The filmmaker Guillermo del Toro said, “Before Stanley Donen actors sang, actors danced. Donen was asked in 2002 whether the filmmakers knew that “Singin’ in the Rain,” released in 1952 and also starring Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor, would be revered decades later. You just think about how you can do it.”Both the film and Donen were at first underrated. “Singin’ in the Rain” was initially seen as high entertainment rather than art and was not even nominated for a best picture or directing Academy Award. One Donen film, the chic mystery “Charade” (1963), reminded viewers of a Hitchcock thriller.

Source: National Post February 23, 2019 18:45 UTC