CLASSIC FROM THE GREAT 1952 MUSICAL "SINGING IN THE RAIN" GENE KELLY, DEBBIE REYNOLDS, AND DONALD O'CONNOR SING "GOOD MORNING"  
    Arthur Freed wanted to produce a musical using songs he and Nacio Herb Brown had written in their early career, especially their 1929 song “Singin' in the Rain”.  The screenplay was developed after the writers, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, had listened to the catalogue of Freed/Brown songs and realized that most of them had been written for the very early Hollywood musicals made between 1929 and 1931.  “It occurred to us,” they said later, “that rather than try to use them in a sophisticated, contemporary story or a gay–nineties extravaganza, they would bloom at their happiest in something that took place in the very period in which they had been written.”  So they based their original screenplay on the dramatic upheavals of that period, when great silent–picture careers were often wrecked because the public’s image of a favorite actor was suddenly destroyed by a voice that did not match the fabled face.  

Although “Singin' in the Rain” made Debbie Reynolds a star, she had some mixed feelings about the actual making of the film. "Gene Kelly made me work so hard," she revealed in a 1998 interview, "that I'd almost pass out trying to keep up." In another interview she added, “The two hardest things I ever did in my life are childbirth and “Singin' in the Rain”. In a 2002 TV Special made by Turner Entertainment Co., Debbie said that after 14 hours of shooting the song and dance number "Good Mornin' ", "When I took off my little blue shoes my feet were bleeding from all the dancing." On the other hand she also admitted that, “He [Gene Kelly] worked me hard, but he taught me so well that I’m still in the business 52 years later because of his teachings.” 

 

 

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UK MGM 493  10" 78rpm  SHELLAC

 

SIDE A/.  GOOD MORNING

SIDE B/.  ALL I DO IS DREAM OF YOU / FIT AS A FIDDLE

 

CONDITION - vg+    scuffs and scrapes but still plays great

 

 

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