U
1hr 43mins

What a glorious feeling - I'm happy again!


As chosen by the brilliant James Purefoy, this timeless Hollywood musical classic, starring the dream trio of Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor, returns to the Tyneside!
Screening as part of our Desert Island Picks strand.

Unfortunately no Audio Description track is available for this feature.
Desert Island Picks
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
U
Music/Musical
Very mild comic violence
English

Working his way up from being a song and dance man to one of the top movie stars of the silent era, Don Lockwood finds his career in jeopardy with the advent of talkies.

Studio bosses insist that his next production features synchronised sound, but it becomes abundantly clear that his egocentric co-star does not have a voice suited for the new medium.

Don recruits an aspiring “serious” actress to dub the parts and raises his co-star’s anger even further when he starts to fall for her.

A joyous musical triumph, spotlighting the momentous shift in Hollywood from the silent era to sound, Singin in the Rain has lost none of its contagious make ’em laugh magic – now seven decades on from its first release.

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