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Singin' in the Rain (1952)
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Director Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Writer Betty Comden, Adolph Green
Cast Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Plot A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
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Inherit the Wind (1960)
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Director Stanley Kramer
Writer Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith, Jerome Lawrence
Cast Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly
Plot Based on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
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An American in Paris (1951)
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Director Vincente Minnelli
Writer Alan Jay Lerner
Cast Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
Plot Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
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On the Town (1949)
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Director Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Writer Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Jerome Robbins
Cast Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett
Plot Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
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Anchors Aweigh (1945)
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Director George Sidney, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Writer Isobel Lennart, Natalie Marcin
Cast Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly
Plot A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
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The Three Musketeers (1948)
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Director George Sidney
Writer Alexandre Dumas, Robert Ardrey
Cast Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson
Plot D'Artagnan and his Musketeer comrades thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.
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Brigadoon (1954)
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Director Vincente Minnelli
Writer Alan Jay Lerner
Cast Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse
Plot Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in th...
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Summer Stock (1950)
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Director Charles Walters
Writer George Wells, Sy Gomberg
Cast Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken
Plot A small-town farmer, down on her luck, finds her homestead invaded by a theatrical troupe invited to stay by her ne'er-do-well sister.
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For Me and My Gal (1942)
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Director Busby Berkeley
Writer Howard Emmett Rogers, Richard Sherman, Fred F. Finklehoffe
Cast Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly
Plot Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
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Cover Girl (1944)
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Director Charles Vidor
Writer Virginia Van Upp, Marion Parsonnet, Paul Gangelin
Cast Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman
Plot Rusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny.
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The Pirate (1948)
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Director Vincente Minnelli
Writer Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, S.N. Behrman
Cast Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak
Plot A girl is engaged to the local rich man, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.
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That's Entertainment! (1974)
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Director Jack Haley Jr.
Writer Jack Haley Jr.
Cast Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby
Plot Various MGM stars from yesteryear present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50-year history.
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It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
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Director Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Writer Betty Comden, Adolph Green
Cast Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
Plot Three soldiers meet ten years after their last meeting in New York, and find out that they have little in common now.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
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Director Busby Berkeley
Writer Harry Tugend, George Wells, Gene Kelly
Cast Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly
Plot Two turn-of-the-century baseball players, who work in vaudeville during the off-season, run into trouble with their team's new female owner and a gambler who doesn't want them to win the pennant.
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Les Girls (1957)
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Director George Cukor
Writer John Patrick, Vera Caspary
Cast Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall
Plot The former members of a dance troupe are suing because of recently published memoirs. Each one insists on own point of view.
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Xanadu (1980)
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Director Robert Greenwald
Writer Richard Christian Danus, Marc Reid Rubel
Cast Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck
Plot A struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.
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Christmas Holiday (1944)
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Director Robert Siodmak
Writer W. Somerset Maugham, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Cast Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf
Plot A young femme-fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
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That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
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Director Gene Kelly
Writer Leonard Gershe
Cast Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland
Plot The second installment in the "That's Entertainment" trilogy features more classic scenes from MGM's vast musical library with the addition of comedy and drama films.
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Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
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Director Roy Del Ruth
Writer Herbert Fields, Buddy G. DeSylva, Nancy Hamilton
Cast Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly
Plot A nightclub's coatroom attendant who's in love with the club's singer accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream he's French King Louis XV, courting the infamous Madame Du Barry.
