabey (Gene Kelly), Chip (Frank Sinatra) and Ozzie (Jules Munshin), are let loose in New York City on a 24 hour leave. On a subway, Gabey sees a poster of "Miss Turnstiles of the Month", a woman named Ivy Smith (Vera-Ellen). Thinking she's a high society girl, the trio spend the day looking for her. Along the way they run into a cab driver, Hilde (Betty Garrett), who is attracted to Chip, and a gorgeous anthropologist named Claire (Ann Miller).
To the cry of “all for one and one for all” comes a version of the Alexandre Dumas classic that’s fun for all – a rousing, swashbuckling adaptation that was Gene Kelly’s favorite among his nonmusical movies. Kelly plays country lad D’Artagnan, who comes to Paris with heady ambition and duels his way into the ranks of King Louis XIII’s musketeers. He swashes-and-buckles with brio, bringing to action scenes the virile athleticism that set him apart as a dancer in movie musicals. A top cast – Vincent Price as unctuous Cardinal Richelieu, Lana Turner as villainous Lady de Winter, June Allyson as Constance and Angela Lansbury as Queen Anne – joins Kelly in this exuberant tale, filmed in luscious Technicolor.
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