Singing in the Rain - Filming 'Duelling Cavalier!'

[@murielsartre]

My favorite lines in this scene is shortly before the clip here: "Gee, this wig weighs a ton! What dope'd wear a thing like this?" "Everybody wore them, Lena...!" "Well, then everybody was a dope!"

[@CameronTheWeirdo]

Yo I am Dexter in Singin in the rain JR

[@KevinDaRoitBortoluzzi]

Hahaha mine too!!!! How she says the last sentence is simply BANGGGG!

[@Hewylewis]

Actually, that quote happens when the movie was still being filmed as silent.

[@trasegorsuch5140]

My favorite line. “Well, I can’t make love to a bush!”

[@MrThorfan64]

Well... fair point then.

[@JoMarieM]

Jean Hagen was hilarious and absolutely brilliant in this film! She definitely should have gotten an Oscar for it!

[@Harper_1984]

The director going more and more insane because of Lina not getting the one thing right just for the studio head to fuck it up in the end never fails to make me laugh.

[@donaldmiller2306]

The entire film is brilliantly written and directed.

[@magicgirl2831]

“What’s this wire doing here”....... it’s not like it’s a movie set......

[@mialevi1341]

Yeah but a movie set pre sound was basically without wires except maybe for lights

[@sanctuaryrain2010]

..." and I caint stan it " ..... "geesh this is dumb"... I love her character, she did it so well. LOL

[@graceskerp]

She made that movie. Without her, it would have been just another MGM musical - fun, pleasant and eventually forgettable. Her performance kicked into the stratosphere and, yes, Gene, Debbie and Donald certainly did help.

[@scoutart1508]

@@graceskerp still, this film was also fun

[@graceskerp]

@@scoutart1508 Certainly is. A classic that's still fresh 68 years later.

[@CCRoxtar]

3:43 "What's this wire doing here? It's dangerous!" I've been searching YT for a clip from SITR that includes that gag; I'm glad I've found it. It never fails to crack me up!

[@12classics39]

@@adammalkovich187 what makes it funnier is it’s not a random guy, it’s the producer, who should have enough common sense to know to NEVER yank ANYTHING on a film set!

[@darthstarkiller1912]

I'm laughing so hard, yet I feel so bad for that director! XD

[@scotthayes5933]

Must have been a day for bad luck

[@mkaplan1383]

@@scotthayes5933 Nah, it was a full moon that day.....

[@brydc0ck31]

I agree.

[@jamesvach6698]

@@mkaplan1383 Is that significant?

[@michellduarte8643]

This is my favorite scene from the entire movie. I love it so much!!!

[@waterbearer4627]

Lina is so funny, we have never seen such a funny comedic actress that has stood the test of time. Her scenes are laugh out loud funniest in all Hollywood films.

[@utoobah]

No matter how many times I watch this scene, it will make ma laugh so hard 😂 such a good movie!!!

[@leannehaddock6254]

WELL I CAN'T MAKE LOVE TO A BUSH!!

[@fourthgirl]

Parsing BOOM!

[@josephabrams8529]

I beg to differ.

[@OkIpullup394]

It depends on the type of the Bush

[@imastatistic8347]

Fourthgirl archer references are the best references

[@marcelloquarta9969]

I can...😂

[@nancydemoss8421]

Favorite - when the head of the studio jerks the cable and flips Lena up and over backwards with petticoats and all. And the screech.

[@hebneh]

The repetition of “Oh Pierre, you shouldn’t have come!” adds to the comic impact of the scene because viewers start to anticipate hearing how she’s going to mess it up yet again.

[@garykass114]

"Well I can't make love to a bush". So funny. This whole scene is hysterical . Because of the fabulous dancing,people tend to forget how funny this movie is.

[@davidbaird2211]

The experience of directing The Duelling Cavalier was so draining, it pushed Walt Disney into animation instead of live action.

