Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Gene Kelly: Don Lockwood

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• [Don Lockwood is being mobbed by several fans on the street] 

  Don Lockwood : [desperately]  Hey, Cos! Do something! Call me a cab!

  Cosmo Brown : OK, you're a cab.

  Don Lockwood : [unimpressed]  Thanks a lot!

• [after filming a love scene] 

  Lina Lamont : Oh Donny! You couldn't kiss me like that and not mean it just a teensy-weensy bit!

  Don Lockwood : Meet the greatest actor in the world. I'd rather kiss a tarantula!

  Lina Lamont : But, you don't mean that.

  Don Lockwood : I don't - - Hey Joe, get me a tarantula.

• Don Lockwood : [while filming a love scene]  Why, you rattlesnake! You got that poor kid fired.

  Lina Lamont : That's not all I'm gonna do if I ever get my hands on her.

  Don Lockwood : I never heard of anything so low. Why did you do it?

  Lina Lamont : Because you liked her. I could tell.

  Don Lockwood : So that's it. Believe me, I don't like her half as much as I hate you, you reptile.

  Lina Lamont : Sticks and stones may break my bones...

  Don Lockwood : I'd like to break every bone in your body.

  Lina Lamont : You and who else, you big lummox?

• Kathy Selden : Now look, Miss Lamont, Don and I...

  Lina Lamont : Don? Don't you *dare* call him Don! I was calling him Don before you were born! I mean... You-you were kissing him!

  Don Lockwood : *I* was kissing *her*! I happen to be in love with her.

  Lina Lamont : That's ridiculous. Everybody knows you're in love with me.

• Don Lockwood : What's your lofty mission in life that lets you sneer at my humble profession?

  Kathy Selden : I'm an actress...

  Don Lockwood : Oh...

  Kathy : ...on the stage.

  Don Lockwood : Oh, on the stage, well I'd like to see you act, what are you in right now? I could brush up on my English, or bring along an interpreter, that is if they'd let in a *movie* actor.

  Kathy Selden : I'm not in a play right now, but I will be. I'm going to New York...

  Don Lockwood : Oh, you're going to New York and then some day we'll all hear of you, won't we? Kathy Selden as Juliet, as Lady Macbeth, as King Lear. You'll have to wear a beard for that one of course.

  Kathy Selden : Laugh all you want, but at least the stage is a dignified profession.

  Don Lockwood : [scoffing]  Dignified profession.

  Kathy : What do you have to be so conceited about? You're nothing but a shadow on film... just a shadow. You're not flesh and blood.

  Don Lockwood : Oh, no?

  [moves amorously towards her] 

  Kathy : Stop!

  Don Lockwood : What can I do to you, I'm only a shadow.

• Don Lockwood : Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.

  Lina Lamont : Oh, Donny, you don't mean that.

• Don Lockwood : I've had one motto which I've always lived by: Dignity. Always, dignity.

• Cosmo Brown : Why bother to shoot this film? Why not release the old one under a new title? You've seen one, you've seen them all.

  Don Lockwood : Hey, what'd you say that for?

  Cosmo Brown : What's the matter?

  Don Lockwood : That's what that Kathy Selden said to me that night.

  Cosmo Brown : That's three weeks ago, you still thinking about that?

  Don Lockwood : I can't get her out of my mind.

  Cosmo Brown : How could you - she's the first dame who hasn't fallen for your line since you were four.

• Don Lockwood : I'm no actor. I never was. Just a lot of dumb show. I know that now.

  Cosmo Brown : Well, at least you're taking it lying down.

  Don Lockwood : No. No kidding, Cosmo. Did you ever see anything as idiotic as me on that screen tonight?

  Kathy Selden : Yeah, how about Lina?

  Don Lockwood : All right. I ran her a close second. Maybe it was a photo finish. Anyway, I'm through, fellas.

  Kathy Selden : Don, you're not through!

  Cosmo Brown : Why of course not. Why, with your looks and your figure, you could drive an ice wagon or shine shoes!

  Kathy Selden : Block hats!

  Cosmo Brown : Sell pencils!

  Kathy Selden : Dig ditches!

  Cosmo Brown : Or worse still, go back to vaudeville.

  [singing] 

  Cosmo Brown : La-da-de-dum-dum-dum, Fit as a fiddle and ready for love...

• Kathy Selden : You keep away from me! Just because you're a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet. Well, don't you touch me!

  Don Lockwood : [chanting]  Fear not, sweet lady! I will not molest you. I am but a humble jester, and you? You are to far above me!

