The Dueling Cavalier

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The Dueling Cavalier is the fictional silent-era costume drama within the classic musical film "Singin' in the Rain," which is disastrously converted into a talking picture before being transformed into the hit musical "The Dancing Cavalier."

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The Dueling Cavalier canonical 6

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Predicate Object
instanceOf costume drama
fictional film
silent film within a film
appearsInWork Singin' in the Rain
associatedWithCharacter Cosmo Brown
Don Lockwood
Kathy Selden
Lina Lamont
conversionOutcome disastrous talking picture
convertedToSound yes
depictsIndustryChange advent of talking pictures
eraDepicted silent era
fictionalStatus nonexistent film in real world
genre costume drama
laterTransformedInto The Dancing Cavalier
medium silent film
narrativeFunction film-within-a-film
parentWorkDirectors Gene Kelly
Stanley Donen
parentWorkMedium American musical film
parentWorkReleaseYear 1952
parentWorkTitle Singin' in the Rain
problemInPlot Lina Lamont's unsuitable voice
poor synchronization of sound
productionCompanyInFiction Monumental Pictures
relatedWork The Dancing Cavalier
roleInTheme illustrates transition from silent to sound cinema
settingType period piece
solutionInPlot dubbing by Kathy Selden
reconceived as musical The Dancing Cavalier

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Don Lockwood notableWorkInFiction The Dueling Cavalier
Lina Lamont filmWithinFilm The Dueling Cavalier
Monumental Pictures producesInFiction The Dueling Cavalier
The Royal Rascal associatedWork The Dueling Cavalier
The Dancing Cavalier adaptedFromInUniverse The Dueling Cavalier