Milk and mythology in "Singin' in the Rain"

Authors

  • Kelli Marshall DePaul University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.01159

Keywords:

Fan studies, Film, IMDb, Musical

Abstract

I debunk one of the most widely disseminated myths about the film musical Singin' in the Rain (1952): that set designers added milk (or ink) to the water so that raindrops would show up on screen. In so doing, I also attempt to locate the milk myth's origin and explain why this falsehood has intensified over the last 20 years.

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Published

2017-09-15

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Section

Symposium