  [he gets out of the car and closes the door on his coat tails] 

  Don Lockwood : Farewell, Ethel Barrymore! I must tear myself from your side!

  [Don tears his coat. Kathy guffaws as Don walks away] 

• Don Lockwood : Movie? We've just seen one.

  Cosmo Brown : You got to show a movie at a party. It's a Hollywood law.

• Don Lockwood : I just had to tell you how good you were.

  Kathy Selden : Excuse me.

  Don Lockwood : No, no, don't go.

  [pointing to cake she came out of at beginning of scene] 

  Don Lockwood : Now that I know where you live I'd like to see you home.

• Don Lockwood : Tell me the truth, am I a good actor?

  Cosmo Brown : As long as I'm working for Monumental Pictures, you're the greatest of 'em all.

• Kathy Selden : Good night, Don. Take care of that throat. You're a big singing star now, remember? This California dew is just a little heavier than usual tonight.

  Don Lockwood : Really? From where l stand, the sun is shining all over the place.

  [singing] 

  Don Lockwood : I'm singin ' in the rain, Just singin ' in the rain, What a glorious feelin', I'm happy again... .

• Cosmo Brown : The price of fame. You've got the glory, you gotta take the little heartaches that go with it. Now look at me: I've got no fame, I've got no glory, I've got no big mansions, I've got no money! But I've got - what have I got?

  Don Lockwood : I don't know, what have you got?

  Cosmo Brown : I gotta get out of here.

• Don Lockwood : Which of my pictures have you seen?

  Kathy Selden : I don't remember. I saw one once.

  Don Lockwood : You saw one once?

  Kathy Selden : Yes, I think you were dueling and there was a girl - Lina Lamont. But I don't go to the movies much. If you've seen one you've seen them all.

  Don Lockwood : Thank you.

  Kathy Selden : Oh, no offense. Movies are entertaining enough for the masses but the personalities on the screen just don't impress me. I mean they don't talk, they don't act, the just make a lot of dumb show. Well, you know

  [demonstrates] 

  Kathy Selden : like that.

  Don Lockwood : You mean like what I do?

  Kathy Selden : Well, yes!

• Don Lockwood : Are you doing anything tonight, Miss Lamont?

  [she shakes her head "no"] 

  Don Lockwood : Well's that's funny - *I'm* busy.

• [after Cosmo's car breaks down] 

  Don Lockwood : Don't tell me, it's a flat tire.

  Cosmo Brown : I can't undertand it. This car hasn't given me a lick of trouble in nearly 6 hours.

• Kathy Selden : Are you sure it's all right? Being seen with me?

  Don Lockwood : You mean lofty star with humble player?

  Kathy Selden : Not exactly, but for lunch don't you usually tear a pheasant with Miss Lamont?

  Don Lockwood : Kathy, all the stories about Lina and me are sheer publicity.

  Kathy Selden : Oh? It certainly seems more than that. From all those columns in the newspapers and articles in the fan magazines...

  Don Lockwood : You read the fan magazines?

  Kathy Selden : I pick them up at the beauty parlor or the dentist's office, just like anybody.

  Don Lockwood : Really?

  Kathy Selden : Well... I buy four or five a month.

  Don Lockwood : Four or five...

  Kathy Selden : But anyway, to get back to the point, you and Miss Lamont do achieve a certain intimacy in all your pictures...

  Don Lockwood : Did you say *all* our pictures?

  Kathy Selden : I guess if I think about it I've seen eight or nine of them.

  Don Lockwood : You know I remember someone saying, "If you've seen one you've seen 'em all".

  Kathy Selden : I said some awful things that night, didn't I?

  Don Lockwood : No. I deserved them. But I must admit I was hurt by them. So hurt in fact that I haven't been able to think about anything but you ever since.

• Don Lockwood : What's the matter with that girl? Can't she take a gentle hint?

  Cosmo Brown : Well haven't ya heard? She's irresistible. She told me so herself.

• Don Lockwood : [to Kathy, after she jumps out of the cake]  Well, if it isn't Ethel Barrymore.

• Kathy Selden : [laughing about the sound of "The Duelling Cavalier" going out of synchronization]  I was just thinking, I think I liked her best when the sound went off and she said

  [imitating Lina shaking her head] 

  Kathy Selden : "Yes, yes, yes."

  Cosmo Brown : [imitating the actor opposite her]  "No, no, no."

  Kathy Selden : "Yes, yes, yes."

