Q:Information: - The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, distribution; and actors, film directors and other film crew personnel. - Elaine May (born April 21, 1932) is an American screenwriter, film director, actress, and comedian. She made her initial impact in the 1950s from her improvisational comedy routines with Mike Nichols, performing as Nichols and May. After her duo with Nichols ended, May subsequently developed a career as a director and screenwriter. - Funny Face is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and written by Leonard Gershe, containing assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Although having the same title as the 1927 Broadway musical "Funny Face" by the Gershwin brothers, and featuring the same male star (Fred Astaire), the plot is totally different and only four of the songs from the stage musical are included. Alongside Astaire, the film stars Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson. - Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels"), officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the second-most populous city in the United States (after New York City), the most populous city in California and the county seat of Los Angeles County. Situated in Southern California, Los Angeles is known for its mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, sprawling metropolis, and as a major center of the American entertainment industry. Los Angeles lies in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over . - Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director, producer and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likeable characters that he played on screen. - Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer, businesswoman, film historian, and humanitarian. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film "Three Little Words", and her breakout role was her first leading role, as Kathy Selden in "Singin' in the Rain" (1952). Other successes include "The Affairs of Dobie Gillis" (1953), "Susan Slept Here" (1954), "Bundle of Joy" (1956 Golden Globe nomination), "The Catered Affair" (1956 National Board of Review Best Supporting Actress Winner), and "Tammy and the Bachelor" (1957), in which her performance of the song "Tammy" reached number one on the "Billboard" music charts. In 1959, she released her first pop music album, titled "Debbie". - The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (also called Casanova Junior) is a 1953 comedy musical film. The film is based on the same writings by Max Shulman as the subsequent television series, "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis". Bobby Van played Gillis in this musical version, co-starring with Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse. - Royal Wedding is a 1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. The film was directed by Stanley Donen; it was his second film and the first he directed on his own. It was released as Wedding Bells in the United Kingdom. - Hollywood (, informally Tinseltown ) is an ethnically diverse, densely populated, relatively low-income neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U.S. film industry, including several of its historic studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry and the people in it. - Stanley Donen (; born April 13, 1924) is an American film director and choreographer whose most celebrated works are "Singin' in the Rain" and "On the Town", both of which he co-directed with actor and dancer Gene Kelly. His other noteworthy films include "Royal Wedding", "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", "Funny Face", "Indiscreet", "Damn Yankees!", "Charade", and "Two for the Road". He received an Honorary Academy Award in 1998 for his body of work and a Career Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival in 2004. He was hailed by film critic David Quinlan as "the King of the Hollywood musicals". Donen married five times and had three children. His current long term partner is film director and comedian Elaine May. - The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ("International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale"), founded in 1932, is the oldest film festival in the world and one of the "Big Three" film festivals alongside the Cannes Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival. - The Catered Affair (1956), also known as Wedding Party, is a family drama film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Sam Zimbalist from a screenplay by Gore Vidal, based on a television play by Paddy Chayefsky. The film score was by Andre Previn and the cinematography by John Alton. - Francis the Talking Mule was a mule character who became a celebrity during the 1950s after he starred in seven popular Universal-International film comedies. The character originated in the 1946 novel "Francis" by former U.S. Army Captain David Stern III (19092003), son of newspaper publisher J. David Stern. After another studio turned down the property, Universal bought the rights for a film series, with Stern adapting his own script for the first entry, simply titled "Francis". - Bundle of Joy (1956) is a Technicolor musical remake of the comedy film "Bachelor Mother" (1939), which starred Ginger Rogers. It stars Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (who were married in real-life at the time), and Adolphe Menjou. An unmarried salesgirl at a department store finds and takes care of an abandoned baby. Much confusion results when her co-workers assume the child is hers and that the father is the son of the store owner. - Donald David Dixon Ronald OConnor (August 28, 1925 September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. - Tammy and the Bachelor is a 1957 romantic comedy film and is the first of the four Tammy films. It stars Debbie Reynolds as Tambrey "Tammy" Tyree, Walter Brennan as Grandpa Dinwitty and Leslie Nielsen as Peter Brent. It was adapted from the 1948 novel "Tammy Out of Time" by Cid Ricketts Sumner. - California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western (Pacific Ocean) coast of the U.S., California is bordered by the other U.S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. The state capital is Sacramento. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second largest after New York City. The state also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. - Gloria Jean (born April 14, 1926) is an American actress and singer who starred or co-starred in 26 feature films between 1939 and 1959, as well as making numerous radio, television, stage, and nightclub appearances. - Susan Slept Here is a 1954 American romantic comedy film starring Dick Powell (in his last film role) and Debbie Reynolds. Shot in Technicolor, the film was based on the play of the same name by Steve Fisher and Alex Gottlieb. The film's plotline was later used again by director Frank Tashlin for 1962's "Bachelor Flat". - Singin ' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical comedy film directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen , starring Kelly , Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds , and choreographed by Kelly and Donen . It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late ' 20s , with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to '' talkies . '' The film was only a modest hit when first released , with only Donald O'Connor 's win at the Golden Globe Awards , Betty Comden and Adolph Green 's win for their screenplay at the Writers Guild of America Awards , and Jean Hagen 's nomination at the Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress being the only major recognitions it received . However , it was accorded its legendary status by contemporary critics . It is now frequently regarded as one of the best musicals ever made , and the best film ever made in the '' Arthur Freed Unit '' at Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer . It topped the AFI 's Greatest Movie Musicals list , and is ranked as the fifth greatest American motion picture of all time in its updated list of the greatest American films in 2007 . In 1989 , the United States Library of Congress deemed the film '' culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant '' and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry . - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a 1954 musical film, photographed in Ansco Color in the CinemaScope format. The film was directed by Stanley Donen, with music by Saul Chaplin and Gene de Paul, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and choreography by Michael Kidd. The screenplay, by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Dorothy Kingsley, is based on the short story "The Sobbin' Women", by Stephen Vincent Benet, which was based in turn on the Ancient Roman legend of The Rape of the Sabine Women. "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", which is set in Oregon in 1850, is particularly known for Kidd's unusual choreography, which makes dance numbers out of such mundane frontier pursuits as chopping wood and raising a barn. Film critic Stephanie Zacharek has called the barn-raising sequence in "Seven Brides" "one of the most rousing dance numbers ever put on screen." What entity does 'singin' in the rain' has the relation 'main subject' with?
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filmmaking