Pittsburgh Steelers

This defeat marked the fourth time in ten years that the Steelers have lost the conference title game at home under Bill Cowher. In spite of this, the movie has been digitally restored to an impressive standard of picture and sound quality. The Steelers defeated the New York Jets in the Divisional Round yet lost to the New England Patriots, 41-27, in the AFC Championship. The audio commentary on the movie's "Special Edition" DVD includes a claim that the original negative was destroyed in a fire. As a result of this dominant season, the Steelers received home field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Only three previous teams have 15 wins, with the Steelers being the first AFC team to accomplish this feat. Jean Hagen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

The Steelers completed the 2004 regular season with the best record in the NFL at 15-1. Kelly was also responsible for the Choreography. It has become an article of faith among NFL pundits that the Steelers do not have a bad team two years in a row -- they have never lost 10 or more in consecutive years since the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger. The film was directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Cowher led the Steelers to the playoffs in each of his first six seasons as coach, a feat that had only previously been accomplished by fabled coach Paul Brown of the Browns. Shooting began on June 18, 1951 and was completed on November 21, 1951. He was replaced by Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Bill Cowher, a native of the Pittsburgh suburb of Crafton, PA. This was done using three break dancers, a recreation of the original set and superimposing Kelly's face onto the dancer.

In 1991, legendary coach Chuck Noll, who led the Steelers to four Super Bowl victories, retired. It has also been the subject of a 2005 advert for the new VW Golf GTI, where Kelly appears to be break dancing instead of doing his usual routine until he reaches a policeman standing by the car. During the 1943 season, they merged with the Philadelphia Eagles and were known as the "Steagles". It has of course been parodied several times, notably by Morecambe and Wise and Paddington Bear. In 1942 they merged with the Chicago Cardinals and were know as "Card-Pitt" and informally known as the "Car-Pitts" or "Carpets" (due to their ineptitude; they won no games). The dance routine in which Gene Kelly sings the title song while twirling an umbrella, splashing through puddles and generally getting soaked to the skin, is probably the most famous of all movie musical sequences. They twice merged with other NFL franchises in order to field a team. The song "Make 'Em Laugh" uncomfortably resembles the Cole Porter song "Be a Clown." Comden and Green wrote the music and lyrics to the number "Moses Supposes.".

During World War II, the Steelers experienced player shortages. The film features a rendition of the 1929 song "Singin' in the Rain" by Arthur Freed (who also produced) & Nacio Herb Brown, along with other Freed and Brown tunes from the late 1920s and the 1930s. The Immaculate Reception game happened in this postseason. Meanwhile Lockwood falls in love with the overdub artist Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds) and Lamont does everything possible to sabotage the romance. In fact, they had only eight winning seasons prior to that season, despite being one of the oldest teams in the league. After a terrible screen test, Lockwood and his partner Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor) decide to return to their roots and convince the studio to overdub Lamont's voice and turn The Dueling Cavalier into The Dancing Cavalier, a musical comedy. The Steelers had a long history of futility before 1972, their first postseason appearance. The production is beset with difficulties, not least Lina's inadvertently comical speaking voice.

Longtime sportscaster Myron Cope is well known in Pittsburgh for his distinctive voice and commentary. After the smash-hit of the historical talking picture innovator, The Jazz Singer, Lockwood's studio decides to convert the current Lockwood/Lamont vehicle, The Dueling Cavalier, into a talkie. Their coach was Chuck Noll. Lockwood barely tolerates his vapid leading lady, Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), who is convinced their screen romance is real. The team had a dominant defense known as The Steel Curtain and an offense led by Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Lynn Swann, and John Stallworth. Kelly plays Don Lockwood, a silent film star with humble roots. The team appeared in five Super Bowls, winning four and is regarded as The Team of The Seventies. Themes of certains arts being inferior to others, or the immortal if you seen one of them, you've seen them all (which is what Rossini also said about his operas) are today as vivid as ever.

The team was so named because of the abundant steel industry in the city. The movie has an extraordinarily intelligent plot, which greatly contributes to the work being systematically classified as the best musical comedy ever. The Pittsburgh Steelers are a National Football League team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Singin' in the Rain, a 1952 Gene Kelly musical film, chronicled Hollywood's transition from silent films to "talkies". Bill Cowher, 1992-present (9 Playoff appearances, 1 Super Bowl appearance). In the lead in to Make 'em Laugh, O'Conner/Cosmo sarcastically references the tragic line "ridi pagliaccio" ("Laugh, clown") from I Pagliacci. 15. Dora Bailey, the gushy gossip columnist is an uncredited role played by Madge Blake who was later famous for her role as Aunt Harriet on Batman.

Chuck Noll, 1969-1991 (12 Playoff appearances, 4 Super Bowl victories). Simpson also uses one of Freed's frequent expressions when he says that he "cannot quite visualize it and has to see it on film first", referring to the Broadway ballet sequence. 14. F. Bill Austin, 1966-1968. R. 13. Simpson are a reference to Arthur Freed.

Mike Nixon, 1965. F. 12. The initials of the fictional Monumental Pictures' owner, R. Buddy Parker, 1957-1964 (1 Playoff appearance). Surviving prints of the sequence feature Reynolds singing in her own voice. 11. One possible reason why the scene was cut is that it somewhat contradicts the initial scene where Debbie does not immediately identify Gene when he jumps into her car.