[@scoutart1508]

But eventually got interested in the live action projects

[@thealetube3509]

For sure having only voice actors avoided him all the problems represented here😂😂😂😂

[@badgirlalice]

The mike can pick up her heart beat but it can't pick up her chipmunk voice?

[@sha11235]

It's so close to her beating heart, that is why. It drowns out the voice.

[@russellthompson9271]

That director is hilarious.

[@graceskerp]

Donen's spirit animal.

[@12classics39]

(tenderly) “Now let’s hear how it sounds, Lina.” *turns around seething* “OK QUIET!!!!!!! ROLL EM!!!!!!!!”

[@Zkeleton969]

That poor director is going to have an ulcer at age 40, and burst half the blood vessels in his brain.

[@fana406]

But he looks loser than 40

[@12classics39]

It looks like they burst at the end of the scene there.

[@jastanger]

One of my absolute favorite scenes of all time. Then again, I am a sound guy. ;)

[@neverlandwonderland1006]

"What's that noise?" "The mike's picking up her heartbeat." "Swell." (Reopens door) "CUT!!!"

[@JRRDPR]

I don't like every Hollywood movie being called an epic but this one is a real masterpiece which is all about an era that had changed the lives of viewers worldwide and the music is just pure innocence.:-)Thank you for uploading.Hilarious.

[@bransrubar]

The ending where they yank the wire...it's too funny

[@blondthought5175]

Better stick with "Imperious Princess of the Night". Those "I love you's" could prove to be fatal.

[@matthew3alex]

9 people can't make love to a bush.

[@ianmoseley9910]

Matthew Austin depends whose bush it is

[@MusedDiaries]

Ian moseley 😂😂😂😂😂

[@scoutart1508]

@@MusedDiaries even better, dislikers make love to a bush plant

[@WitchyAnya]

That poor director!! XD As an actress, I sympathize

[@annaritaranalli1791]

0ne of best movies in the world

[@cheyannecouvillion6409]

That director looks like he's going 2 loose it

[@sha11235]

He needs a drink at the end, plus some cocaine.

[@gracestenberg4188]

He’s having a panic attack

[@EditorOfSL]

*Lose it.

[@paula.gonzalezdelgado8046]

This is like a behind the scenes, but in a movie

[@antonesauf]

A tour de force performance by jean Hagen, she is brilliant in this film

[@213luiz]

"Everybody's picking on me!" LOL

[@FallenAngel9979]

This was one of the scenes that cracked me & my mum & sis up when this aired here in England on Boxing Day. That poor director slowly losing it out of sheer frustration was hilarious! Soooo funny! 🤣🤣

[@VirtualVox1984]

The Director pull the Cable and Lina goes down. I am Laughing all the time 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@sha11235]

No, that was the studio head.

[@persebra]

the funniest scene in the movie.

[@inuyasha1014]

Honestly, a lot of these technical errors weren't her fault (as was shown in the actual movie, Don was having a lot of the same audio problems with his scene) --also funny that no one ever also accuses Don of being a diva when he insisted on changing his lines to just "I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you," etc. They are both absolutely divas. But there is only so much an actor can do, Lina or Don, when microphone placement is just bad. They can't just talk into their shoulder or into a bush for the whole movie. As for her voice, her voice is actually really cute. It's very similar to Betty Boop or Harley Quinn. And she was fine with it. She said she liked her voice, she never asked for them to change it or dub her; they did it without her permission, didn't tell her they were doing it, didn't plan on telling her at all, and then to top it off, they were going to humiliate her by 1. dubbing her and letting her find out when the movie was released and 2. letting everyone else watching the movie know that she was dubbed. I feel like her response was pretty understandable given the circumstances. Her options were either 1. Let them get away with their plan to dub her without her consent and let them tell everyone that she was dubbed, probably ruining her career in the process 2. Let herself be dubbed, but do what she did and demand that it be a secret she was dubbed, in hopes of not having her career be ruined (and unfortunately in that case, logically she would've had to keep up the ruse by keeping Kathy as her voice, or else her career would absolutely be ruined as we see in the end of the movie) 3. Demand that the dubbing be removed and her natural voice be used (this probably would've been the best moral choice as the only people it would really hurt was herself maybe if people really didn't like her voice, and the film studio because of sales, which is honestly fine because they really screwed her over) or 4. Sue them, which probably would've ended up in the movie not being released and the studio losing a lot of money now granted, 3 and 4 hurts a lot of people vs just hurting one, but my point is, Lina's options here were very limited. She didn't do this to herself, she didn't wanted to be dubbed. I feel like she was acting in self preservation, which is natural. Granted, she fucked herself over when she decided to go out and give a speech. She rolled a 2 on intelligence in that moment.

