Gene A Kelly

Gene Kelly

• Birth Name Kelly, Eugene Curran
• Biography M-G-M was the largest and most powerful studio in Hollywood when Gene Kelly arrived in town in 1941. He came direct from the hit 1940 original Broadway production of "Pal Joey" and planned to return t...
  
• Write biography Dale O'Connor <[email protected]>
  
• Spouse 'Patricia Ward' (20 July 1990 - 2 February 1996) (his death)
  Jeanne Coyne (6 August 1960 - 10 May 1973) (her death); 2 children
  Betsy Blair (22 September 1941 - 3 April 1957) (divorced); 1 child
  
• Trade Mark Known for his innovative, athletic style of dancing
  
• Trivia During World War II he was a sailor stationed at the U S NavalPhotographic Center in Anacostia, DC (where the documentary"Victory at Sea" (1952) was later assembled for NBC-TV). Hestarred in several N...
  Attended Peabody High School in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh,Pa.
  (October 1997) Ranked #26 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 MovieStars of All Time" list.
  Inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1992.
  He was awarded the National Medal of Freedom from PresidentBill Clinton (I) in 1994.
  Kelly's father was Al Jolson's road manager in the 1920s.
  
• Other Work "The RCA VideoDisc Preview Album", promotional CED videodiscdistributed to RCA dealers in the 1980s.
  "America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story" (1977), as [unknown]
  "Changing Scene, The" 11 September 1970 as host
  "Changing Scene, The" 10 December 1970 as host
  "Christmas Around The World" as [unknown] 19 December 1976
  "Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: George Burns" as [unknown] 10 May 1978
  
• Biography print Tony Thomas (I). _The Films of Gene Kelly: Song & Dance Man._ Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1974.ISBN 0806504005
  Sheridan Morley and Ruth Leon. _Gene Kelly: ACelebration._ London: Pavilion Books, 1996.ISBN 1857938488
  Alvin Yudkoff. _Gene Kelly: A Life of Dance and Dreams._ New York: Back Stage Books, 1999.ISBN 0823088138
  Clive Hirschhorn. _Gene Kelly._ London, England: W.H. Allen, 1974.
  Patricia Ward Kelly. _Life's Too Short: A Story of Gene Kelly._ New York: Public Affairs Books, 2002.ISBN 1586480952
  Jeanine Basinger. _Gene Kelly: A Pictorial History of the Movies._ New York: Pyramid Communications, 1976.
  
• Personal quotes [on his working experience with Debbie Reynolds (I) while filmingSingin' in the Rain (1952) (1952)] I wasn't nice to Debbie. It'sa wonder she still speaks to me.
  There was no model for what I tried to do with dance . . . and the thingFred Astaire and I used to bitch about was that critics didn'tknow how to categorize us. They called us tap dancers because that...
  The contract system at Hollywood studios like MGM was a very efficientsystem in that because we were at the studio all the time we couldrehearse a lot. But it also really repressed people. There were ...
  Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they'vestudied the tapes of the old films. We didn't have that. We thoughtonce we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the a...
  I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.But if I put on a white tails and tux like [Fred Astaire], Istill looked like a truck driver.
  If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm theMarlon Brando.
  
• Biographical movie The American Film Institute Salute to Gene Kelly (1985) (TV)
  Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer (2002) (TV)
  Gene Kelly: An American in Pasadena (1978) (TV)
  
• Filmography

  Singin' in the Rain (1952) Musical

  An American in Paris (1951) Musical

  Cover Girl (1944) Musical

  Hello, Dolly! (1969) Musical

  Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's (2009) (V) Musical

  Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's (2009) (V) Musical

  Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009) (V) Musical

  Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967) Musical

  Michael Jackson (2009) (TV) Documentary

  The Pirate (1948) Musical