Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. Written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.

Don Lockwood

• [Lina believes the tabloid reports of a romance between her and Don] Lina, there is nothing between us. There's never been anything between us. Just air.

Lina Lamont

• You mean it's gonna say up on the screen that I don't talk and sing for myself?...They can't do that!...They can't make a fool out of Lina Lamont. They can't make a laughingstock out of Lina Lamont. What do they think I am, dumb or something? Why I make more money than--than--than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!

• If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'.

Cosmo Brown

• [singing] Moses supposes his toeses are roses
  But Moses supposes erroneously
  Moses he knowses his toeses aren't roses
  As Moses supposes his toeses to be.

Kathy Seldan

• I may as well tell you. I'm the one who hit Miss Lamont with a cake. [looks at Don angrily] Believe me, it was meant for Mr. Lockwood.

Dialogue

R.F. Simpson: Don, it'll be a sensation! "Lamont and Lockwood: they talk!"

Lina Lamont: [with a voice to peel paint] Well of course we talk. Don't everybody?

[Simpson, Don, and Cosmo look back at Lina, worried.]

[After Don Lockwood's latest film is jeered by test audiences]

Don Lockwood: I'm through, fellas.

Kathy Selden: Don, you're not through!

Cosmo Brown: Why of course not. Why, with your looks and figure, you could drive an ice wagon or shine shoes!

Kathy Selden: Block hats!

Cosmo Brown: Sell pencils!

Kathy Selden: Dig ditches!

Cosmo Brown: Or worse still, go back to vaudeville.

Cosmo Brown: The price of fame. You've got the glory, you gotta take the little heartaches that go with it. Now look at me: I've got no fame, I've got no glory, I've got no big mansions, I've got no money! But I've got - what have I got?

Don Lockwood: I don't know, what have you got?

Cosmo Brown: I gotta get out of here.

Rod: Lina, you're a beautiful woman. Audiences think you've got a voice to match. The studio's gotta keep their stars from looking ridiculous at any cost.

Cosmo Brown: Nobody's got that much money.

Cast

• Gene Kelly - Don Lockwood
• Donald O'Connor - Cosmo Brown
• Debbie Reynolds - Kathy Selden
• Jean Hagen - Lina Lamont
• Millard Mitchell - R.F. Simpson
• Cyd Charisse - Dancer
• Douglas Fowley - Roscoe Dexter
• Rita Moreno - Zelda Zanders