  Cosmo Brown : "No, no..."

  [a thought strikes him] 

  Cosmo Brown : Wait a minute. Wait a minute, I am just about to be brilliant.

  [pulling her to her feet] 

  Cosmo Brown : Come here, Kathy. Come here. Now, sing.

  Kathy Selden : Huh?

  Cosmo Brown : I said sing.

  [prompting her] 

  Cosmo Brown : Good mornin'.

  Cosmo Brown , Kathy Selden : Good mornin'.

  Cosmo Brown : [putting her behind him]  Now, Don, keep your eyes riveted on me.

  Kathy Selden : [he lip-syncs to her singing]  We've talked the whole night through/Good mornin', good mornin' to you.

  Cosmo Brown : Watch my mouth.

  Kathy Selden : Good mornin', good mornin'/It's great to stay up late/Good mornin', good mornin' to you.

  Cosmo Brown : Well? Convincing?

  Don Lockwood : [missing the point]  Enchanting. What?

  Cosmo Brown : Don't you get it? Use Kathy's voice. Lina just moves her mouth, and Kathy's voice comes over singing and talking for her.

  Kathy Selden : That's wonderful.

  Don Lockwood : No. No, I couldn't let you do it, Kathy.

  Kathy Selden : Why not?

  Don Lockwood : Because you wouldn't be seen. You'd be throwing away your own career.

  Kathy Selden : It has nothing to do with my career. It's only for this one picture. The important thing now is to save "The Duelling Cavalier", save Lockwood and Lamont.

  Cosmo Brown : Yeah.

  Don Lockwood : Well... well, all right, if it's only for this one picture. But... do you think it'll get by?

  Kathy Selden : Of course it will.

  Cosmo Brown : Sure. And it's simple to work the numbers. Why, all you gotta do is dance around Lina and teach her how to take a bow.

  Don Lockwood : All right, we'll go to R.F. and spring it on him in the morning.

  Kathy Selden : [kissing him]  Don, you're a genius.

  Cosmo Brown : Hmm. I'm glad you thought of it.

• [last lines] 

  Don Lockwood : Ladies and gentlemen, stop that girl, that girl running up the aisle. Stop her! That's the girl whose voice you heard and loved tonight. She's the real star of the picture. Kathy Selden!

  [theater audience applauds and cheers] 

  Don Lockwood : Kathy!

  [singing] 

  Don Lockwood : You are, My lucky star, I saw you, From afar, Two lovely eyes, At me they were gleaming, Beaming

  Kathy Selden : I was starstruck

  Don Lockwood : You're all, My lucky charms

  Kathy Selden : I'm lucky, In your arms

  Don Lockwood : You've opened heaven 's portal, Here on earth for this poor mortal

  Chorus : You are, My lucky star

• Don Lockwood : Well, we movie stars get the glory. I guess we have to take the little heartaches that go with it. People think we lead lives of glamour and romance, but we're really lonely - terribly lonely.

• Don Lockwood : l'm now Count Pierre de Battaille, better known as the Dueling Cavalier.

  Cosmo Brown : Yeah? What's this one about?

  Don Lockwood : The French Revolution story.

  Cosmo Brown : Don't tell me. You're a French aristocrat and she's a simple girl of the people - and she won't even give you a tumble. Ha!

  Don Lockwood : Well, it's a living.

• Don Lockwood : Now listen, R.F., the owner of the Coconut Grove may do what Lina tells him to, but you're the head of this studio.

  R.F. Simpson : That's right, I'm the head of this studio. She's hired! But don't let Lina know she's on the lot.

• Don Lockwood : [dancers scream as he enters their dressing room]  Oh, excuse me. Where'd Miss Selden go?

  Female dancer : She just grabbed her things and bolted.

  [flirtatiously] 

  Female dancer : Anything I can do?

  Don Lockwood : Sorry, I don't have time to find out.

  [looks back with a wide-eyed glance as he runs from the room] 

• Chorus : [singing]  Gotta dance!

  Don Lockwood : [singing]  Gotta dance! Gotta Dance!, Broadway Rhythm, it's got me, everybody dance! Broadway Rhythm, it's got me, everybody dance! Out on that Gay White Way...

• Don Lockwood : You mean l'm not an actor? Pantomime on the screen isn't acting?

  Kathy Selden : Of course not. Acting means great parts, wonderful lines, words. Shakespeare! lbsen!

• Diction Coach : "Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter, seized his knees and sneezed. ''

  Don Lockwood : Sinful Caesar snipped his sifter

  Diction Coach : Sipped his snifter.

