1. Much of the credit for "Singin' in the Rain" belongs to MGM producer Arthur Freed, who, like Donald O'Connor's Cosmo Brown, rose from silent-era mood-music pianist to head of the studio's ...

The "Greatest Movie Musical of All Time" is faithfully and lovingly adapted by Broadway legends Betty Comden and Adolph Green, from their original award-winning screenplay in Singin' in the Rain.

If not, as it's perennially voted, one of the 10 greatest films ever made, 1952's Singin' In The Rain is at the very least the sharpest Hollywood musical bar none. Fifty years on, it's still as ...