[@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario]

Bitch She kept moving her fucking head

[@Blokewood3]

Yeah, Lina's outrage over what the studio was planning was reasonable. The only thing she really did wrong was attempting to force Kathy into a shackling contract where she wouldn't be credited or be able to work on her own career. It's all sad and pointless when you realize that dubbing in films remained really common for decades, and plenty of actors weren't shamed for being dubbed. For example, Todd Armstron in Jason and the Argonauts, Ursula Andress in Dr. No and Gert Frobe in Goldfinger were dubbed, but people don't look down on them for that today. (But everything was all different in the 20s when sound was being introduced)

[@scoutart1508]

At the very least, Betty Boop sounds less ridiculous in execution than Lina’s squeaky voice

[@quillmaurer6563]

Really have to have some sympathy for her - she was going to be screwed no matter what, wasn't really a good solution. But she could have been less of a jerk - that's what made her the villain. Arguably it wasn't her sort of reasonable reaction to this threat to her career (though she certainly could have handled it better) that made her the villain, but just that she was such a jerk the whole time regardless.

[@mattdamutt5681]

Geez, with that stress building up over the decades while trying to make movies, Hollywood's overdose problems make a lot more sense.

[@gracestenberg4188]

They sure do...

[@patriciaarold1270]

I love this movie. To me, it’s my number 1 pick of best musical ever made. I love Gene Kelly and I do love Donald O’Connor too. And one more thing; 46 people disliked this movie. It must be like when Lina says “I canet steend him.” ROFL! 🤣🤣🤣

[@sha11235]

I didn't realize this until I looked it up, but Miss Dinsmore is played by the well known Kathleen Freeman!

[@IchiXDXP]

"Well I can't make love to a bush!" Lina, you pwn everyone.

[@linalooney1446]

Yes, l do

[@murielsartre]

Sound and picture on films now are still separate elements that have to sync up. Today, the 1st AD would say, "Roll sound!" Then the sound guy would say, "Speed!" when he was ready, then the (digital) clap board comes in and the director says, "Action!" Afterwards, the sound guy picks up the ambient sound of the stage or room to use in editing, so everyone on set must be dead silent to record a minute of "room tone." Gosh, I love film-making. And I love this movie!

[@theaxehandle1]

2:03, I don't like doing it either Lina, but we all gotta do it sometimes.

[@darthstarkiller1912]

+theaxehandle1 LOL XD

[@Swingguido]

What a masterpiece !

[@dragondancer1814]

I was interviewed for a news segment four years ago, and it involved one of those little mikes on a wire connected to a battery pack. The wire was threaded through my shirt sleeve to my collar, and I made a crack about feeling like Lina LaMont. Fortunately, the news crew cracked up-I had been afraid that they wouldn’t get the reference!

[@egb50000]

Poor director dude, all he wants to do is make a great movie, but the demand to make a sound motion picture was a whole new stressful, yet hilarious experience.

[@Janinebep]

Just saw the musical! It was amazing!

[@cannedmusic]

I don't know which was funnier, Lina doing the involuntary backflip or Dexter losing it.