  Cosmo Brown : Sipped his snifter.

  Don Lockwood : Oh, thank you. Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter, seized his knees and sneezed.

  Diction Coach : Marvelous.

  Cosmo Brown : Marvelous. -Wonderful.

• Rosco : What's your name?

  Don Lockwood : Don Lockwood sir, but the fellas all call me Donald.

  Rosco : Wise guy, eh? All right, get this guy into Bert's suit! And remember Lockwood, you might be trading that fiddle in for a harp!

• Don Lockwood : [singing]  That's the Broadway Melody!

• Cosmo Brown : The new Don Lockwood. He yodels, he jumps around to music.

  Don Lockwood : The only problem is once they release this movie, no-one's gonna want to see me jump off the Woolworth building into a damp rag.

• Don Lockwood : I do hope you're going to favor us with something special tonight.

  Kathy Selden : Please!

  Don Lockwood : Say, Hamlet's soliloquy, or the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet."

  Kathy Selden : Mr. Lockwood!

  Don Lockwood : Don't be shy. You'd make about the prettiest Juliet I've ever seen. Really.

• Don Lockwood , Cosmo Brown : [singing]  With a hey-nonny-nonny, And a hot-cha-cha! Hi diddle diddle, My baby's okay...

• Don Lockwood : What's the matter R.F.?

  R.F. Simpson : 'The Jazz Singer', that's whats the matter, 'The Jazz Singer'.

  Cosmo Brown : [singing]  Oh, my darling, little Mammy, Down in Alabamy...

• Diction Coach : Here is a good one: ''Chester chooses chestnuts, cheddar cheese with chewy chives. He chews them and he chooses them. He chooses them and he chews them, those chestnuts, cheddar cheese and chives in cheery, charming chunks.''

  Cosmo Brown : Wonderful! Wonderful! Do another one.

  Diction Coach : Thank you. ''Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously. Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be.''

  Don Lockwood : [singing]  Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously.

  Cosmo Brown : But Moses, he knowses his toes aren't roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be.

  Don Lockwood , Cosmo Brown : Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously...

• Don Lockwood : There's no kidding myself. Once they release "The Dueling Cavalier", Lockwood and Lamont are through. The picture's a museum piece. l'm a museum piece.

• Kathy Selden : Now that you have the proper setting, can you say it?

  Don Lockwood : l'll try.

  [singing] 

  Don Lockwood : Life was a song, You came along, I've laid awake, The whole night through, If I but dared, To think you cared, This is what, I'd say to you, You were meant for me, And I was meant for you...

• Don Lockwood : Listen, Lina. l thought something was cooking beneath those bleached curls of yours.

• Don Lockwood : [to the press]  They sent me to the finest schools, including dancing schools. That's where I first met Cosmo. And with him I used to perform for all of Mom and Dad's society friends.

• Rosco : Well, here we go again. I think we have another smash on our hands.

  Don Lockwood : l hope so.

  Rosco : You're darn tootin' we have!

• Lina Lamont : Say, who is this dame anyway?

  Don Lockwood : [sarcastically]  Oh, someone lofty and far above us all. She couldn't learn anything from the movies. She's an actress on the legitimate stage.

• Rosco : Now, wait a second Mr. Simpson, talking pictures! You should wait...

  R.F. Simpson : Every studio is jumping on the bandwagon, Dexter. All the theaters are putting in sound equipment. We don't want to be left out of it.

  Don Lockwood : We don't know anything about this gadget.

  R.F. Simpson : What do you have to know? Its a picture. You do what you always did. Just add talking to it.

• Cosmo Brown : Hot dog!

  Kathy Selden : Hallelujah!

  Don Lockwood : Whoopie! Fellas, I feel this is my lucky day. March 23rd.

  Cosmo Brown : Oh, no, your lucky day's the 24th.

  Don Lockwood : What do you mean the 24th?

  Cosmo Brown : lt's 1:30 already. lt's mornin'!

  Kathy Selden : Yes! And what a *lovely* mornin'.

  [singing] 

  Kathy Selden : Good mornin'

  Cosmo Brown : Good mornin'

  Don Lockwood : We've talked the whole night through

  Kathy Selden : Good mornin',

  Don Lockwood , Cosmo Brown : Good mornin' to you

  Don Lockwood , Cosmo Brown , Kathy Selden : Good mornin', Good mornin', It's great to stay up late, Good mornin', Good mornin' to you...