Gene Kelly & Julie Andrews rehearsing their number “Just in Time”
And performing the number for “The Julie Andrews Show” (1965)
Gene Kelly with Janet Jackson in 1989
“You know you love me”
Gene Kelly winks knowingly at Barbara Laange in “The Happy Road” (1957)
Louis B Mayer declared him: “too short,”
“too sexy,”
not sympathetic,
not for us.”
MGM studio manager Eddie Mannix agreed:
“I don't see any motion picture potential in Kelly.”
“He's the wrong kind of Irishman.”
Louie B. Meyer’s first impressions of Gene Kelly
Robert Reich, former Sec of State, offers a few words for those devastated by the US shift towards autocracy
Gene Kelly practicing the tightrope…
The “barrel roll” which Gene Kelly is doing here shows pronounced gymnastic element in his style. It reflects early dance training in Pittsburgh, where he grew up.
Kelly’s present style is very versatile, shows only influence of ballet and Spanish dancing on early hoofing. Kelly is heir to Fred Astaire’s title as top movie dancer.
Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron in “An American in Paris” (1951)
mostlydaydreaming reblogged
Gene Kelly & Spencer Tracy - Inherit the Wind
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
🍂🎃🍁Happy Halloween!!!🍁🎃🍂
Slightly extended Gene Kelly/Renegade video
Gene Kelly & Taina Elg are all wrapped up in each other in “Les Girls” (1958)
I made a short with Gene Kelly’s little dance from his Omnibus TV special Dancing: A Man’s Game (1958) set to Styx “Renegade.”
A dance about bored young men getting riled up to start trouble seemed appropriate, even though the dance is certainly more light than the song.
Anchors Aweigh (1945) A love triangle🫶
Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly
Promotional pictures for “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” (1949) featuring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munchin and Esther Williams
mostlydaydreaming reblogged
Mitzi Gaynor on working with Gene Kelly in ”Les Girls”
“The motorcycle ballet in Les Girls with Gene Kelly is some of the best work I’ve ever done. The only reason I took the picture was because I would be able to dance solo with Gene.”
“Gene came to rehearsal with a photograph of Marlon Brando from the film ‘The Wild One’ and said ‘What do you think if we do a number based on a character like this?’ We were in a rehearsal hall at Metro with a piano and drums. And I loved it. I absolutely adored it.”
“I’m dancing with Gene Kelly, and he’s lifting me and throwing me around like a powder puff. I’m so in paradise, and he was so good, and so sweet, and so delicious. He was very, very, very attractive and he liked me. There was no romance between us, but he knew how I felt about working with him and that I would do anything to please him.”
-The Dancer Within (Eichenbaum 2008)
Mitzi Gaynor (September 4, 1931 - October 17, 2024)
Leo (Gene Kelly) plays “1-2-3 O’Leary” with the neighborhood kids in Living in a Big Way (1947)