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On
the night before the film was released, BETTY
COMDEN and
ADOLPH
GREEN recalled
being at a party given for Charlie Chaplin and his wife. They had
never met Chaplin, but in the course of the evening they got chatting,
and Chaplin suddenly described a picture he had seen the previous night
at Samuel Goldwyn's house, which he said was quite wonderful - one of
the best he'd ever seen. It was called Singin' in the Rain,
and he asked Comden and Green whether they'd ever heard of it.
"Heard of it?!" they blurted out in the sort of moment every
writer dreams of, "We wrote it!" |
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"One
of the nicest nights of my life was when Debbie asked me to go to the
premiere of Singin' in the Rain with her. We were in the
limo with Gene Kelly. What was so exciting about it was - as we all know
- is that Debbie was absolutely spectacular in that movie. It was truly
seeing somebody become a gigantic star out of that picture."
- ROBERT WAGNER
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"Suddenly the
screen lit up with this amazing movie. And there she was, popping
out of that cake, dancing up and down those stairs, singing and smiling
and holding her own with those two dancing geniuses. If there was
ever a single moment when Mary Frances was transformed into Debbie, it
might have been then."
- DEBBIE REYNOLDS
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