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DVD COVER VS. REAL OPENING CREDITS

posted 9 years ago by snsurone
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On the DVD cover, Debbie Reynolds is shown wearing sexy, high-heeled boots.
But in the opening credits, she wears a pair of clumsy looking galoshes, which, I suppose, all struggling chorines wore when it rained.
Notice that in the "sneak preview" scene (my favorite one in the movie, BTW), Lina isn't wearing any kind of foot protection in the rain.
I guess she'd rather risk catching cold than to be seen in (gasp!) galoshes.

BTW, Gene Kelly came down with a 103 degree fever after his solo dance number.
Betcha one reason is that he didn't wear protective rubbers, either, LOL!
(Oh, by "protective rubbers", I wasn't referring to condoms, LMAO!)

[–] murph24 9 years ago

BTW, Gene Kelly came down with a 103 degree fever after his solo dance number.

Actually, Gene Kelly developed a sinus infection & high fever while rehearsing the "Singin' in the Rain" number but BEFORE it was actually filmed. MGM studio records and ex-wife Betsy Blair confirmed that Kelly became ill on July 9 and only worked half a day; he remained at home and wouldn't return to MGM until July 14. But his illness lingered and actually peaked the following day, which is when his temperature hit 103 degrees; his personal physician refused to let him out of the house (particularly to shoot a sequence in the rain) until July 17. But thanks to the preparation and rehearsal that had already been done, the number was ready to go before the camera; it was shot over the two-day period of July 18-19. His sinus infection was gone, but a slight fever remained; whenever there was a break in filming, he ducked out of the soundstage and basked in the warm California sunshine.

It's all in the book "Singin' in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece."

[–] njgill 9 years ago

I doubt thre was such an item as as waterproof "sexy, high-heeled boots" in the late 20s -that would be the product of some 80s or 90s art department hack's imagination. The "clumsy looking galoshes" would have been authentic to the period; left casually unbuckled and loose on top, they inspired the nickname "flapper" for their wearers.

[–] snsurone 9 years ago

Oh?
I always thought the term "flapper"referred to the short skirts and how they swished ("flapped") as the girls moved.

[–] JDnHuntsvilleAL 8 years ago

It does. njgill is wrong about that.

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[–] njgill 8 years ago

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Flappers.aspx

The term flapper originated in Great Britain, where there was a short fad among young women to wear rubber galoshes (an overshoe worn in the rain or snow) left open to flap when they walked. The name stuck, and throughout the United States and Europe flapper was the name given to liberated young women.

[–] Doghouse-6 8 years ago

That appears to be in some dispute. The encyclopedia.com entry contains no citations, as the following do -

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=flapper

http://www.liquisearch.com/flapper/etymology

- the second of which notes:

As the adoption of the term in America coincided with a fashion among teenage girls in the early 1920s for wearing unbuckled galoshes a widespread false etymology held that they were called "flappers" because they flapped when they walked, as they wore their overshoes or galoshes unfastened, showing that they defied convention in a manner similar to the 21st century fad for untied shoelaces.

It's often the case that accurate sources of the development of slang terminology are never definitively established.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

That "DVD cover" is actually one of the original movie posters. That image was not created for the DVD.