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Gene Kelly
American actor, dancer, singer, and producer (1912–1996)
For other people named Gene Kelly, see Gene Kelly (disambiguation).
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style and sought to create a new form of American dance accessible to the general public, which he called "dance for the common man".[2][3] He starred in, choreographed, and, with Stanley Donen, co-directed some of the most well-regarded musical films of the 1940s and 1950s.
Kelly is known for his performances in An American in Paris (1951), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Singin' in the Rain (1952), which he and Donen directed and choreographed, and other musical films of that era such as Cover Girl (1944) and Anchors Aweigh (1945), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. On the Town (1949), which he co-directed with Donen, was his directorial debut. Later in the 1950s, as musicals waned in popular
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Gene Kelly
(1912-1996)
Who Was Gene Kelly?
Gene Kelly was an American film actor and director whose athletic style and classical ballet technique transformed the film musical. He boldly blended solo dancing, mass movement and offbeat camera angles to tell a story in purely visual terms.
Athletic and energetic, Kelly was the king of the musicals in the 1940s and '50s. Not only did Kelly star in some of the genre's most famous films, he worked behind the scenes, breaking new ground with his choreography and direction. Kelly is remembered for his lead role in Singin' in the Rain, regarded by some as the best dance film ever made.
Early Life
One of five children, Kelly was born on August 23, 1912, and grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While his friends were playing baseball, he was taking dance lessons. Kelly put his lessons to good use in college, teaching at a local studio to help him pay for his education. He also performed with his brother, Fred.
In the late 1930s, Kelly made his way to the Broadway stage. He had small roles in Lea Gene Kelly: The Making of a Creative Legend To order, go to: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700630172/gene-kelly/ "Who knew? Who ever imagined that a biography could be a page-turner? Well, Hess and Dabholkar's Gene Kelly: The Making of a Creative Legend is just that: a delightful read that is hard to put down. The scholarship is so sound and the writing so attractive that I couldn't stop turning the pages…. It is the most complete biography of Gene Kelly… It offers a substantial addition to what we know about Gene Kelly’s career and enriches our appreciation for the depth and range of his accomplishments, thanks to extraordinary and far-reaching research into materials never studied by Kelly’s previous biographers." -- Rick Altman, author of Film/Genre "This meticulously researched biography is not only an important addition to film musical scholarship and to our understanding of Kelly's transformative contribution to the film musical genre but also gives us a
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