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Another Kelly musical of the era, Singin' in the Rain (1952), was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for its National Film Registry. I can't imagine what the visuals were, but I lost all excitement after just hearing it. thinking it would restore his position in Hollywood.
By all accounts, he was a crumbun, though I believe he did stand by his wife at the time (BB) when she got into political trouble.
But all the anecdotes relate to that hideously vulgar Walter Matthau or Kelly's threatening Ernest Lehman when he says something or other to one of the actors.
| by Anonymous | reply 250 | May 30, 2017 8:12 AM |
No, r250, it was a tour of Take Me Along that Kelly did in 1974.
His heart was never in it. William Wyler was another who turned it down, which may be why he decided to do Funny Girl, for which he was spectacularly unsuitable.
| by Anonymous | reply 229 | May 29, 2017 8:02 AM |
William Wyler did two years of preproduction on TSOM then begged out so he could do The Collector.
Gene was very demanding and very professional. Like it or not, Xanadu is one of Gene Kelly's more popular and enduring films. MGM's insurance wouldn't have paid the costs for the film's delay if it had been known the film's extra cost was due to Kelly's personal negligence.
| by Anonymous | reply 105 | April 8, 2016 5:43 AM |
Gene Kelly made his Broadway debut in Leave It to Me!
This was the same show that made a star of Mary Martin. We were just lucky to have two such great dancers, whatever their similarities or differences.
| by Anonymous | reply 117 | April 11, 2016 4:20 PM |
In both clips, Rita is the one I look at.
| by Anonymous | reply 118 | April 11, 2016 4:46 PM |
Kelly made lots of flops but he also made films that are far more enjoyable, from start to finish, than anything Astaire ever did.
| by Anonymous | reply 119 | April 11, 2016 4:47 PM |
Nothing smaller than 9 fat inches was ever granted admissia to that culo!
| by Anonymous | reply 120 | April 11, 2016 5:06 PM |
R118 I agree - Rita is too good to be true.
| by Anonymous | reply 121 | April 11, 2016 6:46 PM |
I love Rita with Fred in "You Were Never Lovelier", especially the dance to "I'm Old Fashioned".
But above all is the Fred, Cyd Charisse dance to "Dancing in the Dark" from "The Band Wagon".
| by Anonymous | reply 122 | April 11, 2016 10:43 PM |
Well of course we suspected - back then everything was hushed whispers!
| by Anonymous | reply 123 | April 12, 2016 12:48 AM |
Cyd Charisse was the man.
I also prefer fred's movies to Gen'es, Easter parade, the Barklays of Broadway, and Funny Face.
Kelly, although very good never had the effortless charm and gracefulness of Fred. My mom said he was always milking Mrs. Buonoconti.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | April 6, 2016 9:53 PM |
Astair was great of course but he always seemed like a cartoon.
How long ago was that?
Gene Kelly died on the 2nd of February 1996, which was a Friday. That interminable close up at the end of the Broadway number in SITR.
Where did Gene Kelly die?
Gene Kelly died in Beverly Hills, California, United States.
What was Gene Kelly's birth name?
Gene Kelly's birth name was Eugene Curran Kelly.
When did Gene Kelly retire? She had started out as a Charleston dancer in the 20s, and spent the 1930s learning other styles when she wasn't in front of a camera.
(It's implied that this story is a romanticized version of Don's own rise to fame.) There are a lot of callbacks to various silent entertainers and characters in the sequence, plus some visuals that are pretty much taken straight from early musicals, cleaned up, and shot in color.
The whole point is to make Don basically the "inventor" of the early talkie musical, a genre that was somewhat short lived but which changed the movie industry forever.
My parents thought I always wanted to catch the movie because of the Jerry the Mouse dance routine. Love the clips at R114 & R115 as well. For something that was a flop when it was first released, it has developed an enormous cult and has more than made its money back over 35 years of ancillary sales. He was a team player when the art mattered.
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | April 7, 2016 1:22 PM |
Gene was originally slated to costar with Judy Garland in Easter Parade, which would have been his long-awaited reunion with her after The Pirate fiasco, but he broke his ankle playing volley ball and was replaced by Fred Astaire.
I love Easter Parade but I can't help but think it would have had even better chemistry with Gene.