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But it also elevates the film from a fluffy comedy to high art. This sequence—featuring Cyd Charisse as a femme fatale in green—has nothing to do with Don Lockwood or talking pictures. It is a dream. It is a dance of violence, lust, and ambition. Gene Kelly goes from a streetwise hoofer to a murdered lover. The colors are noirish. The music is aggressive.

He tossed his umbrella aside.

A musical is only as good as its villain, and Jean Hagen’s Lina Lamont is a masterpiece of comedic acting. In a film about sound, Hagen—who actually had a beautiful, dulcet speaking voice—chose to speak like a buzzsaw. Singin- in the Rain