Singin' in the Rain - Filming a Scene in Singin' in the Rain
Roscoe Dexter:
All right, here we go! QUIET!! ROLL EM!!
Lina Lamont:
Oh, Pierre! You shouldn't have come!
Recorder:
She's gotta talk into the mike. I can't pick it up.
Roscoe Dexter:
CUT!!
Don Lockwood:
What's the matter, Dexter?
Roscoe Dexter:
It's Lina! Look, Lina, don't you remember? I told you. There's a microphone right there in the bush.
Lina Lamont:
Yeah.
Roscoe Dexter:
You have to talk into it.
Lina Lamont:
I was talking. Wasn't I, Mrs. Dinsmore?
Dinsmore:
Yes, my dear. But please remember, round tones. "Pierre, you shouldn't have come!
Lina Lamont:
Pierre, you shouldn't have come!
Dinsmore:
Yes, yes, my dear. That's much better.
Roscoe Dexter:
Hold it a second! Now, Lina, look. Here's the mike, right here in the bush.
Lina Lamont:
Yeah!
Roscoe Dexter:
Now you talk towards it. The sound goes through the cable to the box. A man records it on a big record in wax. But, you have to talk into the mike first. In the bush! Now, try it again.
Lina Lamont:
Gee, this is dumb.
Don Lockwood:
She'll get it, Dexter. Lina, don't worry. We're all a little nervous on the first day. Everything's gonna be okay. Oh, Roscoe! You know the scene where I say, "Imperious princess of the night?" I don't like those lines there. Is it okay if I say what I always do? "I love you, I love you, I love you!
Roscoe Dexter:
Sure. Anyway, it's comfortable. BUT, INTO THE BUSH!! Okay, again! QUIET!! ROLL EM!!
Lina Lamont:
Oh, Pierre, you shouldn't have come! You're flirting with danger. You'll surely find you out.
Roscoe Dexter:
CUT!! Lina, you're missing every other word. You've got to talk into the mike!
Lina Lamont:
Well, I can't make love to a bush!
Roscoe Dexter:
Alright, alright! We'll have to think of something else.
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Singin' in the Rain - Transitioning to Talking Pictures and New Opportunities
R.F. Simpson:
The public is screaming for more...talking pictures...Every studio is jumping on the bandwagon, Dexter. All the theatres are putting in sound equipment. We don't want to be left out of it.
Cosmo:
Talking pictures, that means I'm out of a job. At last I can start suffering and write that symphony.
R.F. Simpson:
You're not out of a job, we're putting you in as head of the new music department.
Cosmo:
Well, thanks, R.F.! At last I can stop suffering and write that symphony.
R.F. Simpson:
Don, it'll be a sensation! "Lamont and Lockwood: they talk!
Lina Lamont: [with a voice to peel paint]
Well of course we talk. Don't everybody?
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Singin' in the Rain - Finding Joy in Hard Work
Lina Lamont:
If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain't been in vain for nothing. Bless you all.
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Singin' in the Rain - A Star's Declaration of Grandeur
Lina Lamont:
People? I ain't people! I am a---'a shimmering, glowing star in the cinema firm-a-mint! It says so - right there.
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Singin' in the Rain - Lina Lamont's Defiance Against Being Undermined
Lina Lamont: [[Calvin Coolidge]
You mean it's gonna say up on the screen that I don't talk and sing for myself?...They can't DO that!...They can't make a fool out of Lina Lamont. They can't make a laughingstock out of Lina Lamont. What do they think I am, dumb or something? Why I make more money than—than—than ]! Put together!
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