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Home video releases

The 40th Anniversary Edition VHS version includes a documentary, the original trailer, and Reynolds' solo rendition of "Singin' in the Rain", which was cut from the film. According to the audio commentary on the Special Edition DVD, the original negative was destroyed in a fire, but despite this, the film has been digitally restored for its DVD release.

Cultural references

• A similar plot had been used in the 1946 French film Étoile sans lumière (aka "Star without Light"), directed by Marcel Blistene, starring Edith Piaf and Mila Parely and later in the 1959 British film Follow a Star, directed by Robert Asher and starring Norman Wisdom and Jerry Desmonde.
• "Singin' in the Rain" is sung mockingly by Alex DeLarge, played by Malcolm McDowell, in the rape scene in Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange (1971). An edited version of Gene Kelly's rendition is heard during the end credits.
• The "Singin' in the Rain" routine has been parodied or imitated numerous times, including by Morecambe and Wise and Paddington Bear and The Wombles. The dance was also parodied, briefly, by The Goodies during their television episode Saturday Night Grease, where the music for the dance sequence was "Singin' in the Rain". It was also once sung (very badly) by Bill Owen outside Nora Batty's house in an episode of Last of the Summer Wine. In the 1980 film Fame, the character Coco Hernandez (played by Irene Cara) dances in a puddle on a train station while singing "Singin' in the Rain". Canadian figure skater Kurt Browning did an on-ice (and water) recreation in a Stars on Ice television special.[8] Actor Tom Hanks also performed a version of the dance routine in the 1988 film Punchline.
• The sequence was also the subject of a 2005 advertisement for the new Volkswagen Golf GTI. Kelly appeared to replace his routine with a combination of breakdance and body pop dancing styles, culminating when he stopped to look at the aforementioned car. To create this illusion, three breakdancers performed different parts of the routine on a painstakingly recreated replica of the original set. Kelly's face was digitally superimposed upon each dancer in post-production for the close-ups, while prosthetic makeup was sufficient for most of the footage. A big beat remix of the original song by Mint Royale provided the soundtrack.
• A predominant theme in season four of The Spencer Howard Show is Spencer's starring role in a shot-for-shot remake of Singin' in the Rain.
• The popular Bollywood film Om Shanti Om (2007) is, like Singin' in the Rain, set in a film studio. The sequence for the song 'Main Agar Kahoon' is a clear homage to the sound-stage sequence for 'You Were Meant for Me'.
• The dance to the title song is parodied in the Broadway musical Spamalot in the dance break to "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life," complete with tap dancing in raincoats and twirling umbrellas.
• In the Broadway musical The Full Monty, one of the characters (Ethan) spends the better part of the show unsuccessfully trying to replicate Donald O'Connor's famed "running up the wall thing" from "Make 'Em Laugh."
• An episode of Family Guy has Quagmire dancing and singing a parody of "Make 'Em Laugh" in an adult movie store, while in another episode, Joe, Quagmire, Cleveland, Peter, and Stewie recreate the song and choreography of "Good Morning."
• Ewan McGregor's character in Moulin Rouge! does a similar dance, spinning with an umbrella during "Your Song".

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