[@hallowseve6340]

"Well I can't make love to a bush!" Best line in the scene

[@GarrettRamsfield]

Yes especially with the double entendre

[@lohphat]

I CAN'T STANNEM!

[@graceskerp]

And "I'm a shimmering stah in the cinematic fur-ma-mint."

[@albatross4920]

Lina always reminds me oh Harley Quinn.

[@TheLadyWolf1]

Cameron Duvall I was just gonna say...

[@melissasaint3283]

Cameron Duvall I think they are both doing their best (vocal) impression of Judy Holiday in Born Yesterday.

[@ddthewolf]

Think the director's Mr. J? Lol

[@africanlogic757]

Get lost.

[@violacadbury8343]

That poor director was crumbling

[@Halpin2006]

The part at 2:15 is my favorite! I LOVE how the mic, in her dress, picks up her heartbeat! If I were the director, I would have asked to save a few recordings of that take! ;;wink wink;;

[@honeegrrl]

I like how the director is getting so frustrated, he's funny.

[@rosacotton]

"Sure. Anyway it's comfortable. BUT INTO THE BUSH!" Poor Dexter LOL

[@poisondesires]

director: you have to talk into the mike! lina: "WELL I CAAYYYYNT MAKE LOVE TO A BUSH!~!!!!!!" ROTFLMFAO

[@thealetube3509]

Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Fucking Ass Off?😂

[@123-yoyo3]

The mic is picking up her heart 😂😂

[@tonybihn132]

🤣🤣

[@Lazlo.1]

Swell

[@scoutart1508]

@@Lazlo.1 😡CUT

[@Patis.Vargas.]

"¿Is it alright if I just say what I always do..? "I love you, I love you, I love you..?" "Sure, any way it's comfortable... ¡¡BUT INTO THE BUSH..!!" ¡LOL!

[@matthewhatherley3020]

@@deborah8137 Are you a dick, or are you just mean?

[@SuperHoggar]

Lina is the reason why I love this film :D

[@SuperHoggar]

still fabulous 60 years later :))))

[@AllenMQuinn]

It's crazy how Singin' in the Rain didn't get more nominations for Best Picture. Best Director, etc. including a win for Jean.

[@hopey486]

Allen Quinn it's GEAN

[@hopey486]

I mean GENE

[@AllenMQuinn]

Actually, It's Jean Hagen, who played Lina and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress....

[@fanofmusicals]

"... you shouldn't have... flirting with... surely find you out..." "She's gotta talk into the mike!" HILARIOUS!!

[@12classics39]

If you look at the sound man as he “says” that line, you can tell when he shakes his head that his mouth isn’t moving and the actual line itself was dubbed in later. That only adds to the humor.

[@alaska4939]

I feel like this is very accurate to a movie set. 🤔

[@scoutart1508]

the pressure of perfection, i can relate to that, especially the fact that I am a filmmaker myself

[@joewhitehead3]

At least movie sets have boom mics now

[@Diamond1984]

LOL! That's most funniest scene ever!!! LOL!!!

[@SingleStepStudios]

Just to think how much of an easier time us filmmakers have today compared to back then.

[@Mira-bz8zl]

it's really not easy to play someone who dumb or something. She actually deserves award for this.

[@RikiFaS]

That's such a funny scene of "Singing in The Rain"! Love that movie! Poor man!!!

[@SnowhitePP333]

"Everybody's picking on me!" :-)))))

[@MAGGIETA1]

Jean Hagen,amazing!

[@Readernut]

I watched this a ton when I was quite little, and for a long time, I thought that "Rollum" was a word...

[@fiyaro1]

" i cant make love to a bush!" I love that line lol

[@Tahkaullus01]

Poor Dexter, poor poor Dexter. But definitely not poor Lena.

[@darcybrummett7004]

Tahkaullus01 Yeah, but the last one wasn't her fault.

