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Movies with 5 or more big stars in cast (110 movies items)"Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, and Cyd Charisse. "
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Oscars 1953 Winners (My Version) (26 movies items)"Best Picture! Winner: Singin' in the Rain! Nominees: High Noon Ivanhoe Moulin Rouge The Quiet Man"
Dancing the Scene Away: Greatest Dance Scenes
Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress Deservers (83 movies items)"1952! Winner: Jean Hagen! Nominees: Gloria Grahame - The Bad and the Beautiful as Rosemary Colette Marchland - Moulin Rouge as Marie Charlet Terry Moore - Come Back, Little Sheba as Marie Buckholder Thelma Ritter - With a Song in My Heart as Clancy"
Academy Awards For Best Supporting Actor Deservers (83 movies items)"1952! Winner: Donald O'Connor! Nominees: Richard Burton - My Cousin Rachel as Philip Ashley Victor McLaglen - The Quiet Man as Will "Red" Danaher Jack Palance - Sudden Fear as Lester Blaine Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata! as Eufemio Zapata"
Academy Awards For Best Director Deservers (89 movies items)"1952! Winner: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen! Nominees: John Ford - The Quiet Man John Huston - Moulin Rouge Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Five Fingers Fred Zinnemann - High Noon"
Academy Awards For Best Picture Deservers (89 movies items)"1952! Winner: Singin' in the Rain! Nominees: High Noon Ivanhoe Moulin Rouge The Quiet Man"
“Singin’ in the Rain plants its tongue in both of its cheeks at the same time, offering up a self-aware guffaw, and an eye-roll over how preposterous”
“Singin’ in the Rain plants its tongue in both of its cheeks at the same time, offering up a self-aware guffaw, and an eye-roll over how preposterous this whole fame thing is. Typically, Hollywood can’t help but indulge in some deeply self-critical appraisals in films about its own practices and history, but Singin’ in the Rain is a jubilant blast of musical comedy. Telling the story of the fraught transition between the silent era and the talkies, Singin’ in the Rain plays like A Star Is Born for laughs and a happily-ever-after. Composed as a love letter to not only the industry, but to MGM’s Arthur Freed, the super-producer of the most beloved and well-known musicals of the 30s through 50s. A jukebox musical primarily comprised of various songs written by Freed and Nacio H” read more
20 Classic Films Not Nominated For Best Picture (20 movies items)"The Oscars love musicals (five won in the decade between 1958 and 1968), and the Oscars love movies about Hollywood (look at “The Artist” and “Argo” in recent years). So why is it that “Singin’ In The Rain,” one of the best movie musicals ever made, and one of the best films about Hollywood, got only a single nomination? Perhaps it was because Stanley Donen’s film was essentially a jukebox musical, a showcase for songs from earlier MGM musicals? Or perhaps it was that the film le"