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Gene Kelly (1912–1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer and choreographer whose work in motion pictures spans from 1942 to 1996. He is probably best known today for his performances in musicals, notably An American in Paris (1951) and Singin' in the Rain (1952). Kelly made his Hollywood film debut in For Me and My Gal ...
Jul 12, 2014 · By Brian Seibert. July 11, 2014. When Patricia Ward Kelly met her future husband, Gene, in 1985, she had never heard of him. Somehow she — a “nerdy Melville scholar” who had been hired as a ...
Nov 11, 2023 · Barbra Streisand writes in her new memoir that working with Gene Kelly on 1969's 'Hello, Dolly!' "didn’t live up to the fantasy I had from watching him on‑screen" By. Tommy McArdle.
In her 2013 memoir Unsinkable, co-written with Dorian Hannaway, Reynolds revealed that Gene Kelly, her costar in what would become her big break, 1952's Singin' in the Rain, forcibly stuck his ...
Feb 2, 1996 · Gene Kelly, tap dancer, choreographer, and film director who helped to perfect tap dance as an art form, extending its narrative and dramatic expression to the medium of film, was born Eugene Curran Kelly, the third of five children (in descending order, Joan, James, Gene, Louise, and Fred).
Gene Kelly. Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996), better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, and choreographer. He was a great example of 20th century filmed dance, famous for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the like able characters that he played on screen.
With his first film FOR ME AND MY GAL in 1942, Gene Kelly established himself as a strong and unique screen personality. In the 1944 film COVER GIRL he began to explore what he saw as the unlimited reaches of the film medium. His “Alter Ego” dance was hailed then, and still stands today, as a testimony to the vision of an individual not ...
