He died in 1996. Johnny Green, the head of music at MGM at the time, said of him, Gene is easygoing as long as you know exactly what you are doing when you're working with him. Publicity Listings 1942), and divorced in April 1957.[35]. "[11] He acknowledged that in spite of his efforts—in TV programs such as Dancing: A Man's Game (1958) for example—the situation changed little over the years. She can remember the struggle of watching Gene have to say goodbye to many of his friends while they were together, while she herself helped to care for them. (1974). After making the decision, Patricia said he became “really cute” about the wedding – even having a new blazer made for the big day. He attended St. Raphael Elementary School[13] in the Morningside neighborhood of Pittsburgh and graduated from Peabody High School at age 16. Members get more. But in a way it brought us closer, we were fighting the same fight.

“It was standard fare. [16], His family opened a dance studio in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. This role propelled him to stardom. He wasn't awed by anybody, and he had a good record of getting what he wanted.[11]. At the peak of his creative powers, Kelly made what in retrospect some see as a mistake. Surprisingly, despite Gene being a well established star at the time thanks to his fame in everything from Singin’ In The Rain to An American In Paris, Patricia didn’t know who he was. [24] There followed Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), his second film with Sinatra, where Kelly paid tribute to his Irish heritage in "The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Day" routine. Mar 22, 2013 - Hi! [2] Kelly directed films without a collaborator (in some of which he starred), including Hello, Dolly! 5 (1943) and in Christmas Holiday (1944), he took the male lead in Cole Porter's Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) with Lucille Ball (in a part originally intended for Ann Sothern). To accomplish this, the camera is made fluid, moving with the dancer, so that the lens becomes the eye of the spectator, your eye". [10] When he was eight, Kelly's mother enrolled him and his brother James in dance classes. The film also marked the debut of 19-year-old ballerina Leslie Caron, whom Kelly had spotted in Paris and brought to Hollywood.

Graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in economics. Working on an autobiography at the time of his death. He starred in, choreographed, or co-directed some of the most well-regarded musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, debuting with Judy Garland in For Me and My Gal (1942), and followed by Du Barry Was a Lady (1943), Thousands Cheer (1943), The Pirate (1948), and It's Always Fair Weather (1955), among others. This separation was prompted, in part, by a trip Kelly made to Mexico in which he became convinced that the church had failed to help the poor in that country. Patricia is set to tour Australia with her show Gene Kelly The Legacy next year, in which she stands in front of a crowd and reads back, plays and recites some of their memories together – portraying a more personal side to the legendary star. Elizabeth Winifred Boger was born on Dec. 11, 1923, in Cliffside Park, N.J.; as a child, she was an advertising model and an accomplished dancer. 5, Kelly played the antagonist. [40] After his departure from the Catholic Church, Kelly became an agnostic, as he had previously described himself. Though Ms. Blair described her marriage to Mr. Kelly as happy, she gradually began to chafe at Hollywood life. 25, 26: "What impressed Gene was the originality of the man's [Dotson's] dancing, as it was quite unlike anything he had seen before. [8], A clear progression was evident in his development, from an early concentration on tap and musical comedy style to greater complexity using ballet and modern dance forms. "[11] At one time, his childhood dream was to play shortstop for the hometown Pittsburgh Pirates. Written without a ghostwriter, the book told of her marriage to Mr. Kelly at 17 and the birth of their daughter, Kerry; their life in Hollywood as his career as a dancer, actor and choreographer reached stratospheric heights; and their glittering social circle, with the likes of Noël Coward, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe. This page was last edited on 29 September 2020, at 00:42. Despite their 47-year age gap, they enjoyed more than a decade of blissful happiness together, with Patricia helping to care for him before his death. "20 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Gene Kelly"..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit} From the mid-1940s through the early 1950s, Blair and he organized weekly parties at their Beverly Hills home, and they often played an intensely competitive and physical version of charades, known as "The Game".[38].

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It was a funny time, he was like a little kid,” she laughed. Reviewing the film, Farber enthused, "Kelly is the most exciting dancer to appear in Hollywood movies. In 1939, he 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. This marriage lasted until Coyne's death in 1973. Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, comedian and choreographer. “It was a very important time in his life,” she said. After his death it was reported that he had donated money to the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the 1970s, at the height of its bombing campaign in the UK and "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland. His perseverance finally paid off, with the major box-office hit A Guide for the Married Man (1967), in which he directed Walter Matthau. “But I never really coloured within the lines so it didn’t surprise them at all I don’t think. New York: Back Stage Books, 1999. [14] Another French effort, Jacques Demy's homage to the MGM musical, The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, 1967), in which Kelly appeared, was a box-office success in France and nominated for Academy Awards for Best Music and Score of a Musical Picture (Original or Adaptation), but performed poorly elsewhere. “He didn’t want to be buried anywhere, he said, ‘I’m tired of being on a tour bus route. "[32] He especially acknowledged the influence of George M. Cohan: "I have a lot of Cohan in me. He came direct from the hit 1940 original Broadway production of "Pal Joey" and planned to return to the Broadway stage after making the one film required by his contract. Naval Air Service and was commissioned as lieutenant, junior grade. Patricia Ward Kelly said her husband wanted to be remembered for his work behind the camera, as a choreographer, director, writer and producer, as much as for his performances on screen, including in "An American in Paris" in 1951. Only one of these pictures was a musical, Invitation to the Dance, a pet project of Kelly's to bring modern ballet to mainstream film audiences. Official Sites, Known for his innovative, athletic style of dancing, Often played likable, working-class characters, During World War II, he was a sailor stationed at the United States Naval Photographic Center in Anacostia, D.C. (where the documentary. Ballet gave him the same feeling of exhilaration, and in 1933, he was convinced it was the most satisfying form of self-expression. Jeanne Coyne, Kelly's second wife, was previously married to his show-business partner Stanley Donen. She won a scholarship to Sarah Lawrence College, but before she enrolled she auditioned for a show at Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe, a Times Square nightclub. Unusually, in Pilot No. "[11] In his view, "one of our problems is that so much dancing is taught by women.

When we came to do On the Town, I knew it was time for Stanley to get screen credit because we weren't boss–assistant anymore but co-creators. I never wanted to be a dancer. He created dance routines with his younger brother Fred to earn prize money in local talent contests. We’d sat through a lot of memorial services and visited a lot of gravesites, so he decided what he wanted.”.

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