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Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style. Kelly sought to create a new form of American dance accessible to the general public, which he called "dance for the common man". He starred in, choreographed, and, with Stanley Donen, co-directed some of the best-regarded musical films of the 1940s and…
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entertainment · American actor, dancer, singer and director (1912–1996) · film actor · singer · film director · actor · choreographer · dancer · screenwriter · stage actor · television actor · film producer · also Gene Kelly, Eugene Curran Kelly, Eugene Kelly, Kelly
Born 23 August 1912 · Died 2 February 1996 · Q73089
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2025· 3 entries
BroadwayWorld: Gene Kelly Awards Announces Winners for 2025
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insider.si.edu: Gene Kelly Filming at American History
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2024· 1 entry
Released album “Singer & Dancer”.
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “Stars of Musicals: The Greatest Musical Songs”.
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Manhattan Melodies Songs of New York”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Singin' In The Rain: The Very Best Of Gene Kelly”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Summer Stock and In the Good Old Summertime”.
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1999· 1 entry
The American Film Institute also ranked him as the 15th greatest male screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema
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1996· 6 entries
Released album “'S Wonderful”.
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Died 1996-02-02.
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“Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.”
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“I really don't know why I clicked. I didn't want to be a dancer, I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.”
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“In the 1930s, when I started, Martha Graham was the only dancer doing anything modern, but she did it all to classical music. I couldn't see myself doing Swan Lake every night, and I wanted to develop a truly American style. The only dancer in the movies at that time with any success was Fred Astaire, but he did very small, elegant steps in a top hat, white tie, and tails.”
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Released album “The Best of Gene Kelly”.
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1994· 1 entry
– The Three Tenors performed "Singin' in the Rain" in his presence during a concert at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “Gotta Dance! The Best of Gene Kelly”.
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Kelly was hired by Madonna and her brother Christopher Ciccone to do the choreography for part of Madonna's The Girlie Show tour, but he was quickly dismissed due to the very different visions that Kelly and the Ciccones
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Summer Stock - Original MGM Soundtrack”.
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (1985).
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1983· 1 entry
The actor's Beverly Hills mansion burned down
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1981· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
Was invited by Francis Ford Coppola to recruit a production staff for American Zoetrope's One from the Heart (1982)
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “Anchors Aweigh”.
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1975· 1 entry
Released ep “Investigacion de mercado”.
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1974· 1 entry
Appeared as one of many special narrators in the dancing compilation film That's Entertainment
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1973· 1 entry
Worked again with Frank Sinatra as part of Sinatra's Emmy-nominated TV special, Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra
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1970· 1 entry
Made another television special: Gene Kelly and 50 Girls, and was invited to bring the show to Las Vegas, which he did for an eight-week stint on the condition he be paid more than any artist had ever been paid there
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program for Jack and the Beanstalk (1967).
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1966· 1 entry
Kelly starred in a musical television special for CBS titled Gene Kelly in New York, New York
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1965· 1 entry
But had little to do—partly due to his decision to decline assignments away from Los Angeles for family reasons
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1963· 1 entry
Kelly joined Universal Pictures for a two-year stint
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1960· 3 entries
Kelly continued to make some film appearances, such as Hornbeck in the Hollywood production of Inherit the Wind and as himself in Let's Make Love
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Kelly married his choreographic assistant, Jeanne Coyne
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Kelly, an ardent Francophile and fluent French speaker, was invited by A
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1958· 1 entry
Kelly directed Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play Flower Drum Song
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1956· 1 entry
Won Golden Bear for Invitation to the Dance (1956).
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1953· 1 entry
The film musical was beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon (1954), with Cyd Charisse, forcing him to make the film on studio backlots instead of on locatio
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1952· 1 entry
For his career achievements; the same year, An American in Paris won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture
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1951· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1951).
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Kelly received an honorary Academy Award for his contribution to film musicals and the art of choreography
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Summed up his vision as: "If the camera is to make a contribution at all to dance, this must be the focal point of its contribution; the fluid background, giving each spectator an undistorted and altogether similar vi
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1949· 2 entries
In which he partnered with Frank Sinatra for the third and final time
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Starred in Take Me Out to the Ball Game, his second film with Sinatra, where Kelly paid tribute to his Irish heritage in "The Hat My Father Wore on St
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1947· 1 entry
Was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation that flew to Washington to protest against the first official hearings which were held by the House Committee on Un-American Activities
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1944· 2 entries
But delayed for release—Kelly collaborated with Fred Astaire, for whom he had the greatest admiration, in "The Babbitt and the Bromide" challenge dance routine
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Achieved breakthrough as a dancer on film when MGM lent him to Columbia to dance with Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl, a film that foreshadowed the best of his future work
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1942· 1 entry
“appalled at the sight of myself blown up 20 times. I had an awful feeling that I was a tremendous flop.”
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1940· 2 entries
Got the lead role in Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, again choreographed by Robert Alton
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At an audition where Kelly hired Blair to work as a dancer for a nightclub revue
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1939· 2 entries
Was selected for a musical revue, One for the Money, produced by the actress Katharine Cornell, who was known for finding and hiring talented young actors
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Received his first assignment as a Broadway choreographer, for Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe
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1937· 1 entry
Having successfully managed and developed the family's dance-school business, he moved to New York City in search of work as a choreographer
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1933· 2 entries
Continued to be active with the Cap and Gown Club, serving as the director from 1934 to 1938
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Was convinced it was the most satisfying form of self-expression
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1932· 1 entry
Renamed it the Gene Kelly Studio of the Dance and opened a second location in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1933
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1931· 2 entries
Kelly enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh to study economics, joining the Theta Kappa Phi fraternity (later known as Phi Kappa Theta after merging with Phi Kappa)
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Was approached by the Beth Shalom Synagogue in Pittsburgh to teach dance, and to stage the annual Kermesse
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-08-23.
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