Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likable characters that he played on screen. He starred in, choreographed, or co-directed some of the most well-regarded musical films of the 1940s and 1950s, until they fell out of fashion in the late 1950s.
Kelly is best known today for his performances in films such as Cover Girl (1944), Anchors Aweigh (1945), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, On the Town (1949), which was his directorial debut, An American in Paris (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Brigadoon (1954), and It's Always Fair Weather (1955). Kelly made his film debut 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), Summer Stock (1950), and Les Girls (1957) among others. After musicals he starred in two films outside the musical genre: Inherit the Wind (1960) and What a Way to Go! (1964). In 1967, he appeared in French director Jacques Demy's musical comedy The Young Girls of Rochefort opposite Catherine Deneuve. Kelly solo directed the comedy A Guide for the Married Man (1967) starring Walter Matthau, and later the extravagant musical Hello, Dolly! (1969) starring Barbra Streisand, recognized with an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Kelly co-hosted and appeared in Ziegfeld Follies (1946), That's Entertainment! (1974), That's Entertainment, Part II (1976), That's Dancing! (1985), and That's Entertainment, Part III (1994).
His many innovations transformed the Hollywood musical, and he is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences. Kelly received an Academy Honorary Award in 1952 for his career achievements; the same year, An American in Paris won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He later received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors (1982) and from the Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute. In 1999, the American Film Institute also ranked him as the 15th greatest male screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
Known for
Great Performances
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What's My Line?
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
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Omnibus
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The Oscars
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North and South
Sen. Charles Edwards
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
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Numéro un
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Xanadu
Danny McGuire
The Muppet Show
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Ziegfeld Follies
Gentleman (segment "The Babbit and the Bromide")
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
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The Kennedy Center Honors
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The Danny Kaye Show
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Showbiz Goes to War
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Love Is Better Than Ever
Gene Kelly (uncredited)
40 Carats
Billy Boylan
Singin' in the Rain
Don Lockwood
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
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Sid & Judy
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The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait
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The American Film Institute Salute to ...
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Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
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Lucy Moves to NBC
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True Blue
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James Bond: The First 21 Years
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Going My Way
Father Chuck O'Malley
Talking Pictures
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Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
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The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
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Reflets de Cannes
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Pilot #5
Vito S. Alessandro
That's Entertainment, Part II
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Easter Parade: On the Avenue
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Viva Knievel!
Will Atkins
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Ça c'est l'amour
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Olivia Newton-John: Hollywood Nights
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An American in Paris
Jerry Mulligan
The Lion Roars Again
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Anchors Aweigh
Joseph Brady
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
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What a Way to Go!
Pinky Benson
Deep in My Heart
Performer in Dancing Around
MGM Parade
Performer in 'Ziegfeld Follies' (archive footage)
MGM Parade
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MGM Parade
MGM Parade
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MGM Parade
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Dancing, a Man's Game - Gene Kelly
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Brigadoon
Tommy Albright
Living in a Big Way
Leo Gogarty
The Cross of Lorraine
Victor
On the Town
Gabey
Hollywood and the Stars
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
Andy Miller
Sins
Eric Hovland
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
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Les Girls
Barry Nichols
Words and Music
Gene Kelly
Night of 100 Stars
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Tom T. Triplett
Inherit the Wind
E.K. Hornbeck
The Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Don Lockwood
The Happy Road
Michael J. Andrews
Marjorie Morningstar
Noel Airman
The Funny Side
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Cover Girl
Danny McGuire
It's Always Fair Weather
Ted Riley
That's Entertainment!
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Doug Henning's World of Magic
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Let's Make Love
Gene Kelly (uncredited)
Thousands Cheer
Private Eddie Marsh
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
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Summer Stock
Joe D. Ross
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jeremy Keen, the Peddler
The Pirate
Serafin
Mickey's 50
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Eddie O'Brien
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
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Christmas Holiday
Robert Manette
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
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Cinderella at the Palace
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
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The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
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Seagulls Over Sorrento
Lieutenant Bradville
It's Showtime
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Reporters
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That's Dancing!
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A Bing Crosby Christmas
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Twenty Years After
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That's Entertainment! III
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Black Hand
Giovanni E. 'Johnny' Columbo
For Me and My Gal
Harry Palmer
Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
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Judy Garland: By Myself
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It's a Big Country
Icarus Xenophon
Du Barry Was a Lady
Alec Howe / Black Arrow
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
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La La La
Various Roles (archive footage)
Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
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Frank Sinatra: Around the World
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Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
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Invitation to the Dance
Host / Pierrot / The Marine / Sinbad
Directing Dolly: Gene Kelly Remembered
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The Young Girls Turn 25
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Reunited at MGM: Astaire and Rogers Together Again
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NBC: The First Fifty Years
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Behind the screens : Les demoiselles de Rochefort
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The Costume Designer
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The Devil Makes Three
Jeff Eliot
Summer Stock: Get Happy!
Joe D. Ross (archive footage) (uncredited)
Musikalische Unterhaltung
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Tom T. Triplett
Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera
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Frank Sinatra: Ol' Blue Eyes is Back
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The Julie Andrews Show
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The Sandy Duncan Special
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The Movie Palaces
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Ersatz
Don Lockwood (voice) (archive sound)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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The Story of Submarine Warfare in the Pacific
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Combat Fatigue Irritability
Seaman Bob Lucas
An Evening with Gene Kelly
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Hollywood: The Golden Years
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Happy Again
Don Lockwood (archive footage)
Sylvie Vartan: Live in Las Vegas
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The Mike Douglas Show
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The Merv Griffin Show
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Champs-Elysées
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The Ed Sullivan Show
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Omnibus
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Cérémonie des César
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