From silent films to sound films (Singing In The Rain)

After silent films, when the recorded voices started, some actors and actress that only used to act using body language, got into trouble because of their loud-mouthed and high-pitched tones.

                                  Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen have produced the best musical written directly for the screen, and they have used the period in film history during the transition to sound movies and accompanied it with the wonderful songbook of Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown. The icing on the cake, of course is the choreography of Kelly and Donen. 

                                  From the beginning (The Jazz Singer) to the top it has been a world of amazing talking movies, but we wanted to show you a little bit of the transition, because not everything happens with just a magic clap. For that reason, we have chosen Singin' In The Rain that actually is one of the best examples if we want this transition to be shown. Catching your attention, wanting you to watch the movie willingly, here you have a little synopsis and a little video: 

                                  Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) is a popular silent film star with skills as singing and dancing who doesn't tolerates his vapid false girlfriend Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), despite she's convinced that the fake romance their studio made and publicized is real.

                                   One day, to escape from overenthusiastic fans, Don jumps into a passing car driven by Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), a mediocre dancer and chorus singer that in a first sight, had hated Don, but loved him increisingly when she discovered his not too much outrageous side.

                                   After the first talking movie, The Jazz Singer, Don and Lina's cinema company is forced to introduce the necessary changes and studio advances for making sound movies. That happens because they wouldn't like being backwards beside the other cinema companies, but some trouble arrived. The biggest problem was the Lina's strident voice, whose place was taken by Kathy's voice while Lina was still acting. During the movie, their opinions crash, making funny fights for Don's love, that is finally for Kathy and her sweet voice (any voice would be sweet in front of Lina's anyway).