Stanley Donen Tribute and Singing in the Rain

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Last week lost the great director Stanley Donen and we thought there was no greater tribute to him than to replay his most famous film, Singing in the Rain along with a new tribute to the man and his career. Don’t forget to support The Cine-Files at https://www.patreon.com/TheCineFiles and purchase any film we feature at https://www.cine-files.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheCineFilesPod/?ref=bookmarks John @therochasays Steve @srmorris --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecine-files/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecine-files/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hi this is Steve and I want to welcome you to a very special tribute edition of the Cinephiles.
0:05.0	As you know, one of the sad duties we have on the show is recognizing artists that we've lost and last week we lost the great director Stanley Donnan.
0:13.0	And so we thought it was a good time to re-release our episode on Singing in the Rain,
0:17.0	which, strangely enough, was another tribute to Debbie Reynolds.
0:21.0	Now normally, John and I record these tributes together, but he's off conquering the UK
0:26.4	with his special top 10 live show, which sounds like it's going great, and so it's just going
0:30.9	to be me this time.
0:32.1	And the strange thing is, the more I looked into Stanley Don and
0:34.7	the more interesting he became to me.
0:36.9	He was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1924,
0:39.9	and he was a Jewish kid, and it sounds like
0:41.8	being a Jewish kid in Columbia at that time wasn't so easy.
0:45.2	He faced a lot of anti-Semitism and bullying, and so he did what a lot of future directors
0:50.8	did, which is he hit out in the movie theater, and he watched movies as much as he possibly could.
0:56.7	He watched comedies and Westerns. He loved thrillers. But the movie that had the strongest impact on him,
1:02.4	the one that changed his life,
1:04.0	was Fred Astaire in Ginger Rogers in Flying Down to Rio,
1:08.0	which he says he watched 30 or 40 times.
1:11.0	And that led him to take dance lessons, which he started at about nine years old.
1:15.0	And the other thing that happened was right around the same time his parents gave him an 8 millimeter camera which he played with constantly.
1:22.0	And this is, you know, a story that we've heard before.
1:25.0	We've heard about Stephen Spielberg, Martin Scorsese,
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