[@hopey486]

Tahkaullus01 it's LINA

[@Tahkaullus01]

Nope. I looked it up, her name is spelled with an 'e'

[@taylorb9484]

Nope. I looked it up, her name is spelled with an 'i'

[@daniellevinson6975]

I may feel more sympathy for Dexter, but I don't particularly blame Lina for getting stressed out.

[@rigaudien]

Poor Dexter !... Keeping as polite as he can be with Lina-the-star and when he's through talking to her. ...becoming natural ? lollllllllllllllll

[@mtl9732]

You can see Jean Hagen as Doll in 'The Asphalt Jungle' and in TV's 'Make Room for Daddy' as Margaret Williams~1st season. As O'Connor said: They didn't cast a dumb blonde, they cast a great actress to play a dumb blond. She's great!

[@kimclayton2860]

This is my favorite scene in this movie outside of the dance sequences. Jean Hagen was the ditsy dumb blond diva before the word was ever invented and she did it well. ty for the laughs folks....this is great classic filming.

[@scoutart1508]

that is why she earned a nomination

[@EditMania3DStar]

I LOVE THIS SCENE! One of my favorites. The director is SO angry, lol. That chipmunk voice lol. I wonder if she talked like that in real life or on the movie only. Oh pierre lol.

[@suzannejensen275]

She did it only in the movie because a lot of silent film stars had horrible sounding voices and grammar talkies ended their careers. She actually had a beautiful signing voice

[@joewhitehead3]

This is why they invented boom mics

[@bmanpictures]

This is one of the funniest scenes in any movie.

[@DrGregoryHouseIT]

In italian the bush line is even funnier because she refers to the bush as a 'siepa', which fits with her 'intelligence, since a bush in italian is called 'siepe'.

[@alcockell]

Remember, they were cutting the audio straight onto a transcription disc - the mic was feeding a lathe in the camera box. Germany would develop the first magnetic tape recorders in the 1930s.

[@allowkitkat12345]

the ending tho, lol

[@emilypawpsicle8964]

WELL I CANT MAKE LOVE TO A BUSH!!

[@EponineGraydeChagny]

"Well, I can't make love to a bush!!!" LOL I love this movie!

[@abinormal8584]

“Well I can’t make love to a bush”!!!!!!

[@ejay1118]

To be fair, this is their first "sound" movie, maybe he hadn't dealt with the idea that there would be cables lying around.

[@graceskerp]

A shimmering stahr in the cinematic fir man a mint

[@graceloveserenity]

CHEE THIS IS DUMB I love that line!! ;)

[@LaStryka]

"Pierre you shouldn't have" I read while looking at this 1929 silent film poster of Phyllis Havers who looks oddly similar to Lina....

[@margaritayolandahernandezg4375]

Me encantó esta película la vi y la sigo viendo ❤

The Mr. Simpson pulling out wire with mic it made me laugh because director suffered a lot.

[@its_izzymcguire]

Favorite scene of my life

[@Lautaro_Guindulain]

One of the best scenes of the movie!

[@applefan2151]

I’m surprised Jean Hagen was never charged for theft for stealing this film.

[@sha11235]

The director looks familiar to me. Looks like Jack Riley a bit.

[@brianrodney5202]

The movie was made barely twenty years after the time in which it was set.

[@graceskerp]

A lot of the crew and production staff "Been there; saw that."

[@rigaudien]

I always thought the sounds were all re-created apart with specialists that made it just perfect !

[@tati.l.]

INTO THE BUSH!

[@dzsulie]

the funniest scene EVER:D i LOVE it:)

[@12classics39]

“Sure. Any way it’s comfortable. But INNNNTTO THE BUSSSSHH!!!”

[@oscarsosa3498]

the real sense of joy

[@BlueFireTigerLion]

lina lamont is the reason we have body mics and shotgun mics

[@manuelorozco7760]

No wonder Lina got an Oscar nomination first of all. Second is i can see from Roscoe where Mr Flannigan from Cats Don't Dance gers his director workclothes!