Warner won the coin toss, and she was with the studio for two years. When Warner Brothers stopped producing musicals, she moved to MGM. With MGM, Reynolds regularly appeared in movie musicals during the 1950s and had several hit records during the period. Her song "Aba Daba Honeymoon" (featured in the film "Two Weeks with Love" (1950) and sung as a duet with co-star Carleton Carpenter) was the first soundtrack recording to become a top-of-the-chart gold record, reaching number three on the "Billboard" charts. Her performance in the film greatly impressed the studio, which then gave her a co-starring role in what would become her highest-profile film, "Singin' in the Rain" (1952), a satire on movie making in Hollywood during the transition from silent to sound pictures. It co-starred Gene Kelly, whom she called a "great dancer and cinematic genius," adding, "He made me a star. I was 18 and he taught me how to dance and how to work hard and be dedicated." In 1956, she appeared in "Bundle of Joy" with her then-husband, Eddie Fisher. Her starring role in "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" (1964) led to a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Reynolds noted that she initially had issues with its director, Charles Walters. "He didn't want me," she said. "He wanted Shirley MacLaine," who at the time was unable to take the role. "He said 'You are totally wrong for the part." But six weeks into production, he reversed his opinion. "He came to me and said, "I have to admit that I was wrong. You are playing the role really well. I'm pleased." Reynolds also played in "Goodbye Charlie", a 1964 comedy film about a callous womanizer who gets his just reward. It was adapted from George Axelrod's play "Goodbye, Charlie" and also starred Tony Curtis and Pat Boone. She next portrayed Jeanine Deckers in "The Singing Nun" (1966). In what Reynolds once called the "stupidest mistake of my entire career", she made headlines in 1970 after instigating a fight with the NBC television network over cigarette advertising on her weekly television show. Although she was television's highest paid female performer at the time, she quit the show for breaking its contract:  When NBC explained to Reynolds that banning cigarette commercials from her show would be impossible, she kept her resolve.