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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

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Gene Kelly: A Biography

March 5, 2023
This biography of the great star of American Musical Motion Pictures from the mid-Twentieth century is a definitive biography of a man who shaped and perfected the art form while working at MGM in the 1940s and 1950s. Written with the cooperation of Gene Kelly and his family and friends and originally published in 1974 and updated in 1984, Clive Hirschhorn’s biography of Gene Kelly starts off with an account of Kelly’s childhood in Pennsylvania where he learned to dance and, with his family, established himself as a teacher of dance and operated a dancing school. From there he got into other aspects of performance like choreography before dropping out of law school and moving to New York City, where he became a prominent performer on Broadway. It was there that he attracted the attention of Hollywood and was soon living in the Hollywood Hills and under contract to the studios (Selznick International at first, then MGM, and others).

In Hollywood, Kelly lived a charmed life, working and socializing with the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Ma
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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